HOW do you respond when the country’s top filmmaker offers you the role of a lifetime? Well, if you’re Ranbir Kapoor you turn it down via text message.
That’s basically what happened when Rajkumar Hirani, writer-director of the Munnabhai films, 3 Idiots, and PK, sent the 35-year-old actor a message, roughly three years ago, asking him to meet for a film he was planning to make. Ranbir, who Hirani subsequently discovered is “pretty aware of what’s going on in the industry at any given time”, had a fair idea of what the director and his writing partner Abhijat Joshi had been working on. He responded to Hirani’s request for a meeting saying he’d be happy to, but added, according to the filmmaker, “that ‘I hope it’s not [about] the Sanjay…
