A Bollywood gold standard: Anupama Chopra on Ranbir Kapoor

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From Saawariya to Animal, there is an ineffable ease to each layered performance..

To borrow a line, from Jerry Maguire, he had me at hello, Chopra says.. Earlier this month, Kareena Kapoor Khan was asked what has changed in the Kapoor family since she began her career 23 years ago..

There is an ineffable ease to his performances, whether he is Ved (who may or may not be bipolar) in Imtiaz Alis Tamasha (2015) or the murderous crime lord with daddy issues in his latest, Animal..

But Ranbir, channelling his legendary grandfather Raj Kapoor, was a magical blend of boyishness, vulnerability, innocence, impetuousness and grace..

Ranbir is a man unhinged by his own pain, and when he shouts, playing his father at his father, who is playing him, it scars us as well.. ABOUT THE AUTHOR..

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