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Kareena Kapoor Khan (born September 21, 1980) is an Indian actress and producer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. She made her acting debut in *Refugee* (2000), winning the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
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For her latest What Women Want shoot, Kareena paired a sheer‑trimmed shirt, long cuffs and a gold‑tipped belt with nude pumps, turning minimalism into a statement.
Sara Ali Khan posted pictures from Nidhi Dutta's family Ganpati celebrations on the last day of Ganeshotsav, continuing a pattern of visiting festivals across traditions with her Pataudi family.
Alia Bhatt's second poster from Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Love & War shows a retro cabaret avatar, and Kareena Kapoor Khan called it 'Killingggg it Alooooooo' in the comments as the studio's rollout continues ahead of the film's January 2027 release.
Daayra's Day 6 collection of Rs 0.37 crore pushed its total past Rs 5 crore, but the weekday slide continues. Meanwhile Hanuman Ansh, 48 days in, sits just Rs 20.67 crore short of Rs 300 crore.
Daayra's Tuesday collection matched Monday's Rs 50 lakh instead of climbing, leaving the Meghna Gulzar film's five-day domestic net at Rs 5.50 crore against a reported Rs 50-60 crore budget.
Hanuman Ansh added Rs 4.64 crore on Day 47 to near the Rs 300 crore mark, while Daayra inched to Rs 4.69 crore after a rough transition from weekend to weekdays.
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran's Daayra collapsed on its first Monday, dropping 74.3 percent to Rs 45 lakh net, leaving its reported Rs 55 crore budget far out of reach so far.
Daayra's opening weekend numbers looked steady, but Monday collections crashed 66% to under Rs 50 lakh, per Bollywood Hungama. The film's four-day total stands at Rs 4.24 crore domestic.
Meghna Gulzar has responded to comparisons between her 2018 film Raazi and Dhurandhar, saying both are equally patriotic even though their storytelling styles are worlds apart.
Daayra collected roughly 5.6 crore net in its opening weekend, the lowest start for a Kareena‑led film in the past 15 years, trailing even the modest ‘The Buckingham Murders’.
Meghna Gulzar's Daayra collected Rs 3.77 crore in its opening weekend, rising from a soft Friday before nearly flatlining on Sunday. The film's weekday run now decides how far it travels.
Daayra's first Sunday brought no relief, with the Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran crime thriller collecting the same ₹1.75 crore it made on Day 2, taking its three-day total to roughly ₹4.50 crore net.
Meghna Gulzar's Daayra grew 60% on its second day after a muted Friday opening, with trade estimates for the two-day total ranging between Rs 2.6 and 3.1 crore against a reported Rs 55 crore budget.
Daayra opened on September 18 with a modest ₹1.15 crore, but a BOGO ticket deal helped it pull in ₹2.18 crore on day two, pushing the two‑day total to ₹3.33 crore amid mixed critical feedback.
Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran as officers on opposite sides of a police encounter case, opened soft despite glowing reviews, with trade trackers giving conflicting day one numbers against a reported Rs 50-60 crore budget.
Daayra, Meghna Gulzar's new crime thriller starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Kareena Kapoor Khan, releases September 18 with a gripping first half that gives way to a second half critics call directionless and underpowered.
Daayra held its premiere screening on September 17, a day ahead of release, with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Prithviraj Sukumaran and director Meghna Gulzar among those who turned up for the red carpet.
Daayra and Vibe hit screens on September 18 with credits nobody expected. Karan Johar gets a special thanks for parting with a title, while Hrithik Roshan and Huma Qureshi get roped into an in-character joke.
Ahead of Daayra's release, Meghna Gulzar spoke about directing Irrfan Khan, Vicky Kaushal, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Tabu and Sushmita Sen, revealing which actors needed no instruction at all.
Filmfare's review of Meghna Gulzar's Daayra calls it gritty and compelling, with Prithviraj Sukumaran's vigilante cop overshadowing Kareena Kapoor Khan's by-the-book DCP in a drama that echoes the 2019 Telangana encounter case without directly adapting it.
Parvathy Thiruvothu is playing three cops across three languages at once, a constable in the hit Pradhama Drishtya Kuttakkar, a dubbed voice for Kareena Kapoor Khan in Daayra, and a DCP in Dhootha 2.
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran met the press and students in Delhi ahead of Daayra's September 18 release, with Kareena posting photos from the event in a pink floral saree.
Prithviraj Sukumaran, who stars in Meghna Gulzar's Daayra, opened up about the gap between Malayalam cinema's informal set culture and Bollywood's layered, agency-driven process ahead of the film's September 18 release.
Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran as opposing cops, has been passed by the censor board with almost no cuts. The crime thriller releases in theatres on September 18.
Kareena Kapoor Khan's Daayra and Kunal Kemmu's Vibe both received 'A' certificates from the CBFC on September 11, days before their September 18 release, with Vibe's adult rating surprising many in the trade.
Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 saw Bollywood stars from Rajkummar Rao to Ananya Panday share festival glimpses online, with eco-friendly idols and family poojas dominating the celebrations this year.
Kareena Kapoor Khan says she regularly takes phones away from sons Taimur and Jeh, calling herself the stricter parent on digital access while Saif Ali Khan pushes back on how strict she gets.
Prithviraj Sukumaran says Meghna Gulzar never lets her filmmaking tilt the scales in Daayra, the cop drama pitting his character against Kareena Kapoor Khan's, out in theatres September 18.
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi at home with sons Taimur and Jeh, who made the family's eco-friendly Ganpati idol from clay this year.
Daayra has received an A certificate from the CBFC with no visual cuts at all. The only change ordered was a single word in a Kareena Kapoor Khan dialogue, replaced with 'Minister.'
Junglee Pictures unveiled new Daayra posters casting Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran as two officers with clashing codes, ahead of a film built around a missing girl's murder case.
Kareena Kapoor wore a pastel leheriya saree to the Daayra music launch in Mumbai, then posted a throwback comparing it to Karisma Kapoor's Zubeidaa look, sparking a wider chat about the Rajasthani textile's Bollywood history.
Daayra's music launch in Mumbai brought out Kareena Kapoor Khan, Prithviraj Sukumaran, director Meghna Gulzar and lyricist Gulzar to unveil the title track Sach Ka Daayra ahead of the film's September 18 release.
Kareena Kapoor Khan used the Daayra song launch to talk about playing a restrained character, working with Meghna Gulzar for 26 years' worth of firsts, and wanting a big opening before her September 21 birthday.
Kareena Kapoor has criticised Bollywood's tendency to copy successful formulas, pointing to the wave of violent films that followed Animal's massive box-office run, in a new interview with Yuvaa.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham completes 25 years this December. The Karan Johar family drama that gave Bollywood its sangeet blueprint, Kareena Kapoor's Poo and a line for every stubborn parent remains impossible to switch off mid-rewatch.
Parvathy Thiruvothu opens up about voicing Kareena Kapoor Khan's character in the Malayalam dub of Daayra, revealing the technical grind behind lip-sync and one especially tricky emotional scene.
B Praak has recorded the sole song in Meghna Gulzar's Daayra, penned by Gulzar and composed by Amit Trivedi, according to Pinkvilla, ahead of the film's September 18 release starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran.
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan posed solo and together at a PUMA x Jaipur Rugs date night, both in white, ahead of their respective September releases Haiwaan and Daayra.