Smash! Ranveer Singh

Hello! meets an actor who shatters his own ceilings and seeks ever new horizons to conquer. while the 31-year-old may appear to be flamboyant to most, deep down inside is a sensitive co-worker, lover, aesthete and clearly, a global spirit.

- Sangeetha Wadhwani

With Ranveer, we don’t want things to be normal. We want him to leap onto our shoot location through the roof, ninja style and announce that his Nouveau Royal Highness is here. Something exactly like that, does happen. The HELLO! team felt a sense of butterflies as he wafted in, like a technicoloured wave of Nordic light moving to his own inner music, at the otherwise sombre premises of the Charcoal Project store in suburban Mumbai.

Open to a fault, (he even roamed around in his boxers between shots), making bawdy jokes and flirting with all and sundry, he had the girls getting a full-on dose of taporigiri, Ranveer style. A tug at our stylists’ t-shirt (when she tried to arrange his clothes), a legs akimbo for the camera, he proceeded to fill the space up with humour and plenty of shock value.

In many ways, the 1985 born actor is more like a rebellious 80s British pop star than the prim and propah retro hero which we have seen in at least three ambitious period films – Lootera, Bajirao Mastani and Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela. His mom’s friends smile at Ranveer’s outré sense of dress, till very recently. “I think it’s part of his energy, his wardrobe, his constant experimenting with himself,” says an elegant lady from the Indus Group, who has known both his mom, Anju Bhavnani Singh and his mausi, Kavita Singh. “Yes he’s my cousin’s son, my maama’s daughter’s son,” shared Kavita many moons ago. “He’s a very sweet, well-behaved boy,” she had rounded off. Well our team has certainly seen a more recent version of Ranveer… Version 2.0!

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