Sonam Kapoor completed 13 years in movies on Monday; Saawariya, her first film, was released that day in 2007. Before starring in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film, she worked with him as an assistant director.
During The Zoya Factor promotions, Sonam revealed how she told her mother Sunita Kapoor that she did not want to go to college but to work with Sanjay. Sunita’s reaction was a resounding ‘no’.
Sonam then tried to convince her father, Anil Kapoor, who had forgotten that Sanjay was Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s assistant during 1942: A Love Story, and was skeptical because he did not know the filmmaker personally. However, he convinced his father by saying that Ranbir Kapoor was also helping on the film.
When Sonam met Sanjay, he did not know that she was Anil’s daughter, since her parents had “protected” her from the gaze of the media. “The first day I went to his office to meet him, he was sitting at a table. He just came back from church and he looked at me and said, ‘Have you come to perform? Are you here for an audition? I said, ‘No, sir, I’ve come to be an assistant.’ He said, ‘But you should act, haan. I said it’s okay, ”he revealed to ETC Bollywood.
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Later, when Sanjay found out who Sonam was, “he was very upset.” “Then he found out who my father was and was very upset. He was like, ‘Are you allowed …?’ He was 17 and bohot jhooth-voot bol ke (after lying a lot) was there. But I did it on my own, ”he said.
Sonam made her debut alongside Ranbir in Saawariya, and although the film was a flop at the box office, their careers took off. He has acted in several successful films, including Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo, Neerja, Veere Di Wedding, and Pad Man.
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