Ranveer Singh on how the pandemic impacted him

The actor talked about his lockdown time and how he is looking at the silver lining

Bollywood livewire Ranveer Singh has shared how the pandemic has impacted him, saying that he has been going through various phases amid lockdown.”I have been engaging this period of lockdown in very different ways. In the first 2 weeks, it felt like something, then in the first month, then month and a half and now it’s been two months. So, I have been going through various phases,” Ranveer said.

The superstar says he weighed down with what’s happening in India, and globally. However, Ranveer is staying positive and hopes that a silver lining will come soon for everyone.”I’m staying home and making sure that I’m using this time in as positive a way as possible. Trying to be positive, trying to be optimistic, trying to find the silver lining, trying to see the brighter side of things as grim a scenario that it is,” he said.

Ranveer, who had no time to pause and relax given his hectic shooting and promotion schedules for the last five years, is using the lockdown to rejuvenate. “I must say before this, life was moving at a very frenetic, at a very hectic pace. I felt I was a hamster on a wheel, especially after Padmaavat, Simmba, Gully Boy. My work load in the past year, year-and-a-half increased to a level where I was teetering to a level of a burn out. I have lived this period being under the radar, off the grid as they say,” he shared.

He says he is using the period to rediscover things about himself and his wife Deepika Padukone. “As actors you say you are the player and you are the instrument — this body that we have, this mortal vessel that we have — we are the players and this is our instrument. So, to be able to focus on myself, to be able to get time with my wife has been really good. After we got married, it was crazy busy for both of us. So it’s given time to rediscover each other in a different way, bond with each other,” he said.