Shahid Kapoor says Kabir Singh grew to become a household movie regardless of being ‘edgy and aggressive’

Actor Shahid Kapoor lately dubbed Kabir Singh, the Hindi remake of Vijay Deverakonda‘s Telugu superhit Arjun Reddy, a ‘family film’. Shahid additionally opened up in regards to the field workplace failure of his current movie Jersey, which was additionally a remake of a south movie.

Kabir Singh was rated ‘A’ by the Central Board of Film Certification, and handled a number of severe themes, akin to alcoholism and abuse. The movie additionally attracted controversy for a scene involving bodily violence towards Kiara Advani’s character. Despite the mediocre critiques, Kabir Singh minted Rs 377 crore worldwide. A sure part of the audiences additionally known as the movie misogynistic. However, Shahid has now mentioned that the movie was adored by households.

“My last film, Kabir Singh, was technically an adult film, but the number of people who have liked it and watched it with their families is unbelievable. Somehow, it made it to the family space despite being edgy and aggressive,” Shahid mentioned in an interview with Bombay Times.

The actor additionally opened up on Jersey’s industrial failure and threw gentle on why the filmmakers stored pushing the movie’s launch date throughout the pandemic. Jersey, additionally starring Mrunal Thakur, was postponed twice earlier than lastly releasing in theatres in April 2022. Calling suspending the movie’s launch date, “a right call,” Shahid mentioned, “It was prudent to release a film at a time when the mood of the people was about choosing health over entertainment.”

Shahid lately spoke about how he needed Jersey to be a direct-to-digital launch because of the delay. He advised Karan Johar on Koffee with Karan, “When in December it didn’t happen (the release of the film), I was really thinking that should we just straight go to digital now.”

Shahid is all set to make his digital debut with Raj and DK’s upcoming Amazon Prime Video collection Farzi which additionally stars Vijay Sethupathi and Raashi Khanna.