The Glamour Gang

Kailash Surendranath (1965)

I spent my early childhood in various girl's schools such as Queen Mary and Walsingham, but eventually and luckily came to Campion in the 5th standard and passed out of Campion in 1965. with a 14 aggregate. Second only to the unbeatable Jamal Mecklai.
The Sea Scouts, Father More, Mr Hodiwala and especially Mr Sidney Brown had a tremendous impact on me in school. I grew to love maths, developed an analytical sort of mind that tried to understand the meaning of life via numbers, loved the sea, and travel. Sitting next to a likeminded back bencher Ashok Daryanani for the last few years of school I learnt to play guitar from him with the help of diagrams in class. As soon as the ISC exams were over four Campionites (two of them ex) formed a band called the Bad Boys. We played shows in Bombay and Poona and I must say got quite popular. The band definitely helped us debut in the outside world of girls and partying and good times.

I finished my education in St Xaviers College which was of no consequence as I had already started making advertising films, directing independently for my dad in his company at the tender age of 17. By now I’ve done more than a couple of thousand commercials, helped build many brands such as Liril, Nirma, Vimal, Mera Bharat Mahan etc. Won quite a few national and international awards and am still at it going strong and about to produce and direct a couple of feature films. More about me professionally at www.kailashpictureco.com

I am having a good successful life working with my wife and partner Aarti Gupta Surendranath who I met as a model during a Sun Silk shoot in Kodaikanal (I was 25 she was just 15) and have two kids in BIS (boy 11 and girl 9) we preferred to put them together in a co-ed school. Although there is a perception that we are 'party people' thanks to the media, I must emphasize that we work very hard and take pride in our work
Thank you Campion and all the teachers and all my friends from school for having such a positive influence on my childhood. 'Those were the best days of my life’                                                                     Back To CampionKnights

Randhir Kapoor (1965)

Randhir Kapoor is the studio head of RK Films, the film production house started by his legendary father Raj Kapoor and is considered one of the most influential Bollywood personalities in the industry.
He has worked as an actor, a film director, a film producer and a Bollywood studio head
As an actor Randhir burst upon the scene in a big way. In 1971 guided by his father, Randhir both directed and acted in the film "Kal Aaj Aur Kal". This movie has the distinction of being the only film in which three generations of Kapoors worked together.

In the 1980s and 90s Randhir turned his hand almost exclusively to the role of producer.

Randhir is the the father of Bollywood's most famous sisters, Kareena and Karisma Kapoor.                                            

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Rishi Kapoor (1969)

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Ranjit Chowdhry; actor/writer, is a work-in-transit-and-progress - from India, through Canada… to the USA.

After Campion and Xaviers, he happened onto the Indian film scene. His acting credits include Hungamma Bombay Style, Khatta Meetha, Baton Baton Mein, Khoobsoorat, and Robin Dharmaraj’s award winning film Chakra with Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil and Kaalia with Amitabh Bachchan.
As a writer in India, Ranjit wrote Mr or Mrs ? and Malgudi Days, an award-winning series based on the stories of the late R.K. Narayan.
In Canada, he wrote and starred in Deepa Mehta’s first feature film Sam and Me, co-winner of the Camera D’or at the 1991 Cannes film festival. Other Canadian film credits include Deepa Mehta’s Fire with Shabana Azmi, Camilla with Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda, Bollywood Hollywood, as well as Boozecan, Nick Campbell’s cult film.
In the USA, his film credits include several of Mira Nair’s award-winning films such as Mississippi Masala with Denzel Washington, Kama Sutra, The Perez Family with Marisa Tomei and My Own Country. He has also featured in Spike Lee’s Girl Six, The Night We Never Met by Warren Leight, Andrew Bergman’s It Could Happen to You with Nick Cage, I’m Not Rappaport with Walter Matthau, and Joan Chen’s Autumn in New York with Richard Gere, and most recently The Last Holiday with Queen Latifah and Gerard Depardieu.
On television, Ranjit has worked on NYPD Blue, Law and Order, and as a recurring character on Cosby with Mr. Cosby and the late Madeline Kahn.
U.S. theater credits include a stint at John Malkovich’s Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theater Group where he performed in a local production of Ara Watson’s The Mesmerist.
Upcoming projects include a self-penned script titled If It Ain't Halal, It Ain't kosher, to be shot this summer with Anpam Kher. As an actor he will soon be seen in Hope, and a little Sugar directed by Tanuja Chandra, Building Girl and Varun Khanna's American Blend.
Ranjit lives in New York with his wife Malini Singh and their 4 year old son Avishay.                    Back To CampionKnights

Viveck is an actor, a producer, a writer/journalist, a teacher and is also a member of the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, the  Association of Motion Pictures and T.V. Programme Producers, the Cine & T.V. Artistes Association and a Founder member of the Foundation for the Promotion of Film Arts and Craft.

Viveck has acted in 13 plays including the lead role in Pearl Padamsee's Elepnant Man. seven TV serials and 17 movies.

He has produced two Plays, three TV Serials and seven Hindi Feature Films. His film 'Everybody Says I'm Fine' was officially selected to the Toronto, Vancouver,  London, Philadelphia, Jerusalem, Las Palmas and Los Angeles International Film Festivals and has won awards at the Houston and Milan film festivals, nd is currently running successfully in the USA

Viveck is the Co-founded and has taught at the International Play School, a special school for children between the ages of 3 and 4. The school has now been incorporated in to the American School.

Viveck also creates and conducts regular workshops and seminars for new actors and directors who wish to enter the film industry. Having launched such hugely successful stars as Shah Rukh Khan, Raveena Tandon, Ashwini Bhave, Anuj Saxena ( Abhay of”kkusum”) Shruti Ulfat etc. and such eminent directors as the late Anant Balani, Aziz Mirza, Vikram Bhatt, Gyan Sahay, Rahul Bose and Anant Mahadevan.                           Back To CampionKnights

Tarun Tahiliani (1977)

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Atul Kasbekar (1981)

After graduating from Jai Hind College, Atul attended the Brooks Institute of Photography (Santa Barbara) where he topped the class of '88, and won an Achievement Award in Advertising & Photography. 
He then trained in Los Angles for over a year, with such legendary photographers as Dennis Gray, Ron Slenzak, James B Wood, Jay Silverman, Jay P Morgan, Bill Werts and David Le Bon. 
In 1990, he returned to India, to enter a fast growing communications industry. Assignments came thick and fast: food, fashion, automobiles, airplanes, hotels, fashion editorials and magazine covers. Atul proved to be as versatile as he was talented. 
Atul's work can be seen regularly in Elle, Cosmopolitan, L'Officiel, Time, magazines. All of them have used cover photographs by him. Omega and Christian Dior work directly with Atul for their advertising campaigns. 
In May 2004 at the International FAB Awards held at The Hurlingham Club Atul won the FAB awards for Calendar photography for the Kingfisher  Calendar                                                                              Back To CampionKnights

Sanjay Gadhvi(1983)

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Dr Anuj Saxena (1983)

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Jugal Hansraj (1987)

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