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Seven Top Movies of Ranbir Kapoor to Binge Watch (Part II)

Ranbir Kapoor is one of the biggest stars of Bollywood who gave many hits and critically acclaimed movies in his fifteen years long career. In the first part of the story, we read about a few top movies by Ranbir Kapoor. Here are a few more movies of Ranbir Kapoor which prove his credibility as a star and an actor.

Rockstar (2011) 

Rockstar is one of the biggest milestones of Ranbir Kapoor’s career and he won his first Best Actor Award for his brilliant performance in the movie. 

Imtiaz Ali directed Rockstar after giving hit movies like Jab We Met and Love Aajkal. Rockstar follows the life of an aspiring singer JanardanJakhar, a jat boy from Delhi, and how his life changes after meeting Heer(NargisFakhri). The music by A.R Rahman was nothing but pure magic with beautiful lyrics by IrshadKamil. The movie got mixed reviews from the critics but everyone praised Ranbir Kapoor’s award-winning performance as the heartbroken, anguished, and self-destructive Rockstar known as Jordan, a name given to him by Heer.

Barfi! (2012)

Barfi! Proved Ranbir Kapoor’s caliber as a good actor and many consider him the best actor of his generation.  

Barfi! Directed by Anurag Basu is a comedy-drama movie starring Ranbir Kapoor as a deaf and mute boy with a golden heart named Barfi along with Priyanka Chopra as Jhilmil and it marked the debut of south star Ileana D’Cruz. Ranbir Kapoor gave a brilliant performance in the movie as Barfi, which revolves around a deaf and mute boy Murphy ‘Barfi’ Johnson from Darjeeling, and his special relationships with two girls in his life, one being Jhilmil (Priyanka Chopra), an autistic girl and Shruti (Ileana D’Cruz) with whom Barfi falls in love but can’t be together because of their positions in the society. Ranbir Kapoor consecutively won his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor Male.

YehJawani Hain Deewani (2013)

Ranbir Kapoor collaborated with director AyanMukerjee for the second time after Wake Up Sid and it had DeepikaPadukone opposite him as the female lead. 

AyanMukerjee’sYehJawani Hain Deewani featured Ranbir Kapoor and DeepikaPadukone in lead roles with Aditya Roy Kapoor and KalkiKoechlin in supporting roles. It was one of the biggest hits of 2013 and earned more than 200 crores worldwide. The movie centers around four friends and how their relationships go through many changes after college life. The movie was a craze among youngsters and the songs of the movie composed by Pritam were a rage.

 Sanju (2019) 

Sanju directed by RajkumarHirani is a biopic about Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor played the role of Sanjay Dutt.

When RajkumarHirani announced a biopic on Sanjay Dutt with Ranbir Kapoor playing Sanjay Dutt, everyone was skeptical because of their very different personalities. But with the help of prosthetics and Ranbir Kapoor's efforts to adapt the mannerisms of Sanjay Dutt, it seemed perfect in the movie. The movie also starred Paresh Rawal as Sanjay Dutt’s father Sunil Dutt, Manisha Koirala as Nargis his mother, Vicky Kaushal as Kamli, a friend of Sanjay Dutt, and Dia Mirza as Sanjay Dutt’s real-life wife ManyataDutt. The movie earned more than 300 crores domestically and with it, Ranbir Kapoor entered the famed 300 crores club. Ranbir Kapoor won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award for Sanju.