The Love Archive: When Ranbir Kapoor Said He’s Never Been in a One-sided Relationship
Ranbir Kapoor’s filmography explores stories of the heart in many ways. As an artiste, Ranbir has embodied multiple characters that bring layers of tenderness, vulnerability, longing, heartbreak, and love to life. Casual, transformative, calm, or tragic, he has portrayed all forms of love that still resonate deep with the audience. And perhaps that is why Ranbir finds love and art to be deeply intertwined. Talking candidly to Filmfare, Ranbir once drew a stunning analogy between an artiste and a lover. For him, emotional honesty occupies a profound space in a relationship. Love isn’t just about accepting your partner’s perceptions; it is also about revealing different ways of seeing and feeling. Emphasizing this thought, Ranbir says, “The role of an artiste is exactly like the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of all the things that I want you to see, and you can’t see. And if I can do that through my characters, through my films, through these different subjects that I’m trying to do, of course I’ll fail, you know, I’ll go wrong because I don’t have a formula for it. But I am going to show you something that you didn’t know you wanted to see. If I know that this is what you want to see and I keep doing that, I will falter. It’s something that I don’t think I will be …






