Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Karan Kapoor

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Karan Kapoor

Karan Kapoor is an Indian photographer, actor and model. He is the son of actors Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal. His paternal grandfather was Prithviraj Kapoor and his paternal uncles are Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor. His elder brother Kunal Kapoor and younger sister Sanjana Kapoor have also acted in some films. His maternal grandparents, Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal, were actors who toured India and Asia with their theatre group, Shakespearana, performing Shakespeare and Shaw. The Merchant Ivory film, Shakespeare Wallah, was loosely based on the family, which starred his father and his maternal aunt, actress Felicity Kendal.

I don't know exactly what I would be doing, but India is a land of possibilities and there is so much to explore.
Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.
Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home. — © Karan Kapoor
Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home.
My career is suffering because of stress.
Film was very expensive, so you couldn't waste a single frame. This meant spending time with the subject, getting to know them and finally, getting that one great picture.
The modelling just happened. It was fun, and a good way to earn money.
People didn't know me. So, I had to strike a chord and build relationships.
I would love to make a comeback, but I don't know if people would want to see me.
We had a house in Baga, Goa, that we would visit every Christmas vacation. It was called Love House. The toilet was outside the house. We had no water; someone had to get it from the well. My dad was huge then, but he could walk, go to the local tavern, have a beer and take an auto back.
Cinema was haywire in the 1980s. It was a funny period in films then.
I've never had a major professional project in India, and that's something I'm keen to explore now.
When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.
Many Anglo-Indians who had lived through the last days of the Raj were old, and I felt it was important to meet them and record their memories of what life had been like for them under the British and how it had changed after India's independence.
Well, that's what you have when you're young right? All the time in the world.
If my father was shooting in Kashmir or down south in the jungles during our vacations, we would go. But it wasn't a regular thing; we did it only in the vacations.
I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj - people who remembered the railway cantonments, the Marilyn Monroe look-a-like contest, the Central Provinces,' and so on, a world long gone.
I never wanted to be an actor as I wasn't passionate about it.
When you are young and don't have many responsibilities then you shouldn't think twice to pursue your dreams.
Bombay always felt home. — © Karan Kapoor
Bombay always felt home.
I was too foreign-looking for Bollywood.
Mum enrolled us for guitar and piano lessons, none of us had any talent oh, Kunal could play the piano well.
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