This story is from December 28, 2014

Arjun Kapoor: There is no comfort zone

It’s been a good year for Arjun Kapoor, with all his films doing well at the box office. And the year 2015 will open with yet another ‘tevar’ full of Arjun doing what he does best. The young actor, who was in Ahmedabad recently to promote his film Tevar talked at length about being an actor, connecting with fans and more during a relaxed chat.
Arjun Kapoor: There is no comfort zone
It’s been a good year for Arjun Kapoor, with all his films doing well at the box office. And the year 2015 will open with yet another ‘tevar’ full of Arjun doing what he does best. The young actor, who was in Ahmedabad recently to promote his film Tevar talked at length about being an actor, connecting with fans and more during a relaxed chat. Excerpts:
You are seen on the run in your new film.
And so are you for the promotions with back to back city tours. Isn’t it too much of running around?
(Laughs) The madness of the film has just transpired into our real lives I guess. But promotions are a great way of seeing what people like about you and then on the basis of that you can build up in your coming films. After all, how much of your audience can you reach out sitting in Mumbai? You have to reach out to your fans through such promotional tours.
You have also taken to social media to connect even more.
I have only recently started getting into social media. But it’s a great medium to connect on a more personal basis. And by that I don’t mean like what I eat or what I wear, but more about our work and the ‘behind the scene’ of our professional life. It’s like personalizing your professional life. It’s really interesting and I think people are interested in knowing all this.
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So is all this an image building exercise?

I don’t think any actor can consciously build his image. No actor comes into the industry thinking ‘this is the image I would portray’ It’s the other way round actually. It’s your fans who decides what image of yours becomes popular. They like you in a certain role, or look etc and that passes on from one film to another as the filmmakers would also like to give their audience what they like.
As an actor you’ve always tried to break stereotypes and do something different.
There is no comfort zone as far as doing a certain kind of role is concerned. If my action hero image is popular, and I have done a lot of action roles, that doesn’t mean I am comfortable doing action only. Let me tell you, it’s not easy to do action scenes. It’s just that a certain image or genre of film is liked more by the audience and that sticks. You keep getting good work in similar genre and you certainly don’t want to let go of good work.
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