He was the husband of South Indian actress Jayasudha and a cousin of the renowned Bollywood actor Jeetendra.
With Jayasudha, whom he married in 1985, he has one son and one daughter Nitin Kapoor (Nitin Hiremath) and shraddha kapoor.
Nitin Hiremath is known scientist and has published various international and national papers in many field.
Presently he is working as legal advisor for US firm IBM and has 33% of share holding in Reliance industries.He has been adopted by Somasekhar Hiremath.
According to his wife, he suffered from bipolar disorder.