Watch Ranveer Singh share untold stories behind his most iconic characters at the 2022 Marrakech International Film Festival. 👀 🎞️
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00:00I feel like it made me a very aggressive person
00:04Everything created by God has the right to be allowed
00:16Zoya called me into the studio and Ankur, the music supervisor was there
00:20And it was like my big test, you know
00:23They were like, is he going to be able to rap?
00:25And I was like, Zoya, I will rap
00:28I am not going to have it any other way
00:31You have to let me do this
00:32She was like, I will let you do it if you are any good
00:35So she came to the studio and she tested me out
00:38And I must have spit out one verse
00:41And she was like, oh let's do it
00:44It's on baby boy, let's go
00:46And then that was it, I voiced for 2 or 3 songs on the album
00:514 songs
00:53And yeah, I am really glad that one of my little side skills got to be showcased in this manner
01:03They say that he killed 30,000 soldiers
01:07And he made a giant pillar of all their skulls
01:12To deter people, invaders from coming back down that path again
01:18I was like, how do I get into the mindset of a guy who has perpetrated these sorts of things
01:25It's unimaginable to me
01:27To tap into it, I was engaging with dark, thematically dark music
01:34And text and film
01:36And you do that from morning to night around the clock for long enough
01:41And you can become an animal, a monster like that
01:44I feel like it made me a very aggressive person
01:48And I would react to people differently
01:52I would engage people differently
01:54So in the months that I was playing this character
01:57I don't think I was a very pleasant person to be around
02:06Ram Leela in 2000, that's the one
02:11Where I fell in love with Deepika
02:14The adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
02:18It was like art imitating life, life imitating art
02:21We were falling in love in that time when our characters were falling in love
02:27It was crazy
02:28Trust Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali to concoct this kind of art imitating life
02:33And life imitating art kind of magic
02:35It's in Ram Leela where he started inviting my contribution to the scene
02:41And during blocking, he'd be like
02:43Okay, you know your character
02:45Now you tell me what you do next
02:47You do it
02:48I'm not going to say anything
02:50You know what the objective of this scene is
02:52What we have to convey and communicate
02:54Which narrative beat it is
02:56All you actors, you go and just play
03:00Just do whatever you feel like
03:02And it was there that I really started contributing to the process
03:07I was like
03:09Okay, cool
03:11I'm going to
03:12Don't mind me, may I use you ma'am?
03:14I'm going to hold him like this
03:17And I'm going to say
03:19No, you will not
03:21And he's like
03:22I love it
03:23Do it
03:29So the second half of Lotera, my character walks around with a gunshot wound in his hip
03:33So I'm thinking to myself
03:35I've never really experienced that degree of pain before
03:38So let me kind of recreate or generate it
03:41So what I used to do
03:43Was take these very industrial grade clips
03:48And I used to clip my hip in the morning
03:51And I'd get into hair make-up
03:53And we'd travel to set
03:54And I'd reach the set and this clip is on
03:57And it's collecting all of this blood over here
04:02And it's very tender
04:04And it's been clipped up for two hours, three hours
04:07And now I'm ready for the shot
04:09I used to hit it and that whole pain used to go
04:13I used to go from the tip of my toe to the top of my head
04:17And I'd just be like
04:20I was actually recreating that degree of physical pain
04:23Because I didn't know how else to do it
04:29No, I am not the same actor
04:31I am not the same person
04:33I don't know who that is
04:36But he seems cute
04:38One of the greatest moments of my life
04:40That I'll never forget
04:41The Saturday of release
04:42I got a call from Mr. Shah Rukh Khan
04:45To congratulate me on my performance in my first movie
04:48Can you imagine what it meant to me?
04:50My screen idol actually taking the time and effort
04:53To give me a pat on the back
04:55And said, hey kid, you did well
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