{"id":620,"date":"2016-04-24T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-04-24T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T12:16:27","slug":"ranveer-singh-befikre-ram-leela-koffee-with-karan-ramdev-ranbir-kapoor-karan-johar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood’s Mr Brightside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>t was difficult to keep our eyes open during the last\u00a0season\u00a0of\u00a0<\/p>Koffee With Karan<\/em>, but there was one episode that was instructive. Ranveer Singh walked on to the sets of\u00a0Koffee With Karan<\/em>\u00a0like he walked into Bollywood: with supreme\u00a0swagger in his choice of outfit, a Fidelesque beard, and a \u201cI\u2019m going to give you the best you\u2019ve had this year\u201d attitude. His force of personality, like his films and public appearances, elevated the spectacle to the pantheons of KWK <\/em>in a year of mostly suboptimal chats with an out-of-touch Karan Johar.\n\nSuddenly, Ranveer\u00a0was\u00a0everywhere. He\u00a0was doing push-ups<\/a> with Baba Ramdev, kissing vigorously in the groan-fest\u00a0Befikr<\/em>e, and shocking the nation with a sexist ad<\/a> and heavily padded speedos. And in that entire process, he rendered everyone from Ranbir to KJo to Ramdev as mere witnesses to his performance.\n\nThe road from actor to celebrity to star is a difficult one to travel (cc: Abhishek Bachchan), but Ranveer has steamrolled through it while standing atop a tank and firing an AK-47 for fuck\u2019s sake. He\u2019s moved from Band Baaja Baaraat <\/em>to Lootera<\/em> to Bajirao Mastani<\/em> at the speed of the virality of his hair ruffle in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela<\/em>, establishing himself as a bankable star in the post-Khans era, with the rare ability to guarantee an opening.\n\nThe fourth estate collectively ejaculated like 13-year-old boys, as Ranveer treated them like equals and made them feel like they mattered. A profile<\/a> of Ranveer from February portrays this clever inclusivity which includes hugs, pecks, selfies, and intrigue, all the while maintaining a maniacal sixth-gear energy bordering on\u00a0self-harm<\/a>. He has\u00a0tested the bounds of fan-media-celebrity interaction<\/a> while constantly fine-tuning his public persona, going from the wildly enthusiastic, outspoken outsider who wrote<\/a> a spunky Durex advert<\/a>, to the assured yet wildly enthusiastic and outspoken outsider who made out with Karan Johar in front of thousands in India\u2019s first roast. He changed everything<\/a> we thought we knew about celebrity culture, moving at a 100 kmph, playing the self-aware clown in Bollywood\u2019s self-aware circus. This reckless unpredictability has defined Ranveer\u2019s career, making what should be a steady rise to our Friday getaways a rollercoaster set to breathless heavy metal music.\n

The fourth estate collectively ejaculated like 13-year-old boys, as Ranveer treated them like equals and made them feel like they mattered.<\/blockquote>\nRanveer and his complete disregard for decorum when he\u2019s talking about fucking or kissing on screen makes the rest of the Bollywood brigade look like a bunch of sanctimonious pricks. \u201cI fucked around a lot till I was 26\u2026 but I love being in a relationship. It\u2019s the best thing ever,\u201d he said in an interview<\/a>. \u201cMotherfucker! I must be growing up,\u201d he declared to a world in which Ranbir Kapoor won\u2019t even acknowledge the existence of a relationship and Salman is an eternal virgin.\n\nIt\u2019s no wonder then that the web, forever in search of a non-mainstream pin-up boy, happily embedded him in public imagination as a \u201cstar\u201d with boyish eclecticism and roving references. Ranveer has always projected himself as\u00a0a charismatic actor ready to light up the box office, and now the purveyors of information have started singing his song. In addition, his ability to bring in torrents of energy sets him in stark contrast to\u00a0the lethargy of Ranbir Kapoor, or the constant sleepiness that Arjun Kapoor induces in audiences, or whatever the fuck Shahid wants you to feel. He has become a dreamy dick: Never ever saying no and always throbbing frantically with hope.\u00a0Just look at his attempt to beat Baba Ramdev in a yoga-off<\/a>\u00a0a few months ago.\n\nAdd to this, his affability and charm which are inclusive of a slum-dweller in Dharavi and a 20-year-old driving a Mercedes in Lutyens\u2019 Delhi. Ranveer has become the funeral pyre where all clich\u00e9s go to die. His intersectional likability is eerily reminiscent of that of Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s in the late \u201990s, maintaining a base-level lovability, however, pubescent his remarks may seem. Perfect projections with box-office success have made Ranveer India\u2019s first star boy: The kind of dude who would look at an unscalable mountain, make sure someone is around to watch, and then tell the mountain, \u201cI\u2019m Ranveer Singh, bitch,\u201d and start climbing toward its peak with his bare hands and no harness.\n\nThis boundlessness was much in conversation during the release of\u00a0Befikre<\/em>. Over 20 kisses in the time of Nihalani<\/a> and sanskar was\u00a0a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. For Ranveer, the promotion involved admitting that he loves being a sex symbol<\/a> and joking about the film having some sort of a story<\/a>, with an emotional cavalierness that he\u2019s normalised over the years. Sadly, even Ranveer\u2019s shenanigans failed to elevate Befikre<\/em>\u00a0from a rich man\u2019s Neal \u2018n\u2019 Nikki<\/em> or a poor man\u2019s EuroTrip.\u00a0<\/em>\n\nThere\u2019s a curious post-Befikre<\/em> lull now. There are few appearances by the star, fewer crazy outfits, and even fewer press interactions that have the potential to\u00a0go viral. One thing\u2019s for certain though: Whenever Ranveer\u00a0does get back into the limelight, he\u2019ll come all guns blazing. \u201cTattad Tattad\u201d, of course.\n\nThis is an updated version of an article published earlier.\u00a0<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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