Arjun Kapoor says Dibakar Banerjee was always on his wish list

Arjun Kapoor, who is currently riding high with the success of ‘Mubarakan’, will next be seen in Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ which also stars Parineeti Chopra in the lead role. Recently, the actor revealed that Dibakar Banerjee was always on his wish list.

Arjun said, “Yeah (he was in my wish list). I remember when I came to know that he wants to meet me… when I was told that he and me will be meeting, I genuinely felt a sense of pride.”

“As a director, I have followed his work very closely over the last few years and I was excited to meet him because of that reason. He is on people’s wish list and he was on my wish list as well,” the actor added. (Also Read: Arjun visits Gauri Khan at her new store and has a ‘hilarious’ meeting with her)

After ‘Ishaqzaade’, he will be collaborating with Parineeti Chopra for the second time. Well, there were rumours that the film will tackle the issue of depression. However, Arjun in an interview had cleared that the movie is not based on depression. He had said, “That’s because nobody has work on social media. It’s not based on depression. You don’t base films on depression; it is something that a character goes through. There was a very nice quote that I read. I posted it because sometime there are a lot of people that are going through their personal battles, and if we put up something it can always trigger something positive in the head.”

“If you read that quote and anybody who interprets it as depression, actually doesn’t understand what depression is. That’s actually a way of saying ‘you will fall, you will get hurt, you will feel pain, you go through bad days more often than good days, but you still have to get up and fight’. When you meet fans, they are going through their own hardships and then I read about them only Twitter, social media, you can’t reply to everybody. As a human being sometimes, you feel that connects with you, will connect with them also. So, that’s what I did, I posted something and Parineeti reposted it. So, everybody thought it’s a marketing thing, but it was actually not, it was something genuine. Not anything to do with Dibaker Sir’s film,” he added.

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