Currently dividing his time between the promotional blitzkrieg of Batti Gul Meter Chalu and prep for the Arjun Reddy remake, Shahid Kapoor will dive headlong into the shoot of the Hindi adaptation next month. Frenetic as the pace may be, he doesn't mind it. The doting husband is trying to wrap up his professional commitments before he takes paternity leave in October to welcome his second child with wife Mira.

Kapoor tells mid-day that his back-to-back projects won't afford him the luxury of taking a longer break. "During Misha's birth [in 2016], I took a couple of months off. This time too, I was negotiating to take a month-long break, but things didn't work out. I will get only a week off from work. It is too short a duration, but such are the circumstances," says the actor, who hasn't let his hectic schedule deter him from pampering the to-be-mom. In the past few months, the two have often been spotted enjoying lunch and dinner dates.