the script | Shah Rukh Khan | Kunal Kapoor | Bollywood SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Kunal Kapoor More Pics Kunal Kapoor, who began his filmi career as an assistant director, will help develop the right scripts, but maintains he wants to remain in front of the camera By his own admission, actor Kunal Kapoor has not done enough work in his career. But while he has no regrets about the slow pace of his career growth, Kunal promises that the next few years will be drastically different. "I have done far less than I should have. Doing 4-5 films a year is not that difficult.
It's just that I am not driven to do that for the sake of being busy. I have to be led by my heart and should have a passion for what I am doing.
I don't want to wake up in the morning and go to work. Cinema is much more than just work for me," says the actor.
Like most other actors, Kunal also blames a lack of great scripts for his infrequent onscreen appearances. "In the last year and a half, I have been sitting with the directors and writers I want to work with.
Most of the time, you don't get the kind of work you want to do, so I realized that instead of complaining about this, I should just ensure that great scripts happen. The film I am currently shooting for, Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, is one such project that I have been involved with from its inception.
There have been a lot of my creative inputs incorporated in the script. In future, I will be a lot more active onscreen and so the next five years should see me very busy," he says.
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., says the actor, is a comedy set in a Punjabi family and deals primarily with the bonding that takes place over food.
"It is ironic that we haven't yet had a film about food, given that ours is a nation that is so obsessed about what comes to our plate. India is one of the few countries where every meal is freshly prepared.
We talk so much about food that it just made sense to have a movie to depict that," says Kunal, adding that the film will not be a cookery show and that it aims to break the caricature-like Bollywood stereotype of Punjabi households. The actor, who plays a professional hacker in Farhan Akhtar's Shah Rukh Khan-starrer, is gung-ho about the film.
"Farhan is no longer bound to stick to a formula like he had to with the original. This has a whole new story and allows him to stretch the boundaries of Indian cinema in terms of the script , action and execution," says Kunal.
Meanwhile, the actor, who began his career as an assistant director is in no hurry to get behind the camera again. "Actors are a very pampered lot.
I prefer to be a pampered actor. I do like to direct.
The bug is definitely there, but that's not something I want to do at the moment. I wouldn't mind directing short films, though," he signs off
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