Question

Who was the first Indian actor to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha?
a. Rishi Kapoor
b. Prithviraj Kapoor
c. Shashi Kapoor

Answer 1

$\textsf{\large{Answer :}}$

$\textsf{\large{Option b.}}$

$\textsf{\large{Prithviraj Kapoor}}$

Prithviraj Kapoor was the first Indian actor to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

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• Indian Parliament has 2 houses - Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

• Lok Sabha consist of people elected by the public.

• Rajya sabha consist of people selected or nominated from different fields such has - Sports, Movies, etc. according to their knowledge and work done.

• Prithviraj Kapoor remained nominated from 1952 to 1960 (8 years)

• Prithviraj Kapoor was an Indian film artist.

• He was born on 3 November 1906.

• Prithviraj Kapoor was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1954.

• The Indian Government honoured Prithviraj Kapoor in 1969 with Padma Bhushan.

• Prithviraj Kapoor had his own theater group 'Prithvi Theatres' from the year 1944.

• Prithviraj Kapoor is the grandfather of Rishi Kapoor.

• Prithviraj Kapoor was the father of Shashi Kapoor.

Therefore the answer is

$\textsf{\large{Option b.}}$

$\textsf{\large{Prithviraj Kapoor}}$

Answer 2

Who was the first Indian actor to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha?

=> b. Prithviraj Kapoor

Prithviraj Kapoor was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1952. He remained Nominated for eight years.

He was considered to be the pioneer of Indian Theatre. He started his career as an actor in the silent era of Hindi Cinema.

Born in 1906, he was the first in his family to pursue career in Film industry.

Thus, Prithviraj Kapoor was the first Indian actor to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha