{"id":714,"date":"2016-04-04T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=714"},"modified":"2016-04-04T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:56:37","slug":"sonam-kapoor-koffee-with-karan-karan-johar-kareena-kapoor-neerja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"The Coming of Age of Sonam Kapoor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/span>fter her launch as a lovelorn lass in <\/p>Saawariya<\/em>, Sonam Kapoor had firmly established herself as the leader of the stylish-but-can\u2019t-act club. This club wasn\u2019t a bad place to hang out. It has hosted everyone from Fardeen Khan to Govinda in the past and more recently Jacqueline Fernandez and Katrina Kaif, but Sonam really gave it new life with her coming-out party<\/a>\u00a0 with \u201cUnsuitable Boy\u201d Karan Johar and the distinctly less international Deepika Padukone.\n\nOn that\u00a0historic episode, she took Ranbir Kapoor\u2019s boyfriendness to the cleaners, equated Shobhaa De\u2019s writing skills with that of Chetan Bhagat\u2019s, and called all those who discussed relationships in public tacky (RIP), while maintaining her now trademark emotional sentiment about the uselessness of men. She went on to get into minor kerfuffles, like calling Aishwarya Rai<\/a> an \u201caunty from another generation\u201d, alleging that Indian men don\u2019t know fashion unless they\u2019re gay<\/a>, and taking random digs at people.<\/a>\n\nIt was a different life and Sonam Kapoor, whose birthday it is today, was our guardian angel. She was the teller of all things Bollywood outsiders thought and wanted to scream out loud. Whatever she was feeling, while giving only a finger<\/a> and no fucks, I hoped someone would distil into a powder so that I could snort it and be an uglier manifestation of Sonam\u2019s cavalier\u00a0attitude.\n\nThis insolence reflected in her film career with mostly encouraging choices resulting in maddeningly frustrating end-products: Delhi-6<\/em>, I Hate Luv Storys<\/em>, and Mausam<\/em>. These were fairly edgy choices as compared to her contemporary Deepika Padukone, who was busy appearing in every film possible, partaking in the #AppeaseAll doctrine employed by Kareena Kapoor in the mid-2000s. None of these worked though and Sonam went from potentially great to definitively bad, leading to the let\u2019s-play-small-parts-in-big-budget-films phase of her life with Players<\/em> and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag<\/em>, and the occasional rom-com thrown in the middle for good measure.\n\nAnd then Neerja <\/em>happened.\n

Watching the hatted Sonam Kapoor and the immensely bored Kareena Kapoor on Koffee with Karan was as pleasant as getting a double colonoscopy on a swollen butt in the Delhi winters.<\/blockquote>\nWith Neerja<\/em>, Sonam Kapoor bounced right out of the stylish-but-can\u2019t-act club and made a run for the hallowed stylish-and-can-act club, which screamed of A-list members like Kangana Ranaut and Deepika Padukone.\n\nNow the pressure to wear the mantle of the \u201cserious actress\u201d with \u00e9lan was immense. None of the other girls had made a Gandhi blooper<\/a> or acquired a distinctly \u201cduh\u201d personality. So Sonam doffed her thinking hat (a Philip Treacy, naturally) and turned into a powerful, but wholly predictable spokesperson for gender issues taking up everything from body shaming in Bollywood, to molestation<\/a>, from her low self-esteem, <\/strong>to closing the wage gap between actors. As displayed at The Actresses Roundtable<\/a>, where she didn\u2019t let anyone speak and dropped words like \u201cidealism\u201d and \u201cburger-chhap\u201d, she embraced her transformation from the chatty, over-the-top Dolce-wearing diva, to the outspoken champion casually throwing shade at the patriarchal nature of Bollywood.\n\nWhich is why, perhaps, watching the hatted Sonam Kapoor and the immensely bored Kareena Kapoor on the last season\u00a0of\u00a0Koffee with Karan<\/em> was as pleasant as getting a double colonoscopy on a swollen butt in the Delhi winters. As both leading ladies refused to partake in Karan\u2019s rankings (Kareena mainly because she could barely keep her eyes open through the episode), they bored the hell out of the millions who dutifully tuned in with their TV dinners, hoping to get at least one new tidbit to gnaw on\u00a0for the rest of the week.\n\nBut even though it made\u00a0for really bad TV, we can\u2019t say that the\u00a0calm-pose version of Sonam Kapoor is an entirely bad idea. She is a welcome change from the shrill girl who has inspired spoofs, selfie songs, and enough jokes to keep a whole country of stand-up comics in business. She has abdicated the \u201cmeme of the year\u201d throne and one day she may surprise us by pulling a Meryl Streep. Unless she pulls an Alia before that.\n\nThis is an updated version of an article published earlier.<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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