Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor’s iconic film, Jab We Met has a separate fanbase. For the unversed, Imtiaz Ali directed the movie, and it still continues to leave cine lovers in awe every now and then. ‘Geet’ and ‘Aditya’ from the movie have become a sensation among youngsters. Recently, talking about his role, ‘Aditya’, Shahid Kapoor shared some unheard anecdotes from the movie.
Shahid Kapoor recalls fighting with everyone on the Jab We Met set so that he could wear glasses
In a recent interview with Film Companion, Shahid Kapoor shared that during the shoot of Jab We Met, he actually fought with everyone to let him wear glasses. Shahid recalled people asking him how he could wear glasses as a hero, and to this, Shahid had to convince everyone on the set that ‘Aditya’ contemplated suicide at the beginning of the movie. Elaborating more on the same, Shahid stated:
“I fought with everybody. I was like, ‘I want to wear glasses for this,’ and everybody’s like, ‘Are you mad?’ Hero glasses thodi pehenta hai? Tu gaana kaise gayega?”