Sanjay Leela Bhansali didn’t know Sonam Kapoor was Anil Kapoor’s daughter at first, ‘got very upset’ when he found out

Sonam Kapoor accomplished 13 years in movies on Monday; her debut movie Saawariya launched on this present day in 2007. Before she was launched because the main girl in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie, she labored with him as an assistant director.

During the promotions of The Zoya Factor, Sonam revealed how she informed her mom Sunita Kapoor that she didn’t need to go to school however work with Sanjay. Sunita’s response was a powerful ‘no’.

Sonam then tried to persuade her father Anil Kapoor, who had forgotten that Sanjay was Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s assistant throughout 1942: A Love Story, and was sceptical as he didn’t know the filmmaker personally. However, she satisfied her father by saying that Ranbir Kapoor was additionally helping on the movie.

When Sonam first met Sanjay, he didn’t know she was Anil’s daughter, as her mother and father had ‘protected’ her from the media glare. “The first day I went to his office to meet him, I was sitting at a table. He just came back from church and he looked at me and he is like, ‘You have come for acting? Are you here for an audition?’ I said, ‘No, sir, I have come to be an assistant.’ He said, ‘But you should act, haan.’ I said okay,” she revealed to ETC Bollywood.

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Later, when Sanjay came upon who Sonam was, he ‘got very upset’. “Then he found out who my father was and he got very upset. He was like, ‘Are you allowed…?’ I was 17 years old and bohot jhooth-voot bol ke (after lying a lot) I was there. But I got it on my own,” she stated.

Sonam made her debut reverse Ranbir in Saawariya and although the movie bombed on the field workplace, their careers took off. She has acted in various profitable movies, together with Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo, Neerja, Veere Di Wedding and Pad Man.

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