I'm not from a small town: Sonam Kapoor

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Brut caught up with Sonam Kapoor at the Jio MAMI word to screen event where she explained what made her roles challenging.   : Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

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00:00I'm not from South Delhi. I am not like that at all.

00:03Look what you made me do.

00:05Bombay girls have a particular way of talking.

00:07Good morning, captains. I'm Nija Banod. I'm your head purser today.

00:10Hi, this is Souram Kapoor and you're watching me en route.

00:14Which role did you consider was the most challenging for you?

00:17I think Ranjana was in Ranjana.

00:20You know, I was playing against type.

00:24I think with playing Zoya, who was from Banaras.

00:28And, you know, who went to Aligarh University, who went to JNU.

00:36I'm a girl from JVPD scheme.

00:38And so those characters, which are the opposite, like even Bittu from Delhi 6 or

00:45or let's say PRDP.

00:49It's like very different.

00:51Like Bhaag Malka Bhaag, playing the character, you know, Biru from Bhaag Malka Bhaag.

00:56I'm not from, you know, a small town or a small village in Punjab.

01:00I think those those characters are difficult.

01:03Characters like Nija.

01:04Nija was a Bombay girl who went to Manikji Cooper, who sounded a lot like me.

01:09When you, you know, Bombay girls have a particular way of talking.

01:14Ayesha was also difficult or different because I'm not from South Delhi.

01:18And I am not like that at all.

01:22You know, besides her clothes, her personality and my personality were completely different.

01:27So, you know, those every character that I've played has been different.

01:32And everybody thinks it will be Nija, but Nija was something that was

01:35the easiest because it was just a Bombay girl, a regular girl.

01:45I would love to do an action film.

01:51I think it's important to support writers,

01:55especially because every film cannot be made without a writer.

02:00Content is king and a good content will make a good film.

02:07And it can start with a book or it can start with an original screenplay.

02:12So it is the backbone of cinema.

02:14The thing with films is that it's so widespread and so wide-reaching.

02:19A writer, you know, can become way more recognized with films.

02:24And it's a great platform for them.

02:28Is there a book or a film that resonates with my love story?

02:31It was like Serendipity, my husband and I meeting.

02:36We've had a lot of common friends, but we never ever met.

02:42And then we met one day by chance at a bar.

02:46And then, you know, we realized we had so many common friends,

02:48even though we lived in two different cities.

02:50I can't think of anything.

02:51We've had an unusual love story.

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