In a recent interview, actor Shahid Kapoor revealed it was not so great for him when he was compared to Shah Rukh Khan in his younger days in the film industry. He said it is the "dumbest logic" that you will also be successful if you are like some successful person.
Talking about being compared to Shah Rukh, Shahid said, "It's the worst thing that can happen. Why should you be the next anything? You are you and they are they. And that is the worst part of the job that you are doing, that you must be like somebody who is already successful. If you are like them, by virtue of that, you will be successful in the future. This is the dumbest logic that I have ever heard in my life."
He added that one must be true to oneself as being someone else, that person's job. "It's like somebody who makes ice-creams. If they give somebody vanilla ice cream since they like vanilla, they only keep giving them vanilla ice cream. No. You have to be another flavour of ice cream. You have to make people like you, despite the fact that they like something else. And one day, you should be so good that people forget everything else and just want to consume only you. Why do you want somebody's light? Every individual can be their own sun."
He also said that he has been trying his best to be himself for the past few years. The actor said that one feels pressured to live up to the comparison as a kid. He elaborated that one starts shaping and moulding oneself based on that comparison instead of finding the original and different things within oneself.
On the work front, Shahid was most recently seen in Ali Abbas Zafar's 'Bloody Daddy' which landed online earlier this year. He will reportedly start working on films produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Siddharth Roy Kapur.