Kareena Kapoor explains why Kapoor women didn’t work in the movies earlier, says dad Randhir Kapoor ‘changed with the times’

Kareena acknowledged that it was harder during Karisma’s time as she was the first Kapoor woman who stepped into acting and broke the myth about Kapoor women not being actors. Karisma made her debut in 1991 with Prem Qaidi. “It was difficult during Karisma’s time because she was one of the first Kapoor girls but… not to ever say that my father didn’t support her and not to ever say… Even now, if he calls me and he knows I’m shooting, he will be apologetic that ‘oh no, okay, focus on your work’. He’s extremely cosmopolitan, extremely open-minded, he’s always he has just been so nice about everything,” she said. “My father has been way ahead of his times,” she said and called him a “friend and guide.”

Speaking about the Kapoor women not working in the movies earlier, Kareena said that those “times were different” “Back in the 1970s and stuff, it was different because times were different. That when they got married they never really worked, but I’m glad that my father moved with the times because that’s what it is about. You have to keep changing yourself for your children. That’s also important, and not live in archaic times,” she said.

Kareena made her debut in the year 2000 with Refugee and is still an active part of Hindi movies. She will next be seen in Sujoy Ghosh’s Jaane Jaan.