STRONG LIKE A WOMAN

Arjun Kapoor on what he has learnt from the ladies in his life

MONA KAPOOR, mother: I recently did a song for my film with two directors, Radhika and Vinay Sapru, who told me about a time when Divya Khosla wanted to shoot at my mother’s studio and didn’t have the money for it. My mum let her shoot for free. Everybody has a story to tell about my mother!

ANSHULA KAPOOR, sister: She doesn’t hide her emotions and I need that in my life and profession; people who are straight-forward and honest like that. She is uncorrupted by the world and the demands of society.

JANHVI KAPOOR, half-sister: Janhvi is very curious and unlike what I had expected her to be because she comes from a lineage of being told that she is going to be the next big thing in the world. She wants to learn, she wants to level up, she wants to get better.

KHUSHI KAPOOR, half-sister: I like her calmness. She has an understated confidence. The way she dresses and behaves, she is not trying to fit in; that’s a nice quality to have, even though she has the world staring at her all the time.

MALAIKA ARORA, girlfriend: I love how dignified Malaika is. The way she has conducted her way through life: from being a woman who started working at the age of

20, to today, being an independent woman with her own personality. I have never seen her complain. I have never seen her harbour any negativity. I have never seen her trying to change the narrative about things. She has just believed in keeping her head down with dignity and letting her work do the talking, and leading a life that allows her to be happy. I learn from her every day!