Shahid Kapoor on why he agreed to do ‘Padmaavat’

Shahid Kapoor has been praised for his role as Maharawal Ratan Singh in the recently released ‘Padmaavat’, directed and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. However, it is Ranveer Singh’s performance as Alauddin Khilji that seems to be sweeping the audiences off their feet. Kapoor has explained why he chose to take up the role despite knowing that Khilji’s was an author-backed part.

“On a personal level, it was a huge risk for me. Everyone I know told me not to do the film. They said, ‘It already has Ranveer and Deepika, so why do you want to be the third spoke in the wheel?’ Honestly, even I believed that in the beginning. I thought to myself, it must be a guest appearance. Why would Bhansali sir suddenly think about it two months after the other star cast was announced? But I’m such a huge lover of his work that I had to meet him to try and understand what was going on. He insisted on coming home. I had just had my daughter. And this was the first thing I was starting after Misha’s birth. It was an important juncture in my life. Marriage, baby, etc. I was a young father who was in his first year-and-a-half of his marriage. You get the picture, right?,” said the actor, talking to DNA.

Kapoor added, “Udta Punjab and Haider had worked, Shandaar had not. So, it was a time of transit. It was this time when I had one foot in success and the other in failure. And I was trying to find out how I was going to move forward. When Sanjay sir came, he just looked at me and told me what was the role. He asked me, ‘Why do you think that the negative character is the only character that matters? Even the positive character can be good.’”

The film has smashed box office records, as many had predicted, and still continues it’s upward surge.

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