Aditya Roy Kapur: ‘You do your best work when you’re at the edge of fear’

Updated On: 05 June, 2025 09:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Aditya Roy Kapur discusses how playing the quirky character in Metro… In Dino was uncharted territory for him and made him feel ‘alive’ as an artiste

Aditya Roy Kapur

There is a reason everyone awaits an Anurag Basu film. The world he builds is a lot like the one we live in — it has lost souls seeking answers, flawed people trying to be better, and almost everyone wishing to find love amid their hustle in the city. All this, with a dollop of hope. And honesty, points out Aditya Roy Kapur. “There is honesty in how Dada [Basu] writes his relationships,” says the actor, who stars in the filmmaker’s upcoming release, Metro… In Dino.

Yesterday, the makers released the trailer of Metro… In Dino, a sequel of sorts to the much loved Life in a… Metro (2007). With the film, Kapur — who featured in Basu’s Ludo (2020) — is happy to dive back into the director’s world of tangled love stories and messy human connections. This time, he is joined by co-stars Sara Ali Khan, Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher, Pankaj Tripathi, Konkona Sensharma, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Ali Fazal. “You have to strip yourself bare to feel all the love, loss, and longing he has poured into the story. With this project, there is also a musical element, where we had to figure out how to go from talking to singing, and then back to talking. Navigating that was challenging, but also rewarding,” he smiles.

(Clockwise) Anurag Basu, Aditya Roy Kapur, and Sara Ali Khan. Pics/Instagram