Kareena
Kapoor comes from an old and influential film family. Her
grandfather was Raj Kapoor; her great grandfather was Prithviraj
Kapoor. She is the daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, who had
divorced when she was still young. Rishi Kapoor is one of her
uncles. Her sister, Karisma Kapoor, is also an actress. Other
living relatives include maternal aunt Sadhana, and cousins
Shivani Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor and Nikhil Nanda.
Kareena attended Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai and then went to
Welham Girl's Boarding School in Dehradun. She then went to
Harvard for summer school and took a course in microcomputers and
information technology for three months.
Set on pursuing an acting career, she then took an admission in
Government Law College at Churchgate to become a lawyer. After
completing one year there, she went back to her initial plan of
joining the film industry, where she attended the Kishore Namit
Kapoor acting school.
Kareena had planned
to debut in Rakesh Roshan's Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai but left the
project a few days into the filming. She made her debut in J. P.
Dutta’s Refugee in 2000 with Abhishek Bachchan and won critical
acclaim for portraying the role of a Pakistani girl. The role
earned her an award for Filmfare Award for Best Debut (Female).
Her next movies were Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai (2001) and Asoka, which
did indifferent business at the box office. For her work in the
latter, she earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Actress.
However, her role in the 2001 hit film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
put her on Bollywood's A-list.
Kapoor was in great demand after these successes and signed many
new movies but none became the wild success of which producers
dreamt off. Then the critical success of the 2004 film Chameli
(Movie), where she played the role of a prostitute made critics
take notice of her once again. Her performance in the film earned
her the Filmfare Special Performance Award. In the same year, she
also won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for her
work in the film Dev. Her other films in 2004 included the
moderately successful Aitraaz and the semi-hit Hulchul.
In 2006, she appeared in the above average 36 China Town, and the
average Chup Chup Ke. Her performance in an Indian adaptation of
William Shakespeare's Othello, Omkara was praised from critics as
well as the audiences. Her latest release, Don - The Chase Begins
Again has done extremely well at the box office. She won favorable
reviews both for her acting and her dancing in her item number.
Kapoor has joined several touring stage shows throughout the
years. Her latest tour, the Rockstars Concert of May 2006, in
which she performed alongside Salman Khan, Zayed Khan, John
Abraham, Shahid Kapoor, Esha Deol and Mallika Sherawat turned out
to be a huge success overseas.
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