Kunal Kapoor

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kunal Kapoor

• Does Kunal Kapoor smoke?: No

• Does Kunal Kapoor drink alcohol?: Yes

• Kunal started his career as an assistant director to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, in Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aks (2001).

• He learned acting skills from Barry John’s acting school.

• Before making his Bollywood debut, he did a lot of theatre work in Motley Theatre Group founded by Naseeruddin Shah, Tom Alter, and Benjamin Gilani.

• In 2009, he started writing in columns for HT City every week.

• Kunal won the Filmfare award for the best supporting role for the film, Rang De Basanti (2006).

• He was offered a role in Farhan Akhtar‘s Rock On!!! but he rejected it. Later the role was given to Arjun Rampal who won many awards for that role. He later confessed that he regretted his decision of rejecting that role.

• He is married to Naina Bachchan, niece of Amitabh Bachchan.

  

• In 2012, he started an online crowdfunding platform, Ketto with entrepreneur Varun Seth.

• Kunal is a huge F1 and Rally racing fan.

  

• He is a big fan of Batman Comics and has a collection of around 600 Batman comics.