Glimpse – July 2019

60 | GLIMPSE | JULY 2019

RENDEVOUZ

Ever since the success of Kabir

Singh, the 38-year-old actor has

been garnering a lot of applause

for how he has managed to pull

off the role of a college boy with

conviction. About Kabir Singh

the character, Shahid had earlier

said, “Kabir Singh has been an

extremely challenging film for me

emotionally and physically. Since I

had three distinct looks in the film,

I had to transform myself to quite

an extent.”

S

hahid Kapoor gets into the skin of

every character he plays on screen,

and this time, he will be seen as an

alcoholic surgeon in the remake of

the Telugu blockbuster Arjun Reddy. Gulping

down alcohol straight from the bottle, puffing

on cigarettes, snorting cocaine and nursing

a broken heart, this is the only world of Dr

Kabir Rajveer Singh which also reminded

us of Tommy Singh, a rockstar hooked to

drugs, from Udta Punjab. Shahid revealed the

fact during Udta Punjab too that he doesn’t

endorse smoking or any form of drugs.

The film gave an idea to Shahid's fans that

his character will stay zoned out and consume

a lot of liquor and drugs. Shahid shared, “I

have always been a kind of a person in every

Text: Disney Brar

SHAHID

KAPOOR SAYS,

“MY FAMILY IS

MY DETOX”