Rajat Kapoor (born 11 February 1961) is an Indian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director. As a child, Kapoor would watch films with his family and decided to become a filmmaker at the age of 14. He mainly focused on acting at first. In 2013 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi, later moving to Pune to attend the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Filmography

• 2027Mahakāli
• 2026Drishyam: The Conclusion — Mahesh Deshmukh
• 2026Lust Stories 3 — Therapist
• 2026Main Vaapas Aaunga — Iqbal Grewal
• 2026RaftaaR
• Khauf — Hakim
• 2025Raat Akeli Hai - The Bansal Murders — DGP Sameer Verma
• 2025Raid 2 — Chief Commissioner Kaul
• Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians — R.N. Kao
• Lootere — Captain AK Singh
• 2024Sadabahar — Miyaji's Son
• 2023Armaand — The Father
• 2023Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa — Chandra, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2023Eyes on the Sunshine — IAS Loshit Modliar
• Jehanabad Of Love & War — Shivanand Singh
• Rana Naidu — Viraj Oberoi
• 2022Drishyam 2 — Mahesh Deshmukh
• 2022Gehraiyaan — Jitesh
• 2022Kora Kagazz — Vivek
• Tanaav — Jagjit Malik
• Call My Agent Bollywood — Monty
• 2021RK/RKAY — RK and Mahboob, Director, Writer
• Code M — Col. Suryaveer Chauhan
• 2020Kadakh — Rahul, Director, Writer
• Once Upon a Crime
• Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story — K. Madhavan
• 2019The Best Is Yet to Come — Doctor Aman Kapoor
• 2018August 25 — Avik
• 2018Mulk — SSP Danish Javed
• 2018Pari — Qasim Ali
• 2017Mantra — Kapil Kapoor
• 2016Kapoor & Sons — Harsh Kapoor
• 2016Ki & Ka — Kabir's Father
• 2016Waiting — Dr. Nirupam
• 2015Drishyam — Mahesh Deshmukh
• 2015X: Past Is Present — K
• 2014Ankhon Dekhi — Rishi Chacha, Director, Writer
• Everest — Ramesh Roongta
• 2014Rang Rasiya — Auctioneer
• 2012Agent Vinod — ISI Chief Iftekhar Ahmed
• 2012Fatso! — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2012Midnight's Children — Aadam Aziz
• 2012The Owner — Producer
• 2011Iti Mrinalini — Siddhartha Sarkar
• 2011Jo Dooba So Paar: It's Love in Bihar! — Superintendent of Police
• 201010ml LOVE
• 2010I M 24 — Shubendu Roy
• 2010Pappu Can't Dance Saala — Palash
• 2010Phas Gaye Re Obama — Om Shastri
• 2010Rann — Naveen Shankalya
• 2009A One Night Stand — Rahul, Co-Producer, Writer
• 2009Ek Tho Chance — Producer
• 2009Siddharth: The Prisoner — Siddharth Roy
• 2009Teree Sang: A Kidult Love Story — Mohit Puri
• 2008Anuranan — Amit Banerjee
• 2008Dasvidaniya — Rajiv Julka
• 2008Hulla — Janardhan Parikh
• 2008Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na — Meghna's father
• 2008Krazzy 4 — Ravi K. Sanyal
• 2008Mithya — Director, Writer
• 2008Via Darjeeling — Ronodeep 'Rono' Sen
• 2007Bheja Fry — Ranjeet Thadani
• 2007Khoya Khoya Chand — Prem Kumar
• 2007My Own Sky — Dr. Sen
• 2007The Last Days of the Raj — Muhammed Ali Jinnah
• 2006Corporate — Vinay Sehgal
• 2006Mixed Doubles — Vinod, Director, Screenplay
• 2006Yun Hota To Kya Hota — US Consulate Officer
• 2005Chehraa — Special Appreance
• 2005Kisna — Prince Raghuraj
• Time Bomb 9/11 — Industrialist Narendra Nath
• Raat Hone Ko Hai — Anand
• 2004Raghu Romeo — Screenplay, Director
• 2004Tum: A Dangerous Obsession — Vinod Gupta
• 2002Kali Salwar
• 2001Dil Chahta Hai — Mahesh
• 2001Monsoon Wedding — Tej Puri
• Gubbare
• C.I.D. — Tanuj
• 1997Char Adhyay
• 1997Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One — Director, Screenplay
• 1996Hypnothesis — Director, Screenplay
• 1995Tarana — Director
• 1989The Khayal Saga — Music Student, Assistant Director
• Samuk

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2022Clowning with Shakespeare — Self
• Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai — Himself