Arjun Kapoor: Not competing with family

His uncle acts, his cousins act. But family members aren’t competition for Arjun Kapoor, who will soon be seen in the same frame with his paternal uncle and veteran actor Anil Kapoor in Mubarakan.“I have never ever looked at my family members as competition. I am not competitive with my family at all. I want them all to do well and I don’t ever think like that. Where the house is concerned, for me it has never been about competition,” said Kapoor.

The 32-year-old Arjun, whose cousins Sonam Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor and Mohit Marwah are actors, says that, while he may not be competitive, he is certainly very ambitious.

“Where competition in the profession is concerned — beyond my house — I have always stated that I am very ambitious. I want to do well. I want to make a career for myself as an actor and I am working towards it day in and out, but I do not get into the competitive streak of saying ‘I want to outdo this one or that one’ because I can only do that with my work,” he added.

Kapoor believes that the success or failure of another person doesn’t define him. “There’s a lot of time wasted if I start getting into wondering about the competition because pehle apna kaam sahi karlo [one needs to do one’s own work right first], and then you have to leave the rest to the audience eventually, because they are the biggest deciding factor,” he said. —IANS