Kriti Sanon and Sushant Singh Rajput were in the city on Sunday to promote their upcoming film Raabta, which is releasing next month and they couldn’t be more happy to share about the film with a genre, they have never explored before.
Raabta is about star crossed lovers from different lifetimes. Do you both believe in reincarnation in real life as well?
Kirti: My character, Saira, in the film at some point starts believing in reincarnation and I have read ‘Many Lives, Many Masters’, so somewhere down the line I would not completely dismiss the concept of
reincarnation.
Sushant: I do not believe in it.
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You both are playing two completely different roles in varying temporal spaces. How did you prepare for these roles?
Sushant: Each of us are playing two diametrically opposite roles, in the flashback as warriors and then back to present day couple. So a lot of effort went into perfecting these roles and trying to convince the audience of the shift in the lifetimes. For my role as a warrior in the flashback, I went through an intensive and exhausting month-long martial arts training in Bangkok. The goal was to convince the audience that we have shifted to a different time frame with a different person.
Kriti: I spent slightly more time with my present-day character because the duration of the flashback in the movie is limited to 20-30 mins. But I picked up quite a few skills while preparing for my role. My present-day character lives in Budapest and make chocolates, so I learned a bit of chocolate making and a bit of martial arts for my flashback character. Neither Sushant nor I know how to swim, so the underwater sequences were a different experience altogether.
You both are self-made stars and nepotism has been the talk of B-town for a while now. Do you agree that nepotism exists?
Kriti: Nepotism in Bollywood exists as much as it does in every other field. I do believe that star kids have an upper-hand when it comes to the first few opportunities but after 3-4 films it is purely based on talent.
Sushant: Nepotism is thriving in the industry. I would go to the extent of saying, not just the first few films, but rather nepotism helps you throughout your career. Especially in an industry like Bollywood, where bad films do well, and some good films are not credited with enough success, one starts to question 'how are we selling these bad films?' The constant bombarding of acknowledgment of the star-kids and the confirmation bias gets to you as an actor from a non-filmy background.