{"id":176967,"date":"2025-09-29T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176967\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:52:07","slug":"ranbir-kapoor-once-recalled-how-barely-passing-exams-made-his-parents-proud-i-was-the-first-male-in-my-family-to-pass-school-without-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176967\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranbir Kapoor once recalled how barely passing exams made his parents proud: ‘I was the first male in my family to pass school without failing’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RanbirRanbir Kapoor reflected on his strict school days, where he barely passed 10th grade, becoming the first male in his family to do so without failing. He also discussed the pressure of his film lineage, aiming to forge his own identity, and contrasted his fleeting stardom with his grandfather Raj Kapoor’s enduring global legacy. Ranbir Kapoor<\/a> once opened up about his school days, growing up in a film family, and the pressure of living up to the Kapoor legacy. The actor also recalled how barely passing his exams once made his parents proud.<\/p>\n

Life at school and strict upbringing<\/p>\n

Talking to TBIP, Ranbir said, \u201cThey don\u2019t treat you differently in school, but you do realise that you are somewhere special among the 40 students. They are more curious about you. But over a period of time when you have grown up with them, like 10 years in school\u2026 they get used to it.\u201d He added, \u201cI went to Bombay Scottish. It was a very strict kind of convent school, I got beaten up a lot by the principal. Once he slapped my face from one corridor of the school to another, held my head, turned me the other way, and then slapped me on the way back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ranbir Kapoor playfully teases Alia Bhatt in front of the paps, \u2018Yeh ruk nahi rahi’<\/p>\n

First male in the family to pass school without failing<\/p>\n

Elaborating further, he added, \u201cI was a bad student. I was among the last three in the class, but I never failed. I always managed to pass the year. I got 54.3 percent in my 10th standard. I was in New York at that time and my father was directing the film Aa Ab Laut Chalen. My mom was in Mumbai and she called me crying. She couldn\u2019t believe that I passed the 10th grade. Because I was the first male member of my family to have passed school without failing. I remember my grandmother, uncles and father were in New York and they were jubilant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenges of being from a film family<\/p>\n

When asked about the challenges of being from a film family, Ranbir said, \u201cI don\u2019t like being called a star son. Yes, I had opportunities early and grew up in a comfortable life, but in recent years, I\u2019ve worked hard to make a name for myself.\u201dHe further shared, \u201cI feel responsible for that. I don\u2019t take it for granted. I\u2019m not arrogant about that. I want to make my family proud, but I am here for myself and to make a name for myself and not be called Raj Kapoor<\/a>\u2018s grandson or Rishi Kapoor<\/a>\u2019s son. I want my father to be known by my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ranbir on stardom and his grandfather\u2019s legacy<\/p>\n

Ranbir also spoke about his view of stardom, recalling his grandfather Raj Kapoor\u2019s immense popularity in Russia. He noted that the fame he and other actors of his generation experience is much more fleeting compared to the lasting fame his grandfather enjoyed.Recalling the incident, he shared, \u201cWhen he went to Russia for the premiere of Awaara, he came out of the theatre, and there was a huge mob of Russians waiting to see him and he went and sat in his car. And you won\u2019t believe, all these people carried his car and took him to the hotel. That\u2019s another kind of stardom. The stardom that we see is so short-lived because there will be another heartthrob after you go. But what these guys have done is permanently etched in people\u2019s minds.\u201dOn the work front, he will next be seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love and War’ with Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal. He will also be seen in Ramayana with Sai Pallavi, Yash, Sunny Deol and others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranbir Kapoor reflected on his strict school days, where he barely passed 10th grade, becoming the first male…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[114606,18957,64,63,447,134,114605,33404,67696,27223,377,42225,380,14485],"class_list":{"0":"post-176967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aa-ab-laut-chalen","9":"tag-alia-bhatt","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-kapoor-legacy","15":"tag-neetu-kapoor","16":"tag-raha-kapoor","17":"tag-raj-kapoor","18":"tag-ranbir-kapoor","19":"tag-rishi-kapoor","20":"tag-sunny-deol","21":"tag-vicky-kaushal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}