Biography

Trilok Kapoor (11 February 1912 – 23 September 1988) was an Indian actor and a member of the Kapoor family who worked in Bollywood films. He was the younger brother of actor Prithviraj Kapoor. Trilok was born as the second son of Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor in a Punjabi family. Like his brother Prithviraj Kapoor he entered the budding Hindi film industry (Bollywood) in the 1930s and was one of the most commercially successful actors of the era.[1] Born in the Kapoor Haveli in Peshawar, he moved to Calcutta and then to Mumbai. His bungalow in Union Park, Chembur, is one of the last remaining bungalows in the area, now renamed Trilok Kapoor Marg. Kapoor had 2 sons, Vicky Kapoor and Vijay Kapoor. Vicky Kapoor was a lawyer & politician and Vijay Kapoor was a film director