Chennai: Young actor Ranveer Singh who is the first young star to have a 300-crore blockbuster to his credit, marks a decade in the film industry.

Speaking on the occasion, Ranveer said, “My biggest career milestone will be when I got selected for my first film. After that one incredible twist of fate it’s been a journey of learning, growing and evolving as a creative person, a performer and a public figure”.

On rejections, he said, “My period of struggle was not easy at all. There was recession going on at that time, the movie business was not very prolific, people were making fewer films. Therefore, opportunities for actors were far less than for actors today. We didn’t have these web platforms, we didn’t have OTT platforms etc. For 3- 3.5 years, I was just groping in the dark, attempting various avenues, trying to get a break, trying to get a foot in the door, doing the rounds of various offices with my portfolio looking for work and not knowing whether it will ever happen at all.”

When asked if he ever thought he would achieve at this level, the actor stated, “No, not at all. Right from my very Friday of my debut, the kind of things that have happened to me, the bests of my career, and my journey has been such that it’s beyond my wildest imagination. I could not even dream of the things that have happened to me, with me and around me. I can’t claim to have had the vision to dream up something like this”.

So how does he want to be remembered?

“Everyday, I want to make a significant contribution to the arts and inspire other artists, the same way my senior artists have inspired me. I want to be remembered as a thorough entertainer, as a versatile actor, someone whose body of work constitutes some of the best cinema of our country. These are tall ambitions but I am putting in the work every single day to hopefully have a fulfilling run at the movies and make my country proud through my work in the field of my choice, that’s Hindi cinema,” he said.