'Dil Maange More is more of a comedy than love story'

Article Updated 31 December, 2004 02:05:03 PM IST

'Dil Maange More is more of a comedy than love story'

He impressed everybody with his role in Ishq Vishk and then gave a great performance in Fida and now he is back as a young lover boy in a fun filled comedy ‘Dil Maange More’. His lover boy status has been solidified recently in the media with the famous Kareena mid-day lip pictorial and some might say it came at a great time for him as his third movie in which he plays a lover-boy is just about to be released. Let’s just say that greater publicity stunts have been pulled in Hollywood just before big releases. We met up with Shahid to have a chat about his character and his career, read on to see what he has to say.

What made you sign Dil Mange More in the first place?
I am pretty instinctive when it comes to signing films. I have no written rules and it’s not necessary to have a big director or have a huge production house. Obviously, these are important matters but at the end of the day, I should feel excited when I hear a script. I should want to be a part of the script and be a part of the project. So when I heard this script I thought that it was very novel project as it had 3 heroines and that was the first thing that set it apart from the other scripts that I was hearing that time. Then I wanted to do a comedy after Ishk Vishk and Fida, although Ishk Vishk had comedy, Dil Mange more has much more comedy. It is a funny film. Ishq Vishk was more a love story than comedy this is more of comedy than love story, I would say. It is a comedy of errors. Lots of people say that it’s a great situation to have 3 girls and one guy but for the character Nikhil it is the worst possible situation. Because he gets stuck and he tends to be at all the wrong places at all the wrong times. It has clean entertainment and is a young and youthful film for the entire family.

You had the best of offers after Ishk Vishk. What made you do a film with a relatively new director like Anant Mahadevan?
I don’t think the success or failure of a film should decide whether you should work with somebody or not as the biggest of directors who started with disasters and went on to make biggest of hits. When I interacted with him, I saw that he was very passionate about his film and he knew what he was talking about. I felt he has the right perspective in how he treats the film. He didn’t want the film to be very heavy or dramatic. He wanted the film to be a fun caper from beginning to end. It has the tagline that it is the ultimate romantic comedy. So, I wanted to do a film like that and so I did it.

How was it romancing three beautiful girls?
For that you will have to see the film. The character keeps on getting in trouble with all the girls and that’s what the film is all about. The character is about a 19 year old trying to discover love and making all the mistakes that a 19-year-old boy makes. I think all the three girls are very talented and have done a great job. They have well etched out characters and none of the three characters are similar and they are playing three different parts. Each part does bring about some change in the film.

Soha is making her debut in the film. What do you think about her?
She was so confident right from the start. She is very natural. It does not feel that she is working very hard to act. She is very good.

The music of the film is being talked about a lot?
Music is very good and I think there are six songs and all of them are superb. This is definitely Himesh Reshamiyian’s best music of the year. It’s very young and what I like about this is the music has been created keeping the youth and energy in mind.

Do you consider this film as an ideal film after Fida?
I really don’t know. Everyone told me that Fida was the right film after Ishq Vishk but it didn’t do as well it was expected to. I now think that if the film is good, it will do well. So, we cannot be judges of right or wrong as 80% of our film flops. We can just work hard and give everything to the film; rest is in the hands of the audience. I liked the script, I liked the subject and I did it. I did not plan what should come first and what should not. Whatever finishes first comes first.

What do you think went wrong with Fida?
I do not like to analyzed after it’s become a hit or a flop. You see, if the film is a hit, people like everything about it. But if it flops people hate everything about it. I think we made a good film and I still stand by my film, which I will do with every film of mine as I choose the subject, and agreed to do it. I think everybody worked very hard in the film and what people did not like was the climax. I think people did not expect that I shot Kareena in the film. They were very shocked by it and they did not like the negative end. Otherwise everything was great in the film, the performances, the music the publicity. I think the climax of the film did not work that’s it.

The audience will get to see you and Kareena in ‘Milenge Milenge’?
I won’t give away anything. It is a conventional love story and we make a special pair. Obviously, Fida did not have any romance between us. I don’t know how people spoke about the chemistry. We just had one song and apart from that there was a nothing. There were no romantic scenes and infact Fardeen had more romantic scenes. ‘Milenge Milenge’ is the film, which the audiences would get to see more of us.

What are the other films you are doing?
John Matthew Matthan’s film, ‘Life Ho To Aise’ with Mahesh Manjrekar and ‘Milenge Milenge’. I am very happy with the way my career is shaping. I just hope to make my directors happy and do my work to the best of my ability.

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