The exquisitely beautiful and extremely talented newcomer Sonam Kapoor is all set to establish a strong footage in the Bollywood Film Industry with her great acting potential. Recently she made her debut with the renowned Indian director Sanjay Leena Bhansali of `Black` fame. This very talented actress was born on 9th June 1985 in the Chembur, which is situated in the Indian state of Maharashtra. She also has the nickname `Giraffe` which has been given to her by her father. He is the daughter of the renowned Bollywood film actor Anil Kapoor and his ex-model wife Sunita Kapoor. His paternal uncles are also the most established names of the Bollywood Film Industry. His elder uncle Boney Kapoor is a renowned film director and his younger uncle Sanjay Kapoor is a very popular Hindi film actor. Another uncle of hers is Sandeep Marwah, the famous studio owner in the heart of the tinsel town. She is also the eldest of the three children of the Bollywood star, the other two being Rhea and Harshavardhana.
Not only Sonam Kapoor shares an extreme passion for acting but is also an outstandingly talented soul. She completed her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir located in Juhu. Then she went ahead to enroll herself in the United World College of East Asia and from there she qualified with good marks in the subject of Theater Arts and Chinese History. Soon after she graduated from the Bombay University with her major in dual subjects namely Economics and Political Science. She is not only fluent in Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi and English. She has also mastered the classical dance form Kathak as well as the Latin dance forms which she has been pursuing since 12 years. Since her childhood days only she was a true sport and had taken up creative aspects as a part of her career. As she was exposed to the film industry from her early days she had always shared a tremendous fascination for the art of acting. After coming back to the country she started as an assistant to the renowned director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and assisted him throughout the making of the award-winning movie `Black`. Though she was overweight the genius in her was spotted by the filmmaker and he told her to concentrate on shedding as much weight as possible so that it would help him to cast her in the forthcoming venture. With the help of the filmmaker and her mother and also with an iron determination she shed her weight of about 30 kgs from that of 90kgs. After working for a considerable span of type she became to be the proportionate beauty with a curvaceous figure and envious height of 5`9. And following that she found herself as a part of Bhansali`s project `Saawariya` where she was paired opposite no other than her newcomer friend Ranbir Kapoor and the Bollywood superstar Salaman Khan. According to the actress, "Saawariya was an experience of a lifetime and not just a commercial entity developed in celluloid".
On the personal front Sonam Kapoor is also a very happy and contented soul. She had the knack of extensive reading from a very early age. With so much of knowledge in her kitty she has turned out to be a good writer always having the urge of penning down the experiences she overcomes in her daily life. In her spare time she also likes to pick up her paint and imagine the world as her canvas. Her favorite hobbies include reading, shopping, writing, playing squash and basketball, video games and painting. Being a true sport she also participated in many types of sports. She used to play basketball with her childhood friend Ranbir Kapoor. She also has the Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee as her best friend. Currently she is also busy with another big-budget Bollywood venture `Delhi 6`. Very few people are aware of the fact that Sonam as a kid was very lean but while studying abroad she gained so much of weight that she went up to weight 90kilos. But Bhansali`s confidence in her really made her turn into one of the finest newcomer and the nation is yet to see the great acting potential that this young actress within her.
