"Big disaster." Fake beards, not understanding the script, and a film that was destined to flop... Watch Ranbir Kapoor talk about his biggest fails.
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00:00It was a big box office disaster, another very big disaster of Indian cinema, another
00:10disaster of mine, a film called Jagga Jasutsu.
00:20I come from a family with a lot of achievers, but there are also a lot of actors and actresses
00:27who didn't make it at the movies.
00:32Shamshera by far has been the hardest film I've worked in.
00:35It was a big box office disaster, but the biggest mistake I made on Shamshera is I stuck
00:40a beard.
00:41No, but listen, when you stick a beard and you shoot in the heat, it's like your face
00:49is melting with like gum, you can't like open your mouth, you can't smile, you're irritable.
00:55And I was like, never ever am I ever going to stick a fake beard or wear a wig, you know,
01:00just go take time off, grow your own beard and do that.
01:05While I was working on a film called Bombay Velvet, which is another very big disaster
01:10of Indian cinema, while working on the film, I thought like, wow, this is amazing.
01:19You know, Anurag Kashyap was directing, we had a great set of actors, you know, everybody
01:23was committed, everybody was working.
01:25See, once you start a film, you lose perspective because you surrender to the process, you
01:31surrender to the filmmaking, you surrender to the character.
01:34So Bombay Velvet was something which I think it deserved the faith that it had because
01:40it wasn't a good film.
01:45Another disaster of mine, a film called Jagga Jasoos.
01:48It's a film that I produced, but that really hurt me, you know, because that was a passion
01:55project.
01:56It was really a very heartwarming, sweet idea about a stammering detective, a singing detective,
02:02but didn't do well and that really hurt me.
02:04So I think that's the only film in my career that really hurt me, that didn't do well.
02:10When I did films like say Tamasha or Jagga Jasoos, which didn't do well at the box office,
02:17I kind of understood why those films didn't do well, but I think today a lot of people
02:22speak to me about Tamasha, but it was a big disaster at that time, but you know, I understand
02:27the value of that character, of that story, and I'm proud, I'm proud that I was a part
02:32of that film.
02:37But while I was doing the film, I don't think I deeply understood the material of the film.
02:43When I was dubbing the film, I realized, oh, this is what this scene means, or this is
02:47what the dialogue meant, but the reason I got saved is that the film script was such
02:52an actor-proof script, you know, and my character was so impactful, it didn't matter if I put
02:59in the effort or not.
03:00I always regret that film, you know, as a character, as an actor.
03:04I kind of missed out because I could have gone deeper, I could have done better.