# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rajit-kapur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:13.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rajit-kapur"
name: "Rajit Kapur"
slug: "rajit-kapur"
description: "Rajit Kapur is an Indian film and theatre actor and director. He is known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1996 film, The Making of the Mahatma for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor. Other notable roles are as the protagonist Unni in the Malayalam film Agnisakshi, and the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi in the eponymous television series, directed by Basu Chatterjee and broadcast on Doordarshan. His debut film was Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1992), directed by Shyam Benegal."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rajit_Kapur.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.2
  momentum:             0.9943843309135736
  historical:           11.088972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438496/"
    handle:    "nm0438496"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump