Accountant booked for duping acting teacher

{ SIPHONED OFF NEARLY 243 LAKH

- Vinay Dalvi

Acting guru Kishore Namit Kapoor—whose students include Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Allu Arjun—has accused his longtime accountant of betraying his trust and siphoning off nearly ₹43 lakh from his institute and personal accounts.

The Versova police have registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust against the accused, identified as Pravin Shrivastav, under IPC sections 406, 408, and 420. Kapoor, 76, a veteran actor and one of the most well-known acting teachers in the country, has been running the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute from a bungalow in Four Bungalows, Andheri, since 2000. The institute has trained hundreds of aspiring actors in four batches every year, each with around 40 students.