Ranbir Kapoor is one of the finest actors from the current generation. After delivering back-to-back hits, the actor is now working on his next, Ramayana. But it is not just audiences who have been mesmerized by Ranbir and his craft, younger actors too look up to the Brahmastra star for inspiration. Recently, during a conversation with Lallantop, Jigra actor Vedang Raina spoke about Ranbir’s performance in Rockstar. Alia Bhatt and Vasan Bala were also a part of the conversation.

During the interview, while Vedang sang, the host jokingly remarked that Imtiaz Ali could make a Rockstar sequel with him. Vasan chimed in, “The BTS for that would be much better.” Vedang then shared that Rockstar was his favorite film and that he kept looking at the film’s BTS now and then. He said, “I have been the biggest fan of Ranbir’s lip-syncing in Rockstar. I was very curious to always see the film’s BTS. I was curious to know if Ranbir could sing or not. His singing skills were negative, they were really bad. But that also goes to show how good an actor he is. Being a singer, I also tried to recreate the lip-syncs. Obviously in the film (Jigra), it was an exaggerated version, but I wanted to try matching his pitch.”

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The Archies actor went on to share how lip-syncing is not an easy job to do as an actor. Alia also went on to praise her father-in-law Rishi Kapoor and said, “One thing Ranbir would always share was that his father would ask him to sing loudly if there is anybody who truly sung songs, that was Rishi Kapoor.”

Vedang Raina also shared he is a big fan of Shammi Kapoor and took inspiration from the legendary actor for his role in The Archies. Vedang said, “Before The Archies, I had seen a lot of his videos. My character style was very similar to Elvis Presley, and I thought Shammi Kapoor matched very closely to him. So I drew inspiration from Shammi Kapoor.”

Despite the negative word of mouth, Jigra is managing to have a decent run at the box office. In two days, Jigra has earned more than Rs 11 crore at the box office. The film is produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and Alia Bhatt’s Eternal Sunshine Productions.

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