The many colours of Ranbir Kapoor

I don't envy movie star Ranbir Kapoor. Try as he might, he cannot escape being a red flag for internet users at large.

- NAMRATA ZAKARIA

Despite being a top-billed actor, and a genuinely super talent, he just can't find love or acceptance from India's younger urban female audiences, with the exception of wife Alia Bhatt of course.

Yet, I have to admit I really enjoyed Kapoor's interview with Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath, on the latter's YouTube show 'People by WTF' I haven't seen the actor open up so brazenly in an interview ever; he is famously distrusting of Indian media. Neither does he allow for any narrative control via his social media, like almost every other actor of the current crop. Kapoor laid bare his dark spaces and great vulnerability, and kudos to Kamath for bringing this out. That said, I'm not so sure Kapoor's critics are any happier. They still see him as a massive red flag. He will never be in the black for them.