Akhil Kapur is a prominent Indian film actor. He was born on October 26, 1985, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Akhil started as an assistant director to
Nikhil Advani
in Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love in the year 2007 and Abbas Mustan in Race in the year 2008. He also assisted the makers of the Bollywood comedy drama film, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2007. Being one of the founders of the India Fight Factory, he has been trained in several fighting forms such as martial arts, Karate, Kung-Fu, Krav Maga, Muya
Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu.Â
He is the nephew of Indian actor and producer,
Vinod Khanna
and the cousins of actors,
Rahul Khanna
, and
Akshaye Khanna
. He took up acting and film direction at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and New York Film Academy and returned to India. Akhil said, since he came from a film fraternity, he always wished to get into films.Â
In the year 2014, the actor was debuted in the Bollywood action-drama film,
Desi Kattey
, helmed by
Anand Kumar
. When Anand Kumar heard about him through a newspaper, he called Akhil and narrated a story that is different from Desi Kattey. But since Akhil has some other project in the pipeline, he was unable to go to Anand. After a year and a half, Anand called him again, and when he comes to the director, Anand narrated a love story to him but he asked Anand to cast him in a hardcore action film. And that’s how his debut film was made. He played as Pali, a small town boy who was raised up making guns, and he wanted to become a popular gangster in town. Akhil mentioned in an interview that, he watched the film "Davayan" of his uncle Vinod Khanna. He considered as his biggest inspiration and Vaastav of
Sanjay Dutt
, to prepare for his role in Desi Kattey, since both roles were quite similar to his role in the film. Prior to this, he interned on several films before Anand approached him for a role in Desi Kattey. Akhil wanted to do dark characters, and one of his biggest inspirations is the Hollywood action superstar,
Sylvester Stallone
. Actor Sunil Shetty says Akhil has the same looks as Sanjay Dutt, only he is the younger version. He said it in terms of the intensity in the eyes of Akhil and his whole demeanor that reminds of the veteran actor, Sanjay Dutt.Â
Akhil has done a sexy pro-vegetarian advertisement for People for the Ethical Treatments of Animals (PETA), with whom he poses his traffic-stopping physique. Known to be a vegetarian, he intends to prove that vegetarians are fit to live longer. The ad was shot by popular Bollywood photographer,
Haider Khan
.