
Acting
Rajat Kapoor
Born
1961-02-11 (65)
Place of birth
Delhi, India
Known for
Acting
Credits
101 titles
Rajat Kapoor (born 11 February 1961) is an Indian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director. As a child, Kapoor would watch films with his family and decided to become a filmmaker at the age of 14. He mainly focused on acting at first. In 2013 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi, later moving to Pune to attend the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
Known for
5.8A team of dedicated men and women in the Crime Investigation Department will risk everything to solve Mumbai's toughest, most complicated crimes.
C.I.D.
1998
Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
2002
7.7Years after outsmarting the police, Vijay Salgaonkar's past resurfaces when a new evidence threatens to expose his secret. As the investigation reopens, he must outwit the system once again to save his family.
Drishyam: The Conclusion
2026
6.3Through four bite-sized yet emotionally resonant films, the anthology once again explores lust, love, relationships, and repressed desire, offering fresh perspectives on intimacy, longing, and human connection in all their complexity.
Lust Stories 3
2026
8.3Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The Scam".
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
2020
9.0group of students enrol in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, in Uttarkashi, for undergoing training to climb Mount Everest. Anjali Singh Rawat, who feels neglected by her father, wishes to win his love by fulfilling his dream of climbing Everest. Aakash Joshi is a videographer, who is to make a documentary on Arjun Sabharwal's expedition to Everest. As the plot proceeds a relationship between Anjali and Aakash fruitions
Everest
2014
Film credits
2020s · 16 titles
7.7Years after outsmarting the police, Vijay Salgaonkar's past resurfaces when a new evidence threatens to expose his secret. As the investigation reopens, he must outwit the system once again to save his family.
Drishyam: The Conclusion
2026
6.3Through four bite-sized yet emotionally resonant films, the anthology once again explores lust, love, relationships, and repressed desire, offering fresh perspectives on intimacy, longing, and human connection in all their complexity.
Lust Stories 3
2026
6.2When members of the Bansal family are found murdered, Inspector Jatil Yadav uncovers a trail of greed, betrayal and secrets tied to a deadly conspiracy.
Raat Akeli Hai - The Bansal Murders
2025
8.07 years after the case related to Vijay Salgaonkar and his family was closed, a series of unexpected events bring truth to light that threatens to change everything for the Salgaonkars. Can Vijay save his family this time?
Drishyam 2
2022
7.2Haunted by a childhood romance and recollections of love lost during the 1947 Partition of India, 95-year-old Ishar Singh Grewal shares his story with his grandson Nirvair, the past unfolding through memories of migration, longing, and a romance that endures across generations.
Main Vaapas Aaunga
2026
5.7Alisha Khanna, 30, ambitious, now finds herself at crossroads in life. Her six year long relationship has grown monotonous, her career seems to be going nowhere. But just when she had begun to accept this reality as unchangeable, her life is usurped by the arrival of her cousin, Tia and her fiancé, Zain, with whom she bonds over a troubled past and a common wish to break from its confines.
Gehraiyaan
2022
6.4Set seven years after the events of the first film, it follows the return of IRS officer Amay Patnaik, who is attempting to take down a seemingly benevolent politician.
Raid 2
2025
6.2After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
RK/RKAY
2021
6.0At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Eyes on the Sunshine
2023
NROur lives are often more interconnected than we think they are... Kora Kagazz is a Hindi lanuguage film that revolves around three lost souls who find a home away from home. Divya, a juvenile home warden and Vivek, an actor struggling to create art, meet Sandhya, a 14-year old girl, with a dark past, and together they rise above their circumstances.
Kora Kagazz
2022
NRAn elderly woman resides in her long-time home, leading a rather uncomplicated existence. Each day, she listens to a radio that was gifted to her by her late husband. One morning, she awakens to discover that her radio has ceased functioning. In an effort to have it repaired, she contacts the radio company, hoping for assistance.
Sadabahar
2024
5.8Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door is the husband of Chhaya, a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The man asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive.
Kadakh
2020
NRAn epic journey of empowerment, faith, and resilience, inspired by the fierce and compassionate nature of the Goddess Kali.
Mahakāli
2027
NRArmaand and his father don't see eye to eye as Armaand wants to become a boxer, while his father wants him to join the family business. Will Armaand give up his passion for his father's sake?
Armaand
2023
NRRajat Kapoor, an Indian filmmaker & actor collaborates with fellow actors from Bollywood to put up a theatre play that turns Shakespearean stories into a modern tale with an unconventional twist. Rajat’s clowning act of interpreting Shakespearean classics makes for an unbelievably appealing storytelling. The creative exploration of Rajat and his team is discomforting, entertaining, and addictive at the same time.
Clowning with Shakespeare
2022
2010s · 18 titles
7.1Returning home to visit their ill grandfather, two estranged brothers must confront their unresolved rivalry while their parents’ marriage frays.
Kapoor & Sons
2016
7.5When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.
Drishyam
2015
6.8Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019
5.5The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
Midnight's Children
2012
5.5An unconventional woman, gains immense success in her professional life but things take a turn when she meets a guy, who wants to be a house husband.
Ki & Ka
2016
5.4When a middle-aged filmmaker meets an alluring stranger at a party, he's haunted by troubling memories of his past relationships.
X: Past Is Present
2015
7.1Om, a debt-ridden NRI, wants to sell his ancestral property to pay his debts, but things turn awry when he is kidnapped by gangsters who believe him to be a rich target.
Phas Gaye Re Obama
2010
6.2A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.
Rang Rasiya
2014
7.1Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the neighbours incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Ankhon Dekhi
2014
7.0One time bickering neighbors are forced to share the same apartment. The cultural clash between traditional-orthodox-India and modern-urban-India. The collision of two cultures creates havoc in the beginning but finds a peaceful co-existence, at the end. An orthodox boy from the holy city of Banaras, is forced to stay with a chorus dancer in Bombay... The film does the journey of these two opposite personalities and how, after the initial phase of rejection, they find each others place in their respective lives.
Pappu Can't Dance Saala
2010
5.5Agent Vinod sets out on a secret mission to find the reason behind the death of Rajan, his colleague. Terror strikes when he unfolds an even bigger conspiracy.
Agent Vinod
2012
6.4Arnab tries to help Ruksahana, who is found under mysterious circumstances in a house. He lets her stay at his home until he discovers something strange about her.
Pari
2018
6.2An award-winning aging actress reflects on her life while writing a suicide note.
Iti Mrinalini
2011
6.6The revered chief of a news agency tries to maintain journalistic integrity as his bureau and a rival agency vie for viewers following a terrorist attack.
Rann
2010
7.0While visiting his comatose wife in the hospital, a serene old professor befriends a vibrant young woman whose husband has also fallen into a coma.
Waiting
2016
6.7The youngest son of a Muslim family settled in Benaras gets involved in terrorist activities, leading to a bomb blast massacre. His actions have an adverse effect on the family who are left to defend themselves as people who are innocent and not anti-nationals.
Mulk
2018
6.5A romantic comedy concerning the tribulations of a love quadrangle during a night of magic & madness.
10ml LOVE
2010
NRA high-school drop-out is smitten with a visiting American Researcher.
Jo Dooba So Paar: It's Love in Bihar!
2011
2000s · 22 titles
NRIn order to make their autistic child a genius, a couple injects a drug into his body, only to face drastic consequences later.
My Own Sky
2007
6.8A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Monsoon Wedding
2001
7.0The film is set in the India of the tumultuous 1930's when nationalists fighting for the country's independence rose up as one, urging the British to quit. At this time, a young Indian, Kisna befriends and then shields a British girl Katherine, from an enraged mob of nationalists including Kisna's own uncle and brother. Katherine is the young daughter of a ruthless British collector. Kisna takes it upon himself to escort Katherine to the safety of the British High Commission in New Delhi, who will arrange for her to board a ship home. A tender attraction develops between Kisna and Katherine during the journey, a love story that is torn between 'Karma' (the noble deed) and 'Dharma' (the duty). Laxmi, the Indian girl Kisna is engaged to, forms the third point in an emotional triangle involving the Indo-British romantic pair
Kisna
2005
7.2A 15-year-old Maahi, who hails from an rich family, falls in love with Kabir, a 17-year-old. When she becomes pregnant, their families' opposition forces the couple to elope.
Teree Sang: A Kidult Love Story
2009
6.9Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
Dil Chahta Hai
2001
7.3Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Mixed Doubles
2006
6.8Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
2008
8.7Reena and fellow collegian Akash Mehta are medical (psychiatry)students. They are sweethearts and hope to marry each other after completing their education. Before that could happen, Megha Joshi enters their lives and changes everything. For Akash falls head over heels in love with her, and will do anything for her. Just when their education is about to get over, Megha disappears from Akash's life.
Chehraa
2005
4.94 mental patients formulate the plan to rescue their kidnapped doctor and teach the kidnappers a lesson.
Krazzy 4
2008
3.5A married woman has a one-night stand with a lustful photographer while on vacation, and soon cannot escape her past mistake when the photographer follows her home and wants to continue his lustful fling with her at any cost.
Tum: A Dangerous Obsession
2004
6.8Sultana, a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis, bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hand at many jobs but is unsuccessful. Sultana's loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for a 'salwaar' that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning for Moharram.
Kali Salwar
2002
7.3A man who loves to make "to-do lists" makes one last bucket list when he realizes he is about to die.
Dasvidaniya
2008
5.5Following a wild party, a married man meets with his friends in order to try and remember his indiscretions.
A One Night Stand
2009
The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that creates a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.
Anuranan
2008
6.6Four individuals from different parts of India board a US-bound flight. However, they are stuck in an unfortunate situation as the flight is hijacked soon after take-off.
Yun Hota To Kya Hota
2006
NRThe film tells the tale of Mumbai city and the millions who get off the train at VT station at every second of the day, hoping to latch on to the magic of Mumbai.
Ek Tho Chance
2009
6.4Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Corporate
2006
6.6Ranjeet Thadani is a bored and arrogant music producer who along with his friends hosts a party every Friday where they invite an 'idiot' to ridicule them and have fun at their expense. One day, he invites Bharat Bhushan, a kind hearted yet annoying Income Tax inspector, who ends up messing things for people when he tries to help them who makes Ranjeet regret inviting him.
Bheja Fry
2007
NRLord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
6.0A stockbroker who moves into a flat finds that he cannot sleep because of the loud whistle blown by the night-watchman. This leads him into conflict with the building's secretary who insists on the use of the whistle.
Hulla
2008
5.4Circa 1960s Lucknow-based author Zafar Ali Naqvi, who has issues with his father and his four wives, including the 4th one who lusts after him, re-locates to Bombay, starts writing for movies, and falls in love with starlet Nikhat Sheikh. Both decide to get married but cancel the plans at the last minute after she finds out that her mother and her live-in boyfriend...
Khoya Khoya Chand
2007
4.5Via Darjeeling is the story of a honeymooning couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) who are very much in love. On the day of their departure from Darjeeling, Ankur disappears mysteriously leaving Rimli all alone frantically searching for him. Here enters the policeman Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) who tries to trace Ankur, but in vain. The story then moves onto a group of friends partying and having a good time, where Robin who is one of the guests narrates the story of Ankur and Rimli to his friends. How each one of them make their own interpretations as to what happened to Ankur makes the movie an interesting watch.
Via Darjeeling
2008
Series credits
5.8A team of dedicated men and women in the Crime Investigation Department will risk everything to solve Mumbai's toughest, most complicated crimes.
C.I.D.
1998
Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
2002
8.3Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The Scam".
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
2020
9.0group of students enrol in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, in Uttarkashi, for undergoing training to climb Mount Everest. Anjali Singh Rawat, who feels neglected by her father, wishes to win his love by fulfilling his dream of climbing Everest. Aakash Joshi is a videographer, who is to make a documentary on Arjun Sabharwal's expedition to Everest. As the plot proceeds a relationship between Anjali and Aakash fruitions
Everest
2014
7.7Rana Naidu can solve any problem in Bollywood. But when his father is suddenly released from prison, the one mess he can’t handle may be his own.
Rana Naidu
2023
5.7From pulling off casting coups to calming celebrity egos, the drama never stops for four Mumbai talent agents hustling to save their sinking company.
Call My Agent Bollywood
2021
4.7Kabir, a special task force veteran, is brought out of retirement to hunt down an enemy, Umar Riaz, he thought he had neutralised but is still alive. He, along with a reassembled special task force, decides to infiltrate Umar's brother's wedding after learning that Umar would be in attendance. However, when things do not go as planned, Kabir and his team must give their all to ensure the dangerous man is caught.
Tanaav
2022
10.0An anthology of some of the most horrifying stories, which have left an impact on the lives of people who have encountered supernatural powers & forces.
Raat Hone Ko Hai
2004
6.4Miltary lawyer,Major Monica Mehra,is roped in to solve, what seems like an open and shut case, of the death of an army officer, killed by militants in an encounter. The truth is far from what it appears to be. Will she crack the code?
Code M
2020
"Time Bomb 9/11" or just "Time Bomb" was a Hindi political thriller that aired on Zee TV from June 20, 2005 to December 25, 2005. It used to air every Monday at 10:00pm, and the show had a similar format to "24". The story focuses on Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group aiming to destroy the city of New Delhi on September 11 as well as assassinating the Indian Prime Minister who was played by Kay Kay Menon. A RAW group led by Field Officer Varun Awasthi has to protect the Prime Minister and more importantly, the city.
Time Bomb 9/11
2005
6.0A resilient Indian spy must defeat his counterpart across the border in a battle of wits and tradecraft to sabotage a nuclear program.
Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians
2025
6.8Madhu moves into a hostel in Delhi to start afresh, but her room hides a sinister presence that begins to get stronger each day, alarming the other women on her floor. They know what the room hides and desperately want her gone before it is too late for them all.
Khauf
2025
7.3In the small town of Jehanabad, where innocent love, in the form of a young independent college student and her professor, and intense violence, with the arrival of a seasoned Naxal commander and an ex-MLA eyeing the Dalit vote bank, are brewing parallelly, they are bound to cross paths.
Jehanabad Of Love & War
2023
5.8When pirates hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia, a high-stakes game is played with innocent lives and a precious piece of cargo aboard.
Lootere
2024
The show featured a range of short stories about different people in varied scenarios. They covered incidents which had a humorous side to them and showed the varying facets of human relationships.
Gubbare
1999
NRSougata is a well-known thriller writer of our times, with the publication of his first book. But situations get twisted when his past comes haunting the reality of his present.
Once Upon a Crime
2020
Behind the camera
7.3Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Mixed Doubles
2006
7.3Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Mixed Doubles
2006
6.2After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
RK/RKAY
2021
6.2After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
RK/RKAY
2021
6.0At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
2023
6.0At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
2023
6.0At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
2023
7.1Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the neighbours incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Ankhon Dekhi
2014
7.1Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the neighbours incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Ankhon Dekhi
2014
10.0An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One
1997
10.0An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One
1997
6.3A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Mithya
2008
6.3A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Mithya
2008
5.5Following a wild party, a married man meets with his friends in order to try and remember his indiscretions.
A One Night Stand
2009
NRThe film tells the tale of Mumbai city and the millions who get off the train at VT station at every second of the day, hoping to latch on to the magic of Mumbai.
Ek Tho Chance
2009
5.9An employee at a strip club kidnaps his favorite actress to protect her from mob hit men.
Raghu Romeo
2004
5.9An employee at a strip club kidnaps his favorite actress to protect her from mob hit men.
Raghu Romeo
2004
5.3Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Fatso!
2012
5.3Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Fatso!
2012
5.8Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door is the husband of Chhaya, a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The man asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive.
Kadakh
2020
5.8Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door is the husband of Chhaya, a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The man asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive.
Kadakh
2020
6.0The film follows a backpack on a journey around the world, intersecting the lives of dozens of fascinating characters along the way. The story progresses, we learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs.
The Owner
2012
8.0A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.
Hypnothesis
1996
8.0A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.
Hypnothesis
1996
5.0This film is on the 'Tarana' gharana of Indian classical music. A Tarana Bandish normally does not use words instead it employs men monic syllables. Some of these are borrowed from tabla bols,some from the moment of her instruments. It has been suggested that these syllables may have religious origin both from Hindu and Sufi faith.
Tarana
1995



