By Hindustan Times
The youngest star from Bollywood’s Kapoor clan, Ranbir Kapoor has dance moves in his genes. However the prospect of performing live at this year’s IIFA Awards makes him just a little nervous. “I haven’t danced in almost two and a half years,” says the actor. “Rockstar (his last release, 2011) had no dance numbers and in Barfi!, I play a deaf and mute character, so there’s no chance. My body is a bit rusty and it hurts since I’ve started rehearsing.”
At the awards ceremony, RK might be dancing to his songs from Rockstar, Chillar Party (2011) and says he has a surprise in store too. He’s also glad that actor-director Prabhudheva is choreographing his moves.
“I haven’t ever had the chance to work with him in a film, so I’m really happy that I AM GETTING to work with him here,” says Ranbir. Now onto the last schedule of Barfi!, directed by Anurag Basu, Ranbir hopes the film will end up how it promised when he read the script. But he has full faith in his director: “Anurag has great vision. Despite the fact that you provide him with just 30 per cent content, he’ll come up with a perfect entertainer.”
This may be his second film with Priyanka Chopra after Anjaana Anjaani (2010).
“We’re looking to break form and content in a selected manner with this film,” he explains. “Priyanka plays an autistic character, and that i play a deaf and mute guy. But it’s a rom-com that becomes a murder mystery — ready within the 1970s, and made in an excessively Roberto Benigni way. I AM HOPING we will be able to pull it off.”
Ranbir may be engaged on Ayan Mukerji’s Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani with ex-flame Deepika Padukone. The film, produced by Karan Johar, is an out and out romantic movie, he says.
“We’ve completed just 40 per cent of the film so far, however the schedules was tough. We’ve been shooting in extreme conditions — Manali was minus five degrees while Udaipur was 48 degrees,” says Ranbir. “But it’s great to work with Ayan again, and that is my second film with Deepika. Ayan is truly looking to make the affection story of this generation and that i hope we’re successful in doing that.”
