Bollywood stars Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in Dubai. Bollywood stars Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt talk about the challenges of filming the Indian romantic comedy 2 States and the secret behind their on-screen chemistry. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00The idea is not to create, if it happens, it's not chemistry, you're in a relationship
00:20in the film.
00:21As in in this film especially, we're supposed to be a couple that's dating and we have a
00:25living relationship and we want to get married.
00:27I think film making is the biggest lie in the world, you're supposed to convince audiences
00:29about a lot of things.
00:30You have to try and be as natural and as normal as possible, don't try and force it, I think
00:34what happens, happens naturally and the audiences are a better case than us knowing what we're
00:38doing.
00:39We should just follow impulse.
00:40Obviously we were doing, whatever chemistry, whatever we had, it was out of the characters.
00:45Me being Ananya and him being Krish.
00:47Even when we were talking to each other, chilling, hanging out, kissing, whatever it is, we were
00:55doing it as those two characters, not as Arjun and Ananya.
01:01Epic romance or not, I think just spending time with the person, you do feel an attraction,
01:06it's normal.
01:07Yeah, I mean that you can't hide.
01:08But it doesn't have to always lead into being something.
01:11You're a boy, she's a girl, there is attraction and you use that as an actor to play the characters
01:17also.
01:21I don't know if I'm natural or not, for me not reading the book came from my director
01:24allowing me not to do that.
01:26I had every intention to read it.
01:27When I told him I've not read it after reading the script, I was offered the film, so I read
01:30the script first.
01:31He said, okay, since you've not read it, don't read it.
01:33Use your own headspace that you've correlated with Krish and try and find something new.
01:38Look at it from a new perspective that maybe Chetan and me have never looked at Krish from
01:42and see where it goes and I'll correct you if you're going haywire.
01:45So, that was my confidence that I got from my director and knowing that the material
01:48is strong enough for me to understand the character without going back into the book.
01:51The toughest thing for me, like I said, he's a very controlled character, so you will not
01:55see him doing irrational, stupid things.
01:59But when she comes into his life, he does all the irrational, stupid things without
02:03even realising.
02:04I guess, yeah, that was for me difficult to be normal and still play that little boy who's
02:09falling in love and not realising it.
02:11That was for me an interesting bit in the film that comes.
02:13It's a very small chunk in the film, but that was very interesting for me to do as an actor.
02:16I never look at things as difficult for me.
02:18Yeah, exactly.
02:19I agree.
02:20I don't know about difficult, but I obviously look for a challenge in each film, otherwise
02:24it becomes boring, you know, and you tend to not give in properly, that extra effort.
02:28For me, the challenge was to be a little ahead mentally, more mature as a human being and
02:34as a girl.
02:35Ananya's character, she's very fiery, very spunky, but she's very mature and she's very
02:38level-headed.
02:39And for me to speak like her, but at the same time have energy, but not in an obvious way,
02:45was something that I...
02:46I mean, I remember every time Abhishek would come to me, I'll have energy.
02:50Just don't forget the energy.
02:51And energy does not necessarily mean me speaking fast, which I tend to do.
02:55I had to speak coherently, which he helped me with.
02:58And having...
02:59But still that, you know, that kind of spunk in the eye, that little sparkle and twinkle,
03:03which had to constantly be there.
03:08If anybody has that answer, please give it to us.
03:10Yeah, we really don't know.
03:11What makes a perfect love story?
03:15To each their own.
03:16I think the imperfection is the best part of a love story.
03:19The problems and the obstacles and the ups and downs.
03:22No relationship is going to be hunky-dory.
03:24There is no happily ever after in life, no?
03:26There's a happily ever after till you go to sleep.
03:28Next morning you wake up, there's life to continue.
03:30Yeah.