He might be just two films old in Bollywood, but Ranveer Singh has already started experimenting with other realms of filmmaking. The actor, who is playing the protagonist in his upcoming film Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, has also exercised his vocal chords in the song Aadat Se Majboor. “At about 2 am one day, I got a message from Maneesh Sharma (director) to write a rap about the film and show it to him. Next day I rapped it out for him and he loved it. I made Adi Sir (Aditya Chopra) hear it too and they decided I would rap in Ricky Bahl’s intro song,” says Ranveer, adding, “It feels good when I see the music CD and it says rap by Ranveer.”
But, it wasn’t a cakewalk for the actor, who had to work on a few pronunciation to get the song absolutely right. “In the song, there’s this one part where I had to say ‘chameleon’. I was pronouncing it the wrong way. It was only after a few lessons from Benny (singer) that I got it right,” he admits.
“I felt alive in that studio and it is all thanks to Benny and Salim Sir. They have been very supportive. I could see my shortcomings,” he adds.