He was summoned from Pakistan to Mumbai by his cousin Prithviraj Kapoor; he assisted K Asif on Mughal-E-Azam and worked as a secretary to Geeta Bali. He debuted as a producer with a film starring Rajesh Khanna. But things fell apart some years later, when a major flop sent him spiralling into debt. He was too unwell to pay the money back, but was slapped with several legal cases. His son was forced to step up, which he did. The producer’s name was Surinder Kapoor, and he was the father of Boney Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, and Sanjay Kapoor. Surinder Kapoor came to Mumbai after the Partition, and lived in distant relative Raj Kapoor’s outhouse with his wife. The family then moved into a one-bedroom ‘kholi’ in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai.
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