Other notable roles are as the protagonist Unni in the Malayalam film Agnisakshi, and the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi in the eponymous television series, directed by Basu Chatterjee and broadcast on Doordarshan.

Byomkesh Bakshi is a fictitious character created by the popular Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

Basu Chatterjee directed a TV show based on the stories of Bandyopadhyay, and Rajit Kapur played the lead role.

[8] In 2022, Kapur acted in his first Punjabi language film Birha – The Journey Back Home.

[9][10] 2023 saw the release of Mission Majnu and Mujib: The Making of a Nation and in both films he played the role of Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.