One has to ask: if a single person uses more expressions for different emotions they feel in real life, how is it that a spoilt boy, a salesman (both from Mumbai), a politician’s son from the Hindi heartland, a rockstar from Pitampura, a do-gooder in 70s Darjeeling, a gangster in 60s Bombay, a schoolboy in Northeast India, and Sanjay Dutt all seem to frown in a mildly perturbed manner for varying degrees of emotions?Īctors are required to modulate their voices based on their characters as well as the emotions experienced by them. Sanju, which is earning Kapoor mountains of praise, is also not a bad performance, but the Frown is even more noticeable here because you really have to wonder: does Sanjay Dutt frown this much for virtually every emotion? Can you identify which one that is? Kapoor delivered his best performance till date in Tamasha, but in Jagga Jasoos, he was back to using the trademark frown. In one of them, Johnny Balraj is just enjoying a chuski with his girlfriend. Heer dying: Frown.īombay Velvet: The second-best Frowns of Ranbir The above images are from Bombay Velvet. Giving an angsty speech in the middle of a concert: Frown. Being frustrated about not being able to get pain: Frown. Learning that art comes from pain: Frown. However, in the first 20 minutes of the film, there is virtually no expression on his face other than the Frown.įinally Ranbir Kapoor arrived in Rockstar and how? With the same "Frown", of courseĬomparing his situation to Jim Morrison’s: Frown. Rockstar was labelled as Ranbir Kapoor’s arrival, the film that established him in the big leagues. Slapped? Girlfriend pregnant? Ranbir's Samar had same expressions in Rajneetiīeing slapped by a police officer, being told that there is darkness inside him, being told by his pregnant girlfriend that she wants to leave him, and being proposed to by a woman he doesn’t love all seem to evoke the same Frown from Samar. Samar had a massive character arc, going from a good-natured man to a ruthless, conniving politician who kills in the name of family. In Raajneeti, Kapoor played Samar Pratap, the youngest member of a state’s most powerful political family. In these images, Harpreet is: arguing with a friend over his choice of career, humiliated for being labelled a "zero" and " gadha", shocked at being viciously scolded for complaining about a client who solicited a bribe, being blamed and threatened by his colleagues for his ‘mistake’, explaining his business philosophy to his erstwhile boss in the climactic scene, and learning how much companies mark up computer prices.Ĭan you identify which is which? (Fun fact: this role won Kapoor the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor) Rocket in his pocket? Not only rocket, Ranbir had the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor in his pocket for his Rocket Singh Even in Rocket Singh, Harpreet Singh Bedi - a middle-class salesman - also expressed every negative emotion with the Frown. Ranbir Kapoor’s Frown wasn’t restricted to Wake Up Sid. Sid is annoyed at his domestic helper for not waking him up he’s daydreaming in the middle of an exam he’s announcing his decision to leave home he’s being asked to join his father’s business he’s frustrated at always being called a child by Aisha (Konkona Sen Sharma) he’s angry because his friend passed an exam and he didn’t.Īnd yet, in each of these scenes, what we see from Ranbir Kapoor is his trademark Frown. The situations in each of these images are varied. When Ranbir as Sid in Wake Up Sid woke up to the real world He had a wide character arc and experienced a range of emotions. In Wake Up Sid, Siddharth Mehra, an extremely privileged boy, learns how things work in the real world.
This requires an actor to have a wide range of expressions because different people express different emotions, and in different ways.
Similarly, acting requires mastery of a few things because without it, one cannot be a good actor.Īctors are effectively required to become other people. Writing is an art, but without understanding the craft of language, one cannot be a writer. In a country where actual analysis of the craft of acting is virtually non-existent, this is bound to happen.Īcting is an art but, like all art, it rests upon a craft. When the film’s teaser released two months ago, his gushing fans (many of whom double up as film critics) engaged in their favourite annual exercise: declaring that his latest film will prove beyond doubt that he is supremely talented. If there is anything Sanju has done more than perpetuating the myth of Sanjay Dutt’s innocence, it is perpetuating the myth of Ranbir Kapoor’s acting ability.
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