Q) Are you looking at winning the popular awards for Badlapur or your next film ABCD2?
(Laughs) Can’t say. But Badlapur was one helluva challenge. All of us in the team worked really hard on it. The music, and then the film became a hit. All the actors, me, Nawaz, Huma, Yami, Divya Dutta… were accepted.
Q) You are a very skilled dancer. But did you have to brush up your skills for ABCD2?
Oh yes! Especially for the track Chunar where I had to be very comfortable with my surroundings before doing all that aerial dancing. The style was contemporary and Remo D’ Souza wanted everything to be perfect. A month of training went into that one song and dance.
Q) What was it like working with Shraddha Kapoor?
An absolute joy. She is the most beautiful co-star I’ve worked with. Besides being a very gifted actor and dancer, she’s also a great singer. That makes her dialogue delivery so emotionally rich. You just see, she is going to stun audiences with each film.
Q) You always over-praise your co-stars. You called Alia Bhatt the Robert de Niro of India?
That was a joke! What can I do if some sections of the media took it seriously? I praise my co-stars because they have so much to give to my growth as an actor.
Q) Do you feel like a better dancer now?
I feel like a better human being. Because now I can listen more patiently to instructions given by directors, as Remo’s instructions for the dance steps were so minute. As for the dancing, I am technically more equipped . I understand the emotions behind the dance motions.
Q) What about youracting?
With every film I think I am growing. I think I understand the craft much better now than I did during Student Of The Year. I can now see some of the relevance behind the written lines in the script.
