Sonam Kapoor feels there is the need for more films revolving around women. Her next film Veere Di Wedding, also starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania, is themed around a wedding. Kareena will play the part of a bride-to-be.

 

“Veere Di Wedding looks so different. There should be more such films, this should be the norm,” Sonam told PTI. “In Hollywood there are many female-oriented films that are such big blockbusters and are entertaining. We don’t have such films in India.”

 

The Neerja actress believes the Hindi film industry is 20 years behind when it comes to making female-led commercial stories.

 

“Julia Roberts was huge in the ’80s and ’90s. Here, it was about my dad (Anil Kapoor) and the other actors. The ’90s were about the Khans (Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman). With our generation, we are at least getting the opportunity to do that, but we are 20 years behind,” she said.

 

Sonam, 32, said working alongside a top female actor such as Kareena, who also happens to be her good friend, for the first time in a movie was exciting.

 

“It is easy to communicate especially when it is a chemistry-driven film with four women. Since we are friends, it was a fun experience working with her.”

 

Directed by Shashanka Ghosh, the film will release on May 18.

 

Sonam also reunites with her Saawariya co-star Ranbir Kapoor for the upcoming Sanjay Dutt biopic directed by Rajkumar Hirani. “He is such a fine actor. We shot in ND studios for Saawariya and for this film we shot at the same place. So it was deja vu.”