Akshay Kapoor

This young, dynamic personality above is known for his performance in the movie ‘Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao,’ released in the year 2004. Even though the movie was a flick at the box office, it was received positive responses due to his performance. He was born on 18th of September in the year 1980 in Mumbai. When he was six months old, he flew to the United States. He had spent his childhood in Pittsgrove and his teenage in New Jersey. He had trained himself as a theater actor and had had appeared in several plays that were played in more than 40 theaters that are commonly known as Broadway theaters. He returned to India to try out his luck in the Bollywood. He was married to Cynthia Jacob.

He entered into the Bollywood with the film ‘Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao’ co-starring Tanisha Mukerji, Rashmi Nigam, and Deepak Tijori. It is a romantic comedy film directed by Kabir Sadanand and was released way back in 2004. Later on, in 2006, he had acted in another Hindi film named ‘Alag’ co-starred with Diya Mirza and Arjun Rampal and directed by Ashu Trikha and Jim Mulligari which was a remake of the Hollywood movie ‘Powder’. In this movie, he had played the character of a person with some supernatural powers and no hair on his body. Both the movies were flick at the box-office, but he gained some positive responses because of his performance in the movies. In spite of the movies being a flick, they were successful in giving a push to his career. He then acted in some other movies like ‘Spring Broke’ and ‘Mujhe Rang De’ released in the year 2008.

He performed small characters in the movie ‘Fast Forward,’ ‘Ek: The Power Of One’ starring Bobby Deol, Shriya Saran, and Nana Patekar and was directed by Sangeeth and ‘Kal Kissne Dekha’ starring Jacky Bhagnani, Vaishali Desai, Rishi Kapoor and Nushrat Bharucha and was directed by Vivek Sharma.

After playing several small roles in different movies, he returned as a lead in the Hindi thriller film ‘Three’ co-starred with Aashish Chaudhary and Nausheen Ali Sardar. It was directed by Vishal Pandya and was released in the year 2009. After this, he has played a small character in the movie ‘Enemy’ starring ‘Mithun Chakraborty, Sunil Shetty, Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Kay Kay Menon and Johnny Lever. It was directed by Ashu Trikha and was released in 2013. He had also appeared in the short film that was the spoof of Oscar-winning films ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Gladiator’ and the name of the short film was ‘A Beautiful Mind…..Of A Gladiator’.