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when the process of filmmaking gets too self-serious, you are full of fear and operate from a place of fear or are withdrawn and held back.Collection: Fear
I hunt and track things down to get every single piece of clothing and shoes in my collection.
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.
I want to give time to whatever films I do.
A lot of actors kind of jump from one project to another. They take two-three weeks and condense everything in that time.
I will be letting down the audience if I don't take that much time to prepare for the characters.
During my undergrad, I took acting electives for two semesters. That's when I realised here is something I can do.
I'm saying you can't market every film in the same way.
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.
Some people work better under pressure. I work better without pressure.
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 like digression in films.
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 actually completely opposite to my father. You will feel that in 'Mirzya.'
I loved 'Aashiqui' and 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.'
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 am an introvert. I just like to go to a set, work and go back to sleep.
Aamir Khan has been a huge influence on my life.
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.
You can never make a piece of art that pleases everybody.
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.
It is disheartening when you put in two-three years of work on a film and it doesn't work.
Doing 'Mirzya' helped me with 'Bhavesh Joshi.'
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.
I have always worn my heart on my sleeve and jumped head-first into ideas that excite me.
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.
I would like to see the big, mainstream actors experiment with their roles.
Every film has its own destiny.
Well, obviously 'Mirzya' didn't do well at the box-office which is fine. It's not a film for everybody.
I make it a point to watch all films.
Aamir Khan was a very big influence, I think, when my generation was growing up.
It's very rare to find scripts that are poetic and very romantic.
There are so many amazing actors and I like certain films of certain actors.
I am very patient.
I don't do things until I am fully prepared.
There is unpredictability and randomness to life and films should reflect that.
I feel 'Mirzya' is a work of art.
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.
Art is supposed to be polarising.
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.
I am someone who is very comfortable in my own world and I know it is not a good thing.
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?
In a year, only 10 films get huge success at the box office out of so many films releasing in India.