Arjun Kapoor talks about his relationship with Malaika Arora and emphasises his respect for her past and privacy.
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00:00She's had a life. She has a child.
00:02Yes.
00:02I'm somebody who's coming from a past that is aware of that.
00:05It is my choice to be with her,
00:07but I cannot expect everybody to understand it and accept it easily.
00:10Sometimes the first reaction can be of anybody who cares about you,
00:13might just be, what do you mean?
00:31Why did you feel the need, Arjun, to take baby steps
00:35in bringing your relationship with Malaika out?
00:37Was it because you wanted to respect the people around you?
00:39Yes, completely.
00:40Is that mainly the reason why you kept it?
00:42Absolutely, because I think somewhere,
00:44Karan, I've lived a life being on the other end of the spectrum.
00:47I grew up in a disjointed or a dysfunctional situation
00:51where things were not the easiest,
00:53being a son, having to see what was going on around
00:55and having an understanding of it,
00:57but still having to respect and accept.
00:59So, somewhere there was an understanding in my head about how
01:02I should try and ease everybody into it,
01:04including the first people around us.
01:06It's very important.
01:07I mean, I can't just jump on her and it has to be done.
01:10I'm so glad I didn't know about it though.
01:12Yeah, because you can't, I think,
01:13because sometimes the first reaction can be of anybody
01:16who cares about you, might just be, what do you mean?
01:19But if you ease them in,
01:20they also start understanding that there is love.
01:22I think at the end of the day, if there is genuine love,
01:25there is compatibility, there is a certain ease.
01:27I thought that you didn't take the
01:29what is love, what is fear stand.
01:30You took the stand that we have to be empathetic
01:33to Malaika's family, to your own family,
01:36to Malaika's ex-family.
01:38I think to everybody you had to have a certain sense of
01:41compassion and empathy.
01:42Yeah, because I am like that as a person.
01:45I will always think about everybody else first
01:47because it is my choice to be with her,
01:49but I cannot expect everybody to understand it
01:51and accept it easily.
01:53It has to be allowed to grow.
01:55It has to be allowed to be given a certainтАж
01:56We say, it has to be given a certain status.
01:58I have to give regard to the relationship
02:00and the people around and ease everybody into it.
02:01I had to do that, including the public eye.
02:04It's not that we didn't think about it
02:05or talk about it as a couple,
02:06but there are baby steps.
02:08And along with that, I think there is a certain
02:11basic understanding you need to have that
02:13she's had a life, she has a child.
02:16Yes.
02:16I am somebody who is coming from a past
02:18that is aware of that.
02:19So people, the moral compass of the country,
02:21you cannot dictate.
02:22So, no wedding bells as yet?
02:23No plans as yet for you and Mala?
02:25No.
02:26No?
02:26And honestly, because it's been two years
02:29of this lockdown and COVID
02:30and whatever was transpiring,
02:32and I wanted to focus on my career.
02:33So you'll know when the time is right?
02:35Yeah, I would like to see where I'm going in.
02:37And I'm a very realistic person, Karan.
02:38It's not that I need to hide anything.
02:39I'm not sitting here and being coy.
02:41I really would like to be professionally
02:43a little more stable.
02:44And I'm not talking about financially.
02:45I'm just talking about emotionally.
02:47I would like to do work that makes me happy
02:49because if I'm happy, I can make my partner happy.
02:51I can live a happier life.
02:52Correct.
02:53And I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
02:56I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
02:58I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:00I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:02I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:04I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:06I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:08I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:10I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:12I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:14I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:16I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:18I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:20I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.
03:22I feel a lot of my happiness comes from my work.