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Filmi Family Tree: Know Ranveer's famous actress cousin?

May 20, 2014 11:21 IST

Image: Ranveer Singh in Gunday

Think you know everything about Bollywood? Test your filmi gyaan here!

When the boisterous Ranveer Singh first emerged on the big screen with his rowdy Delhi boy act in Band Baaja Baraat, we came to know him as an immensely talented up and comer who hailed from a non-filmi background.

It was only later that we came to know that despite his non-filmi lineage, the Bandra-bred boy moves in social circles that routinely cross paths with Bollywood folks'. 

But that's not all!

Besides his legendary camaraderie with Gunday costar Arjun Kapoor, Ranveer also has a familial filmi connection!

He is related to a contemporary actress, no less!

Know who it is?

Click NEXT to find out!

Filmi Family Tree: Know Ranveer's famous actress cousin?

Image: Sonam Kapoor

It's Sonam Kapoor!

Ranveer's paternal grandfather and Sonam's maternal grandmother were siblings.

That makes Ranveer's father, businessman Jagjit Singh Bhavnani, and Sonam's mother Sunita Kapoor first cousins.

Which, in turn, makes Ranveer and Sonam second cousins.