Shahid Kapoor Reveals Why Doing Padmaavat Was A HUGE Risk

Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor, happy and content to receive a positive response from the audience for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat, says that with each film, he has had to wait much longer than many of his contemporaries to achieve milestones in his career. But he chose to maximize his space with a skilled performance.

In Padmaavat, Shahid essays Maharawal Ratan Singh, said to be a comparatively lesser known historical character than Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji or Rani Padmavati for common people.

It was quite ironical then that the real and reel met the same situation to navigate their way for finding a space — as in the film Shahid was pitted against two author-backed characters Khilji and Padmavati, and in real life, between two stars like Ranveer and Deepika, who have together delivered hit films like Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Bajirao Mastani.

“I think I always had to work much harder to get a good opportunity and had to wait longer than many, to get a milestone in my career. But I view it like this — God has given me the opportunity to learn, has given me a destiny of a student. I have never given the same exam in life, but different.

“That is how I learnt different things in life and that has added to my experience,” Shahid said in an interview here.

He believes Padmaavat threw up a tricky opportunity which could have gone horribly wrong.

“But I took that risk because I have seen how after working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali sir, actors have got a huge mileage in terms of audience reach and success”.

This was the first time Shahid was working with Bhansali. He says the director only commands excellence.