Actor Kareena Kapoor has taken up quite a lot of roles via her profession however followers nonetheless consider Jab We Met and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham as her most iconic roles. And she feels slightly ‘angry’ about it. During a press interplay on the trailer launch of Jaane Jaan on Tuesday in Mumbai, Kareena opened up about all of the totally different roles she has performed in her film profession. (Also learn: Kareena Kapoor ‘was requested to go away’ Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai three days earlier than the shoot, claims Ameesha Patel)
Speaking about her filmography, she mentioned, as reported by PTI, “As an actor, you want to try and do something different every time. For me, it is difficult because I’ve been known for playing Poo and Geet… This thing has been fixed in people’s minds. So, that has been a conscious effort that now I want to do different things…
‘Trying to do different things’
“They don’t consider the movies that I’ve accomplished previously equivalent to Dev, Chameli, and others. But I’m going to maintain attempting to do various things. I do know that they may preserve coming again to Poo and Geet,” Kareena mentioned.
Citing the instance of Vishal Bhardwaj’s 2006 critically-acclaimed movie, Omkara, the 42-year-old actor mentioned she has performed intense roles previously.
“I’ve done quite a few intense roles but you all remember only Poo and Geet. I feel very angry about it. Like, Omkara was also intense,” she recalled about starring in Bhardwaj’s acclaimed adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy Othello.
Kareena is set to make her OTT debut with Jaane Jaan, filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh’s Hindi language adaptation of popular Japanese novel Devotion of Suspect X.
‘More nervous now’
Also speaking about making her OTT debut she said, “I’m extra nervous than I used to be 20 years in the past for the primary time. Watching the promo so carefully on TV screens, folks could be watching me so carefully on their telephones. We have all labored very exhausting. Every actor says that however Sujoy has made a improbable movie. We have been attempting to work collectively for over a decade,” she mentioned.
Jaane Jaan additionally stars Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma, whom Kareena described as “natural actors”. “I wanted to work with really amazing actors, someone I can add freshness with 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 have never done it, they are so natural. It was meant to be,” she mentioned.
Jaane Jaan will premiere on Netflix on Kareena’s birthday (September 21). The film is produced by twelfth Street Entertainment, Northern Lights Films in affiliation with Kross Pictures and Balaji Motion Pictures.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com