Kareena's special bond with her niece

Guess who Kareena Kapoor runs to when she wants to get out of the “daily grind” of Bollywood? It’s her four-year-old niece Samaira!

“She was literally born into my arms! Being with her makes me forget who I am and the daily grind my profession makes me go through. Watching her grow up is such a great experience. We talk to each other a lot and she always likes to tell me what happened at her dance classes,” says Kareena.

According to Bebo, Samaira has already developed a great ear for music. “The moment she hears a good number, she dances to it. This is a sure indicator to me about how the track would fare in the long run. She likes to draw too, you know,” says the indulgent mausi.

If she depends on her niece to judge a music number, then it’s her elder sister she turns to when it comes to deciding film projects. “It’s true that it was Lolo (Karisma) who told me to take up the movie opposite Salman. I have been watching Salman since I was nine years old and an earlier movie with him didn’t do as expected. But she insisted that I take up Main Aur Mrs Khanna because it had a great script and also because she felt I would look very good with Salman. I trusted her blindly on that.”

While she’s known to keep social networking sites at arm’s length, Kareena reveals she has made up her mind to jump in very soon. “I am not on any social networking site at the moment but very soon I will register on a few of them. Everybody tells me that my fans need to get in touch with me directly and I have made up my mind to do that before my other film Qurban releases.”

For the time being, Kareena has set up a google alert in her name. “Whenever my name appears on any online media, I get a link to it in my mailbox. It’s a pretty scary thing because I wake up to read so many things which are not true. You either need to forget that stuff or just laugh it off,” she ends.