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From her debut film Refugee to Fida, it's been a truly maddening and turbulent three-year career for Kareena Kapoor.
From the sassy streetwalker in Sudhir Mishra's Chameli to the Muslim riot victim in Govind Nihlani's Dev and now to the stunningly amoral wanton-woman in Ken Ghosh's Fida, 2004 has been a momentous year for Kareena Kapoor.
From Refugee to Fida, it's been a truly maddening and turbulent three-year career for one of Bollywood's most sought after actresses.
I've known Kareena better than almost anyone else, but, then, I don't think anyone can really 'know' Kareena fully. Certainly not Kareena herself.
If she knew her potential as completely as Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta or Rani Mukherjee, Kareena would've by now become a major phenomenon of Indian cinema instead of being one of the most intriguing and appealing possibilities that she is right now.
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Kareena: Daughter of caprice |
Her attitude to life and career swings between I-don't-care and I-live-and-die-for-what-I-believe-in. There's never a middle path, never a chance of finding a balance between those two extremes.
Daughter of caprice and wizard of whimsy, Kareena goes completely by what her heart tells her. In the process if she ends up looking somewhat contradictory, let it be. Kareena doesn't care. She lives for the moment and crams all her intensity into it, not sparing a thought for what's gone and what's waiting around the corner.
I think I was the first journalist Kareena ever spoke to, right after the release of her first film Refugee. I remember running into this spunky, naturally beautiful girl who told me she always wanted to be simple and Indian in movies, like she was in Refugee.
During a private conversation, Amitabh Bachchan had called her "ethereal". She had laughed nervously: "That's what I want to be. I've watched the films of Meena Kumari and Madhubala and those are my role models. I feel very awkward doing the things that today's heroines are required to."
