After blockbusters like Jab We Met, Kabir Singh and Haider, the Bollywood actor shahid kapoor he is currently exploring the world of OTT. He said that his upcoming movie “Bloody Daddy” was developed with the idea of bringing the big screen experience on an OTT platform. The actor, who attended the trailer launch event along with Zafar and Himanshu Kishan Mehra, addressed claims that he increased the fee on him after the success of Kabir Singh and is charging Rs 40 crores for Bloody Daddy.
He seemed quite surprised and jokingly asked the scribe to give him that amount of money and he would make his movie. Director Ali Abbas Zafar also joked, adding: “You said less.” The actor was then asked if the makers of Bloody Daddy were able to break even the film’s budget through broadcast rights when he said, “Nahi Sir, humne sabko bhade mein leke Jio ko free mein de diya picture.” Adding to Shahid’s response, the creators said that the streaming platform paid them whatever was essential. “Jitna zaroorat hai, utna OTT of raha hai.”
Following this, Shahid replied, “Acha dekho, yahah pe jo teen log baithe hai, kya hum dukhi lagre hai? Do we seem unhappy, please tell us? Math pe matt ghuso.”
Written by Zafar and Aditya Basu, the film follows the story of Sumair (Kapoor) as he takes on Gurugram’s white-collar drug lords, deceitful friends, a ruthless crime boss, murderous drug lords, and corrupt and honest policemen, all during one. fateful night. It also features Diana Penty, Sanjay Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Rajeev Khandelwal in pivotal roles.
Bloody Daddy marks the first collaboration between Ali Abbas Zafar and Shahid Kapoor. Sharing his experience of working with Zafar, the actor said, “It was a lot of fun. I had a great time doing an action movie, I really enjoyed working with Ali. He understands the genre very well. The dilemma now is if you’re doing something this scale, in OTT, what do you do on the big screen? So we have to figure it out, it’s been great.”
The actor also revealed that his background in dancing helped him grasp action choreography very quickly. He added: “There is a lot of choreography involved with the dance, and because I started dancing at 15, I can memorize things very quickly, which helped us. When we made the film, unfortunately, due to COVID we had a lot of themes. The action directors they weren’t from here, some of them were from London, some of them came from Hollywood, and they’re used to a lot of rehearsals. And they came in and thought it was going to be a disaster. But because I’ve danced a lot, I was able to pick it up very quickly.”
‘Bloody Daddy’ will air from June 9 at Jio Cinema.