Shahid Kapoor Birthday Special: No more Chocolate boy image; Kaminey actor has much more to deliver

Shahid since his debut made an image of a chocolate boy who has a huge fan following among the females. Well, this image made trouble for the actor later as his acting skills got unnoticed through his chocolate boy image. Well, he took a turning point when he signed a film with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj who find a new and versatile actor in Shahid Kapoor through Kaminey. It will not be wrong to say that Kaminey gave a new turning point in Shahid Kapoor's career.

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After Kaminey, Shahid Kapoor got lost with some of few films that didn't work out at the box office and not even in critics centre. However, in this race of films, he gave a film with father Pankaj Kapur called Mausam. Although the film didn't work out at the box office but still the acting of Shahid was noticeable. He played a boy to man in love the same film.

Then came Haider, this film was like a reality check for the actor who got lost in his chocolate boy image. Haider became his career's biggest film as he got the best actor award for the first time in his career. He finally got to know what now he has to do in his career.

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In 2016, his film Udta Punjab made lots of controversies and even the film did lots of buzz for his subject. Well, when the film released it proved why Shahid Kapoor didn't allow filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey to offer this film to anybody. Shahid just nailed it while playing the role of a drug addicted rock star.

Now in 2018, he came up with Bhansali's film Padmaavat, he played the leading role of Maharawal Ratan Singh and he just fit his role. Despite that, he has not much more to offer in his role he gave a tough competition to Ranveer Singh.