The most talked couple of B-Town Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor will not be in India on the eve of Independence day, but will be hoisting a flag in Chicago at a Meet & Greet event organised for 50,000 Indians in Chicago.

Kareena turning nostalgic about Independence Day says, “As a child, she would hold elder sis Karisma Kapoor’s hand and toddle off to the RK Studios in Chembur in Mumbai where grandfather Raj Kapoor had a ceremony every Independence Day for the children in the family. Holi, rang barse and bhang, Rajji had for the elders! Then, when Karisma entered Bollywood and the sisters stayed with their mother in Lokhandwala, as a girl of nine or ten she used to attend the housing society’s Independence Day functions. But for the last five years, now, she has been out of the country on August 15. And while the patriotic surge is there, the ears strain to catch Jana Gana Mana wherever she is, it’s not the same as being in India on Independence Day.”