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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