She was plump and overweight when Sanjay Leela Bhansali told her that she would be his heroine in ‘Saawariya’. She hit the gym with vengeance and transformed herself into an attractive, shapely girl in a matter of months.

Talking about Anil Kapoor’s daughter Sonam Kapoor, the petite girl is debuting with Bhansali’s ‘Saawariya’. Now she is adding to her excellence by learning dances from Latin America. Sonam has been taking dancing lessons in salsa, samba, rumba, cha cha cha and waltz from dance expert Sandip Soparrkar for a couple of months now. Of these, Sonam excels best in rumba, a soft, sensuous dance from Cuba.