Shahid turns 'politically correct'!

He may have delivered a double dose in Kaminey, but Shahid Kapoor is content playing second fiddle to Rani Mukherji in Dil Bole Hadippa! “Not every film would be a Kaminey for me.

He may have delivered a double dose in Kaminey, but Shahid Kapoor is content playing second fiddle to Rani Mukherji in Dil Bole Hadippa! "Not every film would be a Kaminey for me.

I think the film is being promoted for what it is. I am just five-years-old in the industry, so I’m welcoming all sorts of offers that come my way,” he says, adding, “I have a significant part to play and I have lived up to it.”

Ask him about his reaction to actor Salman Khan calling him a politically correct person after he went to Khan’s show, Dus Ka Dum and pat comes the reply, “I don’t try to be politically correct, but if I have bagged such a title, it just means that whatever I say happens to be correct and I can’t do anything about it. I don’t think one should necessarily make statements that brew controversies.”

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The actor is also grateful to Kareena Kapoor for appreciating his film Kaminey. “It is very kind of her to say that she liked Kaminey and I am glad that she did.” So is he a fan of any the films that she did after Jab We Met? He answers, “I have not seen any of her films after that, but I am looking forward to 3 Idiots.”

And has he finally figured out the key to dealing with recurrent news of link-ups with co-actresses? “I have learnt to start taking it with a pinch of salt because it will start affecting my work and my personal equations with people if I take it seriously,” he says, and jokingly adds, “Rani keeps fighting with me saying, ‘Yaar hum logon ki koi link-up story media mein kyun nahi aayi? Hum mein kya kami hai?’