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Just like any other newlywed girl, Karisma Kapur too sports that afterglow of marriage. While everybody saw the radiance she reflected at film awards' functions, when we met her on the sets of the mega serial 'Karishma - The Miracles of Destiny' which incidentally completed over 100 episodes, she looked truly happy. She's laughing a lot more and she looks absolutely content. Though she still retains her earnestness towards her work, we can sense a certain confidence in her tone. She looks blessed. Ask her the clichéd 'How does it feel after marriage' and she turns up her nose. "Everybody asks me how's married life treating me and whether it has changed me, the answer is no. Yes, there is the obvious difference about being married now as opposite to not married earlier but that's it. I don't think life has changed drastically after my marriage."

Like every brand new bahu though Karisma does confess to initially having experienced a little strangeness in her life after the first few days of marriage. "I was missing my family big time. It was a little difficult to feel that here I was in a different city (Delhi) leading a life without my parents or my sister."

Shuttling between two cities - Delhi and Mumbai - Karisma doesn't feel it taxing "simply because as an actor, you are anyways used to traveling for your shoots. Also my family, that's my in-laws are also shuttling between these two cities because of the business, so it's OK," she says. Ask her if the new bahu ****ed for her family and she laughs aloud, "No, I'm not very good at ****ing. I have hardly ****ed there. In fact, Bebo (Kareena) is a better ****."

Marriage she says and obviously so has added to her responsibilities. "You are no longer alone. You have another person, your husband in your life and that means sharing things with him, becoming more responsible for your actions and taking on additional family responsibilities. Earlier you were just a woman, now you are somebody's wife," she says carefully weighing her words for marriage also means not talking your head off because now somebody else too is reading your interviews we guess!

Citing her husband Sunjay Kapur's good qualities she says, "He's very intelligent, loving and always keeps me laughing. No, he hasn't seen any of my films, for that matter he hardly watches films. He's not the film-going sort. I think Sunjay has made me a calmer person if you ask me the one thing that's changed about me after marriage."


The elder daughter of Babita and Randhir Kapoor definitely believes in the institution of marriage. "I have always maintained in all my interviews that the day I feel like getting married, I'd let the world know about it. I have never wanted to be secretive about my marriage simply because I have always wanted to accord the institution of marriage the respect it deserves. Just as I have been a complete professional or just as I have tried to be one in my career, my attitude towards my marriage, my husband and my new family too is going to be the same. I'd give it my 100 per cent to my new home too!" Marriage and motherhood they say make a woman complete or at least that's what most of our society believe in and Karisma is no different. "I can't treat it casually. I feel absolutely committed to it. Marriage is beautiful and in my case it has been the result of a beautiful friendship. I really feel good and I do believe that it's brought me contentment. Just as I have no regrets about my career, same goes for my personal life too," she says. Karisma feels that the fact her in-laws and her husband have been long-time friends of her family "it's easier for me. I can talk to them about anything just as I'd with my mother or my sister. I think having known them for so long has definitely helped me."

So is she now Karisma Kapoor-Kapur? "I don't think I can handle the two K's. I can't be K2."

Coming to her career, Karisma couldn't have been happier what with her Sahara show completing 100 episodes. "It seemed just yesterday when we had started shooting for it. I'm glad we reached this mark but we hope to make many more." Having done a gamut of roles in varied genres of cinema, Karisma says the serial was the next obvious step for her. "The role of Devyani from her teens to what 60 has offered me ample scope to perform. Yes, I think it makes me feel complete though acting and learning from it is a never-ending process."

She dismisses any rumours of the show being yanked off air. "Well, I don't know about it though I think we are shooting all the more excitedly. We are taking one year at a time. I think it's been six months now of telecast, another six months and we know where we stand." But what if it goes off air? "Well, I would definitely miss it because I have loved every moment being part of it.

It's not just a character or a serial for me, it's so many more things, we are constantly trying to show new things, my character keeps growing, keeps evolving."

As for films, she has 'Zamaanat', which has been long in the making and Suneel Darshan's 'Mere Jeevan Sathi' with Akshay Kumar and Amisha Patel. "The film is 65 per cent complete and it's in this that I'm playing a gray character for the first time." There are two new projects though she doesn't want to reveal anything. "The makers want to announce them in a big way. They both are nice surprises and roles that suit me at this point of time." And till then her Karisma Kapur in her new role of wife and bahu is doing just fine!