‘Half Girlfriend’: Here’s how Arjun Kapoor prepared himself to be a basketball player

Filmmaker Mohit Suri’s upcoming romantic drama ‘Half Girlfriend’ is all set to hit the screens in a coming few months. The fresh onscreen pairing of Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor has already created the right amount of buzz among their fans and moviegoers. This movie is an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s book of the same name and will see the lead pair of Arjun-Shraddha entering into the sports zone, playing the part of basketball players. Recently, Mohit Suri chose to talk about the efforts his lead actor Arjun Kapoor had put to play this part of basketball player with sheer perfection.

Mohit had given an interview to a leading daily where he said, “It was important to get the nuances right and for the sport to look as authentic as possible on screen. In order to achieve that, Arjun was required to become a basketball player instead of just enacting the part. He went through rigorous training for three months for which top NBA coaches were flown down from the US.”

“Arjun has played basketball in school so he was familiar with the sport. But to portray a character like Madhav, who is a national level player, he put in a lot of hours to bring finesse to his game. He picked up tricks, worked on technique, even learnt to score baskets from ‘half court’,” added the ‘Aashiqui 2’ filmmaker.

Talking about the character, Arjun Kapoor will be seen playing the part of Madhav Jha who hails from Bihar. The actor also underwent a dialect training for this.

The movie is produced by Ekta Kapoor and is slated to release on May 19, 2017.

Amod Pandit

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