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Born: July 06,1985 Mumbai, India
Zodiac: Cancer
Height: 6 feet 0 inches
Biography: Ranveer Singh (born Ranveer Singh Bhavnani) is an indian actor and Bollywood heartthorb. Born in Mumbai, India, Ranveer Singh had always wanted to be an actor since his childhood. However, during his college days he felt that the idea of acting was far-fetched and focused on creative writing. He made his debut under the Yash Raj Films banner with Band Baja Baarat, in which his performance was much appreciated. He then went on to do films like Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, Goliyon ki Rasleela – Ram Leela and the most recent Kill/Dil. He is also seen endorsing brandThe road is clear, therefore, to talk about the bits from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s blockbuster that have been the subject of WhatsApp forwards, giggly phone calls and water-cooler conversations: Ranveer Singh’s omnisexual portrayal of a fourteenth-century historical figure.
Playing the Delhi Sultanate ruler who falls so hard for a married queen he has never seen that he destroys a kingdom, Ranveer Singh gives Bhansali’s period epic the erotic edge it fully deserves. Whether he is going at it on his wedding night with a woman who is not his bride, swaying in a bath tub as his gay aide serenades him, suggestively sprinkling perfume on a swooning courtier or blowing kisses to his own reflection, Singh’s Alauddin Khilji is as removed from the history textbooks as Bhansali is from the feminist classic The Second Sex.
The bathtub moment is part of the song Binte Dil, in which Khilji’s aide, Malik Kafur, sings plaintively of his love for his master while watching him bed down with another companion. The song wasn’t choreographed, Singh said in an interview, one of many he has given since Padmaavat’s release on January 25. “Mr Bhansali told me, there is no choreographer for this song, this is the sort of shit I want you to do. I want you to go Jim Morrison.”
Like the rapacious conquerors of yore, Singh’s Khilji has plundered all the attention. Hindi cinema is littered with charismatic villains who are more as memorable than the righteous heroes – Amjad Khan’s Gabbar Singh, Amrish Puri’s Mogambo, Sanjay Dutt’s Khalnayak. But none of them has been presented as an object of lust, a sexy savage more desirable than the leading man.
Ranveer Singh in the Binte Dil song from Padmaavat.
“What really clicked was that me and Mr Bhansali came together to have a blast with the character,” Singh said. “I cannot say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy myself. I created a base for the character and on set, Mr Bhansali would add some layers, I would add some layers, he would come with so many ideas. It is about how much we enjoyed collaborating and creating this unique character in the gamut of films today, especially by a leading man. That is what is unique about him. You don’t see a mainstream leading man in Hindi cinema taking this kind of a plunge. This entertaining villain kind of propels the film.”
Dressed in a gray sweatshirt and velvet track pants one recent evening, Singh is several kilos lighter than the Delhi king who seeks to annex Chittor along with its queen, Padmavati (Deepika Padukone). The actor has knocked off the weight for his next project, Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy. Set in the Mumbai slum Dharavi and co-starring Alia Bhatt, Gully Boy has been inspired by the stories of homegrown rappers Naezy and Divine.
After logging a series of 12-hour shifts, Singh has been returning every day to Yash Raj Films, the studio that launched him and manages his career, to chat with queuing journalists eager to know about the physical and psychological transformation he undertook for Padmaavat. Little has been left unreported – how the 32-year-old actor locked up himself up in his apartment for 21 days to get under the skin of the degenerate king, how he “tapped into long-lost dark memories” to depict the treacherous and demented sultan, and how he pushed himself, to the extent that “I found myself on my knees vomiting plenty of times, bleeding”.
Singh wore hazelnut-green coloured lenses throughout the shoot, but there was another, equally important, transformation – working on his boyish voice. “I tried to work with different voice coaches, and I wasn’t learning anything,” he said. “I worked with an accent for seven days of the shoot before dropping it. The accent didn’t work with Mr Bhansali or me. It didn’t feel as organic as the Delhi tilt of Band Baaja Baraat, the Gujarati tilt of Ram-Leela or the Marathi tilt of Bajirao Mastani. I am glad we dropped it – it was hindering and drawing too much attention.”
Born: July 06,1985 Mumbai, India
Zodiac: Cancer
Height: 6 feet 0 inches
Biography: Ranveer Singh (born Ranveer Singh Bhavnani) is an indian actor and Bollywood heartthorb. Born in Mumbai, India, Ranveer Singh had always wanted to be an actor since his childhood. However, during his college days he felt that the idea of acting was far-fetched and focused on creative writing. He made his debut under the Yash Raj Films banner with Band Baja Baarat, in which his performance was much appreciated. He then went on to do films like Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, Goliyon ki Rasleela – Ram Leela and the most recent Kill/Dil. He is also seen endorsing brandThe road is clear, therefore, to talk about the bits from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s blockbuster that have been the subject of WhatsApp forwards, giggly phone calls and water-cooler conversations: Ranveer Singh’s omnisexual portrayal of a fourteenth-century historical figure.
Playing the Delhi Sultanate ruler who falls so hard for a married queen he has never seen that he destroys a kingdom, Ranveer Singh gives Bhansali’s period epic the erotic edge it fully deserves. Whether he is going at it on his wedding night with a woman who is not his bride, swaying in a bath tub as his gay aide serenades him, suggestively sprinkling perfume on a swooning courtier or blowing kisses to his own reflection, Singh’s Alauddin Khilji is as removed from the history textbooks as Bhansali is from the feminist classic The Second Sex.
The bathtub moment is part of the song Binte Dil, in which Khilji’s aide, Malik Kafur, sings plaintively of his love for his master while watching him bed down with another companion. The song wasn’t choreographed, Singh said in an interview, one of many he has given since Padmaavat’s release on January 25. “Mr Bhansali told me, there is no choreographer for this song, this is the sort of shit I want you to do. I want you to go Jim Morrison.”
Like the rapacious conquerors of yore, Singh’s Khilji has plundered all the attention. Hindi cinema is littered with charismatic villains who are more as memorable than the righteous heroes – Amjad Khan’s Gabbar Singh, Amrish Puri’s Mogambo, Sanjay Dutt’s Khalnayak. But none of them has been presented as an object of lust, a sexy savage more desirable than the leading man.
Ranveer Singh in the Binte Dil song from Padmaavat.
“What really clicked was that me and Mr Bhansali came together to have a blast with the character,” Singh said. “I cannot say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy myself. I created a base for the character and on set, Mr Bhansali would add some layers, I would add some layers, he would come with so many ideas. It is about how much we enjoyed collaborating and creating this unique character in the gamut of films today, especially by a leading man. That is what is unique about him. You don’t see a mainstream leading man in Hindi cinema taking this kind of a plunge. This entertaining villain kind of propels the film.”
Dressed in a gray sweatshirt and velvet track pants one recent evening, Singh is several kilos lighter than the Delhi king who seeks to annex Chittor along with its queen, Padmavati (Deepika Padukone). The actor has knocked off the weight for his next project, Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy. Set in the Mumbai slum Dharavi and co-starring Alia Bhatt, Gully Boy has been inspired by the stories of homegrown rappers Naezy and Divine.
After logging a series of 12-hour shifts, Singh has been returning every day to Yash Raj Films, the studio that launched him and manages his career, to chat with queuing journalists eager to know about the physical and psychological transformation he undertook for Padmaavat. Little has been left unreported – how the 32-year-old actor locked up himself up in his apartment for 21 days to get under the skin of the degenerate king, how he “tapped into long-lost dark memories” to depict the treacherous and demented sultan, and how he pushed himself, to the extent that “I found myself on my knees vomiting plenty of times, bleeding”.
Singh wore hazelnut-green coloured lenses throughout the shoot, but there was another, equally important, transformation – working on his boyish voice. “I tried to work with different voice coaches, and I wasn’t learning anything,” he said. “I worked with an accent for seven days of the shoot before dropping it. The accent didn’t work with Mr Bhansali or me. It didn’t feel as organic as the Delhi tilt of Band Baaja Baraat, the Gujarati tilt of Ram-Leela or the Marathi tilt of Bajirao Mastani. I am glad we dropped it – it was hindering and drawing too much attention.”
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