{"id":585518,"date":"2026-04-04T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:42:12","slug":"imran-khan-on-competing-with-ranbir-kapoor-in-early-years-of-career-never-believed-in-creative-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585518\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan on \u2018competing\u2019 with Ranbir Kapoor in early years of career: Never believed in creative competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the internet chatter may be about pitting Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor <\/a>together, but around the early 2010’s, the competition had a third player: Imran Khan.<\/p>\n

\"ImranImran Khan with Ranbir Kapoor<\/p>\n

Imran and Ranbir had begun their careers around the same time, and in fact, appeared on a popular chat show together, too. But the former decided to leave it all in 2015, and quit acting. Today, as he prepares for his comeback, how does he view competition?<\/p>\n

He got candid on The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra, \u201cI had never bought into the notion of creative competition. It reduces cinema into some kind of a competitive sport. I don\u2019t see that as doing full justice to the films that we make.”<\/p>\n

For Imran, the experience of watching and making films is deeply personal, something that cannot be standardised. \u201cSomeone may be emotionally moved by a film, someone may not. That\u2019s fine. But measuring it as a metric of numbers, I\u2019ve never bought into that. I don\u2019t really subscribe to that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Imran is only relieved that he gets to do it all over again, at a time of his own choosing. \u201cHow many of us dream of making films, of being a part of a movie? For me, every time I get an opportunity to do that is a win, because there are people out there who would want to make a film but will never get a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the internet chatter may be about pitting Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor together, but around the early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,55138,286629,134,81144,344,377,14112],"class_list":{"0":"post-585518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-comeback","11":"tag-creative-competition","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-imran-khan","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-ranbir-kapoor","16":"tag-ranveer-singh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585518","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=585518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}