Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram
Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram
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Could Shahid Kapoor become a Bollywood legend to rival the Khans and Kumars? On his 40th birthday we look back at the actor’s remarkable rise from music videos to Kabir Singh

  • Upstaged for years by the likes of Aishwarya Rai, Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor, his major films are now streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney
  • Kapoor features in almost 100 music videos on YouTube and his new cricket-based film Jersey debuts over Diwali 2021 in November

Topic |   Asian cinema: Bollywood
P Ramakrishnan

Updated: 12:00pm, 27 Feb, 2021

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Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram
Birthday boy Shahid Kapoor has finally broken into the Bollywood big time thanks to blockbuster Kabir Singh. Photo: @shahidkapoor/Instagram
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