MUMBAI: (May 2) Indian cinema is being watched by everyone, including Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan said on Friday as she recalled the time when the Oscar-winning filmmaker praised her 2009 movie “3 Idiots”.
At the inaugural World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) here, the actor recounted the story of how she ran into Spielberg at an overseas restaurant soon after the release of “3 Idiots”, directed by Rajkumar Hirani and co-starring Aamir Khan.
“Even Steven Spielberg is watching our Hindi movies today… I was traveling somewhere and at a restaurant, Steve Spielberg was also there. This was many moons ago, ‘3 Idiots’ had just been released. And he came up to me and asked, ‘Are you the same girl who is in that famous Indian film where three students study together?’ I said yes, ‘I am the same girl.
