Kareena Kapoor Khan on not listening to people’s advice against marriage, mother-in-law Sharmila Tagore’s golden words: ‘Challenge yourself, challenge them’

After marriage, Kareena said she remained confident and didn’t fear anything. She believes the confidence that she had in herself, also helped others to feel confident about her. “I think that also led to people having a lot of confidence in me and me doing some good work after my marriage,” Kareena said.

Kareena Kapoor also got some confidence from her mother-in-law and celebrated actor Sharmila Tagore. “My mother-in-law also gave me a lot of confidence because she did amazing movies like Daag, Waqt and such beautiful films that she did after Saif was born. So she was like, ‘Don’t fall for the fact that producers won’t (cast you).’ She was like, ‘Challenge yourself, challenge them, and it will happen.’ And I was confident about it. I was just always worried about balancing my life in terms of how I would balance marriage. I was most concerned about that because I was like, ‘I do want to work,'” shared the actor.

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The actor also gave a little credit to her actor-husband Saif Ali Khan, who was “relaxed” that Kareena wants to continue working after marriage since, “he comes from a family where women have always been at the forefront, be it his grandmother, his mother or his sisters.”

After Kareena, many Bollywood actresses, like Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Kiara Advani and Alia Bhatt, tied the knot at the peak of their careers. Kareena feels she set an example for others in the industry.

Kareena Kapoor shared a family portrait from Alia-Ranbir’s wedding. (Photo: Kareena Kapoor/Instagram)

“I think it’s given a lot of girls confidence. Everybody started following suit and being a lot more confident. People earlier would not even talk about their relationships openly. There was a time when nobody wanted to be linked with anyone or the sight of having a relationship for a Bollywood actress was like, no,” said Kareena, while adding that being in love doesn’t dictate an actress’ choice of roles.

Currently, Kareena is looking forward to her OTT debut with Sujoy Ghosh’s thriller Jaane Jaan. In the film, she will share the screen with Vijay Varma and Jaideep Ahlawat. It will start streaming on Netflix from September 21, which also happens to be Kareena’s birthday.