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On the Couch with Koel
Shahid and the dreaded question
The couch was born (almost a year ago now) because we wanted to get to know the person behind the drama without ever being invasive. Voyeurism for us is so last season. You know that we're true to our mantra and week after week the guests have opened up, laughed and willingly revealed a previously unseen part of themselves but never (bar the few midnight phone calls I've had requesting edit cuts. I just want to say to them think before you speak and you won't have to disturb my nocturnal activities) felt invaded. This is easy for me. People genuinely interest me, their life stories intrigue me but the iota of privacy they want to hold on to does nothing for me.
Tune into Headlines Today on Saturday,
August 15, at 7 pm and Sunday, August 16, at 1 pm to watch the show
With Shahid Kapur on the couch that task was tricky to say the least. Any host worth the fur on her couch can't avoid asking Shahid the dreaded Kareena question and yet my heart bleeds for the sheer number of times he's said leave me alone, I don't feel obliged to answer that, go play with traffic or some such shove off. It's like interviewing Jennifer Aniston for the first time - can Brangelina really be avoided?
What was I going to do? I applied mantra no. 2. When in a quandary, leave it the couch to decide. It must be the cosiness of the fur that does it. Before I could even ask, Shahid was talking about his most public of break ups. Waking up every morning to the newspapers rubbing it in his face was hurtful and hauntingly hard. He knows this will probably hang like a dark cloud over him for the rest of his life but he's learnt to be ok with it. He said he's accepted it comes with the territory and work helped him get through it. It was probably more than that. I discovered that Shahid is a follower of the Radha Swami spiritual sect and though he likes to be cautiously private about that path, I think it's given him wisdom and strength beyond his years.
He may come across as a simple, easy going, introvert and when you see the interview, you'll be surprised by his humour and ability to laugh but there are layers of complex intricacies hidden inside that I got glimpses of and it caught me unawares. There is so much going on in that pretty little boyish head of his that the nervous energy he emanates is electric and has a quality of dangerous unpredictability that makes talking to him exciting.
A lot is riding on his buff shoulders with his upcoming films. He knows he has to prove himself as a superstar in his own right or forever answer the dreaded question. Having said that I had a strange insight - Jeniffer Aniston needn't be pitied. Let me explain- while Shahid coolly talked about dealing with heart break I realised that I am so off the mark feeling sorry for him and thinking of him as the wronged one, he's more sorted and better off than most of us.
Tune into Headlines Today this Saturday, August 15 at 7 pm and Sunday August 16 at 1 pm and watch Shahid reveal his yet to be seen mature side. On this Independence Day weekend may he succeed is gaining full independence from all the ugly baggage that's been thrust upon him over the last few years.
Kumkum Bhagya
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