Actress Kareena Kapoor has taken on various roles throughout her career, but fans still consider Jab We Met and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham as her most iconic roles. And she feels rather “angry” about it. During a press interaction at the trailer launch of Jaane Jaan on Tuesday in Mumbai, Kareena spoke about all the different roles she has played in her film career. (Read also: Kareena Kapoor ‘asked to leave’ Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai three days before shoot, claims Ameesha Patel)
Talking about her filmography she said, as reported by PTI, “As an actress you want to try to do something different every time. Something has become fixed in people’s minds. So this was a conscious effort that now I want to do different things…
“I try to do different things”
“They don’t think about the films I have done in the past like Dev, Chameli and others. But I will keep trying to do different things. I know they will keep coming back to Poo and Pare,” said Kareena.
Citing the example of Vishal Bhardwaj’s 2006 blockbuster Omkara, the 42-year-old actress said she has played intense roles in the past.
“I have played several intense roles, but you all remember only Pooh and Geet. I feel very angry about that. Like Omkara was also intense,” she recalls about starring in Bhardwaj’s famous adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello.
Kareena is set to make her OTT debut with Jaane Jaan, director Sujoy Ghosh’s Hindi adaptation of the popular Japanese novel Devotion of Suspect X.
“More nervous now”
Also talking about her OTT debut, she said, “I’m more nervous than I was 20 years ago for the first time. Seeing the promo so closely on TV screens, people would be watching me so closely on their phones. Everyone we have worked Very hard. Every actor says that but Sujoy has done a fantastic film. We have been trying to work together for over a decade,” he said.
Jaane Jaan also stars Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma, whom Kareena described as “natural actors”. “I wanted to work with really amazing actors, somebody that I can add freshness to and learn from… I can’t thank them enough. Like sometime in the middle of the shot, I would look at them and forget my lines. I don’t they’ve ever done, they’re so natural. It was meant to be,” he said.
Jaane Jaan will premiere on Netflix on Kareena’s birthday (September 21). The film is produced by 12th Street Entertainment, Northern Lights Films in association with Kross Pictures and Balaji Motion Pictures.
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