From chocolate boy to Haider, Shahid Kapoor has finally arrived

Once upon a Friday in 2003, there came a movie Ishq Vishk' and gave the Indian film industry another chocolate boy by the name of Shahid Kapoor. And a Thursday in 2014 gave it an actor.'

The chocolate boy, then, went on to bag awards for his debut flick and people compared him with the evergreen chocolate hero of the industry - Shah Rukh Khan. He, actually, did resemble King Khan in his looks, acting and especially the choice of movies. But barring Shikhar' with Ajay Devgn, none of them acclaimed critical respect, leave alone audience's love.

Then through many duds and few hits like Sooraj Barjatya's Vivaah', Imtiaz Ali's Jab We Met' and Vishal Bharadwaj's Kaminey', Shahid Kapoor managed to hold his fort in the Indian film industry.

Last year's R Rajkumar' brought a much needed relief to this actor's career and a lot was pinned on the recently released Haider'.

One word for Haider' - One can be disappointed with the kind of cinema that's running nowadays in India; depressed too. And then one day, Haider', with all its darkness and craft, arrives on the screen. Haider' happens to complete Vishal Bharadwaj's Shakespearen trilogy. The adaptation of Shakespeare's play Hamlet', Haider' needed a nuanced actor to portray the most confused character of modern literature'.

Vishal Bharadwaj calls Shahid the most talented actor of his times', and adds that he needs to tap that talent. It's quite conincidental that he is the only filmmaker who has been able to do this, till now.

When Shahid was chosen to play Haider', few would have expected him to carry off this role with elan. But to many's surprise, the actor has nailed his part and how! In Irrfan Khan's words, Shahid Kapoor doesn't emerge as an actor in Haider'; he erupts with a tremendous force. Shahid's co-star in the movie took to Twitter to express this.

@shahidkapoor in haider doesn't emerge as n actor he rather erupts with tremendous force. A new chapter begins from here onwards . " IrrfanK (@irrfan_k) September 29, 2014

From the chocolate boy of Ishq Vishk' to the emotionally drenched and almost driven to the point of insanity Haider', he has come a long way. One can only feel happy that he didn't commit the professional harakiri that he was just on the verge of and, but, hope that he takes wiser decisions now hence and continue enthralling us with such performances. -

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