Kareena Kapoor is leaving nothing to chance this time. Determined to match strides with the formidable scene-stealer
Kajol in the Hindi version of
Stepmom, the actress has been quietly attending acting workshops with the film's director
Siddharth Malhotra."The last time I rehearsed for a part was for Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara. But that was a more unconventional film and role where I had to get into a milieu and character I knew nothing about. But Stepmom is urban and very contemporary. I play a very normal metro-centric working girl," said Kareena.
Malhotra's film is inspired by director
Chris Columbus 1998 hit drama
Stepmom, a heartwarming tale of two women - divorced Susan Sarandon and the new woman (Julia Roberts) in her
ex-husband's life - and the problems they face to find a common ground of understanding.
And to attend the workshops,
Kareena has been stealing time out of the rehearsals for a song she began shooting with
Aamir Khan in 3 Idiots. Through the workshops Kareena is discovering how difficult it is to play a normal girl. "I walk, talk, dress like an ordinary working girl. I'll be using no makeup."
Bollywood's ace designer Manish Malhotra too is having a hard time trying to bring down
Kareena's glamour quotient in
Stepmom to look like an ordinary working woman. "I couldn't cut my hair as planned because of continuity clashes. And I didn't want to cut my long hair. But I'm going for a new
hairstyle," said
Kareena.
The two actresses start shooting together from the end of this month.
Talking abour
Kajol, Kareena said: "She's always been one of my favourite actresses. We worked together in
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. But this is something else."
There will be a lot of dramatic scenes between the two women in the movie
. "The desi version of Stepmom is very different from the original. My role is also a big departure from what Julia Roberts played in Stepmom," Kareena said.
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