Ranbir Kapoor recently appeared on entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath’s People by WTF podcast and was super candid about his family, career and personal beliefs. The Animal actor, who has been the subject of several controversies in the past, bared his soul and spoke openly about his relationship with Alia Bhatt, his complicated dynamics with his father and how his beliefs in Sanatan Dharm cemented with time.
Here are all the highlights from his interview and how netizens reacted to it.
“My father was extremely pious”: Ranbir Kapoor
Credit: YouTube/Nikhil Kamath
Ranbir Kapoor spoke in detail about his religious beliefs, saying how his relationship with God has a lot to do with gratitude. He said that his father, Rishi Kapoor, was a devout and pious man. Due to his father, he grew up in a religious and spiritual environment in which he saw regular pujas, chanting, festival celebrations, etc.
Ranbir said, “So when I grew up, my father (Rishi Kapoor) was extremely pious. He used to do two pujas a day. We celebrate every festival, we have Navratas at home, so God was a very big thing for me growing up. I think it gave a lot of peace to my father; my mother (Neetu Kapoor) was less religious. So, I have a good feeling about God.”
He also said that he never asks anything from God and that he will always be grateful for everything in his life.
He added, “Even when I’m in trouble, when I’ve been like, my mother’s fighting with me, and I don’t have another conflicted conversation with her, where she’s going to cry and stuff like that. Or I want a film to succeed, or I want to buy something. I’ve never asked for that. So my relationship with God is a lot of gratitude. And you know, I feel very, very grateful for the place I’m in, of everything that I have. And so that kind of sums up my relationship with God.”
Ranbir Kapoor on his beliefs in Sanatan Dharam
While speaking about his religious beliefs, Ranbir Kapoor also spoke about his beliefs in Sanatan Dharam and how it affected him. Ranbir started shooting for his upcoming movie based on the Indian epic, Ramayana, and started reading up on Sanatan Dharam. He said he got engrossed in it and it positively affected his life.
Ranbir said, “I started believing a lot in the Sanatana Dharam. I think I started reading a lot about it in the last couple of years. I went quite deep into what it is, what the effects are. And see, you believe it or you don’t believe it. If you believe it, it is like hope. It is like giving yourself a good system, good values. I think there is something good about it. I feel connected.”
“Beef-eater Ranbir Kapoor says…” Netizens react to Ranbir Kapoor’s Sanatani beliefs
Ranbir Kapoor’s two-hour-long interview with Nikhil Kamath sparked quite a few praises, debates, criticism and even outrage. From his take on being labelled as a serial cheater and Casanova to his remarks on Sanatan Dharam, netizens were left divided over his genuineness and honesty.
Netizens said that Ranbir said he believes deeply in Sanatan Dharam because his movie on Ramayana is about to release soon. Others said that he is using Sanatan Dharam as a PR strategy and a prop to promote his film. Fans dug out his old interviews in which he made contradicting statements too.
One X user said, “Ranbir Kapoor is a pathological liar & and manipulates the media with word play for his own benefit and blames his girlfriends or his upbringing when it’s time to clean his image.”
Another netizen posted, “It is so insulting that this self proclaimed beef eater is talking about Sanatan Dharma. He suddenly read books, read mantras, did yoga… and poof, he became a Hindu 🤷🏻♀️No one is falling for this crap!”
Ranbir Kapoor on his relationship with Alia Bhatt
Credit: Instagram/aliaabhatt
Apart from his religious beliefs, Ranbir also spoke openly about his relationship with Alia Bhatt. He spoke about how they met when she was nine and he was 20. They met for a photoshoot for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie on child marriage.
He also went into detail about how she changed more than him. He said she has changed her personality to ease his insecurities that stem from his father.
Ranbir said, “She has really made an effort, and I must acknowledge that everything that I complained about and she complained about, but I think she has made better efforts than I have,” he stressed. Ranbir admitted that Alia has changed more for him than he has for her. “I am acknowledging it, but I should do something about it. I should change a bit.”
He added, “She used to speak in a very loud tone. I think my father’s (Rishi Kapoor) tone, growing up, always rattled me. So she really made efforts to change that. And that’s not easy when you’ve lived 30 years of your life speaking in a certain way. She’s someone who instinctively reacts to say, if Raha falls down. There’s a reaction that throws me off. She makes certain things to put me at ease. I hope I could say there’s something I did to put her at ease, but I don’t think I’ve done it yet.”
Social and lead images credits: Instagram/aliaabhatt and YouTube/Nikhil Kamath
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