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Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor on comebacks and media intrusion
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2/12/2025
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The Bollywood actress, who was in the UAE, is set to make her web debut with ‘Mentalhood’
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She belongs to the first family of Bollywood.
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She is a national award winning actress, a mother of two but doesn't look it.
00:15
Karisma Kapoor, the beautiful and the vivacious actress, thank you so much for taking time
00:21
out to speak with us and talking to us.
00:23
Karisma, tell me who actually does the shopping at home, who does the weekly grocery shopping?
00:27
Oh my god, you will be surprised but it's me.
00:29
Really?
00:30
That's my downtime, I like doing that, I think that's what keeps me grounded.
00:35
I like to do hisaab and see what is the prices of vegetables and fruits that are happening
00:43
and I enjoy doing that.
00:44
Are you the actual typical Indian woman who will actually haggle as well and say, this
00:48
is too high, this needs to be lower?
00:50
I don't haggle but sometimes I'm like, it's so expensive.
00:54
But yeah, I enjoy doing that.
00:56
I think it's good to be in touch with reality, to be in touch with what's happening around
01:01
you on a very honest level of what's happening in the world.
01:07
What is a typical shopping cart, how do you get a mix of fibre, protein, healthy items
01:14
especially because you have two kids at home who you need to make sure have a healthy diet?
01:19
You know, honestly, I don't do much.
01:22
I think in today's time, you know, with the internet and there's so much to read about
01:26
and so much to do and so many new superfoods and you know, so many superfoods happening
01:32
and all this, I do things at the values that I grew up with.
01:37
I think my mom did well, if I may say so and me and Kareena, you know, I mean, we're fit,
01:42
we're healthy, we know a little, you know, like what's right and wrong and I keep it
01:46
very basic and very simple.
01:48
So in my home, like there's dal, sabzi, roti, very simple things.
01:53
Actually, my children eat ghee, I try to kind of avoid it but I do enjoy having ghee as
02:01
well and actually my grandmother introduced us to ghee and she had such amazing skin and
02:07
hair so that is the secret.
02:08
Has your grandmother passed down any recipe to your mom who has now passed down to you
02:13
which one day you will pass down to your daughter?
02:14
I think, you know, knowing the Kapoors, there are many treasured food recipes which we relish
02:22
and we eat but at the same time, we like to strike the right balance, you know, that you
02:26
eat healthy as well and we do eat the typically Punjabi rich food as well which we love doing.
02:32
So, everything in life has to be balanced.
02:34
What's your take on the flash in the pan diets that we see like Keto, Atkins, do they really work?
02:39
I cannot, I wouldn't like to just, you know, comment and it's to its own.
02:44
I know people love doing them but like I said, I do everything in balance.
02:51
So, when I was on the ride over here, I ate a big piece of chocolate cake even though
02:55
you may not believe me but that's the truth.
02:57
I like to eat everything.
02:59
So, like for example, like when I'm in Dubai, when I'm in the UAE, I love to go to good
03:03
restaurants, I enjoy the food.
03:05
Then when I go back, then I eat normal homemade food.
03:08
So, it's always good to have a good balance, you know.
03:11
I think having just salad and you know, being on this, you know, like depriving yourself.
03:17
Exactly and you know, having a few leaves and you know, lemon water.
03:21
I can't live like that, I can't do that.
03:23
We saw your Insta posts, you were spending time on the beach, you seem to have a good
03:27
time in Dubai.
03:28
Tell us what is your favourite thing to do here in the UAE?
03:30
Well, like I just said, I'm the big foodie, the Kapoor foodie.
03:34
So, I love all the restaurants.
03:35
So, where would we find you?
03:36
Oh my god, I can't say that.
03:38
Oh my god.
03:39
Actually, there are too many favourites, I can't really say but like you know that I
03:44
think I have a beautiful connection with the UAE and I love coming back.
03:48
It's lovely that you know, it's so close to home that we can come here and it feels
03:53
like home.
03:53
You're also now actually spread into the web series arena as well with Mental Hood.
03:59
Tell us, what drew you to the show?
04:01
Well, you know honestly, I can't talk much about that right now but the next time we'll
04:04
talk about it.
04:05
Tell me something, why you picked this show over?
04:08
Well, I think it's, I love the script.
04:11
I think it's close to my heart.
04:13
It's something that I live on a daily basis.
04:16
It's about motherhood.
04:18
It's about being a mom every second and you know, the ups and downs, the good, the bad,
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everything that goes with it.
04:26
What's your take on the recent web boom we've seen in India?
04:29
I mean, Saif has done a phenomenal job in Secret News.
04:32
It's amazing.
04:32
I think there's so many, there's so much great talent out there and now we have another
04:37
avenue to show that talent.
04:39
Is this a good time to be an actor or actress?
04:42
Always a good time to be an actor.
04:45
I'm just saying generally like you know, I mean so many years ago people would ask me
04:49
that you know, they say you know, they're heroine oriented films being made today but
04:54
that was happening even at my time.
04:55
Like if you see films like Bibi No. 1, Fiza, Zubeda, Shakti.
05:00
So I think if you're a good actor, you're a good artist, you'll always find good roles
05:05
in every generation.
05:06
Like right from mother India to today.
05:08
When are we seeing you back in Bollywood?
05:11
I don't know.
05:12
I never planned anything in my life so you never know.
05:15
I could do a movie, I could not.
05:16
I haven't decided.
05:17
What do you mean?
05:18
Because not you, you would break the hearts of your millions of fans.
05:21
So I haven't decided.
05:23
I just go by my instincts.
05:24
So let's see.
05:25
Is it something that you would actually even consider and maybe have a chat even with,
05:28
you know, your sister?
05:29
I do hear scripts.
05:31
It's not that I don't.
05:32
I hear a lot of scripts but I'm just waiting for something really exciting that actually
05:38
gets me from home to go on the set again.
05:40
You're also actually, you have a very big presence on social media as well even though
05:44
you can't convince your sister to get on social media.
05:48
But you know, with that in mind, that also brings in a lot of responsibility and a lot
05:52
of negativity.
05:53
How do you handle that?
05:54
Well, I think it's a part of life to do, you know, social media and we all need to
06:00
take it in our stride.
06:02
And I think social media is a fun place and even though I'm a very private person and
06:07
people know that and they respect that about me because, you know, that's just the way
06:10
I've always been.
06:11
I think I've enjoyed exploring the avenue of social media.
06:16
So it's been nice.
06:17
Because of social media, we see a prevalence of cameras in our faces.
06:21
You're a mother of two children.
06:23
You're an aunt to probably the most photographed child in Bollywood today, Taimur.
06:29
How do you, I mean, does that ever actually, you know, bring with a sense of dread as well
06:34
because of cameras and the children are kind of growing up in the face of cameras?
06:38
You know, I think we have to deal with it.
06:41
I think being in the line and profession that we come from and we have to see the positive
06:46
side of it.
06:47
Is that, you know, our children, our little Taimur, you know, people love so much.
06:52
So they're being photographed and they're getting blessings every day.
06:55
So that's the best way for, you know, me and Kareena and Sev to kind of look at this
07:00
space.
07:01
And I think we try and give our children the most normal life.
07:07
Like when they're at home, there are no cameras in their face.
07:10
School life is very bright.
07:11
So they have chores to do around the house?
07:13
Yes, absolutely.
07:14
Yes.
07:15
What is a typical day at home?
07:17
Like any normal mom, you know, telling their child what to do, how to do it.
07:22
I mean, it's very normal.
07:24
It's very, I mean, the way we grew up and we, I think we have a strong value system
07:30
from our parents.
07:31
So we like to instill that in our children, especially in today's times.
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