Picking up accents is one of the toughest parts of being an actor. More so, when the accent or dialect, comes from a remote part of the world. Shahid Kapoor is no stranger to picking up a twang or a new lingo. But with his upcoming film, ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu’, Shahid had the extra challenge of learning a relatively unknown dialect from the state of Uttarakhand called Kumaoni. Talking about the new dialect and his experiences with it, he says, “We worked on the accent. The first time we heard the script, it took me two pages to get into it. By the third page, I started loving it. The accent is in Kumaoni. There are two dialects in Uttarakhand; Garhwali and Kumaoni. Kumaoni is slightly less spoken than Garhwali, which is why the writers wanted to keep it. We chose to speak in Kumaoni because it’s a language that’s slowly dying and we wanted to bring that to everybody’s notice.” ' Batti Gul Meter Chalu ' also features Shraddha Kapoor , Yami Gautam and Divyendu Sharma and is directed by Shree Narayan Singh Shahid reveals that they’ve tried to be moderate in their usage of the new accent. He says, “We have not gone too hard with it. We have not been thait with its usage because then people would not be able to understand all the dialogues. We have used words that people will be able to comprehend. There is a line where a female character says, ‘SK, saara mohalla teri vaat dekh raha hai,’ instead of ‘raah dekh raha hai’. So, the audience can understand what we are trying to say. The sentence construction is very different because in that dialect, the syntax is almost in reverse, which was tough. In your head you think straight but you have to say it in reverse; that’s tough. You have to keep paraphrasing in your head, otherwise it seems as if you’re thinking about it too much. Also, the English is not perfect. It’s slightly wrong.” Shahid plays a lawyer in ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu’, who has to fight a corrupt power corporation, after they send a faulty electricity bill to his character’s friend, causing emotional upheaval in his life.