Shahid Kapoor on 'Kabir Singh': 'Post that, I didn't hear anything that was exciting, and then...'

Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon are coming together for a rom-com called Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya, which has been hailed as an impossible love story. At the trailer launch, the actor said he didn’t get any exciting scripts after his 2019 blockbuster Kabir Singh, and then this film came along.

“I have been missing doing something light and fun. But honestly, it is the most difficult genre to crack. I listen to ten scripts a month. People don’t know that, but there is so much to hear. I know people tell me ‘aur picture karo (do more films)’, but it is so difficult to find scripts that you feel that you are going to offer the audience something new,” said the actor.

He added, “Love stories is the most difficult genre to do. I just feel that this film was answering that question of mine – What is it that you can do new in a love story? When I did ‘Kabir Singh,’ the character was new for me. The entire journey, the way the entire relationship was, it was shocking, but it was new. Post that, I didn’t hear anything that was exciting. Then popped in this film, and I was like this is it.”

About the film

The trailer starts off and ends on a breezy and frothy note, with Kapoor in his OG, ultimate swagger that he can pull off even in his sleep. This is the kind of breeze that nearly faded away from the celluloid for long.

Sanon plays a robot, and the man is clearly smitten by her and so is she. This is the path S. Shankar also took with his 2010 blockbuster Robot. But this is a far more glossy and glamorous world that oozes style and sass, and an easy-on-the-eye chemistry between the leads.