By Hindustan Times
The mother of superhero movies, The Avengers, opens today, but Ranbir Kapoor is unimpressed. Chatting with Anupama Chopra within the first episode of her new show, Front Row with Anupama Chopra, the actor says he’s rarely liked a superhero film.
Excerpts from the interview:
Anupama: Ranbir, you were saying that you simply don’t really enjoy superhero movies.You’re not this type of big fan. Why?
Ranbir: No particular reason. I’m a large fan of the brand new Batman series that Christopher Nolan has done. I SUPPOSE what we have a tendency to forget is that even though we're creating a superhero film, it’s not only that “I am creating a film a few superhero”. It’s the type of storytelling that you’re doing and the type of the villain that plays this sort of powerful role in creating a good superhero film.
Anupama: It’s only pretty much as good because the villain.
Ranbir: Absolutely. Then it just makes the superhero look cooler. You should root for him. But it’s not that I hate superhero films. It’s very rarely that I’ve liked an excellent superhero film with the exception of the early Superman series and the Christopher Nolan Batman series.
Anupama: Tom Hiddleston says that superhero movies offer us a contemporary mythology and it’s a faithless mythology. Religion has no a part of it. Do you think could be true or are we projecting an excessive amount of into popcorn entertainment?
Ranbir: Director Dibakar Banerjee once told me, “We all have the desire to make these artistic films, we wish to make good story films and depressing films and happy films and all that. But when we go by train within the morning we see men and women sitting with thalis and they’re cutting vegetables. They’re going to work and they’re coming back. They would like to come back and so they need to escape. They would like to look the hero beating up bad guys they usually need to see entertainment.” So popcorn entertainment is a great thing. But I don’t think they're bastardising any mythological culture or anything of that kind. I FEEL within the Hindi film industry, the audience loves to see our heroes who're superheroes themselves without wearing underwear and a cape.
