Mrunal Thakur wraps her arms around Shahid Kapoor in new photo, talks about ‘exes’ with him. See their conversation here

Shahid Kapoor shared a behind-the-scenes photo with his Jersey co-star Mrunal Thakur. The picture showed them posing on a bike, with her wrapping her arms around him as she rode pillion.

“What you looking at!” Shahid captioned his Instagram post. “You know who,” Mrunal commented, along with laughing and zany face emojis. “My exes,” she told him on private chat, a screenshot of which he shared on Instagram Stories and wrote, “Ye dekho (Look at this).” Mrunal re-shared it on her own Instagram Stories and wrote: “Sach hi toh hai (It’s true only).”

Shahid also shared another picture of him and Mrunal on a bike ride, which is a still from the Jersey song, Baliye Re. “Gedi maar… With your baliye (Take a ride with your lover),” he wrote on Instagram Stories.

Jersey is Shahid and Mrunal’s first onscreen collaboration. The film, a remake of the Telugu hit of the same name, follows the life of a talented but failed cricketer who returns to the game in his late 30s, driven by the desire to represent the Indian cricket team and fulfil his son’s wish for a jersey as a gift. Gowtam Tinnanauri, who directed the original, has helmed the Hindi adaptation as well.

At the trailer launch of Jersey, Shahid talked about the challenges of starring in a remake. “I have realised 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. You have to rediscover it all over again,” he said.

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Shahid also revealed that he trained on the field for several months for Jersey. “One thing I can say proudly is that there is no shot in the film which is played without a season ball, we have no CG (computer-generated) shots… We worked very hard to bring authenticity to the sport part of it,” he said.

Jersey, which also stars Pankaj Kapur in a pivotal role, is slated for a theatrical release on New Year’s Eve (December 31).

(With PTI inputs)