Shekhar Kapoor

Name: Shekhar Kapoor
Birthday: Thursday, December 06, 1945
Star Sign : Sagittarius
First Film : Bandit Queen








BIOGRAPHY

Shekhar Kapoor, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998), a semi-historical account of the early reign of Elizabeth I of England; it was nominated for 8 Oscars. In 2000, he was awarded the Padma Shri.

Other films directed by Shekhar Kapur:

Masoom
Mr. India
Bandit Queen
The Four Feathers
The initial part of the movie Barsaat (1995) which starred Bobby Deol and
Twinkle Khanna was reportedly directed by Kapur. Rajkumar Santoshi handled the direction after him and has the credits in his name.

He was accused of being Anti-British by British tabloids, by the way he portrayed the British Army and Empire grossly inacurately in the Four Feathers. This was also heightened by the fact that during an interview for the DVD release of the Four Feathers he commented, with praise, for the fanatical religious leader "The Mad Mahdi".

Kapur also executive produced the Hollywood film The Guru.

Kapur was also executive producer of the Bollywood-themed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Bombay Dreams, which has been running in the West End, London since 2002, and on Broadway in New York City since 2004.

Future projects include Long Walk to Freedom, Water, The Last Full Measure, and Golden Age, a sequel to Elizabeth. Also 20th Century Fox is planning for him to direct two movies of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. They are slated to be called Foundation and Second Foundation; further details are unknown. In September, Kapur announced tentative plans to make a major motion picture account of the life of the Buddha, entitled Buddha.

Kapur is married to singer and actress Suchitra Krishnamurthy.

In June 2005, Kapur and his friend, guru Deepak Chopra launched a discussion blog [1] with a select group of their friends and family. The purpose of the blog is to promote original discussion by voices from South Asia, and especially India. Kapur posts regularly on the blog, often writing short personal poems. Shortly after, Kapur also started his own personal blog on his official website.

In January 2006, it was reported that Kapur and Chopra would be collaborating with Richard Branson on a Bangalore-based animated film company