Over the past few years, Ranveer Singh has emerged as the quintessential Bollywood hero and his superb acting skills are not worth giving a miss. The actor, who started 2018 with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmaavat, ended the year with a bang with Rohit Shetty's masala-entertainer Simmba, which featured him as a cop named Sangeram Bhalerao. Now in a recent interview with a leading daily, Ranveer got candid about his experience and journey of becoming a hero and not an actor.
Recalling how watching the 90's films and wanting to be like the stars of that era made him want to join the films, Ranveer said, "Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Akshay (Kumar) sir, Ajay (Devgn) sir, the Khans (Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman), Sanjay Dutt and Hrithik Roshan sir, these are people who have individually and collectively inspired me to be a Hindi film hero. Plans and ideas formed in my head as a child, but I started out by not wanting to be an actor. I always wanted to be a hero, which I am now."
Well, Ranveer's meteoric rise as Bollywood's superstar is certainly inspirational.
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Not to forget, his last film Simmba has not only impressed the audience but is slowly inching towards Rs 250-crore mark at the box-office. Speaking of the high he got when he went to catch his film at a cinema hall, Ranveer added, "This larger-than-life mounting of a Hindi film hero is something I craved for. Going to watch the movie at single screens with the masses is a different high. I am where I dreamed of being. Simmba was my first movie of this scale and mounting."
Lastly, he admitted that he has thanked Rohit many times for Simmba's success because he did it 'without Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Deepika Padukone'.
Work wise, Ranveer will next be seen in Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy alongside Alia Bhatt, apart from starring in Kabir Khan's '83, which features him as former Indian Cricket team captain Kapil Dev.
