Is ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ based on depression? Arjun Kapoor clarifies

After ‘Ishaqzaade’, Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra are all set to team up once again for Dibaker Banerjee’s ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ which will be produced by YRF. A leading daily had reported that the film will be tackling the issue of depression. However, recently, when we met Arjun for an interview, and asked him about the film being based on the concept, the actor denied the reports.

When Arjun was asked about him starring in ‘Namaste England’, he said, “At this point I am doing Dibaker sir’s film with Yash Raj, which got announced with Parineeti and me. I will start prepping up for it from August-September, and I start shooting for it in October. That’s the only film I am doing.” (Also Read: Arjun on working with Anil: I wanted to be worthy to stand in the same frame with him)

When further probed on the reports of ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ being based on depression, the actor 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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