Harshvardhan Kapoor, who turned 26 on Tuesday is in no mood to celebrate. Instead, he is focusing his energies on his next film, Bhavesh Joshi. He says, “I don’t like to celebrate birthdays. I am prepping for the next schedule of my film, Bhavesh Joshi. It’s going to be a killer of a movie, I can assure you. We are trying to make a rocking, intense film.”
According to Harshvardhan, the Vikramditya Motwane movie, where the young actor plays a vigilante is a completely different world from Mirzya. The film marks his initiation into the world of street action as it contains some raw, gritty fight scenes shot on the streets of Mumbai. “Mirzya was surreal, poetic; Bhavesh Joshi is set in contemporary times. The issues it addresses concerns Indians very deeply,” says Harshvardhan, who sees this film as his political education.
The actor insists that Bhavesh Joshi is a complete contrast from his previous outing. He says, “The entire film is shot across locations in Mumbai. It is the opposite of a fantasy. It’s a script I surrendered to completely, because I believed in my director’s vision. When I look back on the film, I feel there’s nothing I’d change in it.”
In retrospect, he sees a common connection between his sister’s debut and his own. “After Mirzya, I am at a place where Sonam was after her first film, Saawariya.”
The young actor is unaffected by the criticism his first film received. He feels that the audience is missing some of layers and nuances in the storytelling. He says, “We as people are in a hurry. And in this hurry we tend to miss out on the finer points. That’s okay. I am confident my film will find its audience eventually. Some of my father’s best films Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Pukar and Lamhe got a mixed response when it released. Even Naayak, which is one of his most popular films today was not a success when released.”
