Shahid Kapoor with his parents Pankaj Kapur and Neelima Azeem. (Photo: Shahid Kapoor/Instagram)
Actor Shahid Kapoor started his vocation arsenic a pb prima with the 2003 movie Ishq Vishk. Despite having actors Pankaj Kapur and Neelima Azeem arsenic parents, Shahid Kapoor considers himself arsenic an outsider, who had to conflict for his archetypal film. In a caller speech with SCREEN, Shahid Kapoor shared seeing his parent raising him single-handedly station her divorcement with his begetter prompted him to commencement moving astatine an aboriginal age. Neelima Azeem was conscionable 22 erstwhile she gave commencement to Shahid Kapoor. Three years aft his birth, Neelima and Pankaj divorced.
Sharing his enslaved with his mother, Shahid Kapoor said, “My ma was rather young erstwhile she had me. We were much similar friends. My ma ever took maine wherever she went. And the information that I was her archetypal and elder son, determination I utilized to consciousness precise responsible. In my case, I didn’t turn up astir my father. So astatine specified situations, you don’t spot your property but consciousness like, ‘I americium the antheral of the house’. Of course, astatine that time, I didn’t person excessively overmuch to offer, but I had the courageousness to basal up for my mother. I ever felt precise protective and loving towards my mom. Our enslaved was different. She ever treated maine similar a friend, and I deliberation that was the champion happening betwixt us. We proceed to stock the aforesaid bond.”
Shahid appeared successful a euphony video astatine 18 and besides featured successful advertisement campaigns on with moving arsenic a inheritance dancer successful respective films, including Aishwarya Rai-starrer Taal.
Sharing his dedication to enactment from specified young age, Shahid revealed, “I deliberation due to the fact that some my parents were ace achievers, I conscionable wanted to beryllium myself and wanted to bash thing important successful life. I didn’t privation to discarded my life.”
He added, “I deliberation it besides came from the information that my ma was a azygous genitor and I didn’t privation to load her with my expenses truthful the lone happening that ran successful my caput was that ‘I request to commencement making money’. I wanted to enactment my ma since the property of 14-16. She was single-handedly taking attraction of everything. I privation to beryllium capable to enactment and lend and if not more, I astatine slightest request to instrumentality attraction of my ain expenses. So it each started there.”
Shahid ever wanted to bash bully astatine immoderate helium took up arsenic his career, but helium didn’t cognize what it would be.
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He shared, “A batch of times radical simply deliberation that I became an histrion due to the fact that my begetter is one. But, that’s not the case. Yes, helium is an actor, but I ne'er stayed with him. I did privation to effort that career, but ne'er knew if it volition cookware retired for me. It was destiny that made it hap for me.”
He added, “My archetypal euphony video oregon advertisement sprout conscionable happened retired of the blue. I ne'er earned it. But erstwhile this happened, I followed it seriously. However, my azygous minded docket was to enactment my mom, who was moving precise hard.”
After his debut with the 2003 movie Ishq Vishk, Shahid featured successful galore films that flopped astatine the container office. He gained designation successful 2006 with the Sooraj Barjatya film, Vivah. Later, helium starred successful Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met, followed with movies similar Haider, Kaminey and Chup Chup Ke, which made him a bankable star.
Currently, helium is gearing up for his action-thriller Deva, which is each acceptable to merchandise connected January 31.