{"id":640276,"date":"2026-05-01T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:12:09","slug":"anil-kapoor-admits-he-was-absent-from-kids-lives-even-forgot-their-birthdays-sunita-was-like-a-single-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640276\/","title":{"rendered":"Anil Kapoor admits he was absent from kids\u2019 lives, even forgot their birthdays: ‘Sunita was like a single parent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Anil Kapoor<\/a> has shared a gutsy moment of self-reflection in a new interview, indicting himself over his parenting skills. The veteran actor, father of three, said he was not there for them as much as she should have been, and praised wife, Sunita Kapoor<\/a>, for almost functioning like a single parent when their kids were young.<\/p>\n

\"AnilAnil Kapoor with his children, actors Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor.Anil Kapoor on parenting<\/p>\n

In a podcast interview with Lilly Singh, Anil spoke about the role he played in the upbringing of this three children – actors Sonam Kapoor <\/a>and Harshvardhan Kapoor, and filmmaker Rhea Kapoor. \u201cI was hardly there. If my children say positive things about me, I feel happy that I have raised them well. But as a father, I could have been much better. I should have spent more time. In many ways, Sunita has been like a single parent. I was present, but not the way a father should be,\u201d the actor admitted.<\/p>\n

Anil said that he was not clued in to his children\u2019s lives when they were growing up. \u201cI barely knew which class they were in. I wouldn\u2019t remember their birthdays\u2014my wife would remind me. They would ask me, \u2018When is my birthday?\u2019 and I would go blank. But they have grown up to be wonderful, happy individuals,\u201d the actor added.<\/p>\n

Anil Kapoor\u2019s personal life and family<\/p>\n

Anil married costume designer Sunita Kapoor (nee Bhavnani) in 1984. The couple has three children – Sonam, Rhea, and Harrshvardhan. Sonam was the first to follow into her father\u2019s footsteps into Bollywood. She began as an assistant to Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Black, before making her acting debut with Saawariya in 2007. Harrsh made his acting debut with Mirzya in 2016. Rhea has not dabbled in acting, but turned producer with Aisha in 2010.<\/p>\n

Anil Kapoor\u2019s recent and upcoming work<\/p>\n

Anil was most recently seen in Suresh Triveni\u2019s action drama Subedar, which released on Amazon Prime Video earlier this year. The film saw him earn acclaim for his performance as a retired armyman. Later this year, he will be seen in two films – spy thriller Alpha and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Anil Kapoor has shared a gutsy moment of self-reflection in a new interview, indicting himself over his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8251,4073,49,48,75,337,238965,17343,216385],"class_list":["post-640276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anil-kapoor","tag-bollywood","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-parenting-skills","tag-sonam-kapoor","tag-sunita-kapoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}