When Shahid Kapoor convinced Kareena Kapoor to do Jab We Met: 14 years Of Imtiaz Ali’s romantic comedy

Kareena said that she was sure that Tashan would change her career at the time, as it was a Yash Raj film. She said, “I was giving Jab We Met the treatment, ‘Listen I’m working with Yash Raj films, I’m playing the main role, I’ve become a size zero, and I’m going to kill it.’ That was my vibe when I was on the sets of Jab We Met.” She added that she was convinced that ‘passion project’ Tashan would ‘kill it’ and change her life and she would become the next Uma Thurman, or so she believed. However, Tashan bombed at the box office and received negative reviews.

“I was just shooting for Jab We Met,” she said with a laugh. “Destiny had its own plans, and a lot happened in the making of this film and Tashan. This changed my career and that [Tashan] changed my life, as I met the man of my dreams and I did marry him. This took its own course where Shahid and I went our own ways and this gem came out of it.”

Kareena Kapoor even won the Filmfare Award for the film, and it was Saif who handed it to her on stage. In her emotional speech, she thanked Shahid as well, “Three very important people to thank, Imtiaz, this award is yours. Thank you for casting me. My producers for making this film, my co-star Shahid for giving me the strength.”

Jab We Met inspired quite a few trends after its release, especially the bubbly Punjabi small-town girl trope that was seen in several films. The film completes 14 years of its release today.