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Ranveer Singh gets serious... no, really!
DNA (January 1, 2016)

Court jester, angry young man, mad genius... How many characters can Ranveer Singh keep inside himself? Hurtling through the most important phase of his life, the dynamic actor takes off the clown make-up in GQ India’s January 2016 issue...

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Ranveer may have learnt to share space with actors on screen, but in real life, he runs solo. “Some actors get weird around me, mostly guys from my generation. I think I make them insecure,” he says. “But 200 characters live inside my head. They just pop out. It just happens,” he says. “I oscillate between extremes.”

He developed a baritone for Bajirao Mastani in the 21 days before shooting, where he locked himself up in a room and conjured up in his head the person he was going to be for the next few months.

In control
Ranveer is big on creative control, even when it comes to brand endorsements, the kind of work most actors treat as easy money for little effort. Ranveer says he was the brainchild behind the “My name is Ranveer Ching” campaign as well as the infamous Durex commercial. “No mainstream celebrity has ever promoted a condom brand, and I decided I should. So I called up Durex and told them I wanted to work with them.”

Best thing ever
“I love being in a relationship. It’s the best thing ever,” he says. “My whole thought process has changed. My priorities have changed. My mindset, my outlook, my world view — everything is changing.”

Playing the fool
“At my core, I’m hypersensitive. I’m melancholic, a brooder. So I adopt my public persona as a counter. The happy guy, the funny guy, the guy that makes everyone smile. It’s second nature now. Naseeruddin Shah calls me the fool… If life’s a stage, I play the fool, ” he says

Ranveer may not be in control of his mind but he’s firmly in control of his image. He’s keenly intelligent and without anyone knowing it, quietly running the show.