Anil Kapoor remembers stealing Jackie Shroff’s trousers during Virasat shoot, one life lesson he learnt from Tom Cruise

Kapoor also didn’t shy away from revealing that he even takes things from the wardrobe of his two daughters, Sonam and Rhea Kapoor. “These days there are these unisex clothes and we wear each other’s clothes,” he said.

Amrish Puri and Anil Kapoor in Virasat. (Express archive photo)

Anil Kapoor enjoys a fan following in the global arena. He has starred in some popular Hollywood films like Slumdog Millionaire and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. After working with one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Tom Cruise, he has learnt to be respectful towards everyone in the media. He recalled how Cruise obliged for a byte to every media reporter who had come to attend the promotional event of their film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in India.

Commenting on how he puts a lot of effort in even his virtual interviews since “everyone is the same” for him, Kapoor said, “This is what I learnt from Tom Cruise. When he came to India, he said I have to speak to everyone, it’s my film and it has to reach everybody, I can’t differentiate between any of them.”

He added that Cruise went to every reporter who wanted his byte, and even obliged their request of saying “Jhakaas”. But Kapoor shared that Cruise was particular about a few reporters as “they had done their research.” He said, “Look at the kind of work he (Cruise) has done constantly for 30-40-50 years, you can’t ask him random questions.”

Kapoor has imbibed this habit of Cruise and credited him for making “equally respectful towards everybody.”

Anil Kapoor was last seen in the Disney+Hotstar show The Night Manager, along with Sobhita Dhulipala and Aditya Roy Kapur. He has Siddharth Anand’s Fighter and Sandeep Reddy Wanga’s Animal in the pipeline now.