Tea on Ranvir Singh

This is a first hand account. I'm Malaysian but have Indian roots and so favor bolly and tolly movies over others n just found this sub lurking and wanted to share.

This is during RS visit to new Delhi for 1983 promotions. He was at a hall in Nehru place in Delhi and was there for a screening with Kapil dev and some other cricketers. This was a pre release screening and i was an audience. A few things I noticed are that Kapil dev was very drunk but civil and very friendly. He was open to giving autographs and getting pictures. He also shook hands with everyone.

RS came late, with his cap hiding most of his eyes and didn't take any pics, his security just took him to vip lounge. He is actually very thin irl and didn't look at all as broad or muscular as showing in screen.

In interval I along with some friends from Delhi who got passes went to the VIP lounge gate to request his gaurds if we can get 1 pic. This was interval so not many people were around us asking for the same thing, but his guard said he won't do any free pics. I said OK can we just say hello and come back and see him IRL and they said no only during the end when he visits the hall. We still waiting desperately n requested, when his main security walked out and signaled to the guard who had stopped us with a back flipped thumb and khallas sign which sounded like he was out / inebriated and we were told Noone gets to see him. We went back to the movie.

We were hoping to see his best during hall but were so disappointed. He was high AF. His gaurd was not standing next to but actually behind him as if to prevent his falling. He could barely say a few words before seeing his notes/script and then repeating the sentence all over again. Even then he sounded rather odd and like he had issues pronouncing. He looked around clueless, did no crowd engagement and left within 1 minute of arriving. While leaving it was clear his guard was holding his arm tight to balance him.

I was in awe of his friendliness as seen on TV but in real life he was so unlike that.