"I thought I had slimmed enough. I lost 35 kgs before Saawariya. I've been constantly keeping my weight down. But I think Dad knows the other girls are looking very slim these. It was his way of letting me know that I needed to get even thinner. A strange present on my birthday."Thanks to her dad, she'll have an eating disorder before her next birthday. Someone, please, call child services in, this is horrible! As a girl with a serious sweet tooth, I know we shouldn't have too much chocolate and sweets but there is also a thing called a healthy balance. Look at her, she's already freakin' skinny, if she loses any more weight, she'll just fade away to nothing.
"None of us was in the mood to party. Dad did get me a sugar-free cake and I blew out the candles in front of my family. But that's about it..There were too many illnesses and hospitalizations in the family."
"I'm going on a diet. I need to get thinner to look comparable with the other girls. Look at Deepika. She's athletic and slim. I'm not an athlete. But I'm a runner. I love to go on long runs all on my own for miles and miles. That is a sure way to lose weight."
"I have to. It's not a vanity. It's for my sanity. I can't be happy being healthy when the other girls are frantically losing weight. So thanks to my Dad I'm losing more weight."
Weirdly enough, Sonam Kapoor is one of the few actresses that is happy that she wasn't cast opposite Shah Rukh Khan for his next movie.
Rab De Bana Di Jodi (God made this relationship) is Yash Raj's next attempt at getting a hit and after realising that Kareena and Saif aren't going to bring in the money, Aditya Chopra has moved back to tried and tested Shah Rukh.
Sonam says that the role was never offered to her to begin with,
"Since the film was announced speculation started about me being in the project. Arrey baba, I was never offered the film! I don't know where this whole thing started, honestly. I did visit Adi a couple of times like any other actor. But not for any particular role. Maybe people saw me entering Yashraj. Nowadays even if an actress passes by Yashraj she's rumoured to have signed a film with them." "I had never even approached Adi for this role and I had a reason for it.I know it required someone very Punjabi and young. I've just played a full-on Punjabi kudi, salwar-kameez sharara-gharara and all, in Rakeysh Mehra's Dilli 6. Even in Saawariya I was in full elaborate Indian clothes. Now I need change of pace..and grace."Even though Sonam is looking for a more modern role, she is not into skimpy outfits...after all, her father Anil Kapoor is her adviser and it's understandable that he wouldn't want his teenage daughter parading around like that. Sonam is worried about honour too, after she reportedly turned down a Rakesh Roshan project because it asked for a bit too much skin.
"All I'll say is, I'd never do anything to compromise myself or my family, or any film where I've to cringe at the premiere."Wow, honestly, I admire her resolve.
Forget everything I wrote yesterday about Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor. They just wanted to play a dirt little trick on me and staged the whole publicity stunt so I could write a long-winded article about their relationship when they actually don’t have anything going on!
While Deepika is keeping quiet on the whole rumour, Ranbir has spoken out saying,
"I met her while she was shooting for Om Shanti Om, and we realized we would be working together and I thought I should get to know her. But before I could, we got linked. I was too new to this. She was already in a relationship at the time... then the two films were being compared to each other. It started getting a little ugly. Her family was concerned, my family was concerned. Together, we decided to keep our distance and concentrate on our careers," "We have a great working relationship. Deepika isn't the sort of person to create tensions at work. We get along fine."And asked about Sonam Kapoor, very sweetly, he replies,
"She's an amazing person, amazingly beautiful… and I wouldn't blame myself if I was in love with her; but unfortunately, I am not. Now she's moved on to her next film and I have moved on to mine and we try to keep in touch,"So, basically, he swears he’s still free. Obsessive fans, you still have your chance…go, go, go!
Unlike most actresses who start of in decent, Indian girl-next-door roles, and can't wait to throw off the stereotype, along with some clothes, Sonam Kapoor is looking forward to being conventional, and relatively conservative.
After Saawariya, even if it wasn't the greatest, the mind-numbing publicity won't let you forget her and I'm sure directors will be knocking on her door...after all, she's still Anil Kapoor's daughter. She says her parents are kinda conservative and she'll follow their wishes and her own norms of decency but may cross some boundaries if the role asked for it.
"I'd love to do conventional roles, but within the limits imposed by my parents. You know they're slightly conservative. So far there has been no occasion to cross my boundaries." "I hope I get roles that require more substance than skin. If a particular situation demands me to break my self-imposed censorship, then I'll do it."I like her, she sounds like she has a brain, a rare commodity in any film industry where materialism and superficialness are the keys to success. Though directors be warned, it won't be her choosing roles and scripts, it will be daddy Anil, but Sonam doesn't mind, she trusts her parents to do what's best for her. Wow, is she for real?
Or is it just a nice publicity stunt to boost falling theater sales? Well, you know I'm a cynic, so making your new co-stars claim that they're dating is a good way to make people come see them in your crap movie. Well done Mr. Bhansali. Well played.
But let's just assume that we believe them and Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor really are dating. Apparently their love blossomed on the sets of Black, where both were assistants to Sanjay Leela Bhansali. After a few dates they were smitten but were cruelly torn apart when Ranbir went to the US to attend film school (maybe he could suggest the same to Bhansali?) and they drifted apart. Ranbir then came back and had a fling with Deepika Padukone...but all thoughts of Deepika left his mind when he met Sonam again on the sets of Saawariya. Their eyes met across the room...she smiled shyly...he grinned...they hugged and love was reborn. Oh puhleez - roll eyes- So now they're a couple again and are planning to live happily ever after. Though it's claimed that Sanjay told the lovebirds not to talk about their romance...at least until the film flops, so he can use the extra publicity.
The sweet nothings that they whisper in each other's ears?
Ranbir: “I wish I could be like Sonam. She’s just such an honest and open person. It’s a beautiful quality to possess,”Sonam:
“Ranbir is someone I can really rely on. I know that I can call him at four in the morning and he’ll be there for me,”That's very sweet. Their families have given their approval...oh well, at least they aren't related. Small blessings.
Mainly because it wasn't written by me. One of the coolest and smartest readers here wrote this and very sweetly, let me use it...so you guys get something decent to read for once and I have one less post to write. Thanks Locustwillow!
Quick. Does someone have a gun? Shoot me in the head for going to see this movie (in a movie theater, no less), for being fooled because it was a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. This movie is an abortion.
Bhansali’s obsession with sets has gone overboard with this one. The setting is supposed to be India, I guess, but the sets look not only total fakes, but are unreal. They look like the setting is in some dingy corner of Venice, with gondolas going back and forth. Totally impossible to relate to. And then the interminable songs, every two minutes, it seems like. With ten of them and with many of them being out of context, this film is a throwback to the dismal eighties trash. The only bright point of the movie was Rani Mukherjee. Acting and quality went up ten notches every time she came on. She made it seem so natural and easy and showed up the two neophytes for what they are. Not that the two were terrible, they were just ordinary and Sonam more ordinary than Ranbir. And Rani was playing a prostitute, wearing $500 sarees, and the red light district, which is where the entire story took place, looked like a spiffy place to live. The other prostitutes looked like women you would want to chat with. Have you ever visited Kamathipura, and seen what it and its whore inhabitants really look like? They’ll make you freeze.
Bhansali has now become a wannabe Yash Raj type movie-maker, and doesn’t have a clue how to do it. Someone please tell him to take some reality pills and put us movie-goers out of misery by never making a movie again. 
You know, maybe we all knew underneath that Saawariya and Om Shanti Om were going to be terrible. I mean, any movie that gets so much hype and publicity is bound to be a flop, even if it isn't the worst movie you ever watched, since everyone expects an epic masterpiece. No dramatic sagas here, just melodramatic attempts at picturesque sets. Both OSO and Saawariya have been panned by critics, but Saawariya got the brunt of it I think. Shah Rukh Khan was nailed for over-acting in OSO, but he's been doing that for the last 20 years, we're used to it, and it's unlikely he's going to stop now...and apparently Deepika Padukone was not all that bad. Saawariya was ripped into however, with Sonam and Ranbir Kapoor proving, unfortunately, that they're not exactly the superstars of tomorrow.
Here's some examples of the reviews:
"...a stark, lovely story about romance born and rekindled over four nights -- and, picking out its barest heart, proceeds to smother it in mixed-up layers of trite melodrama." - Rediff.com
"The film could have been a cinematic masterpiece if Bhansali had focused more on developing the characters in depth rather than resorting heavily to their dramatic presentation. The silhouette of a veiled girl waiting on a bridge is appealing to the eye, but it doesn’t make your heart flinch." - Apunkachoice
"Alas, Saawariya is all style, no substance. When a director of the calibre of SLB attempts a love story, you expect to experience the various emotions that you generally associate with romance. Sadly, the emotions you experience while watching Saawariya is sorrow and after the screening, anguish." - OneIndia
"Saawariya can be mistaken for an experimental musical play. The film is a fable without a moral lesson. A dramatic poem without any actual drama. A story without a plot. It’s an energizing myth of a dream woven on screen, but perceived only by the creator." - Bookeazy Blog
But director Sanjay doesn't care though and he knows that because of the immense brainwashing we all went through, we're still going to watch the movie. Unfortunately, I think he's right. I know I will.
"Media manipulation won't kill my film. I'm open to healthy criticism and debate. But not prejudiced criticism. In the opening weekend we've had massive audiences all over the world connecting with the film," "The huge barrage of criticism hasn't prevented people from appreciating my merger of raga-based melodies with a Broadway-styled play. Only a handful of critics are trying to influence the audience to go against the film. The final verdict comes from the unbiased viewer,"Even the unbiased viewers aren't giving you good reviews Sanjay. But we can all go watch the movie and despair at the wasted hours in our life. I think that's what Sanjay would want.