Bollywood actor Rajiv Kapoor passed away at the age of 58 today after suffering a cardiac arrest when he was with his family members for a meeting. His sister-in-law Neetu Kapoor posted a picture of the actor on social media and she wrote, "RIP" as she confirmed the sad news. 

Rishi Kapoor, who passed away in April 2020, had talked about Rajiv Kapoor in his autobiography “Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored”, co-authored by Meena Iyer and published by Harper Collins in 2017. In the book, Rishi revealed that he was closer to Randhir Kapoor, who was five years older to him, than Rajiv Kapoor, the youngest of the five siblings. Rishi Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor shared an “uneasy relationship” that they were able bridge even over time, it said. “I worry a lot about Chimpu (Rajiv’s nickname) and feel sad that he has never been able to realize his true potential. He is the most talented of us and has an uncanny ear for music. He plays the piano superbly without ever learning it,” Rishi said in the book.

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Even though Rajiv belonged to the famous Kapoor filmy family, his career never took off like brothers Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and father Raj Kapoor. In a 2016 interview, Rajiv admitted that 1985's Ram Teri Ganga Maili remains his most well-known work. He starred in a string of flops after that. Rajiv said that he was always compared to his uncle, Shammi Kapoor, because of their physical resemblance to each other. He had told, "As far as my career is concerned, Ram Teri Ganga Maili is the best film I did. The other films didn’t do well, but not all were bad. The sad part was that everybody wanted to project me like Shammi Kapoor, because I looked like him."

Rajiv Kapoor was also an actor, a producer, and a director. He was a part of Bollywood's Kapoor clan. His elder brother Rishi Kapoor passed away in April 2020 after a 2-year-long battle with cancer.