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Ranbir Kapoor vs Raj Kapoor. Bigger superstar?

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Posted: 2 years ago

Was this post made to get Ranbir bashed?😆


Got to be.


I mean, he's an actor, an average one but a thespian by Bollywood standards.


But he has years to go before he directs (if at all), produces, and creates stars out of new actors. 


Compare him to his grandpa at the end of his career perhaps?

Posted: 2 years ago
Originally posted by HearMeRoar


Was this post made to get Ranbir bashed?😆


Got to be.


I mean, he's an actor, an average one but a thespian by Bollywood standards.


But he has years to go before he directs (if at all), produces, and creates stars out of new actors. 


Compare him to his grandpa at the end of his career perhaps?


Raj Kapoor was directing, producing (and starring) in Aag while setting up RK Studios at age 24.  Suffice to say Ranbir is not catching up.😆

Ranbir tried his hand at producing (really just a producing fee) with Jagga Jasoos, when it bombed he said that was it for him. 


Kind of sad that none of the Kapoors have been able or willing to run the studio and have left it to die. Rishi tried his hand at directing but that didn't last.   Maybe Ranbir will change his mind or maybe Tamir or Jeh will take over.    On the brighter side Sashi, his children and grand children have built up the Prithvi Theatre that his father once started.


Posted: 2 years ago

Raj Kapoor is,was and always remain a Legend. Topic closed.

Posted: 2 years ago

Raj Kapoor was a big star to the Russians, Ranbir is the big star to the KJo circle jerk. 

Posted: 2 years ago

ranbir kab se superstar bana ðŸ˜†


raj kapoor ki aatma thadap rahi hogi ye poll dekh kar 

Posted: 2 years ago

Oh, is this even a question? Ranbir is still at the beginning of his career who just started like 10 years ago and has a long way to go before being compared to the likes of Raj Kapoor. However, truth be told, Ranbir Kapoor is a better actor than Raj Kapoor but then his career is filled with characters and roles  that were specially curated for him - a clear advantage over his grand father.


 

Edited by catchmeifucan - 2 years ago
Posted: 2 years ago

The major difference between Raj Kapoor & Ranbir Kapoor is kind of films which each of them has done. Raj Kapoor made and acted in  films for a common man. Even a child can enjoy and understand movies like Shree 420, each generation interpret and learn different thing from the same movie, while Ranbir's filmography has movies like Tamasha, Jagga Jasoos, Bombay Velvet even Rockstar which is hard to understand unless you wear STUPID CAP and BLINDFOLD yourself as BHAKTs of Ranbir Kapoor. 


Raj Kapoor was more of showman who had immense talent to understand then audience's demands; his movies were musical blockbusters set on the backdrop of poor India, their social problems and their lifestyle captured with glossy lens.  Maybe he was not par actor like then Dilip Kumar but he had immense fan following both in India and Overseas (Russia, Turkey, China). He was first India actor to be so popular in the overseas, much more popular than Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand. Think they didn't have Internet, mobile, nothing. Still his movies were able to make mark in those countries. 

Compared to Raj's filmography and kind of success he had in terms of box office numbers, fandom, popularity Ranbir has long long way to go even to achieve 10% of what Raj Kapoor has achieved. So this comparison thread is totally unjustifiable. There will be more of Ranbir bashing for such kind of comparison.

  

Posted: 2 years ago

The term superstar is misused now. Rajesh Khanna was first to earn it because till date he is the only star to have given 15 back to back hits without a single flop in between. 

Nowadays anyone with even 2 hits is called superstar. So by today's logic Raj Kapoor is deffo a superstar. And if you use Rajesh Khanna criteria then there is NO superstar now because no actor gave 15 consecutive super hits within just 5 years after him. 

Do not change criteria of superstardom just to degrade past legends and hype modern  media made PR icons. 

Posted: 2 years ago
Originally posted by atominis


The term superstar is misused now. Rajesh Khanna was first to earn it because till date he is the only star to have given 15 back to back hits without a single flop in between. 

Nowadays anyone with even 2 hits is called superstar. So by today's logic Raj Kapoor is deffo a superstar. And if you use Rajesh Khanna criteria then there is NO superstar now because no actor gave 15 consecutive super hits within just 5 years after him. 

Do not change criteria of superstardom just to degrade past legends and hype modern  media made PR icons. 


very well said. 

Every BLIND bhakt terms their favorite as superstar. When challenged they bring out numbers like his movies has done 200 Cr., 300 Cr. so he is superstar.

For anyone to be superstar (s)he must have string of hits, super hits and blockbusters. 

After Rajesh Khanna, only star who had similar kind of success (but not consecutive hits) was Amitabh Bachchan during late 70s till mid 80s. Yet, most industry people don't call him that. 

But these days every jurno, tv anchor tag each and every actor superstar from Arjun Kapoor to Parineeti Chopra everyone is tagged as superstar. It is the most MISUSED term these days. 

    

Posted: 2 years ago
Originally posted by sharmajikaladka


The major difference between Raj Kapoor & Ranbir Kapoor is kind of films which each of them has done. Raj Kapoor made and acted in  films for a common man. Even a child can enjoy and understand movies like Shree 420, each generation interpret and learn different thing from the same movie, while Ranbir's filmography has movies like Tamasha, Jagga Jasoos, Bombay Velvet even Rockstar which is hard to understand unless you wear STUPID CAP and BLINDFOLD yourself as BHAKTs of Ranbir Kapoor. 


Raj Kapoor was more of showman who had immense talent to understand then audience's demands; his movies were musical blockbusters set on the backdrop of poor India, their social problems and their lifestyle captured with glossy lens.  Maybe he was not par actor like then Dilip Kumar but he had immense fan following both in India and Overseas (Russia, Turkey, China). He was first India actor to be so popular in the overseas, much more popular than Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand. Think they didn't have Internet, mobile, nothing. Still his movies were able to make mark in those countries. 

Compared to Raj's filmography and kind of success he had in terms of box office numbers, fandom, popularity Ranbir has long long way to go even to achieve 10% of what Raj Kapoor has achieved. So this comparison thread is totally unjustifiable. There will be more of Ranbir bashing for such kind of comparison.

  


This post kind of got me thinking.


The B&W movie characters were grownups mostly, and stories seemed aimed toward grownups. Since the 90s, the mental/emotional age of the characters seems to be getting younger, and the target audience is now in teens/early twenties. It shows in the (lack of) depth of recent movies. 



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