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.