Kareena K 's Big Interview

Kareena Kapoor

 You seem to be holidaying a lot after marriage?

 Oh I love the image..holidaying. I’m girl who have always wanted a social life because I love being with people and with friends. I love travelling and holidaying. I always wanted to be be like this and I have always been like this. Had the freedom to do what I wanted. So there’s no major change that’s come over me now that I’m married.

 I don’t like holidays, I want to spend time with him .

 Marriage?

 Do you miss being single again?I was never really single throughout my professional. Last five years I have been committed to him and now the commitement is getting deeper. 

 Mrs. Saif Ali Khan?

 The day I married him I became Mrs. Saif Ali Khan. Saif’s family is very cosmopolitan and liberal. I love my family and deeply respect them. At heart I’m a very traditional girl.     

  How often do you get to visit Pataudi?

Work doesn’t permit us that luxury. Saif has been out of the country since the last 6 months, either shooting or travelling and we are visiting each other.  Infact I haven’t visited Pataudi till now.

 Saif doesn’t wmat me to talk about our personal life and I endorsed his views. 

 What are you looking forward to the most today?

  A nice life with Saif and spending time with family.  Acting is my passion. Live life on my own terms. Never change. Travel more, live a full lfe and work.  In the wjole euphoria of chasing success we forget to live luife and I don’t want to be trapped by that.  …

 What do you want to be known as  ?

   I’m a working woman, and that’s what I want to be known as. 

 Do you feel that Bollywood doesn’t celebrate actress as they do in the West?

I don’t agree that Bollywood has not celebrated married actress. Look at Nargisji, my mother-in-law (Shamila Tagore), Hema Malini, Sri Devi and others who have iconised roles  especially written for them. And those have become cult roles. Mother India, Sita Aur Gita, Mausam, Chandani to name a few.  And Vidya Balan and her power packed roles,   is the recent example.

However, the it is true that Bollywood is a male dominated  industry. And how can we grudge it when our own country (India) is a  male dominated one. I belive movies are a reflection of society. Nonetheless I would like to add that it is a movie with a good story that works. It’s either a bad film or a good film.

Your chemistry with most of the actors have been well appreciated . Given a choice which five actors would you choose to recreate the chemistry with again? 

  I’m looking forward to working with Hrithik Roshan in Shuddhi once again. He is one of the finest actor and an extremely wonderful co-star.  I don’t know why but we never got the right script all this while.

 Abhishek Bachchan: I really want to work with him again. I gave the first shot of my career with him while we were shooting for Refugee in Bhuj. I have no idea why nobody approached us for another movie rogether.

 Aamir Khan: Always a pleasure to work with someone like him. He’s special actor for me. We have done  3 Idiots and Talash.

You backed out from working with Emran Hashmi initially but then you went ahead and signed the film with him. Quite an unusual choice though?

Initially when they approached me I didn’t have the dates. But now it’s all sorted.  I’m looking forward to working with Emran.I have heard all nice things about him and his professionalism. My sister in law Soha says he’s quite an intelligent guy. 

After marriage actresses in Bollywood, usually chose certain kind of roles. Do you have any such pre-condition? What kind of roles you want to play?

I have been so far lucky to have chosen the right kind of script and I hope I can continue to do so.  As far as my choice of roles go, there isin’t anything specific. Whatever my fans like to see me in, I will am cool with that. I’m because of my fans.

Do you watch movie?

Frankly we don’t watch Hindi movies. I know  many Bollywood actors like watching Hollywood films. I have stopped watching it about eight years back with an  exception sometimes and it’s a known fact that Saif doesn’t watch it at all. The last I saw was 3 Idiots and Cocktail.  No specific reason as such. As it is because we act in it, we tend to live in it and then to go and see it afterwards gets monotonous.  Unless it’s a great film and I want to unwind , I keep off from it.  I think Gangs of Wasseypur was a great film. But I am more into  English television shows.

What’s your eventual plan, to share the production responsibility of your husband’s production house or simply sit back and enjoy family life with Saif?

 

Considering your cultures are massively different, what have you picked up from Saif?

 I’m telling you what I have picked up from Saif as a person. His taste in music. It’s simply spectacular. I was into Jazz and Blues anyways, but Saif has introduced me to  hard rock music, Today I can appreciate a Dire Starits  and Led Zaplin as much as I appreciate other music.  .   

is mos� K t �� �� ed through the media. I guess the rest is dug out and scripted. Nowadays you can get to know about your idol through social mediums and get unadulterated things of their life. When you are going through medium, like the media, nuances change. For instance what is said and what becomes the headline are two different things. The context at times can change.

Are industry marriages more fragile than the marriages which are not in the spotlight?

Human beings are human beings regardless of their profession. When something has to happen, it just happens.

Don’t mind me asking this but even your marriage also went through its share of downs, as reported in the media?

I knew it was coming. I don’t know what to say. Someone was speculating that I was leaving my wife and those people would go on and on with it. Eventually they realised that nothing was coming out this so they are tired now.

How did Adhuna take?

She is one of the most important people in my life. Very special to me. She is someone who you can trust blindly. Romance is all important but before that you have to friends and we’re very good friends.

You’re settled as director but do you feel settled as an actor now? Pull qoute

I find myself at a place where I have the freedom to make the choices about the work I would like to do and that according to me is satisfying. As for being settled, I don’t know but there’s an area in acting which I’m yet not comfortable. I still don’t know how to adapt to a situation onscreen where I have to dance or sing looking at the camera. I find it very difficult. It’s almost a cardinal rule in a film that you don’t look into the camera. Camera is non-existent unless you are doing it for a specific purpose to make a certain kind of point. When the story pauses just to incorporate entertainment because that is what people want to see, I have a problem with that. I think it breaks away from the narrative of the film.

After BMB, will direction take backseat for sometime atleast?

At this point I want to see the release of Milkha Singh. I need some breathing space. And with all honesty I must tell you that there was no break from working, since Rock On began in January 2008. So it has been five years plus that I haven’t got time to myself. After this, is my next film Shaadi Ke Side Effects, which is almost complete. And this would be the end of all my commitments. After that I want to start writing but before that I need sometime to read and get inspired, I think it’s very important. So in short, my plan is just to step back.

Your films are different than the existing popular films. Do you ever get tempted to do for instance, a mass appealer like Dabangg?

 When Dabangg released it cut through a lot of clutter. There was a hero and villain in it. I loved the movie because we’re seeing something like this after a long time. But I must tell you that such films work before it’s discovered to be a formula film. The minute the audience feel that there is no formula to cater to it, doesn’t work. And today the formula is showing. Will I make a film like this, or act in it, I can’t say because don’t know that genre. I don’t subscribe to formulaic filmmaking.

What dictates your choice of film?

I haven’t heard of anyone saying that I must do such films because audience love watching it. I would never go by that diktat. I would do a film that would instinctively tell me that I should do it and I would sincerely believe that audience would love it. Those who are doing such films they genuinely enjoy doing it. You must enjoy your work. If you don’t enjoy your work people won’t enjoy seeing you.

Four trend-setting films according to Farhan.

I would like to put it as films and filmmakers. Yash Chopra was a trend setter. He created the kind of love story which everyone started replicating. It reflected in Adi’s (Aditya Chopra) work. But Adi himself was a trend setter. His film Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge brought the trend of NRI romances. Next is Rajesh Khanna, he set a trend. There were phenomenal actors before him but the way he set a bench mark with stardom I think everyone else fell for that. Next would be my own film Dil Chahta Hai. Till date it has its contribution and in many ways it had changed the spoken language in movies. And then Satya which set another trend. It stripped away all the glamour and gave you a very naked movie.

Whose works inspire you the most?

There are many. But Robert De Niro remains my all time favorite. I admire him a lot. In fact, in my pursuit to be more like him, I would mimic dialogues from his movies for my friends in college. I loved what he did to himself in The Untouchable-shaving off his hairline, gaining all that weight for a film where he had only a few scenes, it was truly inspirational.

And the sequel to Zindegi Na Milegi Dobara?

We had a great time. I hope it happens soon. Don’t know much about it. Zoya can tell you.

What’s the status of Zoya’s film which was based on your and her story?

 It’s not true that it’s based on our lives. There is a film about siblings and we’re producing it. There are many things universally common about siblings- love, concern, caring and dependency- but that doesn’t need to be our story.