Main tera hero shakti kapoor biography

Shakti Kapoor looks back on getting into the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and then making the move to Mumbai.

How it all began for Shakti Kapoor

‘This was in 1973, when 40,000 aspiring actors from across the country were vying for the 10 seats that were up for grabs at the country’s premier film school. And one of them had no idea he was even in the running till he got a letter from the institute informing him that he had been selected for the written test,’ Shakti Kapoor reminisces with a laugh. Even as he was wondering how he had come to be selected, the friend called and admitted to having filled the form on his behalf, and persuaded him to take the test. He found it surprisingly easy and passed with flying colours.

He was then called for the audition, for which he was coached by his friends. He walked into the venue, a classroom of Delhi Public School, and did a double take. Seated before him were Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. ‘I rushed forward and touched their feet, asking for their ashirwad [blessings] and admitting to being a huge fan. Smiling indulgently, they reminded me that I was there for an audition. Since time was short, I should start reading out my lines,’ he shares.

Since he was pretty sure he wouldn’t be selected because he had no background in acting, Shakti Kapoor was relaxed and unfazed even when he jumbled up his lines. He improvised as he went along, touched their feet once he had finished and left the veteran actors and director smiling. He hadn’t expected to hear from the FTII again. So, it came as a shock when he got a telegram a month later informing him that of the three selected from Delhi, he was one. Naseeruddin Shah and Anil Varman were the other two. ‘My friends were convinced my father had bribed the FTII board, which is how I had got through,’ he chuckles.

There was one screen test still left to be cleared, but by then eve

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2014 film directed by David Dhawan

Main Tera Hero (transl. I am your hero) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed by David Dhawan, with script and dialogues from Tushar Hiranandani and Milap Zaveri, and produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures. The film stars Varun Dhawan, alongside Ileana D'Cruz, Nargis Fakhri, Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav and Shakti Kapoor. The movie is a remake of 2011 Telugu movie Kandireega.

Principal photography began on 30 May 2013. The filming began on 5 July 2013 and was wrapped by 15 October 2013. The soundtrack and score were composed by Sajid–Wajid and Sandeep Shirodkar, while cinematography and editing were handled by Sanjay F. Gupta and Nitin Rokade.

Main Tera Hero was released on 4 April 2014 to mixed reviews from critics and became a commercial success at the box office.

Plot

Sreenath Prasad, aka Seenu, fails his final exam in a college in Ooty by two marks. Determined to earn a degree, he kidnaps his professor’s daughter during her wedding, demanding two extra marks. However, he accidentally lets her go while distracted, and his plan fails.

Seenu’s father offers him a job at the family’s shopping mall, but Seenu chooses to pursue his education at Tift College in Bengaluru. On the train to Bengaluru, he encounters a gang harassing a group of teenage girls and beats them up. Upon reaching the city, a reluctant friend allows him to stay at his house.

At Tift College, Seenu prays to focus on his studies but is quickly distracted by Sunaina Goradia, a middle-class girl. He tries to win her over, but she avoids him, revealing she is being forced to marry a corrupt police officer, Angad Negi. She explains that her father slapped Angad for entering the house without their permission and made Sunaina uncomfortable. Subsequently, Angad had blackmailed her father into submissio