Imtiaz Ali Reveals How Ranbir Kapoor Retold the ‘Rockstar’ Script After It Was Lost: ‘I Was Searching…’ – News18

Ranbir Kapoor has come a long way in his career. He has impressed fans with his strong performances including the recently released Animal. The audience has gone gaga over his acting skills. But before this, Ranbir had left everyone in awe when his Rockstar came. Imtiaz Ali’s directorial is still fresh in the minds of the audience. But did you know that the director had lost the script of the film and it was Ranbir Kapoor who narrated it? Yes, you are reading right. Scroll down to read more.

Speaking at the latest episode of Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series, Imtiaz Ali shared an old incident and how Rockstar was made. He said, “Ranbir Kapoor has a lot of friends who are in the film industry. Many years back was making this film, ‘Rockstar’ and it didn’t get made, but there was talk about it and there was the story must have gone around. I was back to making Rockstar’. I approached Ranbir for it. I met him at a screening. I hadn’t seen ‘Saawariya’ (2007). Deepika (Padukone) had told him everything about me. Because she was in (Love Aaj Kal).”

He continued “We decided to meet. I went and told him the script that I came to narrate to him, which was some other script. And then he said, ‘Sir, aap ki woh wali, I’ve heard that you had a film.’ So, I was like, ‘How do you know?’ He said, ‘This guy who says that I want to become a musician, but I don’t have any tragedy in my life. That’s your film, right?’ So I said, ‘Yeah’. And then he started to tell me the story. I said, ‘Okay, what else did you hear?”

Ranbir was telling me only the story. And I was looking at this guy. Like, this is the guy for this film. Then I said, ‘Oh, so you want to make this film?’ He says, ‘Yeah, sir, let’s make this’. I said, ‘Okay fine. Give me some time. I’ll see where the script is and write it. And then I’ll bring it to you.’ I’d lost the script. So I had to write it again. I rewrote it from memory,” added Imtiaz Ali.

Rockstar was a success with a budget of Rs 50 crore and global earnings of Rs 110 crore. It ranked among the highest-grossing films of the year. Notably, Rockstar made history by starting the shooting process in reverse, becoming the first Bollywood film to shoot the climax before other scenes.

This film also marked Nargis Fakhri’s acting debut. The on-screen chemistry between Ranbir Kapoor and Nargis Fakhri awestruck the audience, and the film’s songs gained immense popularity. The film resonated with a young urban audience featuring narrating musical drama. Rockstar won multiple awards, including recognition for Ranbir Kapoor and AR Rahman. Additionally, it marked the last film of Bollywood icon Shammi Kapoor.