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Jim Sarbh on Saturday clarified that his past comments about actors and their “exaggerated” processes weren’t aimed at his Padmaavat co-star Ranveer Singh. The clarification came after actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui was asked about those comments in a recent interview. Not only Jim, Murder 2 actor Prashant Narayanan had also seemingly mocked Ranveer Singh for saying that he sank into a dark headspace while playing the villain in Padmaavat.
Ranveer Singh had famously said that he had locked himself up in his Goregaon house to prepare for his character of Allaudin Khilji in Padmaavat and was worried if he would ever come out of that dark mindspace. Both Jim and Prashant had scoffed at this thought process. In an interview with The Quint, Jim had said, “There are all those actors who are like ‘You know, I was so stuck in my character that I had to get mental therapy for weeks after.’ I was like, ‘Shut up bro. You didn’t even know your lines on the day, what nonsense’.” Social media users felt Jim was talking about his Padmaavat co-star.
Taking to Instagram, Jim wrote on Saturday, “I find this almost absurd to have to clarify, but since folks are running wild with the videos and the articles: Nothing I said refers to Ranveer Singh. The video byte being shared is from made in heaven season 2 promotions, 5 whole years since Padmaavat came out. 5 years. I only had lovely things to say about Ranveer as a co actor- look it up. I still do. Also: it is not an attack on process. I love process, and I love actors.”
Did Jim Sarbh take a dig at his Padmavaat co-star Ranveer Singh?
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The actor said that his comments were instead directed at those who don’t deliver but make tall claims about their talent. “The video is making fun of actors who exaggerate their process. I’m sure you’ve all met people who talk about their work more than do their work. Can’t wait for the next article or video shooting off my shoulder…. I usually don’t respond to speculative videos and articles, because they’re boring and I assume people know better. Of course, just like some of you, I assumed wrong. Too many people have forwarded me things, and now journalists/interviewers are ‘identifying’ me as a ‘critic’, despite me never having mentioned anyone at all, let alone @ranveersingh.,” he wrote and tagged Ranveer Singh with the emojis, “😘❤️”.
Prashant Narayanan in an interview with Siddharth Kannan had commented on Ranveer’s process and said, “Woh jhoot bol raha hai. Yeh dark spaces mein jana, yeh sab karna yeh bakwas ki baatein hai.”
Nawazuddin Siddiqui was asked about Narayanan’s comments in a conversation with Shubankar Mishra. and he said, “The people who are calling it fake, did they bother to understand the actor’s process? Did they bother to understand how he was living his life when he was creating the character? They are simply judging him. We don’t know what a man is thinking when he’s coming up with a characterisation. They think it is pretentious. When you dive deep into a character, it is a very painful process. This is a very irresponsible thing to say.”
When the interviewer identified Ranveer’s critics as the main villain of Murder 2 (Narayanan), and Sarbh, Nawazuddin asked, “What are they doing now? Do you see what Bobby Deol has been doing lately? And what is the man who commented doing currently? Who are we to say if Ranveer should or should not put himself through a painful process? What if he did? How do we know it? It is very easy to make such comments. We cannot underestimate anyone… This is an actor’s job.”
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