Anil has become thick-skinned about film reviews

Anil Kapoor, who is still going strong after four decades in Bollywood, has said that negative reviews used to affect him in his early days because his hard work would be ignored, but now he has become thick-skinned.

Anil Kapoor was speaking at the launch of Khalid Mohamed’s book along with Karan Johar, Javed Akthar and Asha Parekhi. Mohamed has worked as a journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director. On being asked if Mohamed’s film reviews hurt him, and if he could recall any of the critic’s caustic reviews, Kapoor said, “There are quite a few films. Right now, the film that comes to my mind is Beta for which I won the Filmfare Award as Best Actor. He titled his review as ‘Beti’ (laughs)! Fortunately, the film was a huge success at the box-office.”

Kapoor also added that he is surprised that the recently released Hollywood film Joker has got a few negative reviews. “I recently watched Joker, and although the film has received 99 per cent positive reviews, there are some reviews that are not very positive — which surprised me because I loved the film. So, these things keep happening. Obviously, now the time has passed, so I have become much more thickskinned where reviews are concerned. But earlier when you start your career, you are quite sensible because there are certain films in which you and your team have worked really hard, so when you don’t get favourable response, that can be quite upsetting,” he said.

Anil Kapoor will next be seen in Anees Bazmee’s Pagalpanti, Mohit Suri’s Malang and Karan Johar’s Takht.