Shahid Kapoor: 'Directing is stressful'

Shahid Kapoor has revealed that he has no interest in directing films because it is "too stressful".

The actor is currently starring in his father Pankaj Kapoor's directorial debut Mausam as a Punjabi pilot who falls in love with a Kashmiri girl.

Kapoor told The Times of India: "I've seen my father go through too much stress making this film. I have no interest in direction. So not at all!"

However, he added that the movie had been a learning experience for him because it had forced him "out of his comfort zone".

Kapoor said: "I completely let myself go as an actor for Mausam. I just blindly followed whatever my father said and that itself was a new experience for me. I'll do that a lot more often because I think it brings out new things in you as an actor. "

Kapoor said that working under his father's direction has forced him to learn about what happens behind the scenes.

"I've learnt that the father is always right - as much as you discuss and argue, he is the boss!" he said.

"And because I was closely associated with the film as dad was directing it, my understanding of what happens behind the camera has gone up a lot more because my exposure to it was so much more."