Kapoor family tree
Raj Kapoor's grandsons are Kareena's cousins, and Amitabh Bachchan is related by marriage. Bollywood's film families are one web, and this tree shows where they join.
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- 7
- generations
- 40
- marriages
- 1820–2022
- born
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Who is related to whom in the Kapoor family
How is Ranbir Kapoor related to Kareena Kapoor?
Kareena Kapoor Khan is Ranbir Kapoor’s first cousin (chacheri behen in Hindi): their fathers were brothers. Both descend from Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor.
How is Amitabh Bachchan related to Raj Kapoor?
Raj Kapoor is Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter’s husband’s grandfather.
How is Amitabh Bachchan related to Kareena Kapoor?
Kareena Kapoor Khan is Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter’s husband’s first cousin.
How is Alia Bhatt related to Kareena Kapoor?
Kareena Kapoor Khan is Alia Bhatt’s husband’s first cousin.
How are Agastya Nanda and Ranbir Kapoor related?
Ranbir Kapoor is Agastya Nanda’s first cousin once removed (his father’s cousin). Both descend from Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor.
How is Saif Ali Khan related to Ranbir Kapoor?
Ranbir Kapoor is Saif Ali Khan’s wife’s first cousin.
How is Sara Ali Khan related to Kareena Kapoor?
Kareena Kapoor Khan is Sara Ali Khan’s stepmother.
How are Armaan Jain and Ranbir Kapoor related?
Ranbir Kapoor is Armaan Jain’s first cousin (mamera bhai in Hindi): Rima and Rishi were brother and sister. Both descend from Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor.
How is Janhvi Kapoor related to Sonam Kapoor?
Sonam Kapoor is Janhvi Kapoor’s first cousin (chacheri behen in Hindi): their fathers were brothers. Both descend from Surinder Kapoor.
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The Kapoor family, generation by generation
Each name links to its source.
- Dewan Keshavmal Kapoor
- Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor: A police officer in Peshawar and the father of Prithviraj and Trilok Kapoor.
- Prithviraj Kapoor (1906 – 1972): Stage and screen actor who founded Prithvi Theatre and started the Kapoor film dynasty. · married Ramsarni Kapoor (1908 – 1972)
- Raj Kapoor (1924 – 1988): Actor, director and producer called Bollywood's greatest showman; he founded R. K. Films. · married Krishna Kapoor (1931 – 2018): Raj Kapoor's wife of over forty years and the mother of the family's third generation.
- Randhir Kapoor (b. 1947): Actor and director, Raj Kapoor's eldest son, and father of Karisma and Kareena. · married Babita Kapoor (b. 1947): Actress of the 1960s who left films after marrying Randhir Kapoor; mother of Karisma and Kareena.
- Karisma Kapoor (b. 1974): Actress of the 1990s and 2000s, and Kareena's elder sister. · was married to Sunjay Kapur (1971 – 2025): Businessman, Karisma Kapoor's only husband (married 2003, divorced 2016).
- Samaira Kapur (b. 2005)
- Kiaan Raj Kapur (b. 2010)
- Kareena Kapoor Khan (b. 1980): Actress, Randhir Kapoor's younger daughter and Saif Ali Khan's wife. · married Saif Ali Khan (b. 1970): Actor from the Pataudi family; married first Amrita Singh and then Kareena Kapoor.
- Taimur Ali Khan (b. 2016)
- Jehangir Ali Khan (b. 2021)
- Ritu Nanda (1948 – 2020): Raj Kapoor's eldest daughter; her son Nikhil's marriage ties the Kapoors to the Bachchans. · married Rajan Nanda (? – 2018)
- Nikhil Nanda (b. 1973): Businessman, Raj Kapoor's grandson through Ritu and the husband of Shweta Bachchan. · married Shweta Bachchan Nanda (b. 1974): Amitabh Bachchan's daughter and Nikhil Nanda's wife, the link between the Bachchans and the Kapoors.
- Agastya Nanda (b. 2000): Actor; Amitabh Bachchan's grandson and Raj Kapoor's great-grandson.
- Rishi Kapoor (1952 – 2020): Romantic lead of the 1970s who became a character actor; Ranbir's father. · married Neetu Singh (b. 1958): Actress of the 1970s, Rishi Kapoor's wife and Ranbir's mother.
- Riddhima Kapoor Sahni (b. 1980): Designer and Ranbir Kapoor's elder sister.
- Ranbir Kapoor (b. 1982): Actor, son of Rishi and Neetu Kapoor, married to Alia Bhatt. · married Alia Bhatt (b. 1993): Actress, Mahesh Bhatt's daughter and Ranbir Kapoor's wife.
- Raha Kapoor (b. 2022)
- Rajiv Kapoor (1962 – 2021): Raj Kapoor's youngest son, who worked as an actor, director and producer.
- Rima Jain
- Armaan Jain (b. 1990): Actor; Raj Kapoor's grandson through his daughter Rima.
- Aadar Jain (b. 1994): Actor; Raj Kapoor's grandson through his daughter Rima.
- Shammi Kapoor (1931 – 2011): Actor whose energetic leading roles made him a star of the 1960s. · married Geeta Bali (1930 – 1965): Actress of the 1950s, Shammi Kapoor's first wife.
- Aditya Raj Kapoor (b. 1956): Shammi Kapoor's son, who worked in films.
- Kanchan Desai (b. 1961) · married Ketan Desai (b. 1957): Film director, married to Shammi Kapoor's daughter Kanchan.
- Shashi Kapoor (1938 – 2017): Actor and producer who worked in Indian and international cinema and in the Prithvi Theatre. · married Jennifer Kendal (1933 – 1984): English actress who came to India with her family's theatre company and married Shashi Kapoor.
- Kunal Kapoor (b. 1959): Shashi Kapoor's eldest son, a former actor. · married Sheena Sippy
- Zahan Prithviraj Kapoor (b. 1992): Actor, Shashi Kapoor's grandson.
- Karan Kapoor (b. 1962): Shashi Kapoor's younger son, a former actor.
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- Sanjana Kapoor (b. 1967): Theatre director who ran Prithvi Theatre, Shashi Kapoor's daughter. · married Valmik Thapar (1952 – 2025): Tiger conservationist and author, married to Sanjana Kapoor.
- Devinder Kapoor (? – 1931)
- Ravinder Kapoor (? – 1931)
- Trilok Kapoor (1912 – 1988): Prithviraj's younger brother, an actor of the 1930s and later decades.
- Vijay Kapoor (1939 – 1990): Film director, son of Trilok Kapoor.
- Kailash Kakkar
- Subbiraj (? – 2007): Character actor and Prithviraj Kapoor's nephew.
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- Surinder Kapoor (1925 – 2011): Film producer; Prithviraj Kapoor's cousin and the father of Boney, Anil and Sanjay.
- Boney Kapoor (b. 1953): Film producer, Surinder Kapoor's eldest son; married Sridevi. · married Sridevi (1963 – 2018): One of Indian cinema's biggest stars and Boney Kapoor's second wife.
- Janhvi Kapoor (b. 1997): Actress, daughter of Boney Kapoor and Sridevi.
- Khushi Kapoor (b. 2000): Actress, daughter of Boney Kapoor and Sridevi.
- Boney Kapoor was also married to Mona Shourie Kapoor (1964 – 2012): Film producer, Boney Kapoor's first wife and Arjun's mother.
- Arjun Kapoor (b. 1985): Actor, Boney Kapoor's son with Mona Shourie.
- Anshula Kapoor (b. 1990): Boney Kapoor's daughter and Arjun's sister.
- Anil Kapoor (b. 1956): Actor and producer, Surinder Kapoor's second son. · married Sunita Kapoor
- Sonam Kapoor (b. 1985): Actress and fashion figure, Anil Kapoor's elder daughter. · married Anand Ahuja (b. 1983): Businessman, married to Sonam Kapoor.
- Rhea Kapoor (b. 1987): Film producer, Anil Kapoor's younger daughter.
- Harshvardhan Kapoor (b. 1990): Actor, Anil Kapoor's son.
- Sanjay Kapoor (b. 1965): Actor, Surinder Kapoor's youngest son. · married Maheep Kapoor
- Shanaya Kapoor (b. 1999): Actress, daughter of Sanjay Kapoor.
Also in this tree, through marriage
- Girindranath Tagore (1820 – 1854)
- Gunendranath Tagore (1847 – 1881)
- Sultan Jahan I of Bhopal (1858 – 1930)
- Gaganendranath Tagore (1867 – 1938): Bengali painter and cartoonist, Sharmila Tagore's great-grandfather.
- Abanindranath Tagore (1871 – 1951)
- Sunayani Devi (1875 – 1962)
- Hamidullah Khan I of Bhopal (1894 – 1960): The last ruling Nawab of Bhopal, Sajida Sultan's father.
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907 – 2003): Hindi poet, author of Madhushala and Amitabh Bachchan's father.
- Laura Liddell (1909 – 1992)
- Hari Shivdasani (1909 – 1994)
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- Geoffrey Kendal (1909 – 1998): English actor-manager who toured India with his Shakespearean company.
- Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (1910 – 1952): Cricketer who played Test cricket for England and India and was Nawab of Pataudi.
- Abida Sultan (1913 – 2002)
- Teji Bachchan (1914 – 2007): Wife of Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Amitabh.
- Nanabhai Bhatt (1915 – 1999): Film director and Mahesh Bhatt's father.
- Sajida Sultan (1915 – 1995): Princess of Bhopal, wife of Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi and mother of Mansoor.
- Romesh Thapar (1922 – 1987): Journalist and political commentator, Valmik Thapar's father.
- Shahryar Khan (1934 – 2024)
- Manmohan Desai (1937 – 1994): Film director, father of Ketan Desai.
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941 – 2011): Cricketer who captained India and was the last recognised Nawab of Pataudi.
- Amitabh Bachchan (b. 1942): One of Hindi cinema's best-known actors; his daughter's marriage joins the Bachchans to the Kapoors.
- Felicity Kendal (b. 1946): British actress, the younger sister of Jennifer Kendal and Shashi Kapoor's sister-in-law.
- Ramesh Sippy (b. 1947): Director of Sholay and Kunal Kapoor's father-in-law.
- Ajitabh Bachchan (b. 1947): Businessman, Amitabh Bachchan's younger brother.
- Mahesh Bhatt (b. 1948): Film director and producer, Alia Bhatt's father.
- Jaya Bachchan (b. 1948): Actress and Rajya Sabha member, married to Amitabh Bachchan.
- Mukesh Bhatt (b. 1952): Film producer, Mahesh Bhatt's brother.
- Soni Razdan (b. 1956): Actress, Mahesh Bhatt's second wife and Alia's mother.
- Amrita Singh (b. 1958): Actress of the 1980s, Saif Ali Khan's first wife and the mother of Sara and Ibrahim. · family of Saif Ali Khan
- Pooja Bhatt (b. 1972): Actress and film-maker, Mahesh Bhatt's elder daughter.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (b. 1973): Actress and former Miss World, married to Abhishek Bachchan.
- Abhishek Bachchan (b. 1976): Actor, son of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, married to Aishwarya Rai.
- Saba Ali Khan (b. 1976): Jewellery designer, Saif Ali Khan's sister.
- Kunal Kapoor (b. 1977): Actor born 1977 and Naina Bachchan's husband; not Shashi Kapoor's son of the same name.
- Soha Ali Khan (b. 1978): Actress, Saif Ali Khan's sister, married to Kunal Khemu.
- Rahul Bhatt (b. 1982)
- Kunal Khemu (b. 1983): Actor, married to Soha Ali Khan.
- Shaheen Bhatt (b. 1988): Writer and Alia Bhatt's elder sister.
- Sara Ali Khan (b. 1995): Actress, Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh's daughter.
- Ibrahim Ali Khan (b. 2001): Actor, Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh's son.
- Aaradhya Bachchan (b. 2011)
- Maimoona Sultan Shahbanu of Bhopal
- King Ahmad Ali Khan of Bhopal (? – 1902)
- Prince Humayun Durrani
- Nawab Mohammed Ibrahim Ali of Pataudi
- Shahrbanoo Begum Pataudi
- Baboji Begum Humayun Durrani
- Kiran Bhatt
- Saudamini Tagore
- Kanakendranath Tagore
- Gitindranath Tagore
- Ira Tagore
- Tarun Kumar Bhaduri (? – 1996): Journalist and writer, Jaya Bachchan's father.
- Aditya Rai
- Bhim Bachchan
- Indira Bhaduri
- Krishnaraj Rai (? – 2017)
- Naina Bachchan
- Namrata Bachchan
- Nilima Bachchan
- Ramola Bachchan
- Shyama (? – 1936)
- Vrinda Rai
More famous family trees
- Anil Kapoor family treeSurinder Kapoor's sons Boney, Anil and Sanjay, and their children: Sonam and Rhea, Arjun and Janhvi, Khushi, Shanaya and Jahaan. The same tree as Prithviraj Kapoor's family, with Sridevi's place in it.
- Bachchan family treeHarivansh Rai Bachchan's family, from Amitabh and Jaya to Abhishek, Aishwarya and Aaradhya. Through Shweta's marriage to Nikhil Nanda, Raj Kapoor's grandson, the Bachchans are part of the Kapoor tree.
- Pataudi family treeThe Begums of Bhopal and the Nawabs of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan and Sharmila Tagore of the Tagore family, and Saif's two marriages. Through Kareena, the Pataudis are part of the Kapoor tree.
- Nehru–Gandhi family treeFive generations from Motilal Nehru to Rahul and Priyanka, with the Ghandys, Kauls, Hutheesings and Pandits. The Gandhi name came from Feroze, not from Mahatma Gandhi.
- Mahabharata family treeFive brothers, one wife: see how Draupadi's five marriages, Kunti's sons and Vyasa's role fit into one family, from the Kuru kings to Krishna's Yadavas.
- Mahatma Gandhi family treeKaramchand Gandhi of Porbandar, his son Mohandas and Kasturba, their four sons and the grandchildren and great-grandchildren who followed. No relation to Indira Gandhi's family.
- British royal family treeIn 1914 the Kaiser, the Tsar and the King of England were cousins, all through Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark. Follow her children and the Danish line to today's thrones.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt family treeThe Hyde Park Roosevelts: Franklin’s parents and his half-brother Rosy, his wife and fifth cousin once removed Eleanor, and their five surviving children, who married nineteen times between them.
- JFK family treeThe second of nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy: his brothers and sisters and whom they married, his wife Jackie and her sister Lee, and the next generation.
- Kennedy family treeJoseph and Rose Kennedy's nine children and the families they married into, from Jackie Bouvier to Sargent Shriver and, a generation on, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- King Charles III family treeCharles III, his two marriages, William and Catherine, Harry and Meghan, and the five grandchildren. Open the tree upwards to see his parents, Elizabeth II and Philip, and the cousins they share through Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark.
- Mughal family treeFrom Timur to the last emperor, the Mughals married cousins, Persian nobles and Rajput princesses. See who Akbar's wives were and how any two Mughals are related.
- Prince Philip family treeBorn a prince of Greece and Denmark, Philip was a grandson of George I of Greece, a nephew of Lord Mountbatten and a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Follow his family from Corfu, and his sisters’ German marriages, to the Windsors.
- Queen Elizabeth II family treeFrom George VI and the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, her sister Margaret, and the family below them. Elizabeth and Philip were third cousins through Queen Victoria and second cousins once removed through Christian IX of Denmark.
- Queen Victoria family treeNine children, who married into most of Europe’s royal houses. Her grandchildren included the Kaiser, George V, the last Tsarina and queens of Romania, Greece, Norway and Spain, and her descendants still reign in Britain, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
- Romanov family treeThe last four Romanov emperors, Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria) and their five children, killed in 1918. Through Alexandra and Nicholas’s Danish mother they are family to the British, German and Danish kings.
- Roosevelt family treeTwo presidents from two branches of one Dutch family, the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelts, joined when Theodore's niece Eleanor married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin.
- Theodore Roosevelt family treeThe Oyster Bay Roosevelts: Theodore’s parents, his sisters and his brother Elliott, his two marriages and six children, and Elliott’s daughter Eleanor, who married a distant cousin.
Photo credits
The pictures on the cards are from Wikimedia Commons, shown at thumbnail size under the licence named on each file. Pictures of living people appear only for public figures (politicians, royals, and film, music and sport people with no personality-rights order or suit in India we know of). Anyone else, and anyone under 18, shows initials.
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- Sultan Jahan I of Bhopal: photo by Norah Grant, Public domain
- Gaganendranath Tagore: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Abanindranath Tagore: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Sunayani Devi: photo by Author unknown and Photograph taken before 1924, CC0
- Hamidullah Khan I of Bhopal: photo by Carl Vandyk, Public domain
- Prithviraj Kapoor: photo by FilmIndia magazine, May 1942, Public domain
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan: photo by India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
- Hari Shivdasani: photo by Film India Magazine, February 1942, Public domain
- Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Trilok Kapoor: photo by FreshPaint1999, CC0
- Abida Sultan: photo by the lost gallery, CC BY 2.0
- Sajida Sultan: photo by Unidentified photographer, Public domain
- Raj Kapoor: photo by Artem Abd, Public domain
- Geeta Bali: photo, author unknown, CC0
- Shammi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Shahryar Khan: photo by Hasan Ahmed, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Shashi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Vijay Kapoor: photo by User:YourUsername, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Sharmila Tagore: photo by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GODL-India
- Felicity Kendal: photo by Thomas Murphy, CC BY 3.0
- Ramesh Sippy: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Randhir Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Babita Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Mahesh Bhatt: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Rishi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Valmik Thapar: photo by Zaidshehzad1991, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mukesh Bhatt: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Soni Razdan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Neetu Singh: photo by NeetuSinghBigBadaBoom.jpg : Indiapuppet derivative work: Puramyun31, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kunal Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Karan Kapoor: photo by Ripalparmar, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rajiv Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sridevi: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sanjay Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sanjana Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Saif Ali Khan: photo by Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India
- Sunjay Kapur: photo by Aditya mendiratta, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kareena Kapoor Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Ranbir Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Kunal Khemu: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sonam Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Rhea Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Armaan Jain: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Harshvardhan Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sara Ali Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Agastya Nanda: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Ibrahim Ali Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Maimoona Sultan Shahbanu of Bhopal: photo by ANUJ DATT, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Saudamini Tagore: photo by Abanindranath Tagore, Public domain
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