Meet the Kapoor family of Bollywood

Amazing how much Karisma resembles her mom Babita Kapoor, especially that smile! I also noticed that Samaira Kapoor has light eyes! Are we thinking next generation Bollywood perhaps? Aadar & Armaan Kapoor are growing up fast and I'm guessing the Kapoor clan will continue it's filmy pursuits for generations to come.

PS. Raj Kapoor's two brothers Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor were also big in Bollywood, I thought Rajiv Kapoor (Raj's youngest son) looked so much like Sammi that I initially had them confused until I realised this was good ol Chimpoo! *lol*

Cute how Riddhima Sahni and Karisma Kapoor named their daughters Samara and Samiara isn't it? I wonder if that was planned?

first and second generations: Prithviraj Kapoor (born 1906) is the father of Raj (Ranbir Raj, born 1924), Shammi (Shamsher Raj, 1931), and Shashi (Balbir Raj, 1938). Prithviraj and his wife Ramsarni (Rama) also had a daughter, Urmi (between Shammi and Shashi), and two children who died, Ravinder and Devinder.

Prithviraj has a brother named Trilok Kapoor, who is a film actor too. He is best known for playing Shiva in mythologicals (with Nirupa Roy as Parvati). His son Vijay Kapoor directed a few films, and Vijay's sons Ajay and Sanjay also work in film/tv production.

Raj's wife Krishna Malhotra is from a film industry family too. Her brothers Rajendra Nath, Prem Nath, and Narendra Nath are actors; Prem Nath married actress Bina Rai. Krishna's sister Uma married actor Prem Chopra.

Raj's children with Krishna are Randhir ("Daboo," 1947; married Babita, who is a cousin of Sadhana and the daughter of actor Hari Shivdasani), Ritu, Rishi ("Chintu," 1952; married Neetu Singh), Rima, and Rajiv ("Chimpu," 1962).

Raj's grandchildren are the most famous members of the fourth generation so far. They include Randhir and Babita's daughters Karisma ("Lolo," 1974) and Kareena ("Bebo," 1980, married to Saif Ali Khan, son of Sharmila Tagore) and Rishi and Neetu's son Ranbir (1982). Less famous but still industry-related are Ritu's son Nikhil, who married Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Badhuri's daughter Shweta, and Rima's son Armaan Jain, who has been an assistant director for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions and acted in one of his cousin-in-law Saif Ali Khan's productions.

Shammi married actress Gita Bali (maternal aunt of Yogeeta Bali, who was briefly married to Kishore Kumar before divorcing him to marry Mithun Chakraborty*). They had two children, Aditya and Kanchan (married to Ketan Desai, director of Toofan and son of director Manmohan Desai). Gita died quite young and Shammi is now married to Neela Devi. Memsaab has met Shammi and Neela and says they are delightful.