Ranveer Singh has garnered immense praise for his character played in his recently-released ‘Padmaavat’ and the actor couldn’t be gladder about the appreciation he has received from the audience. In a recent interview with a leading daily, he opened up about how he thought that taking up the character would be a risk and much more.
He said, “I was relieved when the praise started coming in. I was playing an antagonist and I didn’t know how this would go down. No mainstream leading actor has taken this plunge, especially with such a completely dark character,” Ranveer explained, adding, “It was a huge risk. I didn’t know how it would be received. If this had gone wrong, it would have been my undoing. So, there was a huge sense of relief after it was appreciated.”
Talking about what he is currently focusing on, he said, “My focus at the moment is mainstream Hindi films. I brought up the point a few years ago that screens are becoming smaller, the consumption material is changing now that there is (a web series portal) and everybody watch these,” he said, adding, “If you are in Hindi mainstream cinema, you have to up your game and make a world class product. There are times when you see the trailer and you think ‘I can watch this at home and don’t want to drag myself to the theatre.’ It’s quite tedious to go to the theatres now unless you’re offered a big screen experience. So, hopefully, I can offer the kind of experience that garners footfalls.”
Talking about the fact that he did not share screen space with Deepika in the film, he said, “I didn’t have a single day’s schedule with Deepika. It was like we are working on the same movie but we never met. Having said that, I used to visit their sets to see some scenes. There is a lot to learn from observing. It’s a unique experience that you are both in a film but don’t have a single scene together. It feels like we have not done this film together at all.”
After all that is said and done, antagonist or not, who doesn’t love Ranveer on the big screen, right?
