Om Puri & Kareena Kapoor Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Kurbaan; the 2010s to Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Om Puri acted in every film; Kareena Kapoor acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Om Puri was 41 and already a legend when he played Kareena Kapoor's father in 'Kurbaan' (1991). She was 11 years old, making her debut. He literally held her hand through her first shot.
• In 'Yuva' (2004), Om Puri played a ruthless politician and Kareena played his daughter-in-law. Their only scene together is a tense dinner table argument — Puri set the slow, menacing pace, and Kareena matched him beat for beat, refusing to blink. Mani Ratnam said he kept the camera on both of them because neither would give ground.
• On the sets of 'Kyon Ki' (2005), Om Puri would quietly slip Kareena notes with acting tips written in Urdu. She later admitted she kept every single one.
• Kareena Kapoor once said: 'Om ji was the only co-star who could scold me on set and I'd actually listen. He'd say, 'Beta, you're shouting. Real anger is quiet.' I learned more from him in one scene than from any acting class.'
• Their pairing in 'Dev' (2004) — where Om Puri played a retired cop and Kareena his estranged daughter — directly inspired the father-daughter dynamic in 'Piku' (2015). Amitabh Bachchan has cited that film as a reference for his own performance.