Sonam Kapoor has featured in two movies based on novels.
Mumbai:
Sonam Kapoor, whose first filmSaawariya was loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky' shortstory 'White Nights', has bought the film rights of one ofAnuja Chauhan's novels for the sheer love of its femalecharacters.
Kapoor, who describes herself as someone "who livesto eat and read in that order", says the book has charactersthat exit in reality and that's what prompted her to buy thefilm rights.
If the story gets translated onscreen, it would beKapoor's third movie based on a novel after Aisha, which wasa modern interpretation of Jane Austen's 'Emma' and saw theactress playing a posh Delhi girl.
"The idea of taking a book and turning the pages Iremember have been the biggest high for me. So, it wasimperative for me to play something like this before I get tooold. It is about modern Indian women who exist in reality butnot in Hindi cinema," Kapoor said.
The actress was in the city recently to launch Chauhan'sthird novel 'Those Pricey Thakur Girls' by Harper Collins.
The actress declined to name the book that her fatherAnil Kapoor's production company has acquired from Chauhan'sother two novels -- 'The Zoya Factor' and 'Battle forBittora'.
Kapoor says she is proud to have played some "real women"on celluloid in her short career in Bollywood.
"I could play a little bit of modern Indian girl inDelhi 6 and Aisha. Both were Delhi girls. One was fromChandni Chowk while the other was from Defence Colony and bothgirls exist."
The actress believes that reading helps her to imaginenew characters and places which in turn helps her as an actor.
When asked about people's response to her extensivereading habit, Kapoor said, "People generally get surprisedwith women with brains."
Kapoor, who describes herself as someone "who livesto eat and read in that order", says the book has charactersthat exit in reality and that's what prompted her to buy thefilm rights.
If the story gets translated onscreen, it would beKapoor's third movie based on a novel after Aisha, which wasa modern interpretation of Jane Austen's 'Emma' and saw theactress playing a posh Delhi girl.
"The idea of taking a book and turning the pages Iremember have been the biggest high for me. So, it wasimperative for me to play something like this before I get tooold. It is about modern Indian women who exist in reality butnot in Hindi cinema," Kapoor said.
The actress was in the city recently to launch Chauhan'sthird novel 'Those Pricey Thakur Girls' by Harper Collins.
The actress declined to name the book that her fatherAnil Kapoor's production company has acquired from Chauhan'sother two novels -- 'The Zoya Factor' and 'Battle forBittora'.
Kapoor says she is proud to have played some "real women"on celluloid in her short career in Bollywood.
"I could play a little bit of modern Indian girl inDelhi 6 and Aisha. Both were Delhi girls. One was fromChandni Chowk while the other was from Defence Colony and bothgirls exist."
The actress believes that reading helps her to imaginenew characters and places which in turn helps her as an actor.
When asked about people's response to her extensivereading habit, Kapoor said, "People generally get surprisedwith women with brains."
