Kareena Kapoor said she still cherishes her photo from the Harvard University campus where she did a summer course.

Kareena Kapoor spoke about her time at Harvard in a new interview. (Photo: Kareena Kapoor Khan/ Instagram)

Kareena Kapoor is one of the most sought after actresses in the Hindi film industry. Kareena, who made her acting debut with Abhishek Bachchan in 2000 in Refugee, initially had different plans for her career. For a fleeting second, she thought about becoming a lawyer but soon, she was convinced that a career as an actor was her calling. Before she made it into the movies, Kareena actually thought about her academics and once even went to Harvard University for a summer course.

Kareena said, “I was a good student. I thought I’d be a lawyer…,” in an interview with The Week. When the interviewer then asked her about the time she did a summer course at Harvard, she said, “Yeah, it was summer school. I am very proud of that, that I went to summer school at Harvard. It’s Harvard, I mean, I’ve got a photo on that campus (chuckles). I thought I’d be a lawyer, I went through this weird phase but (the acting bug) that can’t keep you away.”

Kareena added that nobody forced to choose a path in terms of her career and added, “Just the idea, the fact that nobody really forced me or pushed me (into acting). My parents were happy with whatever I wanted to do. I was bumming around in summer school thinking what I wanted to do. So it was not like somebody was putting that pressure , there was never any pressure from any one of our parents that because they are actors even we have to be.”

When asked if she enjoyed her Harvard stint, Kareena said, “oOf course, because it taught me to be so much more worldly, connected me, made me more independent in a lot of ways. I was also in a boarding school so that also kind of made me a lot more focused and independent to do what I want to do. It built a lot of confidence, it just does that I think — boarding schools.” Kareena studied at Welham Girls’ School in Dehradun where she was in a boarding.

Kareena will next be seen in Singham Again and The Buckingham Murders.