Shahid Kapoor says Mrunal Thakur called Kiara Advani for motivation to slap him in Jersey: "Kya hua tha Kabir Singh mein?"

Shahid Kapoor ’s remake of the Telugu hit Jersey is one film to watch out for after the actor’s blockbuster Kabir Singh which is still rather fresh in the minds of the audience. Shahid and Mrunal promoted Jersey on The Kapil Sharma Show before the release of the movie was called off last minute and spoke about the particular scene where Murnal had to hit Shahid.

While talking about the scene where he had to slapped by Mrunal which also features in the trailer, Shahid revealed that the Jersey actress actually called Kiara Adavani, his Kabir Singh co-star, for motivation to be able to hit him.

“Ye scene jo hai, isse pehle inki Kiara se baat hui thi kaafi lami chodi (Before the scene she had a long discussion with Kiara on call).” Mrunal interjected and said, “Haan who sab revenge tha (Yes, that was revenge),” while the actor continued, “Inhone Kiara ko call kar ke bola, haan batao kya hua tumhare saath Kabir Singh mein? Toh Shahid khada hai, aur scene mein likha hai toh ek kadka dene wali hoon main usko. Toh mujhe batao taki mere andar woh feeling aaye ki main daba k ek doon (She called Kiara and said, ‘tell me what happened with you in Kabir Singh, Shahid is standing here and it is in the script so I am going to give him a tight slap. So tell me so that I get motivated to hit him hard).”

Shahid further added, that when Mrunal who was earlier hesitant finally slapped him for the scene it was hard and for him completely unexpected. The actor said that Mrunal was shying away from slapping him for the first few takes but set his ears ringing when she finally slapped him in the fourth take.

“Main relaxed tha ki ye zoor se toh maaregi nahi,” but added that Mrunal hit him hard across the face. Kapil added that he Shahid’s Kabir Singh character is imprinted oon his mind so bad that he thought after seeing the scene in the trailer that the actor would slap Mrunal right back.

Mrunal explained why she was afraid to hit the actor and said that during her time on TV where slapping scenes are commonplace, she had witness a first time actress hit her co-star hard across the face unaware that she had to fake it. The guy who was hit then instinctively slapped her back and the incident horrified Mrunal who couldn’t get it out of her head.