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"Ranveer Singh has revealed that the stress of playing seven characters in his next film has given him insomnia. The actor takes the titular role in the upcoming Ladies vs Ricky Bahl. Singh told Mid Day: &amp;quot;Yes, I&amp;#039;ve had trouble sleeping. During the making, my mind was racing far ahead of my body, trying to get into the hearts and minds of the various characters. &amp;quot;The only way I could do such a film was by immersing myself completely into it.  &amp;quot;Since it involved playing seven characters, each one very different from the other, the experience was like doing seven to eight films at the same time.&amp;quot; Singh added that the movie was shot like a &amp;quot;number of short films&amp;quot;, creating &amp;quot;a separate world&amp;quot; for each of the characters. &amp;quot;[Director] Maneesh [Sharma] told me not to push myself too much. I was forbidden from going into extremely contrasting characterisations,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;If I played all them as completely different characters, there was a grave risk of the various avatars coming across as caricatures.&amp;quot;  Ladies vs Ricky Bahl sees Singh playing a conman who comes up against Anushka Sharma. The film pairs the reportedly real-life couple for the first time since Singh&amp;#039;s breakout hit Band Baaja Baaraat. Watch Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh in the trailer for Band Baaja Baaraat below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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