Shahid Kapoor has as soon as once more shared his emotions after his final theatrical launch Jersey fell flat on the field workplace. He mentioned the movie’s failure broke his coronary heart. The actor is at present incomes reward for his debut net sequence, Farzi. He creates counterfeit foreign money within the present which additionally stars Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Raashii Khanna, Bhuvan Arora, Zakir Hussain, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait and Regina Cassandra. Also learn: Shahid Kapoor says he hated being referred to as cute: ‘Why would you say that to anyone?’
Shahid performed a former cricketer in Jersey, which additionally starred his actor father Pankaj Kapur. Mrunal Thakur performed the feminine lead within the movie. It nevertheless, did not discover many takers on the ticket counters and picked up simply ₹19.68 crore on the home field workplace.
Talking about how the movie’s poor efficiency affected him, Shahid advised Indianexpress.com, “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 additionally really feel that we didn’t do justice to the movie. We might have made higher selections. I don’t know, some issues are supposed to be a sure manner. Even when you may have management over issues, there’s typically no management,” he added.
Last 12 months, Mrunal Thakur had advised ETimes, “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.”
Jersey was directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, and marked his Hindi directorial debut. It was the remake of his 2019 Telugu movie of the identical title. Shahid is at present engaged on an untitled romantic comedy and has yet one more movie within the pipeline.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com