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Can't be an actor if you're lazy, says Arjun Kapoor

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Can't be an actor if you're lazy, says Arjun Kapoor

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Actor Arjun Kapoor, whose next film is "Half Girlfriend", says laziness is not an option in any profession -- especially not when it comes to the acting world.Excerpts from the interview:Q. "Half Girlfriend" is your second project with author Chetan Bhagat. How different was the experience as compared with "2 States"?Chetan Bhagat is the author in both cases. But for 392 States39, he gave his consent for a screen adaptation and when the film was completed he was shown the end product and asked for his opinion. That was it. In 39Half Girlfriend39, Chetan was part of the entire journey of filmmaking.Q. In what way?He39s a producer on 39Half Girlfriend39 and was on the sets almost every day. He was a willing learner on the sets. I had not read either of his novels before approaching the films. But I got to learn a lot from the way he had written the characters.Q. Was it sheer laziness that made you not read the books before attacking the film versions?Not at all. I am subservient to my directors and their command. For both 392 States39 and 39Half Girlfriend39, I relied on my directors39 vision and interpretation. They never asked me to read the books. Being lazy is not an option in any profession. You don39t become an actor if you want to be lazy.Q. So it wasn39t laziness?No. I39ve never been much a book reader. I am more of a movie watcher since I was a kid. Reading was never my hobby.Q. Whom is "Half Girlfriend" aimed at?I think Chetan Bhagat has cracked an important audience. The college-going youngsters for whom education and relationships are the two pillars of existence. Whoever hears the synopsis of 39Half Girlfriend39 says he has heard of people to whom this has happened.Q. A lot of youngsters who fail in education and/or relationships commit suicide these days?It would be unfair of me to generalize on such a sensitive issue. I wouldn39t know what levels of depression they have gone through. I39d never think of suicide as an option. At the same time, it would be easy for me to judge and introspect on life and death. One can only hope and pray that youngsters should stop taking their lives. We should work toward counseling the depressed. Anyone who is depressed should have the option to reach out to people who can help.Q. Shraddha Kapoor plays someone socially superior. How did you establish that rapport of unequals with her?I didn39t have to try much. The disparity was evident in the writing. On my part, I didn39t spend time joking and being friendly with Shraddha. I maintained a distance. That was easy to do since Shraddha and I were not the best of friends when we started working together, although we were both from the industry.Q. You didn39t attend her birthday parties as a child?Of course I did. But she39s younger than me. So we didn39t grow up as part of one group of friends or hang out together. So it was easier for me to play this silently reverent lover boy. I needed to have that awe of a child towards someone he looks up to. Around her, I was supposed to behave like a child in candy store. Ironically she likes him for being himself.Q. So how do they break the ice?Actually these two form a very unique bond because of basketball. On the basketball court, all the facades and pretensions dissolve.Q. Are you now a good basketball player?Thanks to this film, I can hold my own on the basketball court. I have my basketball coaches to thank for that. Yes,before you ask, I actually had two National Basketball Association coaches on board.Q. You also had a language coach to teach you the Bihari accent?Yes, except for a life coach, I had all other coaches on boardlaughs.

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