Voice Over Actor Arjun Kapoor Breaks Through Hollywood

Born on the 26th of June 1985, with genes predisposed to filmmaking and acting, it was no surprise that Arjun Kapoor, now 31, has already made a name for himself in Bollywood and has also broken through in Hollywood with his voice over role as Buck in the adventure animation Ice Age: Collision Course.  His father, Boney Kapoor, is a Hindi film producer.  His grandfather, Surinder Kapoor, is another filmmaker in the family, as is his cousin Rhea Kapoor. He is cousins with actor Mohit Marwah and actress Sonam Kapoor.  Sridevi, his stepmother, is also an actress.  In addition, he is the nephew of actors Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor.

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It was not necessarily a glamorous life growing up and studying in Mumbai for Arjun.  He stopped studying when he failed his twelfth grade exams, so he quit school and started helping out on his relatives’ movie projects.  Before looking as trim and buff as he now is, in his young adult life he weighed about 140 kg and suffered from obesity.  He made his acting debut in 2012, when he was 27, with the role of Parma Chauhan in the crime drama Ishaqzaade.  After quite a few acting successes since, he will now be dubbing the character Buck in Ice Age: Collision Course, one of Hollywood’s adventure animations.  It is said that this is his debut in voice over work.

Arjun would be one of the first Bollywood actors to lend their voices to Hollywood’s animation movies.  Actors Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan, Nana Patekar, Om Puri and Shefali Shah have also lent their voices to the Hindi version of the remake of Walt Disney’s 1960s movie The Jungle Book.

It is reported that Ice Age: Collision Course is scheduled for release in India on 15 July 2016.  Meanwhile, Arjun Kapoor was last seen working on another upcoming project, Half Girlfriend, with Shraddha Kapoor.