Prithviraj Kapoor

Prithviraj Kapoor was born as Prithvinath Kapoor on 3 November 1906 in Peshawar, North Western Frontier Province, British India, into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family of the Kapoor gotra. His father, Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor, was a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police, posted in the city of Peshawar. His grandfather, Dewan Keshavmal Kapoor, was a Tehsildar in Samundri near Lyallpur. Kapoor was the eldest of eight siblings, five boys (including Prithviraj and Trilok Kapoor, also an actor) and three girls. Film producer Surinder Kapoor, father of actors and producers Anil, Boney and Sanjay Kapoor, was a cousin of Prithviraj Kapoor.