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‘He had unique ability to play with his pain’
Updated On: 03 May, 2022 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Stating that he could find similarities between Charlie Chaplin and his role, Ranveer discusses channelling the legend for his Jayeshbhai Jordaar act
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Charlie Chaplin; (right) Jayeshbhai Jordaar takes on female foeticide
In Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Ranveer Singh, armed with wit and humour, tackles the social evil of female foeticide. The actor plays a mild-mannered Gujarati man who will go to any extent to save his unborn girl child, standing up against his sarpanch father who yearns for a grandson. To Singh, Divyang Thakkar’s directorial offering, which makes a strong case for gender equality, is along the lines of Charlie Chaplin’s satires. He elaborates, “Jayeshbhai is a character with no reference point in Hindi cinema, but if I had to draw parallels with someone in terms of mannerisms, it would have to be Charlie Chaplin. As an artiste, he had this unique ability to take his pain and play with it. His situation was always deeply tragic, but he was able to deal with it through the power of
humour.”
The beauty of the script aside, Singh says that he took on Jayeshbhai Jordaar as it gave him the opportunity to explore his favourite genre — tragic comedy. “Life is Beautiful [1997] is my favourite movie of all time. To take suffering and make light of it is a beautiful way of living.”
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