Sometimes when the process of filmmaking gets too self-serious, you are full of fear and operate from a place of fear or are withdrawn and held back.Collection: Fear
You don't have to own the most expensive sneakers to qualify as a sneakerhead. Even if you own a few pairs of Vans but you really cherish them, that's all that matters.
You see a lot of actors who wear the same clothes provided by the same stylists who source the clothes from the same places. Despite having the money for it, that is very unoriginal and shows a lack of interest.
A lot of actors kind of jump from one project to another. They take two-three weeks and condense everything in that time.
During my undergrad, I took acting electives for two semesters. That's when I realised here is something I can do.
What I don't like is going on reality television shows. We all can't be reduced to this to sell our films.
Bhavesh Joshi' could be a genre-breaker because we're used to seeing larger-than-life superheroes. This is a realistic Vikramaditya Motwane-Anurag Kashyap-style neo-noir drama.
Shooting in Mumbai is crazy - there is no place and it is crowded and tough. There is no calmness, no peace of mind.
When I was a kid my dad had a VHS collection, which became a DVD collection and then a Blu-ray collection.
I remember watching a lot of the 90s films on laser disk. A lot of Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell films because they were the big names.
I believe, in a film, everything doesn't need to go like a bullet or in a straight line. Everything doesn't need to have a reason, sometimes things are just there. I come from that school of thought.
I am very boring. I am not a party guy or a social kind of a guy. I like to have conversations and watch movies, but I don't think I can entertain large crowds.
I have been very open to genres. With 'AK Vs AK,' it was a meta-comedy, with 'Bhavesh Joshi' it was a superhero vigilante drama and we turned that genre on its head.
A non-conformist will never feel like he's any part of a clique or a group. And that's the life I signed up for.
With 'Mirzya,' we knew we were going to do something new and different and whenever you try and do that you do not always succeed. The personal success of the film for me was working with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, whom I have idolised.
I don't think I am the first actor whose film hasn't made money and I am not going to be the last. You just have to keep working.
When I'm choosing films to work on, the first question I ask myself is, does this story stir my passion?
You should never attempt to do something average, it can be bad or good, but at least you know you tried to do something different.
Well, obviously 'Mirzya' didn't do well at the box-office which is fine. It's not a film for everybody.
Obviously, no matter how well I do, no matter how many films I do, no matter what I achieve in life, there will be a small minority of people that will want to hate me because I'm Anil Kapoor's son.
When you call a film 'Bhavesh Joshi Superhero,' people expect something like 'Krrish,' not a two-and-a-half-hour story of a common man.
I really do not take much interest in forming an opinion on anything political because I am not inclined to that.
When my debut film did not work for most of the people, I was upset but do we really know how to control the fate of a film?