The cool demeanour director, Abhishek Kapoor sported in his attire of royal blue shirt and light blue denim, was in sharp contrast to his alert and every bit excited self, eager to share his joy, between sips of hot coffee at about five in the evening at DNA Ahmedabad office, answering queries from reporters and curious visitors alike.
Kapoor’s third film after Aryan (2006) and Rock On (2008), Kai Po Che is currently doing well at the box-office in Amdavad and worldwide. With plans of a canning a love story in his upcoming film, Kapoor spontaneously shares his insights into film-making. “There is no short-cut to success,” Kapoor said.
“When you have an idea and a story that you yearn to tell the masses, then it has to happen. And no one else can do it for you. It has to be you alone and your idea. If you have intense equation and bond with your idea, it will talk to you and guide you towards various means and routes you need to choose to execute the idea,” the director elaborated.
Failure is the signpost that directs one towards another way to reach the same summit. Kapoor said, “I have risen from a lot of failures. I have miserably failed in my previous attempts — acting, directing, even though my first film ‘Aryan’ is very close to my heart. Failure takes you away from your goals and then you try harder and yearn to achieve it. That yearning directs you to unfold newer ways of attaining success. And you can value success only if you have failed in the past.”
Sharing on what comes next after the recent success, Kapoor ‘s immediate response was: “When you succeed in achieving one goal, another crops up.” He further said, “Chetan Bhagat’s novel, ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’ talks about middle-class India, which lured me towards writing a screenplay for the same. My previous film, ‘Rock On’, was about the urban, responsive class.” Kapoor is on a love story hunt, flipping through books for the right love story.
