Riding high on the success of his recent high
grossing and controversial film, Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor spoke about his 16
years long journey in cinema and defended the right of actors to play
characters with negative shades or the anti-hero at the India Today Conclave Mumbai, 2019. The actor has never shied away
from playing negative roles and some of his flawed characters have been the
most appreciated ones, be it in Udta Punjab or Padmavat and now as Kabir Singh
in the eponymous film which has gone on to become among the 10 biggest grossers
at the Indian box office at Rs 278 crore. Kapoor stated that an actor, he has
never repeated his look in the past seven years, always eager to explore new
characters, roles and looks. The audience, he said, is a few steps ahead of
those in the film fraternity and are accepting of new stories and characters.
Responding to the controversy around Kabir Singh, in which he plays a “flawed
character who loves passionately from an honest place”, Kapoor said that the
viewers must decide what they want to take back from a film and even when
people see him on screen playing a negative role, they know that he is only
acting. In a crisp 20-minute long session, he spoke about how he is glad that
he had to wait a little long to taste success, his choice of films and his
family and even danced with a few audience members to a song from his film.
TAKEAWAY
Cinema mirrors life and some of the most potent
experiences of a person’s life can be in a cinema hall
Kabir Singh is a sum total of 16 years of work
and even as he faced success and failure, he used his time to hone his craft
and watch others’ work
While Kabir Sing may have portrayed a flawed
character who ran into controversy for showing the protagonist use force on a
girl he was in love with, Kapoor said that in an adult film, audiences have the
basic discretion to understand what is right and wrong.
QUOTES
“I hated the thought that people felt I had a
pretty face; I found the chocolate boy looks juvenile. Cinema is way beyond
that, it mirrors life.”
“I wanted to change the game and surprise
audiences because there is a need within me to do something different.”
“No one said anything when Shah Rukh Khan took
Shilpa Shetty by her leg and pushed her down from a terrace in Baazigar.”
(While responding to the criticism to Kabir
Singh’s character)
“Children are born of you, they are not yours.
We should love and accept them for what they choose to be. All I want to do is
to instill in them the values that I got from my parents.”
“My wife was among the first people to tell me
to do Kabir Singh. She loved the character, that he could love someone so
passionately.”
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