He’s got all the ingredients that go into making a Bollywood star. That’s why the expectations around him are so many and then if you are launched by a sensitive director like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, obviously audiences expect the world of you. Here Ranbir speaks of his association with his director.
“I had seen Devdas and was a fan of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, so when I returned from acting school in America, I asked him to let me assist him. His first reaction was, “you have actor written all over you. Why do you want to direct?” I insisted that I wanted to learn something before I entered films and that’s how I got close to him
share a good rapport and he tells me many things and shares his thoughts and ideas with me. I knew he was working on some scripts, three actually and one day he invited me to read a script on his laptop. He left me alone but kept popping into the room to see if I had finished. It was such a sensitive great script that I got up leapt at him and hugged him. I couldn’t believe that he was offering a debutant actor such a lovely character to play.
“We started work and it’s been a fine learning experience working with Sanajy.
“I know the media wrote about him shouting at us but that’s all part of this game. We work like family we were corrected by him, how we would learn otherwise. I don’t think that was anything to be made much of.
“You know as an actor one always feels that he could’ve done things better but that apart I was pretty happy with the film. Even then I was anxious about what dad would think of it and finally when he saw it just a day before the official premiere I was absolutely relieved to have his good opinion.
“Coming from a film family doesn’t burden me otherwise but it makes me anxious to do better, to succeed.
“For me acting was always the first career option but if not acting, then definitely something to do with films. I must add that I don’t believe that if you are the child of actors you will automatically be a good actor. You have to work hard. Acting requires not only craft but your own understanding, your own inputs etc. Some things can be learnt but some can’t and you have to have your own understanding. One can go the gym and get fit or learn to dance but that’s the superficial stuff, there’s more than that.
“But I must admit that I love the camera and acting is a joy.
“While doing Saawariya, I realized what a perfectionist Mr Bhansali is- during the song picturisation particularly. I am looking forward to the audiences’ response.
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