MAKES NO SENSE TO RELEASE FILMS THIS YEAR, SAYS SHILPA
This year was supposed to be a big one for Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her fans as the actor was set to make a comeback in films after a gap of 13 years. And it was going to be a double, as she had two films releasing. However, the Covid19 pandemic played quite a spoilsport.
“Man proposes pandemic disposes,” Shlipa says with a hearty laugh, adding that she isn’t sweating much about it as she has got this time to spend with her daughter, Samisha, who she welcomed via surrogacy on February 15.
“I live in the now, you’ve to take it as it comes. My reintroduction on the big screen is not more important than health. I don’t want to step out of the house,” she shares.
The actor had almost finished Nikamma and a bit of Hungama 2 was left before the pandemic struck. “We had set things up in a way which would have made it easy for me post my daughter’s birth, but I still wouldn’t have got the time with her like I do now,” she adds.
Calling 2020 a “blur” for everyone, Kundra feels that things will not be normal before next year. “My films are on floors. But it doesn’t make sense for producers to release their films this year,” she says.
Given that many films have taken the digital route, would she be okay if her films, too, followed the same path? The actor reveals that the filmmakers of both her films aren’t keen about the idea. “Sabbir (Khan; director of
Nikamma) would not like to release it on the web. Even Ratan ji (Ratan Jain; producer Hungama 2) doesn’t want to do it. These are not OTT films,” says the 45-year-old actor.