Shraddha Kapoor is going through a lull period as her movie Haseena Parkar failed to impress at the box office. She remained positive and welcomed the audience rejection with open arms to only bounce back with a bang.
In an interview with DNA, Shraddha opened up on why she said a yes to Stree- “I gave my nod to it mainly because I was laughing my guts out all through the narration. I was like, ‘This is funny. I definitely want to be a part of it.’ I knew after the first narration that I was doing Stree. Everything else — whether it was teaming up with Rajkummar Rao or Pankaj Tripathi — was a bonus. In fact, Dinoo (producer Dinesh Vijan) had told me that he had something funny for me, but I had no idea it would be this good. When I heard the story, I fell in love with it.”
She also said that she is happy to face failures early in her career, “I cannot deny the fact that a few of my films haven’t done well at the box office. But no one can predict a movie’s success or failure. I have been through a lot of ups and downs in my life right at the beginning of my career, so it didn’t affect me much this time. I had already faced it, so in a way, I knew how to handle things.”
When asked was she affected by the first flop post the string of successes, she said, “I was because there’s so much that goes behind putting a film together. You put your heart and soul into it and you believe that this is something you want to do. You have to accept the fact that the audience might also reject you at times. So, I accepted their rejection, too. But you can’t dwell on that for long. I choose to keep my head down and work hard.”
She was asked about the most challenging part of working in Stree, Shraddha said, “Working with such fine actors as Rajkummar, Pankaj ji (Tripathi) and Aparshakti (Khurana) was a challenge. I’m a huge fan of the kind of movies that Raj does. There’s so much to learn from them; they are so effortless and grounded. Stree is an innovation and introduces a new genre which is something that hasn’t happened before. The content is the hero, heroine and the star in Stree. To be a part of such content-driven films makes me happy.”
With Stree and Batti Gul Meter Chalu is already a hit among the fans, Shraddha is in a happy place.
