Shahid Kapoor is all geared up for his next release Batti Gul Meter Chalu. Helmed by Shree Narayan Singh, the film is a social drama that talks about issues like high electricity bills in small towns. But this is not the first time that Shahid has tackled real-life issues through his films. While Haider was set in a conflicted state like Kashmir, Shahid's other film, Udta Punjab was about the drug problem in the state of Punjab.
Acknowledging the recent filmmakers for wanting to tell stories that need to be told, the actor told a leading daily, "Shree and Sidharth-Garima didn’t want to make BGMC (Batti Gul Meter Chalu) into a documentary, they wanted to tell the story through all the gamut of emotions that they want you to feel. It’s not a personal story, but it’s woven like that... the journey may be personal, but it’s about a pertinent issue that many people in the country are facing."
The actor, whose last film Padmaavat was a hit at the box-office, candidly confessed, "BGMC is about an issue, Padmaavat had become an issue."
For the unversed, Padmaavat (earlier named Padmavati) got embroiled into controversy after a Rajasthan-based fringe group called the Karni Sena called for a complete ban on the movie, stating that Sanjay Bhansali's film distorted history and showed Rani Padmini in bad light. The film, starring Shahid, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, eventually released on January 25 this year.
Meanwhile, the trailer of Shahid's Batti Gul Meter Chalu has been lauded by the audience and the critics alike for being significant to people who live beyond Mumbai and other metro cities. On the work front, Shahid will also be seen in the Hindi remake of Arjun Reddy, apart from a sports biopic that he will be doing with Raja Krishna Menon.
