Feeing double with Fhahid

Shahid Kapoor talks about practising his F words for Kaminey

Shahid Kapoor talks about practising hisu00a0F words for Kaminey

Double meaning jokes
Funny most of the time, actually! Well, at least I find them funny.

If someone double-crossed you
I'd say, "Ruk ja kaminey. Tujhhe nahin chhodoonga!" (laughs, imitates Charlie) Double-croffff!

Have a body double?
Yes, I do, but it changes from film to film. For the stunts mostly, like in Fida and Kaminey. But in this one, all he did was pretty much stand around for focusing the camera. I did everything. He offered to do the running shot with the horses, but I said, 'No, I'll do that one.' Dude, he used to keep looking at me and saying, 'These hair extensions don't they itch?' I was like, finally, someone who knows what I'm going through!

Ever had a double pav?
Like a vada pav? In double? How does it fit in your mouth?!

Wished you had a double life?
You know, I can't even multi-task. I think it's a woman thing. Ninety-nine per cent men can't multi-task. A double life would be disaster zone. I'd be lost.

Do people feel there are two Shahids in there? Like you're schizophrenic?
I'm very moody, I must confess. There are times when people feel, 'Oh god! He's so different from what he was yesterday.' Trust me, when I get quiet, I can be super quiet. It's disconcerting to a lot of people.

To your girlfriend?
Ummm, to my girlfriend, maybe initially. But I'm pretty aware of it so I'm that quiet when I believe the other person understands me enough.

Everyone talks like Charlie
(Laughs) Ya. A lot of Facebook messages and smses that come to me are all with the f. It started happening three-four days after the trailor released. We went like, 'Whoa! That's big!' We were excited that people had caught on. That was the agenda. There's this line that to me symbolises the flavour the film. Charlie says, "Paifa kamane ke liye do rafthe hai. Ek fortcut or doofra, ek chhota fortcut."

Replacing s with f
It took looonngg. We kept rehearsing it though and sometimes you don't realise. In 25 words, five are with f, but you can miss out one and imagine, I had to do an entire film like that. You have to improvise too. The difficult part for me was because I was shooting both guys together Guddu the guy who stammers and Charlie who lisps. I would be sitting in a corner and focus, "Now I stammer."

Why Kaminey
Kaminey? I got off my chair when I first heard it. Whaaattt? Vishal (Bhardwaj) told me, "Shahid, our film is not about nice, sweet, harmless people. It's about a bunch of ruffians, very messed up people." They're naughty, badmash, tedha, not very nice guys to be around. That's why Kaminey was apt.

Brotherly hatred
Hate each other. Actually, that's what I liked about this film. You're used to seeing do bhaiyon ki amar kahani jo ek doosre se pyaar karte the aur jaan de dee. Here, the two brothers can't stand the sight of each other.

Kaminas ya sweet people?
I know more kaminas than sweet people! I think there's a kamina in each of us. None of us are saints. (Imitates) "Yaar, I'm so sorry, my phone fell in the bathroom and I couldn't call you back." That's a kamina, no?

Horsing around
I'm thrilled that so many people are asking me about this. I asked Vishal, "You want me to run with white stallions and you actually think that people are going to be looking at me?" he said, "Yeah, because you're not going to have your shirt on." I told him, "Okaaay. Give me one year and I'll give you that shot." It was that difficult. We did shots of me running with the horses and got .1 per cent of that. They outran me. Then we tried it with the horses really far behind and I was (imitating his running) shouting, "Are they going to run over me?" And they yelled, "No Shahid, keep running!" (laughs hard). It was pretty crazy. So that was one shirtless guy and 15 white stallions.

Dhan te nan!
Kudos to choreographer Ahmed (Khan) because Vishal told us, "Is pe dance karna hai lekin steps nahin karna." Huh? He said that we should make it look at dancing in a club. Twenty people don't do the same step there. Ahmed told me not to think, to just move instinctively to the song. He placed cameras everywhere. And the song itself makes the difference. Dhan te nan!!! We used to say it as kids when we were narrating a story.

Vishal saying that Shahid would be a far better actor if he didn't obsess over his hair and muscles
(Mockingly) Well, I have hair and like brushing my hands through it once in a while. And I think I'll manage being a decent actor despite that. But jokes apart, Vishal can be honest about me and I appreciate that. Although, it was his idea to give me hair extensions so I don't think he should be complaining!u00a0

Message to Sania Mirza
Wishing her all the best yaar. Wishing a wonderful happy life. I did know about it before, but no, I've not met her fiance.

Affairs making headlines, not movies
Everybody asks me why I don't get offered multi-starrers. I finally found the answer to that. Most heroes are insecure that if they work with me, they'll get linked with me (laughs).

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