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Karisma Kapoor on working with Helen, dearth of romcoms in Bollywood: I wish more such stories were made today

Karisma Kapoor on working with Helen, dearth of romcoms in Bollywood: I wish more such stories were made today

Karisma Kapoor is back to lead a project after a long time as she stars as a cop in the web series Brown, and the actor admits that leading a project still gives her a child-like-excitement. “For every actor, whether you are leading a show or have two scenes, you treat it like a child, your baby. There’s more excitement than and nervousness or jitters. We have to try put our best foot forward and then it’s up to the audience,” she says. Karisma Kapoor (Photo: Instagram) While she is enjoying dabbling into the intense drama space that the current era has started to become known for, Karisma Kapoor admits to missing the light-hearted, slice-of-life romcoms that were once the signature of Bollywood in the 90s and early 2000s. She acknowledges that they are being made quite a few and far in between. “That time, the audience used to go into cinema to forget everything that us going on in their daily lives, and just come there and laugh with their families with pure entertainment. …

Saif Ali Khan calls romcoms a ‘failed experiment’: They are an anomaly that started and finished with me

Saif Ali Khan calls romcoms a ‘failed experiment’: They are an anomaly that started and finished with me

In his career that has spanned over three decades now, Saif Ali Khan has ventured into different genres and mediums. Recently, he was seen in the intense drama Kartavya on Netflix where he played a cop. However, it’s his late ’90s and early 2000s romcoms like Hum Tum (2004) and Salaam Namaste (2005) that made the actor a household name, even getting him a National Film Award. Saif Ali Khan In recent years, Bollywood has been unable to churn a romcom that could gather such a popularity that Saif Ali Khan saw in his early years, and the actor has an interesting take on it. “I loved doing romcoms, but I feel they were like an anomaly in Indian cinema which might have even started and finished with me in a sense. I think romcoms are a failed experiment, although a beautiful one. There is something going deeper in the Indian society which is the want for a love story,” he says. Watch the entire chat with Saif Ali Khan here: The actor adds, “A …