Upala KBR (DNA; June 11, 2014)

The audiences love our sex comedies. They all do good business. Proof: Grand Masti makes Rs 100 crore and the Kyaa Kool Hai Hum series has been a blockbuster. Yet actors are shying away from them. While Riteish Deshmukh wants to do clean comedies now, Rajkummar Rao recently claimed he turned down the third part of Kyaa Kool Hai Hum offered to him by his mentor Ekta Kapoor. The triquel is being currently cast and Tusshar Kapoor, who has acted in both the earlier ones, is amused that actors are shying away from sex comedies which he prefers to call ‘adult comedies’. Read on...

Actors today are refusing sex comedies as they are embarrassed about being associated with the genre...
I am a film-industry child and I understand that as actors it’s important to do all kinds of films. Some people feel that being star kids, it’s easier for us to be selective but that’s far from the truth. I don’t conform to any sensibilities. I have the versatility to do a Shor In The City and a Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum because at the end of the day one has to keep in mind that one is not doing it for himself. The masses come first and it’s all about entertaining them. I don’t have any preferences for any genres. I have as much respect for adult comedies as I do for a Khakee or Shor...

How do you react when you hear actors turning down a role in Kyaa Kool...series?
I would like to go on record to state — and you can ask anybody in Balaji also — that the script has not been sent or narrated to anybody, including me, who has been part of the franchise from the beginning. So the question doesn’t arise of anybody refusing to do the film. Let whoever say whatever they want. No one can claim that they were sent the script and said no.