Shahid Kapoor gets candid about professional disappointments, ex-girlfriends and sexting
Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; June 12, 2019)

With his next film inching closer to its date with the box-office, Shahid Kapoor has been dominating the airwaves but his latest turn for the chat show BFFs was decidedly more candid than the rest. In conversation with Neha Dhupia, the actor not only discussed two of his most famous exes, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, but also looked back at professional disappointments. During the Colors Infinity show, the 38-year-old actor revealed that Priyanka, who tied the knot with beau Nick Jonas in December last year, invited him to the wedding reception in Mumbai.

When asked about Kareena, who married Saif Ali Khan in 2012, he said, “About Kareena I don’t remember, it was a while ago. I don’t think I was invited.” When asked to pick the better costar between Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat, he promptly went with the former. “I guess that’s because she and I needed to connect for our respective characters. I think I shared more with her because of that than I did with Ranveer,” he explained.

While on the topic of films, Shahid revealed that he was offered Rang De Basanti. “I regret not doing the film. They wanted me to play the role of Siddharth. I’d cried while reading the script and loved it but unfortunately couldn’t make time for it,” he rued.

But is there a film he wishes he hadn’t done? The actor admitted it had to be Shaandaar that also featured Alia Bhatt. “Even I was confused when I saw the film,” he chuckled.

Some of Shahid’s candour spilled over to his personal life as well, when he was almost coaxed into revealing who is the better sexter between him and his wife, Mira. “Equal hi hai, give and take hota hai. We are husband and wife so too much sexting is not really required,” he said, reluctant to spill the beans at first, finally revealing that he is the better one at it.