EXCLUSIVE: “People aren’t adverse to each other except when it’s cricket” – says Sardar Ka Grandson star Arjun Kapoor on Indo-Pak relations

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

May 19, 2021 - 2:03 PM IST

Sardar Ka Grandson is officially streaming. Directed by Kaashvie Nair and starring Arjun Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh and Neena Gupta as the main leads, the film is a story of a devoted grandson who embarks on a complicated and comic journey to fulfil his ailing grandmother's last wish. The film released on May 18, 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: “People aren’t adverse to each other except when it’s cricket” – says Sardar Ka Grandson star Arjun Kapoor on Indo-Pak relations

Now, in an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama, the star cast of the film, Arjun Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh and Neena Gupta got candid with us. When asked about how has been the support of Pakistan for Bollywood, Arjun talked about the scenario the film had while shooting and also talked about Indo-Pak relations. Arjun said, “Majority has been proactively supportive, there is euphoria for our films, there is love and unconditional support. I would refuse to believe that entertainment has not crossed boundaries and not connected people when it was not really possible due to the political environment and bureaucracy. This is one such time where today emotions have resonated and people are coming together and leaving aside borders and borders and whatever the political scenario might have been one or two years back.”

He further added, “Today people are not thinking about what the situation was, people are dealing with what the situation is. I respect that and I regard that and I hope it is not forgotten. After 6 months, things will get better; we might want to go back to certain postures about the way we believe. But that is where humanity has to grow and mature and evolve and you should not forget that in the time of need there was a helping hand and that should be respected in the bigger picture.”

Later in the chat, when Arjun was asked about the statement that he had earlier made for the Indo-Pak relationship, the actor said "Yes, of course, and that is something as a belief for the people who are from the same fraternity have felt love. Perhaps, a person sitting in a small town of India or in a regular city of India may not connect with anybody in Pakistan or maybe when you travel the world, you will not meet so many people from Pakistan who may come up and perhaps speak to you as you being Indian and them being Pakistani. We have felt that whether it's me or Rakul or Neena ma'am or any other artist and also musicians. We do realize that the situation is not about the people, it's about the environment that is created and that has a certain diplomatic, bureaucratic and political turn.”

He added, “People are not adverse to each other except when cricket happens. That’s it – which is also where Neena ma'am's character in the film comes in. Except for cricket, we have friendship and I just hope that friendship is kept alive and maintained. Today, the obstacles are more; I hope some obstacles get eradicated. I can just hope and pray that the distance and vacuum that has been created goes away and we are able to co-exist with peace and that is what this film also deals with, peace.”

He also further also said that "the whole point of creating this film was to create emotion and I feel happy that people are connecting with it."