Saawariya to Shamshera: Ranbir’s Bollywood journey

Brut India

As Ranbir Kapoor completes 15 years in Bollywood, this is him deconstructing some of his most iconic scenes for Brut…

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00:00I mean, screw the performance. Who doesn't want to act in a scene with Shah Rukh Khan?

00:20Me dancing in Attar, it was about a boy falling in love for the first time in his life.

00:25And it was him just being in love, in a state of love at home.

00:29So a lot of good memories and a very important song in my career.

00:42So the scene from Wake Up Sid is when Sid really wakes up and he gets his first paycheck and he goes to his dad.

00:48When we were doing it, it was very simple.

00:50We just had to be true to our emotions.

00:52But when I see it in the movie, it was such a strong scene.

00:57Because in the screenplay, at the time that the scene comes, because of the movie before that has happened,

01:03the scene just became such an important scene.

01:05But while we were doing it, it was really simple.

01:07We didn't really think too much about it.

01:09We just felt and we just went ahead and did it.

01:12One of my favourite scenes.

01:21Rocket Singh sales were not there.

01:23I think this film really broke my heart.

01:26Because I worked with Shrimit Amin, such a talented director, such an exciting director.

01:31It was such an amazing script, such an amazing character.

01:35There is a little bit of a guide following to this film.

01:38I meet a lot of people who appreciate this film and appreciate my work in this film.

01:43But just to play this part, to play a Sardar,

01:47My mother was very happy because she is a Sardar.

01:50And my nani was very happy.

01:52But yeah, this film broke my heart when I didn't do well.

01:55And I think I really got detached from the result of movies because of this film.

02:00Because what the result of this film did to my heart.

02:18Rajneeti was a film that I got really lucky.

02:21Because it had such a great ensemble cast.

02:25And I had such a good role.

02:27But while I was doing the film, I had no idea what I was doing.

02:30It's later when I was dubbing the film, I realised.

02:32Like these are really good scenes and I could have done so much better.

02:35So I just kind of dubbed the film with a hushed voice.

02:37Trying to copy Al Pacino from Godfather.

02:39And to play a film which is based on the Mahabharata.

02:42To play Arjun's part was very exciting.

02:45But if I could go back to any film of mine, I would go back to Rajneeti.

02:49And I would try and better my performance in this film.

03:04I think this scene in Rockstar where I show my middle finger to the media and the cops.

03:12Was really the starting point.

03:16He told me it's about this character who is getting destroyed in love.

03:22Who is self-destructive.

03:24And eventually he is the guy who shows his middle finger.

03:27Not out of spite, but he is just a man destroyed.

03:31So it doesn't really matter to him what he is doing.

03:34I remember the shoot. We shot it in Delhi.

03:36And while I was doing it, there was so much of power I felt as an actor.

03:40To do this scene specially.

03:53So this scene in Barfi was completely improvised.

03:55Most of the film was.

03:57I remember that when I reached set.

04:00Anurag Basu called me.

04:02We are doing this scene where you know that Ilyana's character is marrying someone else.

04:07And you are deaf-mute.

04:09So you have to say all these things.

04:39And love is not good for my health.

04:48Well quintessential bad boy.

04:52You know in this film Jawaani Hai Diwaani.

04:54Kabir's character.

04:55And to say this line that a girl like you is not meant for flirting but for love.

05:03And love is not good for my health.

05:06Was such a cool line.

05:09Probably a line that somebody like Shah Rukh Khan's character would have said.

05:14And me being such a big fan of those films.

05:17I was very excited to mouth these lines.

05:19And you know do my Shah Rukh Khan kind of acting.

05:32Again championed by the biggest performance you know.

05:35It was a scene that was.

05:37You know there are certain scenes that tilt towards an actor's character.

05:41And this scene really had my character up.

05:44Because he was churning and he was going through something.

05:48But I think the way Deepika performed it.

05:50What Deepika brought to the table.

05:52She made it come alive.

05:54Because she really.

05:55You really felt pain.

05:57And because of that it was such a reactive scene.

06:00That what I was doing she was reacting.

06:02What she was doing I was reacting.

06:04And I always had such a good time working with Deepika you know.

06:07Because we started off together.

06:09She's grown so much as an actor now.

06:11We did our second film together.

06:13Second film together called Bachna Hai Se.

06:15When I worked with her again on Yeh Jeevani Hai Deewani.

06:17I don't think I was.

06:18I've ever been so surprised by an actor's growth.

06:21And because I know Deepika so closely.

06:23I was so impressed.

06:25And by the time we reached Tamasha she was a veteran.

06:28You know and she was surprising me with each shot.

06:30And everything she was doing.

06:35Deepika

06:38Is it easy?

06:39What?

06:41To love like this.

06:42It's the most beautiful feeling in the world.

06:45I mean screw the performance.

06:47Who doesn't want to act in a scene with Shah Rukh Khan.

06:49And who doesn't want to hear love advice from Shah Rukh Khan.

06:51And that's what the scene was about.

06:53It was nothing else.

06:54You know it was just.

06:55Me getting an opportunity to work with Mr. Shah Rukh Khan.

06:58And he came and he just blew us away.

07:02We all were doing this certain kind of spontaneous real acting.

07:05And he comes and he says the line.

07:07And he says it with so much of swag.

07:09That I remember I saw some clippings online.

07:13Where the only whistles that you could hear in.

07:16Ae Dil Hai Mushkil was when Shah Rukh Khan says this line.

07:21What the f**k yaar.

07:29You are real right dad?

07:31What?

07:32This is always my favorite scene in Sanju.

07:35It's a scene during the premiere of Rocky.

07:38Sanju is having withdrawal symptoms.

07:41He's been doing a lot of heroin.

07:44And he has lost his mother.

07:46And he's just losing his mind.

07:49And this scene particularly was not written like this in the script.

07:52But in my conversations with Sanju Sanjay Dutt.

07:55While I was preparing for this film.

07:57He told me that.

07:58About this moment when his mother passed away.

08:01She put her hand on my head.

08:03But the sad part is.

08:05I was high.

08:06So I don't really know if that really happened.

08:08Or I was hallucinating.

08:10So I thought that really stayed with me.

08:12And I narrated it to Raju sir and Abhijat sir.

08:14And they quickly wrote this scene.

08:17And I was very clear as to how I wanted to perform this scene.

08:20We shot this at Liberty Cinema.

08:23But really one of my favorite scenes in Sanju.

08:25And probably my career.

08:27I was really born as an actor in this.

08:39It's a movie that I guess people would not naturally see me in.

08:44And so these films are not really offered to me.

08:46And when I heard this script.

08:48I was just so grateful that.

08:49Karan and Adi thought.

08:51That I could do a part like this.

08:53It was extremely challenging.

08:55It's a badass action film.

08:57It's set in the 1800s.

08:59We play a group of Dacoits.

09:02Part of a tribe called Khameran.

09:04It's partly true and partly fictionalized.

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