‘I find beauty in everyone’
He’s only two films old and yet continues to be one of the most talked-about actors in the industry. While his acting credentials have not been questioned so far, his demeanour off-screen has made people slap the “Casanova” tag on him and he is often called a “flirt”.
While he is not pleased with the tags, Ranveer refuses to change. He says, “I’m very generous with compliments and I usually blurt out whatever comes to mind at that point in time. I tend to find beauty in everyone and I don’t hold back from expressing my feelings. These things make people think I’m a ‘flirt’ and I cannot do anything about it. Every person has their identity and tagging them only puts them in a box. I definitely have a problem with such tags. It restricts my persona and causes people to ponder over irrelevant things about me.”
Not many know that Ranveer’s grandmother has worked in Soni Mahiwal and a few other films of that era. “My daadi was passionate about acting and she has been a key inspiration in my film career. I wish I was wearing my special chain right now — it’s in the shape of a chand ka tukda and was presented to me by my granny. She was primarily a homemaker and pursued films only as a hobby,” says the doting grandson. Ranveer continues, “She was the first person to buy me a VHS system and asked me to watch videos on it. She would ask me to enact scenes and try the dance steps. It was because of her encouragement that I would participate in debates, drama and elocution contests in school. I remember, as a kid we had gone to this birthday party and suddenly she pushed me to the centre and asked me to dance to the tune of Jumma Chumma.”
The actor, who is currently in the news for his much-delayed film Lootera, holds himself responsible for the delay. “I suffered a few injuries during the shoot, due to which the film had to be postponed. I had told my director Vikramaditya (Motwane) to replace me with another actor because I didn’t know when I would be able to resume,” he confesses. For someone who started off with complete commercial entertainers such as Band Baajaa Baaraat, he admits that working in an offbeat period drama like Lootera was tough. “I have grown up watching commercial cinema and that is my forte. To play an intense character in the film was difficult as I had to unlearn a lot to get into the unconventional mode,” says the actor who is now confident of changing his lover boy image on screen. “I’m actually looking forward to this new phase as it has been a long time since I had my last release Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl.
I am more anxious than nervous,” Ranveer says with a smile.
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