Mumbai: Bringing versatility with every film has been Ranveer Singh’s aim from the beginning as the actor believes in always surprising the audience with his work.
For the 32-year-old actor, it is essential to be a versatile performer and growing up, he has aspired to have a “chameleon-like quality”. “You watch one film of an actor and then the other one and you can’t believe it is the same person. I used to find that very fascinating. Actors who have that chameleon-like quality, they are able to be anything. I have always aspired to be like that,” Ranveer told PTI.
This outlook somehow reflects in the choice of films the actor makes. Within a year, in 2013, Ranveer played a doe-eyed conman in “Lootera” and did a complete switch as a larger-than-life passionate lover in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Goliyon ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela”. Two years later, the actor was seen playing a rich happy-go-lucky brat in “Dil Dhadakne Do” and embraced the armour of a fearless Maratha warrior in “Bajirao Mastani”.
His roles in upcoming films are as stark as they come – he has turned rapper for Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy” and a cop in the Rohit Shetty-directed “Simmba”. “For me, it is important to keep switching it off drastically for myself and for my audience. I want audience to expect the unexpected. As an audience, it is very exciting to have this thought that what will this performer do next.
“That is something I aspire to have for myself. It is a constant endeavour to be a versatile performer,” he says. This year, Ranveer’s box office report card boasts of the blockbuster “Padmaavat” and the actor says, both good content and commercial success matter to him. The actor says he is glad that he is considered a “good actor”, who is a part of some “memorable films”.
