As Shahid Kapoor turns 39, here’s the actor speaking about his first heartbreak and how his opinion about love has evolved with age.
Thanks to PinkVilla for the footage!
Thanks to PinkVilla for the footage!
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00:00I'm saying, you're too hot to be a father to two kids.
00:10How many times have you heard that?
00:11Especially with your looks that you've designed for a Kabhi Singh.
00:14I actually forgot that whole thing, you know.
00:16Till you get married, you know, people can walk up to you and say things to you a lot
00:20more openly.
00:21So abhi toh meko koi bolta hi nahi hai yaar.
00:22So I hope somebody comes up and gives such compliments to me because it's nice to hear
00:26these things.
00:27You're lying, right?
00:28No, no.
00:29You're just saying it on social media.
00:30Yaar main apne bachon ke saath hota hoon, yaar apne beevi ke saath hota hoon.
00:33Kiski majaal aake mujhe aise koi cheez bole hai?
00:35Saamne saamne se.
00:36Koi nahi bolta hai.
00:37But do you think with their additions in your life, something changed with the perspective
00:42towards life and choices in films?
00:44Everything, man.
00:45Everything.
00:46I mean, you know, we always end up saying, did your perspective towards films change?
00:49But that's a very small part of my life, right?
00:51I think as a human being, you change.
00:53Your, you know, your priorities change, your headspace changes.
00:57Every day, what you do, where you spend your time, what you focus on, what you think about,
01:00all that changes.
01:01And if all that is going to change, that's obviously going to reflect in the kind of
01:04work that you do or the choices that you make or, you know, understand life and how you
01:08represent it as an actor because, you know, the job that we have making is a representation
01:12of life.
01:13But has Misha understood that her father is an actor?
01:17She's figuring it out.
01:18She's figuring it out.
01:19She still sometimes gets very confused when somebody who we don't know, you know, comes
01:24running and asks for a picture or something, and she always wonders why is that happening,
01:28you know?
01:29So I have to explain it to her slowly.
01:30It's not easy.
01:31But she understands that I go for shooting.
01:35And she used to keep asking me, why do you go for shooting?
01:37So then I explained to her that, you know, how you go to school, that's how Papa goes
01:41for shooting.
01:42So when I drew that parallel for her, she was like, okay, fair enough.
01:44I go there and you go there.
01:45So yeah, she's still very small.
01:46Do you remember your first heartbreak?
01:47How did you deal with it?
01:48It was very bad.
01:49When was it?
01:50School.
01:51What?
01:52Give details.
01:53I want details.
01:54Why?
01:55I don't know.
01:56Why?
01:57It's very personal.
01:58No, say it.
01:59No, I'm not going to say it.
02:00But yeah, it was in school.
02:01I was in my 9th standard.
02:02I really liked this girl.
02:03We had only four girls in our class.
02:04And so there's very limited options of who you can crush on.
02:05And yeah, so I liked this girl and apparently half the class liked her.
02:06And I was not really in her top five or six options even in her mind.
02:07And she probably didn't even know much about me and yeah, you know.
02:25How has your opinion on love changed over the years?
02:27A lot.
02:28A lot.
02:29My opinion on love has changed a lot.
02:30You know, what you want and what you need are not always the same thing.
02:31Yeah.
02:32I think that's the first thing that we all need to understand.
02:33And it comes with time.
02:34Because you want a lot of things which you think are what will be good for you but actually
02:41what's good for you is not always what you're running after.
02:42And it takes time to understand those things.
02:46Because what we're attracted to and what is actually good for us might not necessarily
02:50be the same thing.
02:51Yeah.
02:52So most of the times that's a very complex kind of dynamic to deal with.
02:56Because you want something, you crave it, you run after it, you get it.
03:00Once you get it, then it starts getting complicated.
03:01It becomes difficult to handle.
03:03Then you wonder why you wanted it.
03:04Then you start questioning love, you know.
03:07So it becomes like a difficult kind of...
03:09Yeah.
03:10Okay.
03:11So you have to not do that.
03:12You have to understand that mistakes that happen which are mistakes made on the basis
03:16of our judgment and our understanding of ourselves, love shouldn't be blamed for that.
03:20Because then you end up becoming a very pessimistic, negative person who doesn't believe in the
03:24best thing of life, about life, which is love.
03:27Now that I'm married and I have children, I can very confidently say that love is the
03:33strongest emotion and the most important emotion in life.
03:36So you cannot lose faith in that.