There have been many great actors in the Hindi film industry who have achieved bumper success in their career. But when their children entered the film industry, some were not as successful as their parents, while some achieved success. Shahid Kapoor's story is similar. The film journey of chocolatey boy Shahid Kapoor, who has worked in great films like Haider and Kabir Singh, has not been easy. Even though he is the son of veteran actor Pankaj Kapoor, despite this, Shahid Kapoor has had to work hard to achieve great success.

Shahid Kapoor is the son of Neelima Azim and Pankaj Kapoor. After their divorce, Neelima Azim shifted to Mumbai for films and left Shahid with his maternal grandparents in Delhi. Later, when Neelima Azim married Rajesh Khattar, Shahid started living with both of them again.

This is how Shahid got the first ad of his career

Shahid Kapoor was not good in studies, but he had a lot of interest in dance. Mother had agreed to his dance class, but father said that he would be admitted to the dance class only when he gets good marks. Then Shahid Kapoor studied hard and got 80% marks. After this his father made him join dance school. She started learning dance at the young age of 10. After some time, Shahid Kapoor took his friend for an audition. But he liked Shahid Kapoor's look and the makers offered him a Pepsi ad. This was the first project of Shahid Kapoor's career, in which he was seen with Rani Mukherjee, Kajol and Shahrukh Khan.

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This is how success was achieved

After working in many ads, Shahid Kapoor worked as a background dancer in films at the age of 15. Shahid danced behind Karisma Kapoor in the film 'Dil To Pagal Hai'. After this, he was also seen dancing behind Aishwarya Rai in the song of the film 'Taal'. After a long struggle, Ramesh Taurani decided to make the teenage love story 'Ishq Vishk'. He cast Shahid Kapoor for this film. The first film of Shahid's career was a big hit. Shahid Kapoor, who made his mark across the country with 'Ishq-Vishk', then had 6 films 'Fida', 'Dil Maange More', 'Deewane Hue Pagal', 'Wah Life Ho To Aisi', 'Shikhar', '36 China'. 'The town was badly beaten. When 'Chup Chupke' was released in 2006, it proved to be a bumper hit. After this he did not look back and Shahid's career took off.