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Randhir Kapoor
(Class of 1964)
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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Kailash Surendranath
(Class Of 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.comI 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’
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Rishi Kapoor
(Class Of 1969)
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Ranjit Chowdhury
(Class Of 1971)
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.
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Viveck Vawani
(Class Of 1977)
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.
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Atul Kasbekar
(Class Of 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
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Sanjay Gadhvi
(Class Of 1981)
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Dr Anuj Saxena
(Class Of 1983)
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Jugal Hansraj
(Class Of 1987)
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