Shahid Kapoor talks astir Haider. (Photo: (Express photos by Sankhadeep Banerjee/IMDb)
After playing the boy-next-door successful films similar Vivah and Jab We Met, Shahid Kapoor stunned each with his quality successful Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider. The film, acceptable successful 1995, erstwhile militancy successful Kashmir was astatine its peak, became a large commercialized occurrence astatine the container office. One of the standout scenes successful Haider features Shahid crying uncontrollably upon reaching his father’s grave.
At SCREEN Live successful Mumbai connected Friday, Shahid recalled the clip helium changeable for the scene. He said, “When I went to bash this shot, the camera was placed precise acold from me. I was fixed a batch of space. I didn’t privation to usage glycerin. I was there, successful beforehand of a grave. I asked them if I could sit, and they said, ‘Stand arsenic of now, past you tin possibly sit.’ So I don’t retrieve what precisely happened during that shot. I can’t callback a thing. The lone happening I retrieve is that my hands were numb, possibly due to the fact that I enactment them successful the ice. It was rather acold there. The different happening I retrieve is Vishal sir holding me. They said the changeable was implicit a portion ago.”
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s calamity Hamlet, Haider besides depicted the dissension-hit authorities of Kashmir. When asked if it is imaginable to marque a politically charged movie successful today’s time, Shahid rapidly said, “No.” He added, “We can’t bash arguable films anymore.”
Previously, Vishal Bharadwaj excessively spoke astir this peculiar country and told ETimes determination was a infinitesimal successful the movie wherever Shahid yet recovered his father’s sedate and broke down. The filmmaker changeable the country with a telephoto lens, truthful the camera was placed truly far. Vishal asked Shahid to not consciousness insecure arsenic it is not a close-up shot. But, successful reality, it was really a close-up.
Recalling Shahid Kapoor’s acting, Vishal said that the histrion started crying and determination were 2 cameras capturing him. The filmmaker past confessed that helium didn’t consciousness similar shouting chopped aft seeing him crying. Shahid stopped crying aft Vishal walked up to him and hugged him. He said, “It’s cut, Shahid. It’s done.”
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