Arjun Kapoor REVEALS why most people today are afraid of commitment
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 17-05-2017
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After 2 States, now HG. Are you a poster boy for Chetan Bhagat's books?
I wish I was a poster boy for Chetan (laughs) - then I could have been in his other films, too. It's not as if we have sat in a room and decided how to make these two films. It's happened from the director's side. To give credit where it's due, Chetan is a very intelligent writer when it comes to understanding his readers and the Indian thought process. If more directors are adapting Chetan's novels and their vision connects with mine, I would be more than happy to continue this journey. But at the end of the day, the director is very important. For Chetan and me to come together, again and again,
has more to do with Mohit Suri and Abhishek Varman rather than anything else.
Do you believe in the concept of a half girlfriend where you love someone but she just wants to be a friend?
This word has been articulated now through this film. It didn't exist before this, as a lot of situations and relationships that have happened in our lives where you have felt a lot more than just a friend for somebody, but it has not culminated in a real relationship because of circumstances or just not being able to speak to the other person and tell them what you feel. I don't think that in normal day-to-day life, we'd tell someone, ‘I want to be your half-girlfriend'. Circumstances create that situation. There's an understanding that makes you pine for that person beyond friendship. But commitment cannot happen due to circumstances.
Are you in love?
Yes... I am in love with myself (grins) and that's the best way to be I think right now. I have given my work so much importance that I have not allowed love to seep in and that's been the case for me for the last few years. I am ready for love and yet I am a bit scared about change. I have got so comfortable about leading this mad life that sometimes I wonder if I will allow anyone in an if they will be able to survive this madness? Prioritising, the practicality of a relationship, taking out time, nurturing it - sometimes I wonder if I am capable of all this. When you find the right person, all that happens so...