‘With Arjun, Varun and Sid the competition is tough!’
Ankur Pathak (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 18, 2014)

Girish Kumar, son of producer Kumar Taurani, is in Mauritius filming an yet-to-be-titled urban romcom. It is being directed by debutant filmmaker Vaibhav Misra.

The actor's first film was the Prabhu Dheva directed Ramaiyaa Vastavaiya which was produced by his father. But now he has stepped out of the home banner and is cautiously testing the waters.

"I took a year to sign my second film as all the offers that came along were so predictable and boring," he sighs. "This film is in a fairly realistic space about a guy meeting a girl at a turning point in his life. I could connect with the emotions he goes through."

He insists that he is proud of the fact that though his father launched him, he has nothing to do with his second film which is being produced by Vijay Galani of Veer and Ajnabee fame.

He admits that the young crop of actors have made the game tougher. "Look at the kind of films Varun (Dhawan), Arjun (Kapoor) and Siddharth (Malhotra) are doing. It's crazy and inspiring. But the competition is tough. I need to be extremely careful about what I choose to do," he says, quickly adding that he's not feeling insecure or threatened. "I know my strengths and weaknesses."

The frown turns into a smile when the subject veers towards his co-star, former Miss India Navneet Kaur Dhillon.

"We have been shooting for over a month together. She's so confident in front of the camera. I was seriously impressed!" he raves.