Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor arrived carrying the biggest surname in the business and, unusually, immediately started poking holes in what it was supposed to mean. After a few glossy launches she took Chameli, playing a sex worker, at exactly the point a Kapoor heroine was expected to stay decorative, and the gamble paid off.

Jab We Met is the film most people love her for, the chatterbox Geet becoming a template younger actresses still borrow from, while Omkara and 3 Idiots kept her range and her box-office standing in balance. She has been a genuine star for two full decades, which in this industry, for a woman, is its own achievement.

Married to Saif Ali Khan, mother to two much-photographed sons, she is one of the most relentlessly documented figures in Indian public life. The pack follows the whole family, and our lenses are part of it.

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