Aditya Chopra’s Befikre may have made the mandatory moolah over the weekend, but the quality of the content left us with a bad taste in the mouth. In fact, though said to be the Yashraj scion’s blue-eyed boy, Ranveer has done some of his career’s dullest films for Chopra’s illustrious banner.
A veteran actor, who has been a regular in Yash Raj Films says, “Barring Band Baaja Baaraat in which Ranveer was introduced by Yash Raj, all his subsequent films with the banner have been far from satisfying.”
Indeed, right after Band Baaja Baaraat catapulted Ranveer to overnight stardom, his next film for Yash Raj, Ladies Versus Ricky Bahl was a resounding flop. Then followed Ali Abbas Zafar’s Gunday and Shaad Ali’s Kill Dil, both of which can be counted among the worst films made under the banner.
Says a young actor who has quit Yash Raj, “Now we know why Befikre was Adi’s only directorial project without Shah Rukh Khan. Do you think Shah Rukh would have agreed to do a film where the hero is made to walk into a Parisian party in red briefs? Or, where the girl dares the hero to slap a cop in Paris? In Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, the naughtiest thing Adi made SRK do was to run away with a carton of beer from a grocery store in London, and that too after paying for it.”
Continues the ex-Yash Raj actor, “Dignity is drastically lacking in the film. And if I were Sanjay Leela Bhansali, I’d put a curb on Mr Singh’s exuberance. Come to think of it, if we take away Bhansali’s Ram Leela and Bajirao Mastani, what is Ranveer Singh’s career left with— Lootera?”
