• Shahid Kapoor has once more expressed his emotions.
• He claimed that the movie’s failure devastated his heart.
• The actor is currently receiving plaudits for his first online series, Farzi.

After the underwhelming box office performance of his most recent theatrical movie, Jersey, Shahid Kapoor has once more expressed his emotions. He claimed that the movie’s failure devastated his heart. The actor is currently receiving plaudits for his first online series, Farzi. In the show, which also features Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Raashii Khanna, Bhuvan Arora, Zakir Hussain, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait, and Regina Cassandra, he produces counterfeit money.

In the movie Jersey, which also starred his actor father Pankaj Kapur, Shahid played a former cricket player. In the movie, Mrunal Thakur portrayed the female lead. But, it wasn’t well received at the ticket booths and only brought in 19.68 crore domestically.

Talking about how the film’s poor performance affected him, Shahid told “It just broke my heart. It was a really beautiful film and I feel the universe was not kind to us. The songs were out, the film was pushed for four months. The universe was not kind. With Jersey I realised that films are like fast food, one has to consume it at that moment. If you wait, uska mazaa chala jaata hai (it looses its flavour). We haven’t ever faced such a scenario, a pandemic, so we didn’t know how to go about it. And unfortunately, the film had to suffer.”

“I also feel that we didn’t do justice to the film. We could have made better choices. I don’t know, some things are meant to be a certain way. Even when you have control over things, there’s sometimes no control,” he added.

Last year, Mrunal Thakur told, “Apart from performances, there are a number of other factors that make a film work like positioning, marketing, etc. We spared no efforts. Maybe it’s a phase. Maybe there’re so many external reasons. I have no clue what is happening. But obviously, you feel a little bummed, and a little low, that maybe it could’ve done better because it’s a good film. Honestly, I was a little low.”

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Gowtam Tinnanuri made his Hindi film directing debut with Jersey. It was a replica of his identically titled 2019 Telugu movie. In addition to the untitled romantic comedy he is now working on, Shahid has another movie in the works.

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