Rajkummar Rao spills the beans on No Filter Neha season 4!

Rajkummar on film promotions 

Most of the times yes but in some times you get some really good bunch of people with you like for Stree when we were promoting, it was so much fun, because you have your friends around you. So sometimes it’s fun but most of the times ya it’s pretty painful. I call it a call center job! 

When Rajkummar had to become a monkey for an audition! 

I just shifted to Mumbai, I think it must have been like 4-5 months. I got to know that there is this director and he is planning for this film and he is meeting actors. So I went there to meet him and he gave me a scene to perform. It was a very normal, conversational scene. I did that and then suddenly, I don’t know what he thought, he said can you do the same thing like how a monkey would do. And I didn’t understand what he was trying to say. And I was like, like a monkey, like really?? By that time I lost all my interest, I said you know what, I’m just gonna have some fun, so I did that. I was all over his table and his chair, and became a full monkey. Because then I said you know, let me just have fun and get out of here. So I did that.

Rajkummar Rao says he doesn’t know what a star means

People call me that. People say that you’re a star but it never happened that I have ever felt like a star. I don’t know what does it mean that you’re a star.

Rajkummar on the BIG fight during Judgemental Hai Kya

I saw so many memes, people had made up so many videos - ‘what Rajkumar Rao must be thinking’. I was just waiting for it to get over. I’m a very patient guy, I was just sitting there, witnessing the whole thing because there was nothing else I could do. They were both putting their point across and I thought maybe they are right, they should talk to each other, if it is this way, then unfortunately it is this way. In front of the whole world then yeah that’s the way it is. But I was just waiting for it to just get done with it and talk about the film. 

Rajkummar Rao was a Gunda in school! 

I wasn’t a bad boy but I was a very adventurous kid. I was always outdoors, doing something or the other. I would get into a lot of fights. I was a filmy hero, I was not a gunda, I wouldn’t call it a gunda. So my friends, they would get into a fight and they would call me. I would just look for an excuse to get into a fight. It was like yeah ‘Raj ko aane de, Raj ko aane de’ and then I would go. I would go like a hero, I was a fully filmy kid.

When Rajkummar had to tell his parents about his nude scene 

So I got the call and I was, of course, very happy. One of the most happiest moments of my life. And then after 2 days I met Dibaker and he then told me that you know there is a scene where you have to be fully naked in the scene. It took me seconds to just understand it and I then I said yeah it’s fine, it’s my job. And I said yeah anything for my part but I knew that I now have to tell my parents and my family. But they were very cool. I just told them, I didn’t even ask them. I just told them ki listen there is this film I got, they were very happy. And then you know in the last scene I might be naked - they were like What! I said mujhe nanga hona padega shayad! I said no only back, only back, no frontal nudity but they were very okay about it, never discuss this point

Rajkumar shares his thoughts on working with PC!

I’m very excited. I’m super duper thrilled, nervous also because I know it will be a different process but a process I’m pretty sure I’m gonna enjoy. Just live the part. I met PC, we’ve had couple of reading sessions and she is a great girl. I’m going to have some New York accent and put in a bit of a New York accent. I’m still under training. I’ll do it but, you’ll see it in the film. I’m keeping it for that. But PC is a very chilled out girl, she is a really really great actor. Like how she would come up with ideas and we would improvise and she would be completely involved. That’s a great quality I think. 

Rajkummar’s wonderful luck...! 

Me and Patra I think we keep forgetting things but luckily she tells me that I always find it back, I always get it back. Like some way or the other, if I’m gonna forget my phone in some cafe in London if I go back the next day also they’ll tell me that yeah your phone is here but it doesn’t happen with her. She always tell me - you it’s not fair, how come you always get it. 

Rajkummar’s New Years destination this year 

This time, I’m planning for my New Year’s holiday, I’m planning to go to Switzerland. 

Rajkummar on how he’d stand outside Mannat for hours when he first came to Mumbai and his BIG fan moment when really met SRK

I met him in Bombay only at Mehboob Studios and before that I was growing up in Delhi, I could feel that connect you know because he is also from Delhi and he made it so big. Actually, first time when I came to Bombay, I would just stand outside Mannat, for hours for like 6-7 hours I would just stand there. Trying my luck that I might get to see him. I saw Gauri though so I felt so happy, “Gauri, Gauri Ma’am” 

I didn’t get to see him, then I was also shooting at Mehboob for something then I got to know that he is here so I called Shakun and said ki listen I want to meet him, he said yeah sure, let me just tell him. But then almost after 15 mins I got a call from Shakun that go meet him he is done. So I entered the van and I saw him, first time like live, the real SRK, but he was so sweet. He knew everything about me and he made me feel so special. I became a bigger fan after that meeting. He is so fantastic. He is so charming and after that of course now we are pretty close. Like I know I can message him, I know I can call him and he calls me and I still get pretty excited and you know that fan inside me would never die. I still feel very very happy whenever he calls me. 

Who would Rajkummar recast for Hum

Oh wow! I love that film. I used to beat the shit out of my brother by just doing that -‘Yeh Muthi hai’! For Govinda’s and Rajini Sir’s part I would cast Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. For Amitji’s part I would cast Akshay Sir. 

Who would Rajkummar recast for Exorcist

Patralekha really likes horror films so I’m gonna cast her 

Best director according to Rajkummar

Sriram Raghavan 

Rajkummar’s worst hostel experience 

Worst? to clean those toilets! But I’m pretty finicky about cleanliness so one day, not one day actually I have done it some 3-4 times in 2 years, I would just call a friend and was like you know what we need to clean these toilets. We’re using them, nobody else cares but we gonna care.

Everything Shahid Kapoor revealed on No Filter Neha season 4!

(you will definitely crush on him even more!)

Short link to the episode: http://jiosaa.vn/nfn4shahid

Shahid on his relationship with Mira

We could fight about anything and everything. We have very strong, different points of view and I think for the kind of person I am, I’m very happy that I have somebody like that. Although on a daily basis it might be difficult to deal with it, but I know at a larger level, when I look at the bigger picture, I know that she’s really good for me. I’m guessing I’m also good for her because we always tend to tell each other the part that were not seeing ourselves. Like when I’m in a certain situation and dealing with it a certain way, her natural and honest reaction would probably be very different. She would be like, if I was in your place, I would deal with it very differently. And although sometimes that's very painful because you just want somebody to understand how you’re feeling, but if you want to get out of a situation, I think good advice and a different perspective is more relevant from a pragmatic standpoint. From an emotional standpoint, you might feel like a little more needy but I feel like Mira is always able to give me a another perspective. 

Saif Ali Khan or Ranveer Singh the better actor according to Shahid

Ranveer Singh

Shahid Kapoor's relationship advice for brother Ishaan, and Janhvi Kapoor

Balance work and peronal space

When Misha didn’t recognize Shahid when he was shooting for Padmaavat

I had an identity crisis because she didn’t recognize me! It was at Mira’s parents’ house, I reached there probably a day or two after they had reached because I was just finishing some stuff up, and she just refused to recognize me. She was what, 1.5 at that time and I was dying to hold her and meet her and run around with her and talk to her and she was with the maid taking a walk in the garden, and Mira had gone to meet some relatives, and I reached early and I wanted to take her in my arms and she came to me and started crying. And then when I was talking to her, she was staring at my mouth and looking at my face and it was not making sense to her because she was like I know that voice but I don’t know this face, I didn’t have my beard. I do look different with and without my beard. It does make a big difference, i shouldn't have done it like this

Shahid on his sexy body!

It’s not always like that, you know, I want to let everybody know that I don’t look like that round the year. Like right now I’m struggling to get to my best

When Shahid had an entire kilo of Pineapple cake!

It was made of sugar free! Mujhe bola gaya that iss mein sugar nahi daali hai! Toh maine kha liya. I had a bad tummy for three days after that. Because a kilo of cake is like too much to eat! 

Who does Shahid think was a better debutante - Ishaan or Janhvi Kapoor?

Ishaan

Who is a more fun co-star according to Shahid?

Kiara

When Shahid effed up on LIVE TV!

I actually used the F word live. If people actually want to have good time, please google what this is, whichever IPL this was. So, you know, they couldn’t like edit stuff out because it was a live telecast. It rained like insane! So I was like in really good shape, feeling really good about my body and I had rehearsed the entire act very well and I was like I’m gonna kill this shit – I was in that zone. I love performing live, I really have fun. So I was like I’m gonna kill this shit and suddenly it started raining, it was an outdoor stadium which is an open stadium. I was in Kolkata and I was gonna do ‘I am a disco dancer’ in front of a Bengali crowd entering on a bike in a waistcoat which was sleeveless and a dhoti with shades, so i was like I'm gonna take this downnn! Finally, the rain stopped, two hours later the whole thing kicked off and I was still in my ‘it hasn’t rained zone’ so I went back into that zone, I’m gonna kill this shit. Put my shades on and then they got me on that turf, I was supposed to enter on that and obviously because it had rained, everything was wet. I didn’t think that made a difference. So I got on my bike, wore my shades, and the minute I rode in, obviously the audience is in front of you and I didn’t realize that a lot of things had got out of control, slippery ho gaya hai, wahan rubber pipes they sab upar neeche ho gaya hai but I ride a lot so I’m confident on bikes also. Confident on stage, confident on bikes - no reason to be careful. Pressed the brakes on the bikes and it refuses to stop so the first thing that happens is – I’m looking at the crowd and suddenly I bang into the stage. I’m checking my bike out to see where I am, and because it’s night, those light of the stadium,  it was reflecting everything back so strongly that I wasn’t able to see what’s in front of me because there was too much of a reflection in my eyes but obviously being a hero I can’t take the shades off na, it spoils the look, aisa toh kar nahi sakte. So first I banged into the stage then I've continued and come back. So already in my head I’m like how could this happen because for me nothing can go wrong on this show – I’m gonna kill it and I’ve already effed up. So I was like yeh toh galat ho gaya. I parked my bike and then I got on stage and on my second step on that small stage, the stage broke! My foot went through the stage and I was like – is this made of butter paper? It literally tore. And I just looked up and I just said F*** it! You can actually see that. I’ll just never forget that. That I was live on TV and I said that and you could see me say that. Although you can’t hear it, but you can see it.

Acting according to Shahid

Acting actually is nothing else but trying to find the truth in a moment and that’s it. You need to be honest and you need to try and find something that’s true because you’re bringing something that doesn’t exist to life. That’s essentially what filmmaking is about. It’s the willing suspension of disbelief. That’s what audiences are supposed to go through when they go to a theatre. 

Who would Shahid recast as Geet in Jab We Met?

Alia

Who would Shahid recast as Prem in Vivaah?

Salman Khan

Who would Shahid recast as Guddu in Kaminey?

Vicky Kaushal

Who would Shahid recast as 3 main leads of Padmaavat?

Actually, the cast of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam would work well for that film as well

Vishal Bhardwaj or Sanjay Leela Bhansali – the better director according to Shahid

For me, Vishal Bhardwaj. But I think they both are brilliant in their own spaces but as an actor I think I have been able to achieve more with Vishal Bhardwaj and I think we have been able to collaborate more on roles which had more merit but I have great respect for Sanjay Sir