I have been missing doing something light and fun: Shahid Kapoor

Mumbai: Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor said that he was keen to do a love story after his 2019 blockbuster ‘Kabir Singh’ but took his time to find a worthy story to tell on the big screen.

The 42-year-old actor has delivered some of the most commercially successful romantic movies of the past two decades, starting from his debut ‘Ishq Vishq’ to movies like ‘Chup Chup Ke’, ‘Vivah’, ‘Jab We Met’ and ‘Kabir Singh’.

Shahid’s upcoming movie is the romantic comedy ‘Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’, in which he is paired with Kriti Sanon.

“I have been missing doing something light and fun, definitely, but honestly, it’s the most difficult genre to crack. I listen to 10 scripts a month. People don’t know that, but there is so much to hear. I know people tell me, ‘Aur picture karo’, but it’s so difficult to find scripts that you feel that you are going to offer the audience something new. Love stories are the most difficult genre to do,” Shahid told reporters at the film’s trailer launch event here.

‘Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’, dubbed an ‘impossible love story’, is written and directed by first-time filmmakers Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah.

The actor said that the film is the answer to a question that he ponders: “What is it that you can do in a love story?” After his 2019 movie ‘Kabir Singh’, in which he played an aggressive lover, the actor said that he was looking for something new in the romance genre.

“When I did ‘Kabir Singh’, the character was new for me. The entire journey and the way the entire relationship was, was shocking, but it was new. After that, I didn’t hear anything that exciting. Then this film came and I was like, ‘This is it. We have to tell a love story that hasn’t been told before’. Will people like it or not? Will they accept it or not? That’s the journey you have to take as an artist and as a creative person,” he added.

Produced by Dinesh Vijan’s ‘Maddock Films’, ‘Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’ features Shahid as a man who falls in love and decides to marry a robot named Sifra (Sanon).

Kapoor said that the film gave him a break from the intense movies that he did in the recent past.