Started as a writer..Ranveer Singh's career and marriage to a famous actress

Ranveer Singh born: 6 July 1985 is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood. Ranveer Singh wanted to be an actor since his childhood. During his college days he felt that the idea of acting was too far-fetched and focused on creative writing. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University Bloomington he became interested in acting again and after returning to India, he started auditioning for lead roles in the Hindi film industry.

In 2010, Singh auditioned for the lead role in a Yash Raj Films project called Band Baaja Baaraat, and was cast in the romantic comedy to play a wedding planner boy and required Singh to model himself after a Delhi man named Bittu Sharma. The film's director, Maneesh Sharma, sent him to the Delhi University campus during a casting call for the film, and it was there that Singh drew inspiration for his character for the film. Upon its release, Band Baaja Baaraat became a critical and commercial success, with Ranveer Singh's portrayal of Bittu being praised by critics. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut at the 56th Filmfare Awards. After Band Baaja Baaraat, Singh continued to experiment with new roles—such as a con artist in Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011), and a thief in disguise in Lootera—and signed a number of films with various directors.

Life and Career 1985-2007: Life and Beginnings Ranveer Singh was born on July 6, 1985, in Mumbai, India, to Jagjit Singh Bhavnani and Anju Bhavnani. He has an elder sister named Ritika Bhavnani. His second cousins are actress Sonam Kapoor and producer Rhea Kapoor, daughters of actor Anil Kapoor and his wife Sunita Kapoor, Ranveer is their second cousin from Sunita Kapoor's side.

Singh always wanted to be an actor, and after joining school he started participating in school plays and debates. When he went to a birthday party, his grandmother asked him to dance and entertain her. Singh remembers that he suddenly jumped into the garden and started dancing to the song “Chumma Chumma” from the Bollywood film, Hum (1991). He felt excited and was interested in acting and dancing. “I always wanted to be an actor since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something related to the performing arts and I enjoyed acting the most as it combined many different art forms. I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of television and was very influenced by Bollywood,” he recalls. However, after joining Junior College at HR University of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai, Singh realised that getting a break in the film industry was not easy at all, as most people with his film background were getting excellent opportunities in Bollywood. He felt that the idea of acting was "a far-fetched pursuit", but Ranveer focused on his second passion, which was "creative writing". He moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington.

While there, he decided to pursue acting alongside his studies. On the first day, the coach asked him to act in an improvisation. Singh was once again convinced that performing arts and acting was what he wanted to do, and took up theatre as his sideline. After completing his studies and returning to Mumbai in 2007, Singh worked for a few years in advertising as a copywriter, with agencies like O&M and JWT. He then started working as an assistant director, but gave it up to pursue acting seriously. He decided to send his portfolio to directors. “My ambition was always to play a lead role in a film, so I refrained from doing any commercials, TV serials, music videos or anything else as I felt a fresh face always worked much better. It was a gamble and I took the plunge and told myself that I would give it my all for a lead role,” he says. For the next three years, Singh would go to producers’ offices, show his picture and ask for work. He went to all sorts of auditions, but never got any good opportunities, while getting calls for minor roles once every four or five months. “Everything was so depressing. It was so frustrating. There were times when I wondered whether I was doing the right thing or not. In 2016, Singh co-starred in Aditya Chopra's romantic comedy Befikre opposite Vaani Kapoor. He played Dharam Gulati, a comedian whose romantic connection with Kapoor's character leads to conflict between them. Set in Paris, Befikre marks Chopra's fourth directorial venture.[53] Singh performed a nude scene in the film, a rarity in Indian films.[54] Jay Weissberg of Variety found the film to be "an over-the-top take on the old friends-with-benefits theme" and criticized Singh's "manic demeanor".[55] The film did not perform well at the box office.[56]

After a year-long absence from the screen, Singh portrayed Alauddin Khilji, a ruthless Muslim king, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's historical drama Padmaavat (2018), co-starring Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor, which marked his third collaboration with Bhansali and Padukone.[57] Right-wing Hindu groups speculated that the film distorted historical facts and issued violent threats against the cast and crew. The film's release was delayed and was cleared for release after several edits were made.[58][59] Ankur Pathak of HuffPost criticized the film's misogynistic and regressive themes, but praised Singh for his "brilliant" portrayal of Khilji's bisexuality.[60] Rajeev Masand stated that he "plays the role with a kind of bizarre glamour that makes it difficult to look at anyone or anything else when he's on screen".[61] Padmaavat's production budget was ₹200 crore (US$23 million), making it the most expensive Indian film ever made at the time.[62] With a worldwide gross of over ₹570 crore (US$66 million), it stands as Singh's highest-grossing release and is among the highest-grossing films of Indian cinema.[63][64] He won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor (shared with Ayushmann Khurrana for Andhun) and received a Best Actor nomination at the ceremony.[65][66]

[67][68] Despite disliking the film, Uday Bhatia of Mint praised Singh for playing his "cartoonish creation" of the character "with an essential sweetness that makes him more appealing than the humourless machismo of Devgan's Singham". [69] With a worldwide gross of ₹400 crore (US$46 million), Simmba emerged as Singh's second-highest-grossing Indian film of 2018. [63]

Singh reteamed with Zoya Akhtar for Gully Boy (2019), a musical film inspired by the lives of street rappers Divine and Nizzy.[70] Singh found little in common with his character as a poor man aspiring to become a rapper, and in preparation underwent acting workshops and spent time with both Divine and Nizzy. He performed his own raps and was happy that the film brought attention to India's underground music scene.[71] The film premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.[72] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised him for displaying "a full, entertaining emotional range that spans drama and hip-hop", while Baradwaj Rangan, writing for Film Companion, praised his slum accent and found his understated performance to be "a brilliant showcase of his range".[73][74] Gully Boy won 13 Filmfare Awards, and Singh received another Best Actor award.[75]

Trading Volatility and Continued Praise (2020-Present)

Singh in 2022 In 2021, Singh hosted the television game show The Big Picture, which aired on Colors TV.[76][77] He reprised his role in Shetty's action film Sooryavanshi in a brief cameo appearance.[78] Singh then portrayed cricketer Kapil Dev in Kabir Khan's 83, a sports film inspired by the 1983 Cricket World Cup. 83 was initially scheduled to release in 2020, but was delayed several times due to casting and pre-production delays that led to filming being postponed, and later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[79] Reviews for the film were positive, with praise for Singh's portrayal of Dev.[80] The film failed to recoup its substantial investment of ₹270 crore (US$31 million).[81] Singh's performance won him his third Filmfare Award for Best Actor.[82]

Singh's first film release in 2022 was Jayeshbhai Jordaar, a satirical film about female murder in India. Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost disliked the film but praised him for "transforming his body, his body language, his demeanour, his posture, his gait, his gestures and his entire personality" for the role, similar to how he "transformed" to play Dev in 1983.[83] He then played dual roles in Rohit Shetty's ensemble comedy Circus (2022), based on William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.[84] In a scathing review, Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in dismissed Singh's performance as "consistently mediocre".[85] Both Jayeshbhai Jordaar and Circus were commercially unsuccessful.

In 2023, Singh starred in Karan Johar's romantic comedy Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.