Wamiqa Gabbi recalls playing Kareena Kapoor Khan’s cousin in Jab We Met

After starring in multiple films across languages such as Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, Wamiqa Gabbi has enthralled the audience with her brilliant performance in Vikramaditya Motwane’s period drama series Jubilee set in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Wamiqa’a first appearance on the big screen came sixteen years earlier in 2007. She was seen in a cameo appearance in the cult romantic drama Jab We Met in which she shared screen space with Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan, playing the latter’s younger cousin. After her breakthrough act in Jubilee, her scene from the Imtiaz Ali film went viral on social media.

she shared her experience of shooting Jab We Met when she was in the eighth standard. Wamiqa told, “I was in eighth class when I shot for Jab We Met. I was learning dance at an academy and basically, its owner was the coordinator of the Hindi films that were shot in Punjab. So, he told me and my father that there is a film starring Shahid and Kareena and the role is of one of the small sisters of Kareena, so he asked if I would be willing to do it. I said yes.