Kareena Kapoor, now a top actress in Bollywood, started her career in 2000 with Abhishek Bachchan in Refugee.

Kareena Kapoor, now a top actress in Bollywood, started her career in 2000 with Abhishek Bachchan in Refugee. Though she briefly considered becoming a lawyer, she soon realised that acting was her true passion. Before joining the film industry, Kareena was serious about her studies and even took a summer course at Harvard University.

Kareena, in an interview with The Week, said, “I was a good student. I thought I’d be a lawyer.” When asked about the time she took up a summer course at the prestigious 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 also said she was never pressured to choose a specific career and nobody forced me into acting. “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,” she added.

Kareena also said that she enjoyed her time at Harvard and it made her more worldly and independent. “Of 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,” she said.