No exotic Indian girl roles for me! says Sonam Kapoor

Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone are making news with their respective Hollywood films while Sonam Kapoor is basking in the praise for her latest release Neerja. Audiences and critics alike have loved it. It is being called Sonam’s career best performance. So what’s next? Hollywood films like her contemporaries?

Says Sonam, “I would like to take my projects to the West. I do not want to be the hot Indian girl there. I have worked very hard not to be this exotic Indian girl in India. I have worked very hard to the point where I could get to do a film like Neerja and be taken seriously.”

She further adds, “I do not want to start all over again. If I can get something with a lot of gravitas, I would  definitely want to do it. I would approach them myself. If it’s a great role, why not? But if it has something right and which attracts me.”  She adds, “For me, conquering the world is not important. For me conquering and honing my craft is more important. It doesn’t matter what language I get to work in, as long as I get to explore something about myself and explore a character that I want to do. I will make a decision based on the  fact that there’s something that I can do in it.”

“There has to be something much more… There are so many roles being written, so why not? I want a strong, amazing character. Films like Neerja have a lot of potential of crossing over. Look at how well The Lunchbox and Masaan were received. They crossed international barriers.”