Dining with the Kapoors: Ranbir Kapoor’s upcoming venture as Lord Ram for Ramayana has garnered a lot of public interest and is also enlivened by PR claims that the actor gave up meat while the film was being made. The narrative pictured Ranbir as adopting a quite reverent and disciplined stance towards the character. However, a new video put up by Dining With the Kapoors has started a new debate on social media, with netizens accusing his PR machinery of lie-making in the aforementioned claim.
In the virulent footage, Ranbir is pictured with his family feasting on an elaborate meal, captioned “Kapoor Style Course.” It comprises a number of meat dishes: Junglee Mutton, Mutton Yakhni Pulao, Chicken Curry, and Paya. Other foodstuffs range from vegetarian to non-vegetarian, like Truffle Dal, Paneer Makhani, Dahi Pakoda Kadi, and Chilke Wale Aloo. The inclusion of fish curry with mutton and paya in the video sharply clashes with the earlier PR narrative of the actor having totally given up meat for this role.
While some fans reacted by showing amazement, more were actually doing so by being critical. According to many, such affirmation was not solicited from anyone in the first place. Had the PR team avoided such bombastic statements, they add, this outcry could have quite easily been avoided. Several users argued that PR teams- not solely Ranbir’s but also those of other prominent Bollywood actors- must discipline themselves to do basic research prior to promoting heroes with inflated or contradictory statements.
This incident has, once again, brought to the fore the images of aggressive image-crafting backfiring in the Bollywood world anymore. According to viewers, actors do not need to be pretentious ascetics or saintly figures to justify their mythological roles. Rather, the argument goes, an exclusive reliance on honesty and temperance would save such situations snowballing into online condemnation.
The debate continues at the moment, but it surely sheds new light on Ranbir’s much-publicized “Ramayana diet.”
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