Baaghi: Shraddha Kapoor talks about kissing childhood buddy Tiger Shroff, learning Kalaripayattu
In an exclusive interview to IndiaToday.in, Shraddha Kapoor shares her experience of working with her childhood buddy Tiger Shroff and learning martial arts for Sabbir Khan's recently released film Baaghi.
When Tiger Shroff entered Bollywood with Heropanti, the only thing that grabbed more eyeballs than his pink lips was his dancing skills. The 26-year-old can give any actor a run for his money when it comes to shaking a leg. But Shroff Jr recently made heads turn when he said that he was far too nervous to match steps with his Baaghi co-star Shraddha Kapoor.
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In fact, he wanted the two of them to have different steps during the filming of the song Let's Talk About Love. Kapoor, who is sharing screen space with Shroff in Sabbir Khan's upcoming film, says that Tiger is far too kind to make such a remark.
"There is no match between us. Tiger is far too good. He dances like a dream," says the 27-year-old Shraddha.
It might be their first film together, but the two clicked the moment they met on the film sets. Shraddha reveals that they have been childhood friends, however, it was only on the sets of Baaghi that the two reunited.
And since then, it has been a roller-coaster ride for them. Getting to work with a childhood buddy on a film has been an amazing as well as an enriching experience for Shraddha.
"When you know someone and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in. And Tiger used to be so focussed and quiet in school. He is quiet now too, but his focus is of a different kind. He does this amazing action, he dances like a dream. He is totally disciplined. He is very inspiring to be around," adds the ABCD 2 actor.
But did this very friendship make it awkward for them to get intimate on screen? Pat comes the reply, "Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical. So it was all thanks to our director. He made both of us very comfortable during those scenes."
Just six films old in the industry, Shraddha doesn't want to stereotype herself in Bollywood. She has already tried her hands at doing a romantic film, a dance-based film, and with Baaghi, she will be seen venturing into the action genre. "I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up," says Kapoor.
And thanks to this very desire to do something new in each film, Shraddha would be seen packing a few punches in Sabbir Khan's directorial venture. The actor underwent rigorous training and says that learning Kalaripayattu (a form of martial arts) wasn't an easy task.
"It is for the first time that I am doing action and the preparation was quite challenging. I had to prep up over a few days, but it was pretty extensive training, just to learn the techniques of boxing, blocking, kicks. It was physically very demanding. In our film, the martial art used is Kalaripayattu. You need many years and months of training to perfect it. So, whatever I could learn in that short span of time, I did try to make the best of it," signs off the Ek Villain actor.