Punjabis in Bollywood. - Page 10

Originally posted by: swati1975us

My 2 cents on this.

The Prithviraj Kapoor clan cannot strictly be called Punjabi. The older members of the clan used to insist that they were Hindu Pathans, not Punjabi. They were from Peshawar so there might be something to this.

Kareena and Karisma have a Sindhi mom

Hrithik is mixed - he's quarter Bengali 😆 (his paternal grandmother was Bengali - Rakesh Roshan is half-Bengali. Which explains the name Hrithik - not exactly a common name among Punjabis)

Karan Johar is half-Parsi.

Anushka Sharma is from Uttarakhand and is definitely not Punjabi.

Raj Kumar - Kashmiri (there you go guess_who - they are trying to appropriate your Kashmiris 😆)

Govinda - Mother was from UP.

Both Sonam and Arjun are half-Sindhis (Sonam's mom Sunita is Sindhi and so was Arjun's mom Mona Shourie)

Aditya Roy Kapoor's mom is either Anglo-Indian or a Mangalorean Christian (can't tell exactly from the name).

For me personally two of the most incredible Punjabi talents in Bollywood have been Balraj Sahni and Gulzar.

^Not wholly. That makes them half or quarter-Punjabis. Moreover, most of them haven't come in contact with the state of Punjab in their lifetime.

Originally posted by: Nitu_ST_Deewani

even if they're part punjabi they're still punjabi...

Kapoors are punjabi ... u chk lots of interviews of shammi kapoor where he said they all used to speak in Punjabi at home ... many Indian Punjabi ( presently in Delhi, Punjab ) has also moved frm peshawar to india ... but they was and will remain Punjabi...how many kapoors r in peshawar right now ??? i m sure none 😛 ...

Originally posted by: TheRowdiest

Kapoors are punjabi ... u chk lots of interviews of shammi kapoor where he said they all used to speak inPunjabiat home ... manyIndianPunjabi( presently in Delhi,Punjab) has also moved frm peshawar to india ... but they was and will remainPunjabi...how many kapoors r in peshawar right now ??? i m sure none😛...

does not matter where they live ... by living in mumbai for the whole life u won;t become marathi😛

LOL. But hey, 'tis a fact. 90% of the Kapoors are domiciled Maharashtrians. 😛 😆

^^^ does not matter ... Sunny Bobby are also born and brought up there , can speak marathi too ...but they do claim they r punjabis

Think I read somewhere that the K-clan headman P. Kapoor claimed that they were Pathans and not Punjus. 😉
Edt. : I meant Bolly Kapoors.

I'm born and raised in Canada but I'm still Punjabi... where you live doesnt affect that! it's the culture!

Originally posted by: TheRowdiest

Kapoors are punjabi ... u chk lots of interviews of shammi kapoor where he said they all used to speak in Punjabi at home ... many Indian Punjabi ( presently in Delhi, Punjab ) has also moved frm peshawar to india ... but they was and will remain Punjabi...how many kapoors r in peshawar right now ??? i m sure none 😛 ...

does not matter where they live ... by living in mumbai for the whole life u won;t become marathi 😛