Kareena Kapoor Khan – Firstpost

Indian cinema is being watched by everybody, together with Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan stated on Friday as she recalled the time when the Oscar-winning filmmaker praised her 2009 film “3 Idiots”.

On the inaugural World Audio Visible and Leisure Summit right here, the actor recounted the story of how she bumped into Spielberg at an abroad restaurant quickly after the discharge of “3 Idiots”, directed by Rajkumar Hirani and co-starring Aamir Khan.

“Even Steven Spielberg is watching our Hindi films at this time… I used to be touring someplace and at a restaurant, Steve Spielberg was additionally there. This was many moons in the past, ‘3 Idiots’ had simply been launched. And he got here as much as me and requested, ‘Are you a similar lady who’s in that well-known Indian movie the place three college students research collectively?’ I stated sure, ‘I’m the identical lady.’

“He advised me that he liked the movie. I don’t should act in an English movie for him to see me. He watched ‘3 Idiots’, so that’s our second in Indian cinema,” Kareena stated.

The actor was talking on the session “Cinema: The Smooth Energy” the place she was joined by Telugu star Vijay Deverakond. The session was hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar.

Kareena stated she is glad together with her work in Hindi cinema and has no intention of attempting her hand at films within the West.

“Movies are a ardour to me, movies run into my blood, I used to be born into this household. So, by no means say by no means, however chasing one thing just isn’t a part of my persona. So, if it has to occur, perhaps a Hindi-English movie will occur,” the “Jaane Jaan” star stated.

Kareena additionally spoke concerning the “insane” affect of Indian movies in overseas nations.

“In 2023, I used to be in a taxi in London, the motive force was an area and he began singing my grandfather’s music to me as a result of he had watched all of Raj Kapoor’s films.

“He sang the music ‘Mera Joota Hai Japani’ in Hindi. For me, that was actually an excellent second of pleasure… I felt the affect. He made me realise the form of love that we, as a nation, our movies, are getting,” she added.

What has modified at this time for good is that folks used to get pleasure from dubbed Hindi movies earlier however now they watch them of their native language, Kareena stated.

Johar stated he’s honoured to have legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese as an government producer on his upcoming house manufacturing movie “Homebound”.

“It was an enormous honour for us to have Martin Scorsese be an government producer on our movie, ‘Homebound’, the truth that he had made a contribution to a Hindi language movie was an enormous honour to listen to his inputs,” he stated.

“Homebound”, which is about to be showcased on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant beneath the Un Sure Regard section, options Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa and Janhvi Kapoor.

It’s produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra and co-produced by Marijke deSouza and Melita Toscan Du Plantier.