Shahid Kapoor shared his take on stardom in a recent interview with an entertainment portal. He said that for him, cinema is all about chasing great characters and movies instead of stardom.
Shahid Kapoor is currently busy with the promotions of his upcoming film, Bloody Daddy which marks his first collaboration with filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar. The actioner is a remake of the 2011 French film Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night).
Shahid who made his debut with Ken Ghosh’s campus romance Ishq Vishk, has successfully managed to shed off his boy-next-door image in the last couple of years and proved his acting mettle with diverse roles. He is currently currently exploring his unlimited potential as an actor and has some interesting projects in the pipeline.
In a recent chat with Pinkvilla, Shahid Kapoor opened up on what stardom means to him and how he reached at this point.
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The actor was quoted as saying, “One is an external kind of popularity that you see. People like you, they love you, they give you all the admiration and adulation. But that’s external – they are feeling happy when they see you. But, are you feeling happy? Internal happiness, satisfaction, growth, and evolution happen when you creatively engage in a journey by growing, evolving, and improving. Where the boy is becoming a man, and a man is becoming a professional, and a professional becoming a legend. That’s the journey that every guy, after a point, wants to take that forward.”
He continued, “That is the more enriching, more long-lasting, and more respectable journey. And that is just what I always choose. I will always chase great characters, great movies, great scenes, great moments that touched me, and visuals that I can’t forget 20 years later because they were just so brilliant regardless of where the technology is. That’s what truly cinema is for me. And I want good films to be commercially successful.”
Talking about Bloody Daddy, the film is slated to premiere on Jio Cinema on June 9, 2023. Besides this, Shahid Kapoor also has a yet-to-be-titled film with Kriti Sanon up next for release.
