Surinder Kapoor belonged to a Punjabi Hindu family from Peshawar.

[2] Prithviraj Kapoor, his cousin, is the one who invited him to Bombay to join the Hindi Film Industry.

Later as a producer in the 1980s he made good money with his productions, which were remakes of Kannada, Tamil or Telugu films like Hum Paanch, Woh Saat Din, Loafer, Judaai, Sirf Tum, Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai, Pukar, No Entry - all of them starring his son Anil Kapoor in the lead.

His younger son, Sanjay Kapoor was lead actor in Sirf Tum.

His daughter-in-law Sridevi married to his eldest son Boney was a legendary Bollywood actress.