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Actress Karisma Kapoor Karisma Kapoor, nick name Lolo is the eldest daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita Kapoor. She was born on June 25th 1974 in Mumbai. Her family, the Kapoor family has the distinction of being the longest serving family in Bollywood. Prithviraj Kapoor a legend of Indian Cinema was Karisma’s great grandfather, Raj Kapoor Karisma’s grandfather was the superstar of new India and his movies were of the most brilliantly made ever. Her uncles Shashi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor too were stars in their own right. Rishi Kapoor is the paternal uncle of Karisma Kapoor who inspired her a lot. In the Kapoor family females were debarred from acting in Bollywood and for that same reason her mother Babita and aunt Neetu had to put a stop at the flourishing career after marriage. Karisma however broke tradition and was the first girl from a Kapoor family to act in Hindi movies. Karisma’s primary schooling started with her getting enrolled into the "CATHEDRAL and JOHN CONNAN HIGH SCHOOL" at Fort – Bombay and studied there until the age of six. She completed her CBSE further and thereafter joined "SOPHI COLLEGE for FYJC" in arts stream, later she quit her education field towards the end of term of collage to leap forge to try her luck in main stream Bollywood movies. At an early age of 17 she left her education and broke Kapoor family traditions to start a acting career that would later on become very successful. As soon as we hear the name Karisma Kapoor we think of a blue eye beauty who initially couldn’t act well but later on her glamorous roles in director David Dhawan’s many movies established her as one the country’s most successful and popular actresses of the 90’s. Though her acting abilities never on the forefront of things in the initial part of her career but gradually with time once she established herself as a successful actor she gambled with different roles to prove she is no mug when it comes to acting skills. She started her film journey with Perm Qaidi, which met with moderate success, but her subsequent movies fared poorly at the box office. Films like Jaagruti, Nishchay, Deedar and Muqabla all bombed at the box office but movies like Jigar in 92, Raja Babu in 94, Anari in 93 ,Coolie No.1 in 95, Jeet in 1996 and Chal Mere Bhai in 2000 fared well at the box office, all the these movies just kept her afloat in the film industry and Coolie No.1 in particular proved to be a major success for her. With the movie (Coolie No.1) started the immensely successful partnership of the trio – Govinda, Karisma Kapoor and director David Dhawan. These three hit upon a formula to produce what can be termed as malasa movies, these movies didn’t have a script that could be called original or brilliant that what it had was comedy enough to entertain the masses and give audiences their money’s worth. Movies like Raja babu, Coolie No.1, Biwi No.1 and Hero No.1 all made by David Dhawan and having the No.1 in the title proved to the their lucky charm as all of these movies turned out to be super hits and established Karisma Kapoor as a very successful and glamorous actress in Bollywood. She also was a part of some really prestigious projects and worked with the big banners and productions houses. In 1996 she starred in Dharmesh Dharshan’s Raja Hindustani, her co-star was Aamir Khan and the movie was about a girl rich falling in love with the average village boy and then the difference of the two world’s – the rich & the poor. In this movie she shared a smooch with Aamir and became the most watch kiss scene in a long time. Her acting power ness in the movie landed her the Filmfare award for Best Actress. Next year, the movie Dil To Pagal Hai opposite Shahrukh Khan was another silver lining in her glittering career. Her role fetched her Filmfare award for best supporting actress. She also did a hit movie along with Amitabh Bachchan named Ek Rishtaa. She also was part of the Rajshri Productions movie ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ (starring Salman Khan, actress Karisma Kapoor herself, actor Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Mohnish Behl and Tabu.) which also was a major success. In October of 2002 she announced her engagement to Abhishek Bachchan the son the country’s most popular actor Amitabh Bachchan, it became the most talked about engagement in whole country but within just four months of the engagement they announced their breakup. Karisma later went on to marry Sanjay Kapur. They two had a well-publicized differences post marriage but today everything is merry between the two and they have a lovely daughter as well. She is definitely looking to make a comeback to Bollywood, as we will soon see her on the silver screen.
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