There is no film family quite like the Kapoors. A family of professionals actors and directors, they span almost eighty years of film-making in India, from 1920s to the present. Each decade in the history of Hindi films has had at least one Kapoor--if not more--playing a large part in defining it. Never before have four generations of this family---or five, if you include Basesharnath Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor's father, who played the judge in Awara---been brought together in one book. The Kapoors details the professional careers and personal lives of each generation---box-office successes and failures, the ideologies that informed their work, the larger-than-life Kapoor weddings and Holi celebrations, their extra-ordinary romantic liaisons and family relationships, theor love for food and their dark passages with alchol. Based on extensive personal interviews conducted over seven years with family members and friends, Madhu Jain goes behind the facade of each members of the Kapoor clan to reveal what makes them tick. The Kapoors resembles the films that the great showman Raj Kapoor made: grand and sweeping, with moments of high drama and touching emotions.