Ranbir Kapoor on being a husband and father

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The Ranbir of now seems to have shirked his Bunny image...

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00:00There's nothing better than rice and lentils.

00:14I think the day Raha was born, it just completely changed everything.

00:17I would like to believe that it's a blessing and it's a gift.

00:22Absolutely amazing.

00:23So, Chintu uncle's parenting style, I remember, is very, very different.

00:27So, do you ever get inspired by his style?

00:31What are the similarities and the differences?

00:33I think with papa and I guess with Dabu uncle also,

00:35the kind of parenting style they had was a little distant.

00:38Of course, they believed in family values a lot.

00:41They wanted the entire family to always be together.

00:43They were strict.

00:45They were not in buddy terms.

00:47You know, you could sit and just chat about your life.

00:50Family values that he's passed on, you know, to me and my sister,

00:53I think that's something that I would like to instill in my daughter also.

00:56So, what is that moment when you got that feeling from Alia

01:01that I'm ready for rice and lentils now?

01:03Actually, this is my film's dialogue.

01:04This is youth, this is madness.

01:05Life should have a little bit of mincemeat,

01:07tangdi kebab and khaka noodles.

01:10But then I realised with age and the world,

01:13there's nothing better than rice and lentils.

01:14So, out of one is to seven stars, you have to answer the questions

01:18I'm going to ask you.

01:19And so, first is sleepless nights.

01:21We've had some good amount of help at home.

01:23The first two months at least, they were a little sleepless.

01:26But I think when you have the excitement of your first child,

01:29it's the excitement that even if the baby does choom,

01:32like even when we're sleeping in bed and she's in between us,

01:34a little movement also, you know, you're so alert in deep sleep also.

01:37You wake up and you kind of...

01:38You're constantly checking, is the baby breathing?

01:40Yeah, the first two months I was always putting my finger under her nose.

01:43You don't know that.

01:44She's so quiet.

01:45But yeah, I mean, it's...

01:46I don't... Like, even if you don't get sleep,

01:49it's a very positive sacrifice.

01:52Holding your baby for the first time, obviously.

01:557000 stars.

01:567000 stars.

01:57That's too much.

01:58And I got the opportunity to hold her at the moment that she was born,

02:01after her umbilical cord was cut.

02:03And that moment, I guess, will be etched as a very big core memory in my life.

02:07I'll never be able to forget that.

02:08You know, I had taken a sabbatical from work

02:10for like two, three months prior to the delivery.

02:12You know, I stayed in the hospital for a week with her.

02:14That means you're such a lovely husband.

02:16I mean, like, look at it.

02:17Say, I can stay one night with me in the hospital.

02:19I don't think Alia would say that,

02:20but I would like to consider I'm a good husband.

02:21Ranbir, all celeb parents want their children

02:24to lead a completely normal life,

02:27away from the paparazzi culture.

02:29So, how do you and Alia believe that you're not going to deal with this?

02:32We definitely don't want to sit on this Sai castle

02:34and say that, don't do this, don't do that.

02:36We understand that we both are actors

02:38and there is a certain level of interest

02:40that comes with the fact that you're actors,

02:42that people want to, you know, get you photographed.

02:45When Taimur was born, the kind of attention

02:47that the media tilted towards Taimur was unbelievable.

02:51We've never seen that ever.

02:53And I don't think any industry has ever seen that.

02:55You know, a child gets so much of attention.

02:57So, as parents, we just try and protect it as much as we can.

03:00It's not something that, you know,

03:04it's not a do-or-die situation.

03:05Like we said, we just want her to have a normal upbringing.

03:09You know, the fact to go to school,

03:11not make her feel too, you know, special around, you know,

03:15different children and she should just have a normal life.

03:17So, just that.

03:18You know, other than that, there's nothing,

03:20there's no rule or there is no like,

03:21oh, no, we want it this way.

03:22Raha should not grow up after four, five years

03:24and say, why are they not clicking me?

03:26No, that I don't think.

03:27That is not going to happen.

03:29That is not going to happen.

03:30But this is the right approach because…

03:32What if she comes one day and says,

03:33see how much Jay and Taimur get clicked.

03:35Nobody is clicking my photos.

03:36That's not going to happen.

03:37But in fact, Saif and I had decided

03:41that actually we're just going to be like,

03:42you know, just go with the flow.

03:43Yeah.

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