The casting of Karan Johar and Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons is getting more and more interesting. We knew that Rishi Kapoor plays a 90-year-old grandfather and Fawad Khan, Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt play third generation Kapoors. But the casting of the second generation was kept on hold as the makers were scouting for the right actors.
We now hear that Rajat Kapoor (from Bheja Fry and Phans Gaye Re Obama) has been cast as Rishi Kapoor’s son, while the very talented Ratna Pathak Shah plays Rishi Kapoor’s daughter-in-law.
Ratna’s sister Supriya Pathak, incidentally, plays Rishi’s wife in Umesh Shukla’s All Is Well, which Rishi is shooting simultaneously with Kapoor & Sons. Says a source, “It’s delightful for Rishi to be working with both the Pathak sisters for the first time and that too simultaneously.”
