Kareena Kapoor on sister Karisma’s Bollywood debut: She resurrected a home

Actor Kareena Kapoor recently recollected about her and her sister Karisma Kapoor’s decision to pursue acting. In an interview, the actor also reminisced about her father Randhir Kapoor’s reaction to the same.

During an interview with The Week, Kareena Kapoor Khan shared that when her sister Karisma decided to pursue acting, their family was very supportive of it. She said, “My mother was very supportive of my sister, and she was like ‘I want you to do what you want to do and, strangely, at that time, my father, who people actually think, would be like ‘no, don’t do this’, he said, ‘if you want to do this, you must try on your own and figure it out. I am not going to help you in any way.”

She said that her father, who wasn’t working at that time (90s), had asked Karisma to ‘figure it out’ herself. She recalled her father saying, “‘It’s not that because you come from this legacy, there’s a 100 percent that you are going to be a big star, or I am going to help you become an actor, or get you a film, or produce a film, nothing of that sort was ever on the line.’ He pushed us to do it on our own.”

During the same interview, she added that Karisma ‘resurrected a home’ with her decision to pursue acting. She shared, “My grandfather had passed away, my father had made one film, Henna. Of course, Chintu uncle (Rishi Kapoor) was this illustrious superstar actor, but apart from that no one was working at that time. So Karisma was actually the first female Kapoor who became this big sensation and star.”

Karisma made her Bollywood debut in 1991 with the film ‘Prem Qaidi’, co-starring Harish Kumar. She was 17. She subsequently featured in films such as ‘Anari’, ‘Coolie No 1’ and ‘Raja Hindustani’, among others.

Karisma was last seen in the 2024 film ‘Murder Mubarak’. Streaming on Prime Video, it also featured Sara Ali Khan, Vijay Varma, Pankaj Tripathi, Tisca Chopra, among others.