Shahid Kapoor Biography
debut with "Ishq Vishk" in 2003 and also won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. This success was followed by films like Fida (2004) and Shikhar (2005) which did not do well at the box office. He had his first major commercial success with Sooraj R. Barjatya's 'Vivah' in 2006. Later, he was nominated in Filmfare Best Actor Award category for Jab We Met (2007) and Kaminey (2009). Fast forwarding to 2014, he will be seen in the movie Haider along with Shraddha Kapoor.Shahid was born on 25 February 1981 to screenwriter Pankaj Kapur and actor cum classical dancer Neelima Azeem. Both his parents were involved in the film world. Shahid’s great grandfather was the film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, often known as K. A. Abbas. However, Shahid’s parents divorced when he was three and he went to live with his mother and maternal grandparents in Saket, Delhi. His father then got married to Supriya Pathak. In his early days, Shahid studied at Gyan Bharti School in Delhi, and then moved on to Rajhans Vidyalaya in Mumbai.At a young age, Shahid learned dancing from Shiamak Davar Institute of Performing Arts. He then worked in several TV ads for Pepsi with Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherji and Kajol. His first appearance in the film world was as a background dancer for the song Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jaawe in the 1999 Subhas Ghai film Taal. Soon, he cut short his appearances in ad films and music videos so that he could focus on making his Bollywood debut.