Shekhar Kapur Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1945 in Lahore, British India
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer
Biography:: One of the few Bollywood directors to make a career in the U.S., Shekhar Kapur has proved his filmmaking worth in both countries. The nephew of actors Vijay Anand and Dev Anand, Kapur was discouraged to get into show business by his father. Leaving his homeland to study business in Great Britain...Read More

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Larklight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Shekhar Kapur heads into sci-fi fantasy territory with this Warner Bros. adaptation of Philip Reeve's novel regarding an alternate universe that mixes the Victorian era with epic space travels and battles. Kapur directs from a script developed with Steven Knight, with Denise Di Novi producing. Read More

1/1/10
New York, I Love You

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to the previous year's Paris, je t'aime. Broken into short segments, each titled after a specific neighborhood, New York, I Love You is comprised of 12 Read More

2008
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Crew: Director

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to the critically acclaimed 1998 biopic Elizabeth that explores the 16th century romance between the "Virgin Queen" and noted adventurer Sir Walter Read More

10/12/07
The Guru

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York -- not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and Read More

1/31/03
The Four Feathers

Crew: Director

Actors: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: A.E.W. Mason's perennially popular tale of honor and adventure is brought to the screen yet again in this lavish period action-drama. In 1884, Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is a young officer-in-training in the British Army who is soon to graduate and is expected to be shipped of to the Sudan Read More

9/20/02
Elizabeth

Crew: Director

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of young Elizabeth Tudor to Queen of England, a reign of intrigue and betrayals. In 1554, Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) tries to restore Catholicism as England's single faith. With no heir to the crown, she maneuvers to keep her Protestant Read More

11/6/98
Dil Se

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Raghubir Yadav, Zohra Segal

Synopsis: Mani Rathnam, who has proven with films like Bombay (1995) and Iruvar (1998) that it was possible in India to make quality films that could also be box-office hits, chose the 50th anniversary celebrations of Indian Independence as the backdrop for this film about the clash between love and Read More

1998
Bandit Queen

Crew: Director

Actors: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Manoj Bajpai, Rajesh Vivek, Govind Namdeo

Synopsis: Bandit Queen, based on the true story of legendary female warrior Phoolan Devi, is a confrontational epic that paints a far different picture of India from other arthouse productions. Devi (Seema Biswas) is married at age 11, abandoned by her husband when she resists his advances, and turned into Read More

1994
Nazar

Actors: Shekhar Kapur

Synopsis: Prolonged psychological and philosophical self-examination is not limited to movies made in Europe, it is, however, less frequently encountered in either American or Asian films. Nonetheless, the intricate neurotic workings of the personality of a middle-class man are the subject of this Read More

1991
Joshilaay

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Joshilaay is a bitter pill to take for anyone who thinks that Indian movies consist chiefly of Satyajit Ray epics and lighthearted musicals. Popular Indian film personality Anil Kapoor doesn't make his entrance until after half the cast has been murdered. The culprits are a pair of out-of-control Read More

1989
Mr. India

Crew: Director

1987
Masoom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This Hindi social drama stars Naseerudin Shah as a family man whose everyday domestic life is turned upside down when he discovers that he has an illegitimate child (Jugal Hansraj) from an affair with a past mistress. When the boy's mother dies, he is sent to live with his father. The child's Read More

1983