Shahid Kapoor says his Shaandaar co-star Alia Bhatt was the main reason why he agreed to do the film.
“My inspiration for Shaandaar is Alia. I wanted to work with Alia Bhatt and it was my only opportunity,” he said when asked at an event about his inspiration for doing the Vikas Bahl film.
The opportunity, however, came again for Kapoor as he will be seen alongside Bhatt in Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab, also starring Kareena Kapoor.
Shaandaar is one of the most anticipated films of the year, but Kapoor says his and Bhatt’s recent success was what led to it being considered a big film.
“Honestly, when we signed the film and were shooting for it, Vikas’s Queen hadn’t released, my Haider hadn’t released and Alia’s Highway was about to release. So the time when we took up this film, we weren’t exciting people. And the year passed, and the films of all three of us were liked by viewers, so Shaandaar became a very big film,” he said.
Kapoor describes Shaandaar as a “very easy, breezy, fun film, the kind where you don’t take pressure of anything”.
“But we never made Shaandaar from that point of view. We made it because it’s a really nice, entertaining film and a fresh concept.
“Vikas has taken a love story and I don’t think we’ve had a destination wedding film before. So we’ve just gone out there and made the film that it needs to be by just going out there and having fun,” Kapoor said.
Shaandaar, which also stars Kapoor’s father, Pankaj Kapur, will release in India on October 22.
