Ranbir Kapoor says Bombay Velvet deserved its fate; he isn’t proud

• Ranbir Kapoor recently discussed his past performances on his 15-year completion.
• The actor opened out about his projects that were commercial flops.
• Bombay Velvet “wasn’t a good film,” he said, and it “deserved the fate”  it received.

Ranbir Kapoor recently discussed his past performances as he approached the 15-year mark in the Hindi film business. The actor opened out about his projects that were commercial flops during his presence at the Red Sea International Film Festival. Bombay Velvet “wasn’t a good film,” he said, and it “deserved the fate”  it received at the box office.

Ranbir spoke freely about his films throughout the years. And how some of them struggled at the box office during the discussion. A fan in the crowd stopped him and declared that Karan Johar was to blame for his movie Bombay Velvet being a “huge disaster of Indian cinema.” Putting the blame on the producer-director who portrayed the antagonist in the Anurag Kashyap film, Ranbir chuckled and said it would be unfair.

In a video shared online, Ranbir said, “While working on the film I thought like, ‘Wow, this is amazing,’ you know. Like, Anurag Kashyap was directing. We had great set of actors, you know. See, once you start a film you lose perspective because you surrender to the process. You surrender to the filmmaking, you surrender to the character…So Bombay Velvet was something which…it deserved the fate that it had because it wasn’t a good film.”

Ranbir also talked about his other projects, but specially Jagga Jasoos, as “the only film of my career whose failure hurt me because that was a passion project.” The actor, who was last seen in Brahmastra, also claimed that he somewhat understood why his films, such Tamasha and Jagga Jasoos, failed to find success.

His most recent movie, Brahmastra, starring his wife Alia Bhatt, was a box office hit. The year’s highest-grossing Hindi film is the one starring Ayan Mukerji. Following the start of production on the movie in 2017, Ranbir and Alia started dating and later got engaged months before the movie’s release. Raha, their daughter, was born last month.