Happy Birthday Sonam Kapoor: 10 Movies Featuring The Actor We Love To Re-watch

June 9 marks the 37th birthday of Indian actor Sonam Kapoor. The actor is famous for being a fashion inspiration and icon. Apart from her fashion achievements, she also has some great movies under her name that are still really popular among audiences.

Sonam Kapoor is known for her impeccable fashion sense, her filter-less opinions that sometimes appear super bratty and is popular among fans as a product of 'nepotism' in Bollywood. Despite of everything, we cannot deny that Sonam has set standards for being a proud feminist. She never fails to send out a powerful message to women to be who they are and become who they want to be.

Sonam is currently occupying the web space with her maternity updates and is ringing her 37th birthday today with iconic photoshoots. Here's celebrating the fabulous actor's birthday with a binge-watching session of her works that became really popular.

On Sonam Kapoor Birthday, Here Are 10 Of Her Memorable Films

Saawariya

Making her debut in Bollywood, Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor starred as star crossed lovers in this Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. The movie was a sweet and tragic romance and became popular among the youth because of Sonam and Ranbir's great visuals and heart-fluttering moments. The movie was about Raj who falls in love with a mysterious girl Sakina but as they come closer, he gets to know that she is in love with another man and awaits his return.

Raanjhana

Although the movie promoted stalking and toxic lover behaviour, the songs of the movie and the culture of Varanasi was a sight to behold for viewers. The story is about a Kundan who falls in love with a Muslim girl Zoya while in school. He stalks her, gathers information on her and is obsessed but since they are from different religions and Zoya loves another man, he knows it won't work out and gives up. However, when he gets to know that Zoya lied about her lover being a Muslim, he gets outrageous.

Khoobsurat

In a typical Disney film with a sweet, royal romance, Sonam Kapoor plays a carefree, outgoing physiotherapist who is an invitation to trouble. She starts working for the royal family and gets closer to the prince. The serious and boring prince finds her exhausting, troublemaker and nuisance at first but soon falls in love with her quirkiness. The movie became popular for its songs and starred Fawad Khan opposite Sonam Kapoor.

Delhi 6

Starring Sonam Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman and many other great actors, the movie showcased the lives of the people in Old Delhi and how people from different religions live in harmony there. Sonam plays an ambitious girl Bittu Sharma who aspires to be a singer and is in love with photo studio employee Suresh. Sonam warms up to the NRI from her neighbouring house who has come to visit his ailing grandmother who later ends up liking her.

Neerja

Dubbed Sonam Kapoor's best film to date, this movie is the biopic of the iconic heroine of the 1986 hijack of the Pan Am Flight 73, Neerja Bhanot, that was travelling from Mumbai to New York. The head flight attendant was on board when a group of terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organisation hijacked it in Karachi. She fought till her last breath to save the 360 passengers on board but ended up losing her life. Sonam Kapoor plays the fearless protagonist in the film and was acclaimed for her performance.

Veere Di Wedding

An iconic movie that showcases girl gangs, bonding friendships and female desires, this movie is still a benchmark for girl friendships. The movie stars Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania as a group of friends who have been friends since school days. When one of them is getting married, they all decide to go on a bachelorette trip to Thailand that helps them rediscover themselves. Sonam plays a law practitioner specialising in divorce cases who is disinterested in marriage.

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga

The movie was inspired by the 1919 novel A Damsel In Distress and features Sonam Kapoor as a Punjabi lesbian girl, Sweety, from a small town in Punjab, Moga. She has not yet come out but her brother knows the truth about her identity and is against it. She falls in love with a girl she met at a wedding and Sahil Mirza, a playwright who helped her run away from a man not knowing he is her brother. Sahil helps her reunite with her love by organising a play in Moga and getting close to her family.

Padman

This movie is based on the life of a social activist from Tamil Nadu named Arunachalam Muruganantham who is credited for inventing the low-cost machine to produce sanitary pads for women. The movie features Akshay Kumar as Lakshmikant Chauhan who gets upset when he sees his wife using an unhygienic piece of cloth during her menstruation inspiring him to produce safer sanitary napkins at a low cost. Sonam Kapoor plays an educated girl Pari Walia who understands his passion and joins him on his venture to persuade local women to use these pads.

Aisha

Aisha, a 2010 film by  Rajshree Ojha, is full of drama, comedy and romance. Sonam plays a rich and fashionable upper-class woman who believes that she has a talent for matchmaking but is criticised by her friend Arjun for her habit of meddling with other people's business. Soon, Shefali Thakur, a small-town girl, enters Aisha's life and becomes her new project. She sets to set her up with a business tycoon but her efforts are not very fruitful and also drift Aisha apart from her friends. This film is reportedly adapted from author Jane Austen's book Emma.

Dolly Ki Doli

Sonam plays the role of Dolly, a con bride popularly known as looteri dulhan  by her victims. The movie is about the protagonist who marries multiple rich men but on the first night of the wedding, she runs away with all the money, jewels and other valuables from the family. The film further reveals she was once betrayed by her former boyfriend Robin Singh and later she became a con artist. Years later, Robin is a police officer who is the head of the team trying to catch Dolly.

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