{"id":208809,"date":"2025-12-24T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:58:11","slug":"anil-kapoors-69th-birthday-heres-five-decade-old-picture-of-anil-kapoor-shabana-azmi-and-gulshan-grover-birthday-special-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208809\/","title":{"rendered":"Anil Kapoor&#8217;s 69th birthday: Here&#8217;s five-decade-old picture of Anil Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, and Gulshan Grover\u2014Birthday special | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/an-24.jpg\" alt=\"Anil Kapoor's 69th birthday: Here's five-decade-old picture of Anil Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, and Gulshan Grover\u2014Birthday special\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> As Anil Kapoor celebrates his birthday today, ETimes takes a beautiful throwback picture from the past that has caught everyone\u2019s attention. The black-and-white photo is from the sets of the 1980 film Hum Paanch. The picture shows Anil Kapoor sitting with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shabana-azmi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shabana Azmi<\/a> and Gulshan Grover. <\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Kapoor shares the memory<\/p>\n<p>The throwback picture was shared by Anil Kapoor\u2019s younger brother, Sanjay Kapoor, on his Instagram page in 2019. He posted the photo earlier and wrote, \u201c#humpaanch #majorthrowback, #80s Anil Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Gulshan Grover, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/deepti-naval\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deepti Naval<\/a>, and I.\u201d In the picture one can also spot actress Deepti Naval sitting beside Gulshan Grover. A person wearing a cap is also seen in the photo, and it appears to be Sanjay Kapoor himself.<\/p>\n<p>Anil Kapoor Calls Anand Ahuja The \u2018Heart\u2019 Of The Family<\/p>\n<p>About the film &#8216;Hum Paanch&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hum Paanch&#8217; was directed by Bapu and produced by Boney Kapoor. It marked Boney Kapoor\u2019s first production. Anil Kapoor appeared in a cameo role in the film. The movie had a powerful cast, including <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sanjeev-kumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanjeev Kumar<\/a>, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, and Amrish Puri. The story of the film was inspired by the epic Mahabharata and left a strong mark in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Fans react<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the post went up, fans filled the comments with love. One wrote, \u201cBeautiful pic!\u201d Another proudly spoke about the film being a remake of a famous Kannada movie. Many also shared birthday wishes for Anil Kapoor.<\/p>\n<p>Anil remembers his father<\/p>\n<p>Just a day before his birthday, Anil Kapoor shared an emotional note remembering his father, Surinder Kapoor. He wrote, \u201cCelebrating 100 years of my father today\u2026 His simplicity, honesty, and quiet belief shaped every step of my journey\u2026 Happy Birthday, Papa! You were, are, and always will be my guiding star\u2026\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Anil Kapoor celebrates his birthday today, ETimes takes a beautiful throwback picture from the past that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[109151,64688,93,61,60,270,45146,78589,68700,23949],"class_list":{"0":"post-208809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anil-kapoor-birthday","9":"tag-deepti-naval","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-naseeruddin-shah","15":"tag-sanjay-kapoor","16":"tag-sanjeev-kumar","17":"tag-shabana-azmi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}