Mona Kapoor is the daughter of Sattee Shourie and the first wife of Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 Film Producer Boney Kapoor

Boney Kapoor

Boney Kapoor is an Indian film producer and recently he became director of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited of Sahara India Pariwar....

. She was born in Delhi, India on 3 February 1964. She has two children from her marriage to Boney Kapoor - a son Arjun Kapoor (25) and a daughter Anshula Kapoor (20). Arjun is training to be an actor, while Anshula is studying at Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in New York.

Mona Kapoor is the CEO of Future Studios, the largest ready to shoot, fully furnished, indoor shooting studio in Mumbai. Today, FUTURE STUDIO, a pioneer in the revolutionary ready to shoot shooting floors is a brand equity in itself. The grandeur, finesse and quality offered by FUTURE STUDIO is legendary in the film and television industry. It is located in Mumbai at Goregaon, minutes away from Mumbai's Film City. FUTURE STUDIO boasts of a clientele ranging from Balaji Telefilms

Balaji Telefilms

Balaji Telefilms is a production house based in Mumbai, India, and is promoted by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Jeetendra and Tushar Kapoor.-History:...

, UTV

UTV

UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...

, Cinevista, Tips Films, K Sera Sera, Sidhant cinevision, Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....

, Nitin Manmohan, Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

, Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...

, Mehul Media, David Dhawan

David Dhawan

David Dhawan is an Indian film director. He has studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.-Career:Dhawan started off as an editor and then took the plunge into directing...

, K C Bokadia, Aroona Irani, Harry Baweja

Harry Baweja

Harry Baweja is an Indian film director based in Mumbai and hails from Ludhiana,Punjab, India. He is married to Indian film producer, Pammi Baweja. His son, Harman Baweja made his debut in the film Love Story 2050.- Selected filmography :...

, Anil Sharma

Anil Sharma

-Biography:He made his directional debut with Shradhanjali with Raakhee Gulzar. He had directed several unsuccessful and unnoticed films in the early 1980s before he started also to produce films with Elaan-E-Jung which was also directed by him and became the first production film of his to become...

, Times Television, T-Series, Venus, Vinod Pande, Ravi Rai, Ajay and Sangita Sinha, BAG films, Asha Parekh productions, Zee Telefilms, Sohail Khan productions, Rakesh Sarang etc.

Mona has had a multi faceted career, she has successfully handled the manpower for 'Business Aids' & 'Machine Exports', in which she is a partner. As a director of FCL, she has been the production co-ordinator for the films 'Sheesha' (cast: Mithun Chakrovarthy, Munmun Sen and Mallika Sarabhai) & Farishtey (cast: Dharmendra

Dharmendra

Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...

, Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna

-Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

, Sridevi and Rajnikant). She has been responsible for conceptualizing the special programme 'Nari Ek Shakti' on DD1 on the occasion of International Women's Day.

She has produced successful television shows like Hera Pheri (on Star Plus featuring Shekhar Suman

Shekhar Suman

Shekhar Suman is an Indian film actor and a television personality. He has also been featured as a singer on a music album. Suman married Alka Kapur on May 4, 1984, and has a son, Adhyayan Suman a Bollywood film actor.-Career:...

, Reema Lagoo and Tanaaz Curim), Yug (on Doordarshan), Wilayatee Babu (on Doordarshan) and Kaise Kahoon

Kaise Kahoon

Kaise Kahoon is an Indian soap opera telecast on the popular Hindi general entertainment channel, Zee TV in 2001. The series is produced by the popular Indian television producer, Mona Shourie Kapoor who is known from her earlier projects on DD National channel, and starrs the Bollywood actor Rahul...

 (Zee tv). Yug was widely acclaimed by both viewers as well as the media and sponsors. This mega serial with the backdrop of the independence struggle and boasting of an impressive star cast of the likes of Hema Malini

Hema Malini

Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...

, Dara Singh

Dara Singh

Dara Singh Randhawa is a wrestler and Indian film actor. He was born in a Jat Sikh family of Punjabi background.He was a wrestler before he started acting in Hindi films in 1962....

, Neena Gupta, Mukesh Khanna, Shahbaz Khan, Pankaj Dheer

Pankaj Dheer

Pankaj Dheer is an Indian television and film actor originally from Punjab. His best known role was as Karna in epic TV series, Mahabharata , which became a famous Indian television series, and as Shivdutt in Chandrakanta...

 has been receiving several re-telecast requests in various regional languages.

Mona has also served as a Jury Member of the Indian Telly Awards

Indian Telly Awards

The Indian Telly Awards is an annual Indian television production award given in various technical and popular categories to Indian television channels....

in 2005.

After Boney Kapoor moved out of the house, Mona Kapoor continued to live with her in-laws for 10 years. She now lives with her two children.

External links

• http://www.future-studio.net (Official Website of Future Studio)