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ACTOR ARJUN KAPOOR:
NEVER WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR
rjun Kapoor, who is currently busy Smoking Barrels’ and I do not know why,
shooting for India’s Most Wanted, I remember I was in 10th standard and I
Asays that he never wanted to was awake at 12 at night and I was just
be an actor and instead wanted to be watching that film,” Arjun said.
become a director. Arjun, 32, added that Lock Stock and
Arjun was on Saavn’s new podcast Two Smoking Barrels in English and
“Take 2 with Anupama and Rajeev” the Hindi film Dil Chahta Hai made him
along with actor Rajkummar Rao, where believe that “you can be ambitious, you
they discussed the reasons of being in don’t have to be stuck in cliches, you
films, a statement said. can think beyond, you can move beyond
“I never wanted to be an actor. That in terms of writing. It was a big leap”.
is where it is different for Rajkummar “I don’t think without Dil Chahta Hai you
and me. He grew up with an inculcated would have actors like me and Rajkummar
thought of heading towards a direction. I sitting here because you would have to
looked like a basketball so I did not really do quintessential Bollywood as cliched
think about acting. stuff. You wouldn’t be able to have films
“I think I wanted to become a director that have conversations or banter,” he
the day I saw ‘Lock Stock and Two added.
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