You play a stuntman in Kambakkht Ishq — something you love doing in real life too. It must be a role you really enjoyed.
Not quite. While my profession is that of a stuntman, I play a chauvinistic, which I’m not. I’m one of those people who believe that men are from Mars and women are from heaven.

The movie is about the battle of sexes. Neither Kareena Kapoor nor I, in the movie, believe in love and are continuously trying to outdo the other. But eventually, I’m shown my place.

It’s a love story then?
It’s a love story about love — many of us may not use the term kambakht but we all have, at times, cursed love or have submitted ourselves to this emotion. We have all experienced these equations — falling in love, ditching someone, getting ditched. It’s how we all grow up in to understand relationships better.

After Tashan, it’s Kambakkht Ishq’s styling that’s being spoken about.
Much of style in the movie is the stylist Shabina Khan’s contribution. In fact, I’m not very stylish in personal life — I wear whatever I find comfortable, most of which is track pants or boxer shorts. I even travel in those — not boxer shorts, I mean. But I usually wear what my wife decides I should. If it weren’t for her, I’d be wearing yellow shoes, a red shirt or something like that.

While doing action sequences, is fear an alien emotion to you?
Not at all, I get scared too but the excitement of it supersedes my fear. Though I remember I got very scared when I had an accident while shooting for Blue in the Bahamas. I was fighting with 40 sharks in the scene when my head hit an iron rod and started bleeding. I could instantly see the sharks move faster but I was thankfully pulled out of water and on to a boat in 20 seconds.

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