ranbir kapoor has a career in films
saibal chatterjee of ndtv thought that despite dramatic liberties the film had successfully portrayed dutts complexity and wrote that kapoor pulls out the stops in astonishingly effective ways subsuming his personality into that of the protagonist
 in 2009 people magazine listed him as the sexiest man alive in india and in 2013 he topped filmfares poll of the most stylish young actor