“I guess I’m the son of fate. I’ll tell you why. A friend of mine was going to an audition and I performed there. One of the attendees insisted that I should also stand in line. I did it just for fun. Two days later, I knew he was filming with Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Kajol for the Pepsi commercial. ” Any guess who the son of this fate might be? It’s Shahid Kapoor aka Sasha, especially those who think he’s cute. From courting teenage girls in his chocolate boy romances like ‘Ishq Vishq’ and ‘Vivah’ to making critics go wild in ‘Kaminey’, Shahid has certainly come a long way. Speaking of his films, the acclaimed “Jab We Met” deserves a special mention. Experts believe that the hit movie he starred in with then-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor turned out to be the turning point in his career.
As a child, Shahid acted with Ayesha Takia in the Complan ad “I’m a Complan Boy.” His next notable ad was the Pepsi superstar ad featuring Shahrukh, Rani, and Kajol. Thereafter, he was seen in music videos and commercials. Does the song ‘Aankhon Mein Tera hi Chehra’ by ‘Aryans’ with Hrishita Bhatt and Shahid Kapur sound familiar to you?
Her parents, mother Neelima Azeez and father Pankaj Kapoor, are actors. Well, Neelima is still remembered as Shehnaz from the 1980s Doordarshan series, Phir Wohi Talash, where Pankaj Kapur is a 3-time national award winner and is known for his roles in Office Office, Maqbool, and Karamchand Jasoos.
Although his parents divorced when he was only three years old, Shahid maintains that the news of his parents’ separation did not affect him much, due to the love and affection he received from his maternal grandparents, “Thanks to the care and concern of my grandparents “I was never so affected by the separation from my parents. My mother and I lived with them in the Delhi Press Enclave (Saket). My nanny Anwar Azim, was the editor of Sputnik presented by Urdu Blitz,” Shahid had said in a interview with Zeenews. in 2008.
Industry insiders say Shahid Kapoor loves to keep a low profile, lives a boring life, and is shy. It was a crush Kareena Kapoor who ‘chased’ shy Shahid! It has also been said that Shahid does not care about the many ties to his co-actresses and handsome celebrities. He has been linked to Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, and Sania Mirza.
Recently, Shahid was in the news for flying an F16 in Bangalore on February 12 at Aero India 2011 for his film ‘Mausam’, which is being directed by his father Pankaj Kapur. He flew the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet as a co-pilot with Paul ‘Bear’ Wendell up to a speed of 6G, did a loop, and also had a mock drill with F16. ‘Mausam’, where Shahid plays a fighter pilot, is touted as one of the biggest romantic movies of 2011 and, judging from the movie posters, it seems like the movie is set in a different time. With “Jab We Met” considered Shahid’s best romantic performance to date, I wonder if his role in Mausam can surpass his long-remembered role as Aditya Kashyap.