MUMBAI : Ranbir Kapoor has talked about his early years before rising to fame in Bollywood. Ranbir served as assistant director on Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black before making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya.
Ranbir talked about how his late father, actor Rishi Kapoor, kept him on a limited budget in New York to teach him the importance of money as he reflected on his college days in Mumbai and New York.
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After graduating from Mumbai College, Ranbir started his higher studies at The School of Visual Arts in New York. However, his father thought he was too young to begin acting, so he sent him back to New York. Ranbir enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute around this time to pursue method acting.
Despite coming from a privileged background, Ranbir’s father maintained a strict budget for him, allowing just enough for two meals a day.
“By then, I was very eager to come back and start work. I felt like I had gotten the experience of America. It was not really the college experience but the exposure of talking to people from all over the world and living alone. My father had kept me on a very tight budget. Of course, when I say tight budget, I am still coming from a privileged background, but it was enough to have a McDonald’s dollar menu meal for lunch and dinner. So, it was like $2 for lunch and $2 for dinner. It was as strict as that, even though I come from a privileged background,” Ranbir shared with Nikhil Kamath.
Ranbir responded to a question about his father's strict financial restrictions by saying, “He never addressed this, but I think he wanted me to live like a student and not a superstar’s son. Maybe it was to teach the value of money.”
Ranbir maintained his frugal lifestyle even after arriving back in Mumbai, taking public transportation and working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Black. “My father wanted to school me that this is not life, you are too moisturised, you need to see what hardship is,” he said.
Ranbir also talked about his time as a college student in Mumbai, when he developed the habit of smoking, which he continued until last year when he gave up on his health and Raha's birth.
“HR College reminds me of smoking because that was the first time I bought a packet of cigarettes. You smoke with your friends outside the college and you feel grown up. It’s the first time you are wearing your own clothes and not a school uniform,” he reminisced.
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