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| Given the fact that he also has an added responsibility of being a Kapoor scion, the pressure is anyways manifold. Ranbir has to continue consolidating his position so that he makes a steady progress from being in the Top-10 list of actors to Top-5 pretty soon. “I was confident that it would happen for me. Please note, I said confident and not over-confident. I knew I bring in a lot of honesty, passion and commitment to my work. I knew that it will lead me somewhere. Acting is the only thing I am good at, after all. It feels good to be living my dream but I’ve got some reality checks too. The fan following is great, girls screaming my name feels wonderful. But that’s just the end product of a very hard life. An actor’s life is not easy. The glamour is only on the outside; there are way too many sacrifices involved. In this industry, nobody cares whether you are a nice person or not, they only care if your work is good. If I don’t deliver, someone else will earn the superstar tag. I have to make sure that I am always
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In this endeavour of his, Ranbir is choosing projects quite sparsely. After Rockstar, his next release Barfee,(directed by Anurag Basu), is at least six months away while the only other film he has signed in the year gone by being Karan Johar’s Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani directed by Ayan Mukerji “Films drive me. I don’t want to make $100 billion or own an airplane. I want to work with great directors and make some awesome movies. When I started out, I had a list of 10 directors that I wanted to work with. In two years, I’ve worked with five. It’s my good fortune that I got the role of a lifetime in Rockstar. This was indeed a film that stretched me to some good limits. Moreover with AR Rahman in the project, it was obvious that I wasn’t letting Rockstar go away anywhere.” |
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| Talking about his dreams the prince of bollywood say’s “The challenge is not to get bored. I have to strive higher because there is a lot to achieve. I’ve no other passion apart from films. Maybe football. But that doesn’t consume me wholeheartedly. I’m a workaholic. I don’t like taking holidays. I’m very sure that one day I’ll direct a film. As of now it’s an immature ambition, a lazy ambition. Guess, it’ll happen when it has to. My parents are very supportive of whatever decision I take. I try and have one meal a day with them. My mom is my biggest fan, my dad my biggest critic and my sister, Riddhima my best PR agent—she is forever spreading the good word about me in her circle! I hope I never let them down.”
Ranbir is candid enough to admit “Please don’t call me a superstar. I think the term is used too loosely these days. Just to be ‘appreciated’ in a couple of movies does not make me a superstar. I think we have only five superstars today — the three Khans, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan. If you’re wondering — Mr Amitabh Bachchan, with whom I’ve had the honour of working as an assistant director on Black, is in his own league, beyond all such labels. Many such labels — star, superstar, superhit, and blockbuster — are part of the media circus that surrounds an actor today. Handling the media has become a key part of an actor’s job description and that’s one of the biggest changes in the way the industry functions today.”
With experiments being the order of the day, is he looking at experimenting further in his career “Well, being experimental or not but one thing is sure that I don’t want to be typecast at all,” declares Ranbir, “I am hoping that I am offered untried and untested genres. I have done different genre films in the past and even in the future I want to do diverse films. My endeavour has been to play different characters and if you notice in the characters I’ve played so far, none of them bears any similarity whatsoever with another. I try to make them all as exciting as I can. My characters as well as films should be something that are engaging.” |
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Ranbir stays on to become one of the most dedicated youngsters around. With his ambition coming in handy on one side and the industry’s acknowledgment around him being the best in the business from the younger lot, there is a lethal combination already in the making. In such a scenario, doesn’t he feel that it’s time for him to step into the big league where mega crores weekend business for his films could well be the yardsticks for his superstar status. “Frankly speaking, I am not chasing the first three days numbers here,” Ranbir makes his point crystal clear, “Yes, when your film takes a huge opening over the weekend, it is a reflection of your stardom to an extent. However at the end of the day it is about whether the film has been liked or not. Your film can get good collections but if it gets dismissed after the opening weekend then it isn’t worth it after all. I know I will do some really crappy movies along the way. That’s inevitable and I won’t deny it when it happens. Because for me, the result is not the destination, the journey is. All I want to do is enjoy the process of filmmaking, enjoy the journey. A film works on its own merits and I would like to establish those merits in my films to come.” He concludes.
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