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Rhea Kapoor

Indian film producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7320299 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rhea Kapoor (born 5 March 1987) is an Indian film producer. She is also the owner of the fashion line Rheson alongside her sister Sonam Kapoor.

Early and personal life

Kapoor is the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor and his wife Sunita, she is the sister of actors Sonam Kapoor and Harshvardhan Kapoor, granddaughter of filmmaker Surinder Kapoor, niece of filmmaker Boney Kapoor and his wives, the late producer Mona Shourie Kapoor and the late actress Sridevi, and actor Sanjay Kapoor. Her cousins are actors Arjun Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor and Mohit Marwah as well as actor Ranveer Singh. Kapoor pursued her graduation in "Dramatic literature" from New York University

Kapoor married her partner of 12 years, Karan Boolani, in an intimate wedding at her family's residence on 14 August 2021.

Career

Kapoor started her career as a film producer with Rajshree Ojha's film Aisha in 2010, which starred her sister Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol in leading roles. She later produced the 2014 film Khoobsurat, directed by Shashanka Ghosh, which is an official remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed film by the same name. In 2017, she launched the clothing line of Rheson with her sister Sonam Kapoor.

Kapoor has co-produced Veere Di Wedding, which released on 1 June 2018.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rhea Kapoor” as indian film producer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2021, 2010, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-03-05. The account is most persuasive where Rhea, Kapoor and Indian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as indian film producer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7320299. VIAF identifies the subject as 7211178467064435190003. The Library of Congress control number is no2025101446. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2021, 2010 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rhea Kapoor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.