{"id":903924,"date":"2026-09-24T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903924\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:26:10","slug":"ranbir-kapoors-new-image-from-sanjay-leela-bhansalis-love-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903924\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranbir Kapoor’s New Image From Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love & War’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTop Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor<\/a> carries a bullet wound in a new image from Sanjay Leela Bhansali<\/a>\u2018s upcoming feature \u201cLove & War,\u201d in which he stars alongside Alia Bhatt<\/a> and Vicky Kaushal.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe image places Kapoor at the wheel of a vintage turquoise convertible. He wears sunglasses and a white short-sleeved knit shirt, his hair slicked back above a mustache. Blood runs from his shoulder to his wrist and spatters the car door below. A gold-toned watch sits on the injured arm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film brings Kapoor back to Bhansali 19 years after the director launched him in \u201cSaawariya.\u201d The announcement pitches the new role as a fresh screen persona for the actor, shaped by Bhansali, with Kapoor at the heart of what it described as the filmmaker\u2019s biggest romantic undertaking to date.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeculation about the three leads and how their characters relate to one another has trailed the project since it was unveiled. The first look leaves those questions open, including what Kapoor\u2019s character has lived through and where he stands in the film\u2019s love triangle.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLove & War\u201d will release in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Marudhar Entertainment is handling the release. The film opens in cinemas worldwide on Jan. 21, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tKapoor debuted as a leading man with Bhansali\u2019s romance \u201cSaawariya\u201d (2007), a Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation. Bhatt headlined Bhansali\u2019s women empowerment saga \u201cGangubai Kathiawadi,\u201d which bowed at the 2022 Berlinale. Kapoor and Bhatt starred together in Disney\u2019s sci-fi mythological superhero film \u201cBrahmastra Part One: Shiva\u201d (2022).<\/p>\n

Bhatt most recently headlined Yash Raj Films\u2019 spy universe thriller \u201cAlpha.\u201d Kaushal, meanwhile, delivered 2025\u2019s biggest Bollywood hit with the historical epic \u201cChhaava.\u201d Kapoor\u2019s last big-screen outing, \u201cAnimal,\u201d was one of 2023\u2019s top-grossing Indian films.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLove & War\u201d follows Bhansali\u2019s large-scale period dramas \u201cDevdas,\u201d \u201cBajirao Mastani,\u201d \u201cPadmaavat\u201d and \u201cGangubai Kathiawadi,\u201d as well as his Netflix series \u201cHeeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor carries a bullet wound in a new image from Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2018s upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18957,64,63,447,134,86871,377,47287],"class_list":["post-903924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alia-bhatt","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-love-war","tag-ranbir-kapoor","tag-sanjay-leela-bhansali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903924","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=903924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}