Sonam Kapor biography

Name: Sonam Kapoor

Birth Name: Sonam Anil Kapoor

Date of Birth: 9 June 1985, Chembur, Maharashtra, India

Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m)

favorite songs: Jab Koyi Baat Bigad Jaye, Raat Kali Ek Khwaab Mein aaye. Then there's her old time favorites Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Strangers In The Night. She also likes Choli Ke Peeche, Aaj Mein Upar Aasmaan Neeche from the movie Khamoshi: The Musical (1996). Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha


Favorite movies: Satyajit Ray's films (especially Pather Panchali (1955)), Raj Kapoor movies, Guide (1965), Mr India (1987), Devdas (2002/I), Black (2005), Saawariya (2007), Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968/I), Titanic (1997), Bandini (1963), All of Steven Spielberg's movies (especially Schindler's List (1993)), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

Favorite books: Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ayn Rand's Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, The Mahabharata because she finds it so positive and gives her hope all the time, 'Patrick Suskind''s Perfume, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's books including Mistress of Spices, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and books by all the Bronte sisters.

Education: university at Bombay University (Majoring in Economics and Political Science).

favorite director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

favorite actresses: Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Kajol, Tabu, Rani Mukherjee, Kareena Kapoor, and Priyanka Chopra

Favorite actor: Anil Kapoor

Loves to dance: Kathak, classical music, and Latin dance.

Language: Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi and English all fluently.


Filmography

Saawariya (2007) ... Sakina