Born to actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita and popularly known as ‘Bebo’ in her familyand the film world, Kareena Kapoor is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning actress from the iconic Kapoor family of Bollywood.

Being a Punjabi and privileged to be born into an influential film family in Mumbai, Kareena's name is said to have inspired by the book, Anna Karenina. Kareena is the grand-daughter of Raj Kapoor, who is more commonly known as the showman of Hindi cinema. She is also the great grand-daughter of Prithviraj Kapoor.

Rishi Kapoor a well-known and popular actor is Kareena’s uncle. Her sister, Karisma Kapoor, is also a popular actress who got married just when she was set to rule Bollywood by her powerful performances in some of the blockbuster movies. Among other living relatives of Kareena are maternal aunt Sadhana, and cousins Ranbir Kapoor and Nikhil Nanda.

Kareena who is currently dating Saif Ali Khan was previously associated with co-actor Shahid Kapoor, the relationship which was later discontinued mutually by both of them. Though both Shahid and Kareena claim to have friendly relationship with each other. Though Kareena has been time and again liked to a number of co-stars, but the Kapoor girl has been steadily denying all these as rumours.

At her younger age Kareena would frequently accompany her sister to film shoots. Despite being born into a film family, Kareena at first wanted to become a lawyer. Her childhood was spent at Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai after which she went to Welham Girls Boarding School in Dehradun. She has studied Commerce at Mithibai College, Vile Parle from 1997 to 1998. Kareena then went to Harvard for summer school and took a course in microcomputers and information technology for three months.

Success eagerly embraced her with films like "Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai" and "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham". The former became one of the biggest hits of that year and the latter came the second highest grossing film of 2001.These successes established her as one of the industry's most successful stars.

Kareena’s latest blockbuster ‘Jab We Met’, in which earned praise from all the quarters for playing the bubbly girl from Punjab, again catapulted her to the to the top rung of the Bollywood, that be of the times.