Arjun Kapoor sees different side of Delhi

Arjun Kapoor is one actor who has seen a different side of Delhi known for its energy and vibrancy.

During his shooting for “Ki and Ka” in the capital the actor said Delhi gets “a little still, a little dreamy and a little melancholy” during night.

The actor shared his experience of witnessing the serene side of the city on Twitter.

“Night shoot and you get to see a different side of Delhi…a little still, a little dreamy, a little melancholy…and lots of TRUCKS passing by,” Arjun tweeted.

Come morning, and the Gunday actor came up with a way to ditch the morning blues as he shared a selfie with India Gate in the background.

R. Balki’s Ki and Ka is a romantic film about two people with contrasting ideologies. While Arjun essays a progressive husband, who supports his wife’s ambitions, Kareena Kapoor Khan portrays a super ambitious career-oriented woman in the movie.

The film is slated to hit the theatres next year. – CINEWS

Source:http://www.canindia.com/arjun-kapoor-sees-different-side-of-delhi/

How Arjun Kapoor Trained For Basketball Scenes in Half Girlfriend

Actor Arjun Kapoor said that trainers associated with the popular NBA (National Basketball Association) helped him fine-tune his basketball skills for the film Half Girlfriend.

"In the book, basketball is a crucial element at the beginning of their relationship. It's because of basketball that he gets the confidence to talk to the girl. We wanted the basketball scenes to look real, not just bouncing around the ball for the sake of it. That is the reason, people from America and NBA came to train us and spent two and a half months with me," the actor said.

"After Ki And Ka released, I had begun my preparation," Arjun said, during an interview for the promotion of the film Ice Age: Collision Course in which he has voiced the character of Buck.

Arjun's scenes playing basketball have been the first to have been released in the film's promo. The basketball scenes have reportedly been shot at Delhi's Shri Ram College of Commerce.

"There is that Bihar style of talking of the character and I didn't want it to look 'caricaturish.' His English is not up to the mark and though he knows it, he hesitates to speak in it because he is from Bihar. He is told that you are from Bihar and your English is poor what will you be able to do in life. Just because he can't speak in English doesn't mean he is not intelligent," Arjun added.

"It's a big issue in India that people judge you on the basis of your English. So I wanted to play the character as genuinely as possible," added Arjun.

Half Girlfriend, also starring Shraddha Kapoor, is slated to release next year.

Source:http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/how-arjun-kapoor-trained-for-basketball-scenes-in-half-girlfriend-1431895

Goofing around like Arjun Kapoor

Arjun Kapoor, who is currently shooting for Mohit Suri’s Half Girlfriend, says that the most challenging part about lending his voice  for the Hindi version of the Ice Age: Collision Course, the franchise’s latest outing, was doing “a high energy character” like Buck. Kapoor will be making his voice-over debut with the fifth film of the series, which has Scrat (the squirrel) activating a UFO by accident, causing it to blast off into space and inadvertently  sending  a huge  asteroid hurtling   towards Earth. The plot revolves around the herd coming up with various (read crazy and humorous) ideas to stop it
‘Buck’ing UP
“The character is pretty out there. He is larger than life and full of fun. He is a little goofy, too, a little over-intelligent and over-smart, but still a kind-hearted soul,” says Kapoor, describing the one-eyed weasel whom he also terms as “very Hindi film hero-esque”. To play the British-Australian character—first introduced to us in Ice Age: The Dawn of Dinosaurs (2009)— Kapoor has picked up Gujarati and Hyderabadi accents and even imitates certain characters. Talking about whether Buck bears any resemblance to him, he says that the character is not similar to him and that’s what was  fun about the experience. “He is so different from me that’s why I enjoyed playing him,” says the 31-year-old, who now joins the likes of Sonakshi Sinha, Priyanka Chopra  and Irrfan Khan, who have also lent their voices to animation films. Experimenting with different voices along the way, Kapoor also imitated his uncle Anil Kapoor with his trademark jhakaas, along with doing imitations of Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) and Circuit (Arshad Warsi).
Changing Gears
Kapoor is currently filming for the movie adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s Half Girlfriend. Although he admits to not having read the book, he says a lot of work has gone into perfecting the accent and dialect of his character, who hails from a village in Bihar. “I am also spending time with people from Bihar to understand how they live, how they are, what their thought processes are, and what the culture is like. We did workshops in Mumbai, with a lot of actors who hail from Bihar and that kind of helped me get the accent,” says Kapoor, who also had to learn basketball since his character plays the sport. “Thankfully I had played it in school, so it came in handy,” he says. This is the first time that Kapoor will be working with director Mohit Suri. “I have always wanted to work with him. I think we have come together for the correct film. It’s truly going to be a different film for him and me,” he says. Other directors on Kapoor’s wishlist include Imtiaz Ali, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Rohit  Shetty and Ayan Mukherjee, among others.

Source:http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/Goofing-around-like-Arjun-Kapoor/2016/07/08/article3519760.ece