Mona Kapoor was the daughter of Sattee Shourie and the ex-wife of Bollywood film producer Boney Kapoor. She was born in Delhi, India on 3 February 1964. She has two children from her marriage to Boney Kapoor - son Arjun Kapoor (25) and daughter Anshula Kapoor (20). Arjun is set to become an actor while Anshula is studying at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York. Mona Kapoor died of cancer on 25 March, 2012.
Mona Kapoor was the CEO of Future Studios, the largest ready-to-shoot, fully furnished, indoor shooting studio in Mumbai. It is located in Mumbai at Goregaon, minutes away from Mumbai's Film City. Future Studios' clientele includes Balaji Telefilms, UTV, Cinevista, Tips Films, K Sera Sera, Sidhant cinevision, Mahesh Bhatt, Nitin Manmohan, Ram Gopal Varma, Subhash Ghai, Mehul Media, David Dhawan, K C Bokadia, Aruna Irani, Harry Baweja, Anil Sharma, Times Television, T-Series, Venus, Vinod Pande, Ravi Rai, Ajay and Sangita Sinha, BAG films, Asha Parekh Productions, Zee Telefilms, Sohail Khan Productions and Rakesh Sarang.
Mona has had a multi-faceted career, she has successfully handled the manpower for 'Business Aids' & 'Machine Exports', in which she was a partner. As a director of FCL, she has been the production co-ordinator for the films 'Sheesha' (cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Munmun Sen and Mallika Sarabhai) & Farishtey (cast: Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi and Rajnikant). She has been responsible for conceptualizing the special programme 'Nari Ek Shakti' on DD1 on the occasion of International Women's Day.
She has produced successful television shows like Hera Pheri (on Star Plus featuring Shekhar Suman, Reema Lagoo and Tanaaz Curim), Yug (on Doordarshan), Wilayatee Babu (on Doordarshan) and Kaise Kahoon (Zee tv). Yug was widely acclaimed by both viewers as well as the media and sponsors. This mega serial, with the backdrop of the independence struggle and boasting of an impressive star cast of the likes of Hema Malini, Dara Singh, Neena Gupta, Mukesh Khanna, Shahbaz Khan, Pankaj Dheer, has been receiving several re-telecast requests in various regional languages.
Mona has also served as a Jury Member of the Indian Telly Awards in 2005.
After Boney Kapoor moved out of the house, Mona Kapoor continued to live with her in-laws for 10 years. She lived with her two children until her death on 25 March 2012.