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Shahid Kapoor Feels Blessed To Have A Release Date For 'Jersey' In Theaters
Mumbai, November 24 - The trailer of the much-awaited sports drama "Jersey", starring Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur, was launched on Tuesday (November 23) during an event. Directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, "Jersey" is the official Hindi remake of a Nani-starrer Telugu movie of the same name. ## In the movie, Shahid Kapoor plays the role of a former cricket player who wants to get back to the game to inspire his son while Mrunal Thakur plays his wife. "Jersey" is one of the many films held back to release in theaters owning to the covid-19 pandemic. Despite many challenges, the movie is now gearing up for release on December 31st worldwide. ## Shahid, during the trailer launch event, said that he is feeling blessed that "Jersey" is releasing in theaters and also said that the team excitedly waiting for Akshay Kumar's Sooryavanshi to release first and do well at the box office. ## "Content is traveling in many different ways right now and I am so happy that I worked with this team. I feel very blessed today that we have a release date and that the film is releasing in theatres. One of the team's really cheering hard for Sooryavanshi was also team Jersey. We all just wanted Sooryavanshi to do well and business kick-starts again, so we all can release our films. It is great to see that films are back in theatres and congratulations to Sooryavanshi for having the guts to go out there and be the first in line", Shahid said.## "It is not easy to do that. It is not easy for any of us. Having shops shut for almost two years and thinking about what's going to happen was a very scary feeling. This film is about the triumph of the human spirit, so it has a great context for today's times. It is even more relevant today than it was when we started shooting it", he added.## "Jersey" is the second back-to-back remake of a Telugu film. His last release, "Kabir Singh", which became a mega-blockbuster at the box office, was the remake of Vijay Deverakonda and Shalini Pandey-starrer "Arjun Reddy". Shahid Kapoor shared how he has done various genres of films, but he finds doing remakes tough. ## "After Kabir Singh and Jersey, I have realized it is very difficult to do a remake, and sometimes even tougher than doing an original character because you have to make it fresh. It cannot look like copy-paste. It can't look like you're picking up something and creating it. You have to rediscover it all over again", he said. ## ## Stay tuned...
