Sonam Kapoor, who has clocked a year since her wedding to businessman Anand Ahuja, is in a happy space. The actress knows her heart lies in playing “normal” characters on-screen, in endorsing the fashion she believes in and in urging others to be themselves.
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On the silver screen, Sonam will next be seen in The Zoya Factor, an adaptation of Anuja Chauhan’s book about a girl named Zoya Singh Solanki who ends up becoming a lucky charm for the cricket world cup team.
What Sonam really loved about Zoya is the fact that she is a “huge mess”. “A lot of girls tend to be like, ‘Listen, if I am such a mess, how I am ever going to succeed in life?’ But I want to say, it’s okay to be a mess. I think that’s what I said through Mili in Khoobsurat and that’s what I liked about Zoya as well. I like to play girls who are regular and normal, who have regular problems because all of us have them,” Sonam said.
“After my wedding, I have put on weight, my skin goes bad, I have really bad dark circles and I want all the girls to know that it’s okay. In India, there is so much pressure on girls. Whether it’s about whom you’re getting married to, what is his education, why is your skin looking like that, ‘don’t go to sunny places you will become dark’, ‘why have you cut your hair’, don’t go out so much, don’t go out drinking. So I think it’s important for me to play characters that are normal. That’s what I loved about Zoya — she is very normal and average,” added the 33-year-old actress.