Live-in Relationships Are Less Messy

ARJUN KAPOOR tells SHUBARNA MUKERJI SHU that when in love, it is advisable to go with your gut feeling, whether a live-in relationship or marriage. There should be no one and nothing dictating you to do one over the other.

- Shubarna Mukerji Shu

You are actually reintroducing classics to the youth, becoming the face of Zee Classic…

Youth today is open to all kinds of cinema, and I am not just saying that for the heck of it, look at the films we are making these days. However, what we are today stems from where we have been. We have some real gems from the years gone by and it is rather important that the youth today get a feel of it themselves. There is no way to actually reintroduce anything, it is all out there; we are just telling you all to know these worthy films. Just look at the kind of cinema we have, it is a legacy out there; we just have to tap it. Like I said, I am not reintroducing anything, I am merely the sutradhar, a medium to patch the gap which has formed with time.

Talking about legacy, you yourself are a part of the grand picture, but how much have things changed over the years?

Change is something that’s inevitable but I do strongly believe that we are at a space in the industry wheresome really good work is happening. Look around, there is no parallel cinema. Cinema today is a gamut of stories which can be anything from a FINDING FANNY to a TEVAR, it can be a 2 STATES or KI & KA. That’s cinema today, you have so much to offer.

Just naming the films you have been a part of, kind of points out how different your oeuvre has been as compared to the more commercial heritage of your family…