Now that Ranveer Singh has paid another round of gurudakshina to Aditya Chopra, perhaps he will start vetting his mentor’s scripts a little more seriously. Until Friday the 13th, Ranveer revelled in being called a chameleon by scribes who lavished praise on his versatility. But the frigid Rs 3 crore opening day collections of his outing as Jayeshbhai Jordaar have taken the shine out of the swagger as it was like an effete tour of Gujarat. It’s when films like this come along that the importance of a script and a director get reinforced.
And Aditya Chopra as producer has been consistently letting down his protégé.
Discovered and put into orbit by Yash Raj Films, Ranveer Singh had the best possible debut with Band Baajaa Baaraat in 2010, a well-conceived and efficiently executed film in which the Sindhi boy from Bombay turned himself into an incredibly believable Delhi lad.
One accepts that one can’t let go of the hand that launched one’s career. But Adi, too, has a responsibility when he asks his discovery to do a film. Does one even remember that Ranveer has worked in such immemorable YRF films as Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl and Kill/Dil? There was an average Gunday in between but Adi hit rock bottom when he directed Ranveer in the disastrous Befikre. This was in December 2016, when Hindi cinema was booming. The same month when Aamir Khan’s Dangal came as a Christmas offering and became a byword for blockbuster.
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