31-year-old actor Arjun Kapoor plays the role of Madhav Jha a young man from Bihar in the Mohit Suri-directed film Half Girlfriend.  The female lead in the movie is Shraddha Kapoor. The movie is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name and the author is also one of the producers on the project.

“It has been an amazing experience working on Half Girlfriend. I loved working with Mohit and Shraddha and the entire team. It has been a difficult film for me emotionally because of the character I am playing. I have really enjoyed myself putting out there. Fingers crossed, hopefully, people will enjoy the film as much as we have enjoyed making,” Arjun said.

“The best part about Chetan is he is non-interfering. He has never once come and told us that ‘I feel it should be this way and not that’. He is very collaborative. He takes a back seat and has allowed us to take his material and make it our own. It’s been a very good collaborative experience,” he said.

The actor has also been part of the movie adaptation of Chetan’s novel 2 States and even though he will love to collaborate with him in future as well, he will not push the author or the filmmakers to cast him in the movie version of his other books.

“The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching. I also don’t stick to working with a fixed set of filmmakers. The versatility is partially intentional. And, I will continue to be making such choices,” he said.

“Today, the biggest risk is to not take risks. In the beginning, I got different kind of roles and then I realised it’s great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film. I aspire to play interesting characters,” he added.

Half Girlfriend will release on May 19, 2017.