Shahid Kapoor: “I actually always get scared of doing high-budget films”

Shahid Kapoor says his intent is to chase the “heart of a film” and not the “size” as big-scale often runs the risk of going out of control. Kapoor, who delivered his career’s biggest hit with ‘Kabir Singh’, said he was advised to follow the film’s success with a big scale project however he wasn’t interested.

After ‘Kabir Singh’, everyone said I should do a 150 cr film, people will back me up with the money. I thought, surely they will put money, but what will the film be? There’s a difference between making a scaled film and a good film,” Kapoor told reporters ahead of the release of his film ‘Jersey’ on April 14.

“It’s still possible for me to do a big film, but why am I doing this (‘Jersey’) and not that? Because I am chasing the heart of a film, not the size of the film. To me, the heart of the film is the size of the film.

“I don’t come from that thinking that it you spend a lot of money, audiences will turn in huge numbers… I actually always get scared of doing high-budget films, because in those, things go out of your hands. There are a lot of factors in it,” he added.

‘Jersey’ will clash at the box office with the much-anticipated actioner ‘KGF: Chapter 2’.

“If ‘KGF 2’ is a good film, it’ll surely work. If ‘Jersey’ is a good film, it’ll definitely work. There is an audience which wants to watch our film, another wants to watch the other film that’s coming out and then there is also that audience that simply wants to watch a film.

“They wait for a holiday to watch a movie. So why should you not be the film that is in the theatres when everyone wants to go and watch a movie,” he added.