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FILM INTERVIEW: SONAM KAPOOR

Anil Kapoor’s Daughter Felt Like Cinderella on Set of ‘Mausam’

By: Simran Mody

September 13, 2011

Bollywood beauty Sonam Kapoor may be fictionally portraying a Kashmiri girl falling for a Punjabi boy essayed by Shahid Kapoor in Pankaj Kapoor’s Mausam, but the daughter of Anil Kapoor revealed to the Indian media two fantastical thoughts totally devoid of her heartthrob co-star. Not only did she confess her girlish crush on Shah Rukh Khan, but Ms. Kapoor also fancied a little slice of Cinderella while on the set of Eros International’s latest release.

In speaking to Bollywood Mantra, Ms. Kapoor confessed that her crush on SRK began at a very young age.

“Cupid struck when I was eight years old, and my first love was Shah Rukh Khan,” she reportedly said. “My dream date would involve eating and drinking wine in a library. I love libraries.”

Okay, Ms. Kapoor is beginning to sound a little cheesy with her fantasies of studiously drinking wine with Mr. Khan. Fast-forwarding to 2011, Ms. Kapoor allowed another fantasy to get the best of her while on set of Mausam: donning an elegant gown for a scene in the film, the actress mentally escaped to a world of glass slippers and pumpkin carriages.

“I was wearing this beautiful gown and dancing with the best dancer. I felt like Cinderella,” Ms. Kapoor stated as her thoughts floated away.

Of course, in speaking with Bollywood Matra, one would think Ms. Kapoor’s experience working on Mausam was epically heavenly. Yet, that was definitely not the case, as Ms. Kapoor clarified with The Times of India that Mausam was anything but a waltz with her Prince Charming while wearing a pair of glass slippers.

Indeed, there was a point where the clock struck midnight and Ms. Kapoor was no different from Cinderella’s other life -- one of unnoticed labor and hard work.

“I have literally given Mausam my sweat, blood, and tears,” Ms. Kapoor confessed to The Times of India, adding that she is “used to working like that.”

“I gave that kind of time to Saawariya and Delhi 6 too. I would rather do quality work than churn out films like a factory. Whether my films work or not, I want people to remember me and my characters. Mausam has taken a lot from all of us; we have worked very hard on it,” she added.

Quotes of two extremes, Ms. Kapoor ultimately found a middle ground in chatting with Bollywood Hungama, explaining what Mausam is all about.

“It’s a love story between two very simple, normal people, Harry and Aayat, who meet each other at four different ages across the span of a decade,” she explained. “It’s about a boy and girl who have this attraction for each other and fall in love, but certain situations don't allow their love story to culminate so easily, and at the end of the day, when their love story does culminate, it does so very beautifully.”

With quite the balance of responses in her discussions with the India press, now all that is left to do is for Ms. Kapoor to hope Mausam cultivates rather beautifully at the box office, as the Eros International production hits theaters and multiplexes worldwide on September 16, 2011.

The film also stars Anupam Kher and director Pankaj Kapoor in supporting roles.