Shahid Kapoor had seen 'Arjun Reddy': Arjun Kapoor finally clears air on Sandeep Reddy Vanga picking 'Kabir Singh' actor

Arjun Kapoor, who was last seen in India's Most Wanted, could have been part of Shahid Kapoor-Kiara Advani starrer Kabir Singh, which is the highest-grossing film of 2019. The actor, however, did not end up doing the film, and according to his latest statement, didn't even reach the stage where he could decide whether he wants to do the film or no.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga, in an interview, had revealed that Arjun Kapoor was approached for the remake of Vijay Deverakonda-Shalini Pandey's Telugu release Arjun Reddy. Arjun, however, finally, as Kabir Singh premieres on Television today, cleared the air around his involvement with the film starring Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani in lead roles.

"It did not reach that stage where I could chose or not. When the rights were being acquired by Ashwin and Murad, who made Mubarakan, they acquired keeping me in mind. Sandeep Vanga, the director had met Shahid and he had seen the film before and they decided to do the film together," Arjun said at a recent event.

"The film needed Sandeep Vanga. There is a madness to that film, there is an inherent energy. It is a simple story but there was madness to the treatment. He (Sandeep) had already committed and he wanted to stick by his words and I respect that. I did not want my producers sitting around with the rights of the film and not making it out of me being in an ego tussle with anybody," he added.

Arjun spoke about the point of moving on by stating, "Sandeep is the director of the film and he had a clearer vision of the film and without him the film wouldn't have been what it is now. Fundamentally, films chose actors and directors but in this case the intent was right from our side and we couldn't combine it. It doesn't mean I left it or I did not choose it. It is complicated. There are human emotions and decisions and lot of things come into picture. The director wanted somebody else because he had committed it to someone. It was not that he said, 'you can't do it'. My impulse stays right as I selected the right material but then you move on in life."

"Shahid is a fantastic choice and he has done it fantastically. He is a fantastic actor. The film has fine Rs 275 crore," Arjun concluded.