Articles about Siddharth Roy Kapur
Siddharth Roy Kapur, born on August 2, 1974, is an Indian film producer, the founder and Managing Director of Roy Kapur Films, and the President of the Producers Guild of India. He joined UTV in 2005 as the group's Senior Vice-President of Marketing & Communications. Later, Kapur became the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures in January 2008, and after the 2012 merger of UTV with The Walt Disney Company (India), he assumed the role of the Managing Director. He led the studio to incredible commercial success, releasing some of the most successful films of that decade, including 'Chennai Express', 'Taare Zameen Par', 'Yeh Jeewani Hai Deewani', 'Welcome to Sajjanpur', 'The LunchBox', ' Wake Up Sid', 'No One Killed Jessica', 'Kai Po Che', and 'Rowdy Rathore', among others. In January 2017, he left Disney India to start his own production house called Roy Kapur Films. The first production venture of Roy Kapur Films' was 'The Sky Is Pink' (2019), starring Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar. The production company's second film, 'Yeh Ballet' (2020), was released on Netflix.
22 Jan 2022
EntertainmentSonyLIV has released the trailer of their upcoming series, Rocket Boys.
16 Jan 2022
EntertainmentProducer Siddharth Roy Kapur and Sairat director Nagraj Manjule are collaborating for a series on matka, a popular form of gambling.
12 Jan 2022
EntertainmentNagraj Manjule, director of the noted Marathi film Sairat, will now make a series on an infamous gambler.
15 Sep 2021
EntertainmentActor Ishaan Khatter's upcoming war drama Pippa kicked off its first schedule in Amritsar today.
20 Apr 2021
EntertainmentAnupam Kher has joined the panel of distinguished jury for BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Breakthrough India.
16 Apr 2021
EntertainmentActor-producer Ajay Devgn will bankroll a satire comedy, titled Gobar! along with Siddharth Roy Kapur, as per a report by Variety.
22 Feb 2021
EntertainmentPratik Gandhi, who wowed everyone with his performance in Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, is now taking leaps toward Bollywood and is said to have bagged a role opposite Taapsee Pannu.
11 Oct 2020
EntertainmentRaveena Tandon is all set to make her digital debut.
14 Aug 2020
EntertainmentOn Friday, news in the world of entertainment was about COVID-19 bringing more concerns, an exciting movie announcement, a fresh trailer release, and some new developments in late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case.
06 Jan 2020
PoliticsLast night, the Centre organized a special dinner with Bollywood celebrities as part of its outreach program for the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act.
24 Jul 2019
EntertainmentPriyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar's next The Sky Is Pink, helmed by Shonali Bose, will premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival 2019 (TIFF).
10 Apr 2019
EntertainmentVidya Balan, who was last seen in Telugu movies, N.T.R: Kathanayakudu and N.T.R: Mahanayakudu, has now announced her next project.
08 Apr 2019
EntertainmentTo prepare for her look and diction in the pre-Partition drama Kalank, which will release on April 17, actress Alia Bhatt turned to classic films such as Mughal-E-Azam, Umrao Jaan and hit Pakistani drama Zindagi Gulzar Hai.
12 Nov 2018
EntertainmentIt was an iconic off-screen crossover of two of Netflix's popular series when 'Narcos: Mexico' stars Michael Pena and Diego Luna met the full cast of 'Sacred Games' yesterday, including Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane, directors Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan and writer Varun Grover.
27 Oct 2018
EntertainmentLast evening, I got a call from an unknown number. Staying true to my habit of not receiving calls that don't flash a name, I disconnected it.
26 Oct 2018
EntertainmentA delegation of Bollywood recently met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi. Among the ones who had the pleasure of meeting PM Modi were Aamir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Aanand L Rai, Ritesh Sidhwani, Maulik Bhagat and Mahaveer Jain.
22 Aug 2018
EntertainmentRadhika Apte and Manav Kaul, the stars of Netflix's new original 'Ghoul', attended its premiere in Mumbai.
21 Jul 2018
EntertainmentSuperstar Aamir Khan will be the chief guest at the Indian Screenwriters Conference (ISC).
06 Mar 2018
EntertainmentMore often than not, the outrage towards a film is created by the makers themselves when they haven't made a good enough film, said Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani.
11 Jan 2018
EntertainmentVidya Balan is reportedly gearing up for her next big film. It will be a biopic on India's first woman Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
