‘Ranbir Kapoor wanted to be Amitabh Bachchan, SRK growing up, but…’

Actor Ran­bir Kapoor will play a larg­er than life hero along­side action enter­tain­er Shamshera. The cre­ators dropped the trail­er a few days ago and fans show­ered it with love, lik­ing their favorite actor’s act­ing skills along with San­jay Dut­t’s vil­lain­ous per­for­mance. Ran­bir’s nev­er-before-seen avatar and the antic­i­pa­tion of see­ing him is sky-high.

In the sec­ond episode of a three part video series enti­tled RK Tapes, Ran­bir talks about his favorite Hin­di film heroes and how they have shaped his con­scious­ness over the years! The super­star says: “I want­ed to be Amitabh Bachchan. Grow­ing up I want­ed to be Shah Rukh Khan! After all, I had to be Ran­bir Kapoor.”

Watch as Ran­bir speaks straight from the heart in The Hin­di Film Hero Episode 2:

Ran­bir is report­ed to have said, “Grow­ing up, these Hin­di film heroes had become my real heroes. Every­thing I did, how I dressed, how I spoke, and sub­con­scious­ly every­thing I did, was inspired by my heroes. But strange­ly, when I became an actor, I did­n’t choose the kind of films that my heroes would choose. I may have sat­is­fied the actor in me, but look­ing back at this 12-year-old Hin­di film hero obsessed with Ran­bir, I feel like he has yet to ful­fill his dream.”

Ran­bir lead­ing actor Shamshera is set in the fic­tion­al city of Kaza, where a war­rior tribe is impris­oned, enslaved and tor­tured by a ruth­less author­i­tar­i­an gen­er­al Shudh Singh. This is the sto­ry of a man who became a slave, a slave who became a leader and then a leg­end for his tribe. He fights relent­less­ly for the free­dom and dig­ni­ty of his tribe. His name is Shamshera.

The high-octane, adren­a­line-packed enter­tain­er is set in the heart of 19th-cen­tu­ry India. It has great promise of a nev­er-before-seen Ran­bir Kapoor play­ing Shamshera in the film! San­jay Dutt plays Ran­bir’s neme­sis in this huge cast­ing coup and his show­down with Ran­bir will be some­thing to watch out for as they’ll be mer­ci­less at each other.

This action spec­ta­cle was pro­duced by Aditya Chopra and is slat­ed for release on July 22, 2022 in Hin­di, Tamil and Telugu.