- Nephew of Late Dev Anand.
- Directed Cate Blanchett in two Oscar nominated performances for the exact same role (Queen Elizabeth) but in different films: Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
- Qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in the early 70's in London UK. Disillusioned and unmotivated my this conventional career, he abandoned his profession to pursue his artistic interests.
- Had a seven year long relationship with Shabana Azmi
- Was suppose to launch Bobby Deol and Karisma Kapoor in a movie titled " Badal". He parted ways with Sunny Deol after shooting the movie for 20 days.
- His film Time Machine (1991) starring Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha, Aamir Khan, Raveena Tandon was shelved after shooting about 80%.
- Left the Bollywood movie Dushmani (1996) after shooting it 60%.
- Nephew of Late Vijay Anand.
- First wife name was Medha. She remarried singer Anup Jalota and became popularly known as Medha Jalota.
- Starred in the shelved movie Young India Productions "Jaan Ki Baazi" (1975) Starring Shekhar Kapoor, Reeta Bhaduri,Rajesh Behl,Chand Usmani,Asha Chandra, Yunus Parvez, Music by Bappi Lahiri,Produced by Pratap A. Rana, Directed by G.Ishwar.
- Brother-in-law of Parikshit Sahni. Cousin Aruna's husband.
- Former Brother in law of Bollywood legend Late Navin Nischol. Sister Neelu Kapoor is the former partner of Nischol.
- Younger sister Sohaila Kapur is a actress, director, author.
- First cousin of producer Suresh Malhotra (Father of actor Sameer Malhotra).
- Wanted to launch his niece Nomita Nischal (Morrison) for the film Champion opposite Bobby Deol in 1991. This was to be Bobby Deol's launching film. Nomita is also the daughter of actor Navin Nischol. The film Champion was previously being made by Shekhar Kapur with Sunny Deol and a 15 year old Tabu. When that film was shelved , Shekhar decided to revive the same script for Bobby Deol. Dharmendra rejected the idea of pairing Nomita with Bobby because he did not like their pairing.
- Was involved with Mona Ambegaonkar during his marriage to Medha.
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