"A lot of people could think that could be the reason I got it (the show) but I think that was one of the reasons I may not have got it. "Somewhere I feel it was playing on his mind that Madhuri and I had done two romantic films, one was a blockbuster, so would this pairing take away from their characterisation?
The actor said Rao first had a series of Zoom calls with him from New York where he tried to gauge if Kapoor would be perfect for the show. Kapoor's journey with The Fame Game began when he was approached by filmmaker Sri Rao, who serves as the showrunner and writer on the series. To last for such a long time, it is very, very tough," he added. To last here for three-four years is also tough. "I must have done something right for me to sit here and do this big show. Kapoor said the fact that he landed the series shows that content creators have confidence in him as an actor. The actor now stars in the upcoming Netflix series The Fame Game which tracks the life of a Bollywood icon Anamika Anand (Dixit Nene), who disappears one day.Įvery relationship of Anamika's, including that with her husband Nikhil (played by Kapoor), comes under the scanner as her seemingly perfect life is investigated. Your films can go wrong, but you shouldn't". Maybe I'm not choosing the right films, something is going wrong. I tried harder but I knew that maybe something I'm doing isn't right. So even when the going was tough, it didn't hold me back. There were times when fame was there and there were also times when fame was less. "I only wanted to do good work, collaborate with good actors and directors. Since Kapoor was never obsessed with fame, he said it was easier for him to adjust when the spotlight wasn't on him. Without taking names, a lot of people get famous even by doing ordinary work, because they're in front of the camera, they are entertaining".
"Fame can be described as a perk of the job, but the job is more important than the fame.
Kapoor said he never took fame seriously and hence was never addicted to it.Īnyone who is in front of the camera for a long time can be popular, but fame isn't a metric for quality, he added. I really feel grateful for my journey when I look back". I got into production, didn't want to do things for the sake of money. "I didn't sell myself cheap - by that I don't mean materialistically, but I didn't get into the wrong films. God has been kind, in the last five years, but I've gone through my share of lows which I've taken into my stride. "But truth be told, I've seen more lows than highs. In an interview with PTI, the 56-year-old actor said the last five years have been a game changer for him thanks to OTT, where the Netflix anthology Lust Stories and the Voot Select series The Gone Game brought him glory. He moved to television in the early 2000s, while also featuring in select Hindi films like Luck By Chance and Shaandaar Though the Indra Kumar directorial led Kapoor to bag more films, including Salman Khan-starrer Auzaar and Mohabbat, he only found success in the romantic drama Sirf Tum in 1999. Kapoor first tasted success with the 1995 hit film Raja, which featured him alongside Madhuri Dixit Nene Actor Sanjay Kapoor says he is a "glass half-full" person, a quality that has helped him wade through the contrasting phases of stardom and dipping popularity in his almost three decade-long career.