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Shahid Kapoor's filmography includes starring roles in Hindi films, hosting duties for award ceremonies, and music video appearances. As a dancer in Shiamak Davar's institute, Kapoor made uncredited appearances as a background dancer in the films Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and Taal (1999). He also appeared in several music videos, including one for the singer Kumar Sanu, before making his acting debut with a lead role in Ken Ghosh's romantic comedy Ishq Vishk (2003). He followed it by playing a prospective groom in Vivah (2006) and an uptight businessman in Jab We Met (2007). In 2009, Kapoor portrayed twin brothers, one with a lisp and the other with a stutter, in Vishal Bhardwaj's acclaimed caper thriller Kaminey. After a series of commercial failures, he starred in the 2013 action-drama R... Rajkumar, and followed it by playing the title character in Bhardwaj's Haider (2014), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. In 2016, he played a rockstar addicted to drugs in Udta Punjab, for which he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. Kapoor has hosted eight award ceremonies, and in 2015 he featured as a talent judge on the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded. (Full list...)