In Culture and Films
- The film 'Tanu weds Manu' had some scenes shot in Kapurthala city of Punjab.
- Kapurthala gives its name to the Kapurthala stomacher, a wedding gift from the Maharajah to Mary of Teck, the future Queen Mary, in 1893.
- In the 2010 Pakistani drama Dastaan that takes place during the Partition of India, Kapurthala serves as the place where Bano, the main Muslim female character, is kept for nearly 5 years by a Sikh family.
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