Did you know Arjun Kapoor and Katrina Kaif are siblings? No, no, they are not related by blood. Instead, Arjun is Katrina’s Rakhi brother. The interesting anecdote was shared by Arjun in 2012. The actor said that that Katrina forced him to be his Rakhi brother five years before Arjun started his acting career. He joked that he and Katrina are not the ‘typical’ siblings.
“Katrina always threatens to be my rakhi sister, but I completely deny that,” Arjun told Hindustan Times, with a laugh. When asked about the denial, Arjun said, “Because she pressurises me to do it (be her rakhi brother). You should ask her why. She made me do it once, literally, at gunpoint. But we are not a typical brother-sister pair. I am not a protective brother who’s like, ‘Koi dekhega meri bahen ko to thok doonga (if someone looks at my sister I will hit him).’”
Katrina and Arjun have been friends for years now. Their bond was seen when Arjun gatecrashed her and Anushka Sharma’s episode on Koffee With Karan. Arjun also often teases Katrina in her posts. A recent example of it was when Katrina shared photos from her trip to Austria. She shared photos from a medical health resort in Altaussee. Arjun took to the comments section and wrote, “Someone’s been busy taking pictures finally…Well done, Katrina Kaif!!!”
Meanwhile, Arjun recently shared a moving video on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan in the light of the Kolkata rape and murder case. He called out men for their ignorance towards the discussion of women’s safety. “So I’m about to go and celebrate Raksha Bandhan with my sisters guys. It feels really strange to celebrate a festival with what’s happening, which has to do with protecting each other, protecting your sisters, being there for the women in your life, for the women that you love, that you care for. While we see so much anguish and so much of lack of basic understanding and education amongst a lot of the men, when we celebrate Rakhi, we speak about being a brother, taking care of,” he said in the video.
“Why aren’t we taught how to make the environment safe enough for all our sisters to roam around without needing a brother? All the time to protect and take care physically to be around. Yes, I know the visual is something we got used to that the brother is protective or the man is protective but I think somewhere we need to teach other men that they need to make women feel safe rather than teach men to protect women,” Arjun pondered out loud.
He added, “It’s a much bigger conversation. I think there’s a lot of education. There’s a lot of conversation and there’s a lot of basic understanding that is lacking in our ecosystem. I don’t know how much this will change how people think, but it’s definitely something that’s been on my mind. Why have you always told to protect? Why aren’t we told to make them feel safe? It’s something I’ve been thinking about. It’s been going on in my mind for a long time.”
In another part of the video, he said, “I think somewhere, 1 feel men need to be taught how to allow women to feel safe around them, not just be there to protect them. I think that would be a big lesson if we could make the women around us, the girls, feel safe, not just for their safety, but to stand around them, to live in their lives.”
He concluded the video with the message, “I just hope a lot of men think about how to be there for the women in their lives and make them stronger and powerful by making them feel safe.”
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