Bhubaneswar: Sporting long messy hair with a middle partition, this actor with his poofy hairstyle ruled the Bollywood Between 1988-1992, when superstar Mithun Chakraborty’s stardom was on its last legs.
The actor today celebrated his 68th birthday and enters the 69th year; still his looks give the shade of an evergreen actor.
For which, this star is known as evergreen star in this Gen Z age, and he is none other than Anil Kapoor – the Munna Bhai of Teezab, the One 2 ka Four Lakhan and Mr India of Sridevi.
The hairstyle of Anil Kapoor was popular in late 80s. And the star once revealed that George Michael's (see the image) 80's appearance was the source of his inspiration for his stubble and poofy hair style.
Born on December 24, 1956 in Mumbai, Anil Kapoor made debut in a cameo appearance in Umesh Mehra’s romatic flick Hamare Tumhare.
Despite son of Surinder Kapoor, who was a cousin of Prithviraj Kapoor, Anil Kapoor didn’t get a runaway entry on to the tinsel town’s silver screen.
LOOKED SOUTH TO BECOME ACTOR
When Sunil Dutt was launching his son Sanjay Dutt in Rocky, Anil Kapoor went and gave audition for a small role as Sanjay Dutt's friend in his struggling days, but was not selected for the part.
In year 1980, the actor made his debut as a lead hero in a Telugu film Vamsa Vruksham directed by Bapu.
In 1983, Anil Kapoor made a Kannada debut with Mani Ratnam’s Pallavi Anu Pallavi.
Finally, his family’s film connection proved lucky for Anil Kapoor.
He made Hindi debut in his home production Woh Saat Din. The film was produced by father Surinder Kapoor and brother Boney Kapoor. The film was directed by Bapu.
This talented actor got recognition for his Raj Kapoor stylized action in the role of Prem Pratap Patiala Waale.
His talent got industry recognition when Filmfare awarded Anil Kapoor best supporting actor award for his tapori role in Yash Chopra’s Maashal in 1984.
But he wandered with the tag of talented actor. Stardom eluded Anil Kapoor.
ANIL KAPOOR BECAME STAR
However, it was his terrific role and solid action as advocate Arun Verma in Subash Ghai’s Meri Jung catapulted this talented actor to stardom. Actor Anil Kapoor was born as a star in B-town.
Anil maintained his star status with big hits like Subhas Ghai’s multi starrer film Karma, Anil Ganguly’s Saheb et al.
His popularity was evident as he went for world tour concerts with Rekha and Meenakshi in June 1986. They went to cities in Canada, America and England.
Then, came the year 1987.
Anil Kapoor as Mr India became immensely popular among movie watchers. No looking back since then.
EK, DO TEEN CHAAR…. ANIL KAPOOR SUPERSTAR!
His intense action as Munna in violent romantic thriller Tezaab, with the chartbuster song and dance sequence like Ek Do Teen Chaar, Kaho Doge Tum O Meri Warna…went on to became the highest grossing of the year 1988, leaving behind Amitabh Bachchan’s Shahenshah, crowned Anik Kapoor as the new superstar of B-Town.
Year 1989 was Anil Kapoor’s year. He gave highest grosser of the year like Ram Lakhan and gave superhits like Rakhwala and won critical acclaim for his role in Eshwar.
His superstar crown remained intact till 1992 with hit like Beta, though many of his big productions like Yash Chopra’s Lamhe, Rakesh Roashan’s Khel bombed at the Box Office.
His superstardom is evident from the fact that he went for a world tour of concerts in June 1992 with Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shirodkar and Amrish Puri. The concerts were in the cities of Canada, America and England.
ANIL KAPOOR TRIVIA
- Won National Award in 2001 for his performance in Pukar.
- Anil Kapoor sung songs in his own voice with Salma Agha for a pop album titled "Welcome" in 1986 . Music was by Bappi Lahiri.
- His wife Sunita is a first cousin of Ranveer Singh's father.
- Pappu Verma was making a film titled Raktavanshi.
- It was a remake of Tamil film Agninakshatram.
- Anil Kapoor agreed to do the film,
- but after Tezaab became blockbuster, he demanded more money.
- This shocked Verma as he already was ready to shoot the film.
- He later made the film as Vansh with Sudesh Berry and Siddharth.
