Ranveer Singh On Gully Boy: I Knew Only I Can Pull Off This Character

Actor Ranveer Singh, who plays a street rapper in Gully Boy, says he was born to do the coming-of-age musical film.

Ranveer spoke at the trailer launch of Gully Boy along with his co-star Alia Bhatt, the film’s director Zoya Akhtar and producers Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani here on Wednesday.

In the film, the Padmaavat actor plays a street rapper who dreams big.

Ranveer has had a brush with rapping himself. He had rapped a bit in the title track of his second film Ladies vs Ricky Bahl.

“When somebody told me about the script of Gully Boy, I told them that it is my film. If any other actor would have been a part of this film instead of me then I would have got burnt with jealousy. I was born to do Gully Boy and I knew only I can pull off this character.”

Ranveer said it is a special film for him for too many reasons. “It’s a coming together of too many things that are very dear to me. It has rap, hip-hop music which I loved since I was a kid and it is set in my motherland Mumbai.”

Sharing his experience of working with the film’s cast and crew, Ranveer said: “Working with Zoya (Akhtar) was an amazing experience. She is really more than a director to me. She is my friend and confidante. She is so special to me in my life as a person more than a director.

“This film’s producer Ritesh is like family to me. We go way back and our parents go way back. Farhan (Akhtar) is a creative force of nature who I have tremendous admiration for. I have been fielding for him to direct me since eight years now. Hopefully, he will consider me someday.

“I really don’t know what to say about Alia (Bhatt). I don’t know how she happened to us. We are lucky that we have an actor like Alia Bhatt as a part of our cinema.”