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Alia Bhatt, who recently hosted a film festival in honour of Bollywood showman Raj Kapoor’s 100th birth anniversary, was seen looking stressed in a video. The clip captured a heartwarming moment where sister-in-law Kareena Kapoor Khan encouraged and comforted her. The RK Film Festival, organized by PVR INOX Limited and the Film Heritage Foundation, honored Raj Kapoor’s enduring cinematic legacy. The three-day event began with a grand opening night, featuring screenings of Kapoor’s classics like Awaara, Shree 420, and Mera Naam Joker in select theatres across 40 cities. Showcasing 10 of Raj Kapoor’s most iconic films, the festival spans nearly four decades of his illustrious career. The lineup includes Aag (1948), Barsaat (1949), Awaara (1951), Shree 420 (1955), Jagte Raho (1956), Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Sangam (1964), Mera Naam Joker (1970), Bobby (1973), and Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985).

Kapoor family has contributed more legends to Indian cinema than any other film dynasty. From acting and directing to writing, members of this illustrious clan have excelled in nearly every aspect of filmmaking—except academics. Over a century of cinematic history, the Kapoors have produced over a dozen superstars, but only one graduate. Aditya Raj Kapoor, the son of Shammi Kapoor, is the only member of the Kapoor family to complete higher education. Remarkably, he achieved this milestone at the age of 67. In 2023, Aditya became one of India’s oldest graduates by earning a Philosophy degree through correspondence from the Indira Gandhi National Open University. Taking his academic pursuits further, he began a teaching career in August 2024, delivering his first lecture on the synthesis of Eastern and Western virtue ethics, as reported by ETimes. Born in 1956 to Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, Aditya is among the few Kapoor men who didn’t have a successful film career. Educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar, he started as an assistant to his uncle Raj Kapoor on Bobby and later worked on Dharam Karam and Satyam Shivam Sundaram. Moving away from films to focus on business, Aditya eventually returned to acting in 2010 with films like Chase and debuted on television in 2014 with Everest. However, just before the pandemic, he shifted his focus to academics, completing his graduation.

Raj Kapoor on his 100th birth anniversary, hailing him as «the eternal showman». He said on X, «Today, we mark the 100th birth anniversary of the legendary Raj Kapoor, a visionary filmmaker, actor and the eternal showman! His genius transcended generations, leaving an indelible mark on Indian and global cinema.» The prime minister had recently met members of the Kapoor family, which has produced several successful actors, to commemorate his legacy. Born on this day in 1924 in what was then undivided India and is now part of Pakistan, Kapoor was the son of stalwart actor Prithviraj Kapoor and grew to become not only a successful actor but also one of the greatest filmmakers of the Hindi film cinema.

Bollywood Life, “will name the bungalow", a ₹250 crore property, in their daughter Raha Kapoor's name, making her the youngest and wealthiest child in Bollywood. Late veteran actor Raj Kapoor and his wife Krishna Raj owned the bungalow. Ranbir Kapoor will inherit this ancestral property being the only grandson in the Kapoor family.

Also Read: Small & Medium REITs framework to boost property fractional market growth by 10 times to $5 bn, say industry players Fractional ownership of holiday homes helps to overcome the issues faced by the second home market. Mayur Raj Kapoor, Co-Founder & CEO, BRIK itt shared that he introduced fractional ownership of holiday homes to address these problems. “There are three main issues we identified in the second home market.

₹9,400 crore in 2021. Nanda insisted that under the Kubota partnership, the emphasis was on institutionalizing the company, and not on operating it as a family-run business. (The Nanda family owns 14.15% of the joint company.) “I always wanted to institutionalize this platform, and through Escorts Kubota, I am happy to say to our shareholders that today, this company is institutional," he said in an interview.

Ethereum’s shift of its consensus algorithm from proof-of-work (PoW) to environment-friendly proof-of-stake (PoS) in an event called ‘The Merge’ earlier this week will result in sizeable graphic card (GPUs) dump and hit manufacturers such as Nvidia and AMD.

After being in the red for over a month, cryptocurrency markets have pared some of their losses and are trading up about 10 percent over the last week.

With the recent cryptocurrency market correction, investors in India have taken a breather from stacking their portfolios. However, in the long term, they remain bullish on the top two cryptos, Bitcoin and Ethereum.

India Finance Secretary T.V. Somanathan had told media outlets last week that crypto taxation is kept next to winnings from horse races, or bets and other speculative transactions with the proposed 30% transaction tax. Alongside that, the 1% TDS announced with a threshold had got the industry worried.