Ranveer Singh is seeking help of a psychiatrist to come out of his character as Alauddin Khilji in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’. He is one of the few actors in Bollywood who is known to get into the skin of the character and is also very committed to them. He puts himself in grave discomfort to experience each and every emotion of the role, which takes a toll on him.
Ranveer is all set to play to play Alauddin Khilji, a menacing, cruel anti-hero in ‘Padmavati’. He has examined such hidden depths of negativity that he actually had to seek help from a psychiatrist to get back to his normal self. According to a leading portal,“Ranveer actually has his friends worried. To play Alauddin Khilji, he has been researching and exploring extreme negativity. He is a friendly, warm young man, like all of us. To become Khilji, he took the same route as he did to play Peshwa Bajirao. He locked himself up in his apartment, prepped and stayed in the head-space for weeks. Getting out of this dark, intimidating mindset wasn’t easy for him. The film has also been shot for almost a year now, so sustaining the Khilji persona was very challenging. It affected his reactions and behavior towards people. Which is why, his friends advised him to get help in emerging beyond Khilji? He is going to a psychiatrist to get rid of the Khilji influences.”
Ranveer’s outward behaviour on the sets of ‘Padmavati’ has already been spoken about. There have been days when Ranveer would walk in his costume on the sets and overcome by a dark mood, he made sure no one came close to him or even talk. The conclusion was to visit a psychiatrist. Ranveer has been also taking holidays after each schedule and has also apparently bought himself a luxury car to uplift himself.
It’s not astonishing that he has gone to an obstructive level for the challenging part in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film. In preparation for the third act of ‘Bajirao Mastani’, Ranveer had made himself ill to feel the character’s trauma, triggering convulsions. Ranveer had actually blacked out on the film sets during the third act ( where Bajirao experiences a fatal illness ), which saps away his strength, leaving his director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the entire film’s unit worried.
Witnesses from the set say that his eyes had rolled back, and his veins seemed to be popping out. He had a fit of sorts, which had made the film’s unit so anxious that they rushed him to seek medical help. Three hours later, when Ranveer woke up, he had no memory of all that had happened; he had built such a deep connect with Peshwa Bajirao’s suffering that the agony actually had an adverse physical reaction on him.
Let’s hope Ranveer Singh recovers soon.
