Arjun Kapoor

Film analyst Anupama Chopra mentioned the film as an "unabashed love letter to the 1970s".

Gunday proved to be a commercial success, and accumulated over inr 1200000000 worldwide.

As his three-film deal with Yash Raj Films concluded, Kapoor next collaborated with the producers Sajid Nadiadwala and Karan Johar to star opposite Alia Bhatt in a film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's popular novel 2 States, released with the same title.

He played Krish Malhotra, an IIM Ahmedabad MBA student wanting to become a writer.

Arjun Kapoor (born 26 June 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films.

Born to the Surinder Kapoor family, he is the son of film producers Boney Kapoor and Mona Shourie.

Arjun Kapoor was born in a Punjabi Hindu family, on 26 June 1985 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to film producer Boney Kapoor and the entrepreneur Mona Shourie Kapoor.

He is the grandson of filmmaker Surinder Kapoor.

He is the nephew of actors Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor and producer Sandeep Marwah, and the first-cousin of actress Sonam Kapoor, actors Mohit Marwah, Harshvardhan Kapoor and producer Rhea Kapoor.

He has a younger sister, Anshula Kapoor.

Actress Sridevi was his stepmother, and he also has two half-sisters, Khushi Kapoor and Janhvi Kapoor.

He was 11 when his father separated from his mother.

When asked in an interview about his father's second marriage, Kapoor said: "When we were kids, it was difficult. But what can you do? How long will you complain? You have to accept what is, take it on your chin, and move on."

He added, "We don't really meet and spend time together so it doesn't really exist".

Kapoor's first job in the film industry was as an assistant director on Nikhil Advani's Kal Ho Naa Ho in 2003.

He also assisted Advani on his next directorial Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love (2007), and worked as an associate producer on two of his father's productions—No Entry (2005) and Wanted (2009).

Kapoor was then signed on for a three-film contract with Yash Raj Films, a leading production company in India.

Kapoor was educated at the Arya Vidya Mandir school in Mumbai, which he attended until his 11th grade.

After failing his eleventh grade examinations, he quit his studies.

He didn't even complete grade 12.

In his teens and early twenties, Kapoor developed obesity and approximately weighed 140 kg; he later said that due to his condition, he used to be "sloppy, grumpy" and "under-confident".

In 2011, it was announced that Kapoor will debut with a film named Virus Diwan, produced under Yash Raj Films, which was shelved after sometime.

Kapoor made his acting debut in 2012 with the drama Ishaqzaade which was commercially successful and earned him the Zee Cine Award for Best Male Debut.

His mother died in 2012.

Later, he signed on to debut with the company's romantic drama Ishaqzaade (2012) alongside Parineeti Chopra, which tells the love story between a son and daughter of a Hindu and Muslim political family, respectively.

While filming a running sequence for the feature in Barabanki, Kapoor suffered a spasm in his hamstring muscle, though he finished the scene after resting for five minutes.

The film grossed over inr 460000000 at the domestic box office, and was termed a super hit by Box Office India.

His performance earned him the Zee Cine Award for Best Male Debut and nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut and the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Male.

Yash Raj Films' next project to star Kapoor was the action thriller Aurangzeb (2013) whose title matches the name of a Mughal emperor of the same name.

Marking the directorial debut of Atul Sabharwal, it co-starred Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor and Amrita Singh; he portrayed two estranged twin brothers, Ajay and Vishal, who end up in each other's places as part of a huge conspiracy to overthrow their biological father's empire.

Critic Rachna Saltz from The New York Times said of Kapoor that he is a "star of an earlier generation" and is "well-cast and matched".

However, the film underperformed at the box office.

He achieved further commercial successes in the 2014 films Gunday and 2 States, the latter of which became his highest-grossing release.

For his first film in 2014, Kapoor teamed with Yash Raj Films for the third consecutive time on Gunday, a crime action film also starring Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan.

Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, it saw him and Singh portray two bandits with bold attitude, in love with a dancer (Chopra).

He described his character as "temperamental" who acts as a "moment's heat".

This was followed by a series of critical and commercial failures, with the sole exception of the comedy-drama Ki & Ka (2016).

His maternal grandmother, Sattee Shourie, who was a great support to him, also died in 2016.

However, after Sridevi died in 2018, his relationship with his half-sisters Khushi and Jahnvi improved.

Kapoor also opened up on the bullying he faced post Boney's marriage with Sridevi.