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Kareena Kapoor, (Hindi: करीना
कपूर; born September 21, 1980)[1] nicknamed Bebo, is an Indian
film actress who appears in Bollywood films.
Born into the renowned Kapoor film family, she made her acting
debut in Refugee (2000), for which she won a Filmfare Best
Female Debut Award. Kapoor had her first commercial success with
her second release, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai (2001)[2] and later
appeared in Karan Johar's melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham,
which became India's top-grossing film in the overseas market
that year and her biggest commercial success to date.[3] Kapoor
followed this with several films, which were unsuccessful at the
box office, and encountered several negative reviews and
criticisms for becoming typecast. In an attempt to reinvent her
image, she took on more serious characters, and was soon
recognized for her versatility as an actress.[4]
Her portrayal of a sex-worker in Chameli (2004) proved to be the
turning point in her career and won her the Filmfare Special
Performance Award.[5] She later received two Critics Award for
Best Actress at the Filmfare for her performances in the
critically acclaimed films Dev (2004) and Omkara (2006). In
2007, Kapoor earned her first Filmfare Best Actress Award for
her performance in the commercially successful comedy-romance
Jab We Met. Despite not having that many hits to her credit,
Kapoor has established herself as one of the leading actresses
of Bollywood.
Kapoor was ranked fourth on Filmfare's "Top Actresses" list for three
consecutive years (2003-2005) whilst she was later ranked sixth and third in 06
and 07 respectively.[57] In addition to that, Kapoor was ranked third on
Rediff's "Top Bollywood Female Stars" list in 2004.[58] She was later ranked
seventh and fifth in 2005-06 respectively, and came back to the third position
in 2007.[59][60][6] Kapoor has also frequently been featured in different lists
by Rediff, including "Bollywood's Most Beautiful Actresses",[61] "Bollywood's
Hottest Heroines",[62] "Bollywood's Best Dressed Women"[63] and "Women of Many
Faces".[64]
Kapoor has appeared twice on Karan Johar's talk show Koffee with Karan;
alongside Rani Mukerji in 2005, and Shahid Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor in 2007. In
2006, she modeled and walked the ramp along with Shahid Kapoor and actress
Urmila Matondkar for Manish Malhotra's fashion display, Fashion Week 2006,
titled Freedom,[65] and was a guest judge alongside Priyanka Chopra on the
singing talent contest Indian Idol 2.
In February 2007, Kapoor was listed fourth on Indiatimes' list of "Top 10
Hottest Actresses of Bollywood",[66] and later that year, became the only
actress to be featured among "The Highest Tax Payers of 2006-07".[67] In July
2007, Kapoor was announced the winner of PETA's 2007 "Cutest Vegetarian
Celebrities" online poll with actor R. Madhavan.[68] Later that year, along with
other Bollywood celebrities, the actress performed at the opening ceremony of
Kapil Dev’s Indian Cricket League (ICL) in Chandigarh,[69] and was ranked number
8 by the U.K. magazine, Eastern Eye, as one of "Asia's Sexiest Women"
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