Kareena Kapoor’s on-screen mother has always been at a loss, from Qurban to Buckingham Murder.

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Kareena’s first foray into motherhood was in Rensil D’Silva’s 2009 crime thriller, in which she was paired opposite then-boyfriend and now-husband Saif Ali Khan. A story of love jihad gone wrong, Qurban portrayed him as a teacher and American citizen who was duped by Saif’s terrorist character in the process of obtaining US citizenship. When she discovers his true and sinister intentions, it is her impending motherhood that saves her life. She reveals that she is pregnant, which prompts Saif’s character to take pity on him against his brothers’ advice.

However, Kareena does not disarm her mother. She dares her husband to kill her and the unborn child because it is part of her mission. She is also a hopeful mother who wants to bring her child into a more peaceful and harmonious world. This encourages him to leak information about terrorist plots from his home to secret agents. At the end of the film, she tries to convince Saif to give up his goal and lead a simple life with her and their child, but he is too attached to his own self-esteem. He asks her to take care before killing their child so that she doesn’t get involved in crime.. Hua plays the sacrifice at the end of the credits, but it’s not just Saif who gives his life for love, Kareena also sacrifices her love. does the greater good.

Step by step grandmother

We never see Kareena with her child in Qurban as she is probably still determined to be a mother, as we saw in her 2010 film, We Are Family, directed by Siddharth P Malhotra. She plays Arjun Rampal’s girlfriend who has three children with his ex-wife Kajol. Karina is more of a reluctant friend than a stepmother to her stepchildren. But when Kajol learns that she is terminally ill, she convinces Kareena to take on the role of a mother to her children. Kareena makes fatal mistakes but grows up to transform from a free-spirited independent woman to a caring and caring mother. No one except her saw from Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam to keep her with mother.

It takes her chick from the same film, Shahrukh Khan, to bring her as a full-fledged mother to a schoolboy for the first time in Anubhav Sinha’s 2011 superhero film Ra.One. She loses her husband (Shahrukh) again in this film, as a result of a failed science experiment. This time his grief is not his alone. He shares this with his son, who is too young to process the loss but too old to be fooled by the euphemism. She rebels against her mother’s decision to move to their homeland as Karina struggles to raise a child on a foreign shore. Take a good look at her, leave the umbrella in the rain and keep the picture of her and her late husband close to her chest in the Bhare Naina song.

Being a mom IRL

Five years later, Kareena became a mother herself when she gave birth to Taimur Ali Khan. Her first days of real-life motherhood weren’t without tension either, as her first son went from troll to Internet darling and paparazzi favorite on his birthday. Irony and humor played important roles in Kareena’s first film signed after becoming a mother – Raj Mehta’s 2019 romantic comedy Good Newwz. She played an entertainment journalist struggling to conceive a child with her husband (Akshay Kumar). She goes the IVF route, only for the sperm to mix and give birth to another man’s child (Diljit Dosanjh).

Kareena is doing a great mom-to-be job with this pregnancy complication. But it is her monologue at the end of the film that expresses the despair of the mother-to-be. We’ve seen a pregnant Preity Zinta’s morning sickness and penchant for Belgian dark chocolate ice cream in ‘paune barah baje’ in Salaam Namaste (2005), but never before have we seen a leading lady rant about nagging pains. pregnancy – hair loss, spots, rashes, mood swings, depression, deprivation and labor pains – and why mothers move on despite it. Kareena’s pain is intense as she berates her husband for not standing by her side for nine months.

Single mother period

No wonder then that Kareena has gone solo as a mother in her latest films. In Advait Chandan’s Laal Singh Chadha (2022), she plays a woman who is haunted by the idea of ​​marriage due to her poor father’s alcoholism and violence, until she ends up with the toxic man she was trying to escape from. Through it all, her opposite – Laal (Aamir Khan) – has been by her side. When he finally finds her and has a son with her, she is on her deathbed from a terminal illness. But when she marries him with little Laal by her side, she leaves with a smile of assurance that her son is in good hands.

Kareena can’t escape the toxic partners in her turn, Sujoy Ghosh’s Jaan Jaan. This time she vowed to protect her daughter from her abusive ex-partner at all costs. When he chases them to a remote village, she kills him in a violent physical confrontation. During the film, it seems that he wants to confess – but his mother’s guilt does not allow him to go there. Mother guilt also features in her latest release, Hansal Mehta’s investigative thriller The Buckingham Murders, as she plays a grieving mother and a tough cop who must investigate the case of a missing child despite her own personal trials.

The single mother era is at its peak in this film as there is not even a mention of her husband, be it estranged or dead. Her only support system is her father, who reflects that her daughter has grown up too fast because her mother died so young. Perfection in Karina’s portrayal is appropriate, even though she feels the heat of anxiety over the murder of her young son. His eyes watered with shock and his hands shook with despair, especially when he realized – spoiler alert – that the culprit in the case of the missing/dead boy is his adoptive mother. He considers her a burden and only a tool for her husband to extend his blood. Karina’s character does not believe that a mother, even if she is not related by blood, can do this to her own son. Who knows better than Kareena that a mother has to make sacrifices – be it your partner, your job, your body, yourself, your conscience or even your child, but never your motherhood itself.

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