Ranbir prays & plays at Nizamuddin Dargah

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We told you last week that director Imtiaz Aliand actor Ranbir Kapoor would be visiting Nizamuddin Dargah to seek blessings for their upcoming movie "Rockstar", and when the duo came knocking at the Sufi saint's shrine on Monday evening, there was precious little the bouncers could do to keep the crowd away from both of them. Kapoor and Ali came straight from Hyderabad after promoting their movie in the city of Nizams, and after arriving at the dargah around 8pm, spent almost six hours at the shrine. 

The duo arrived with Hiren Gandhi of Shree Ashtavinayak, along with several members of the production team. And from what we heard, they were accompanied by 45 bouncers! They were soon joined by singer Mohit Chauhan, the voice behind Ranbir's character Jordan in the flick. The team first offered a chaadar at Amir Khusrau's tomb, and Imtiaz also placed the movie's music CD near the tomb. After that, all of them joined the special qawwals who were to conclude the four day Urs festival that was going on at the dargah. Once they all sat down, Ranbir and Mohit also sang the qawwali from the movie "Kun Faaya Kun", which has been shot at the dargah. Later, Ranbir and Imtiaz donned their "Rockstar" jackets, with Ranbir even carrying his Jordan bag! After people started leaving post midnight, the actor-director once again joined the qawwali group to be part of their musical celebrations.

Close to midnight, when Ranbir finally made it to the dargah in-charge Syed Afsar Ali Nizami's office in the premises, we caught up with him, and he said, "I've spent four nights here. The song that you heard right now was shot here and I have a deep attachment to this place. I'm extremely grateful to Imtiaz, Mohit and AR Rahman who helped me go through the experience of making this song, which is important to the character Janardhan Jhakkhar aka Jordan because that's when he really connects to a superior being."
Imtiaz, who was accompanied by wife Priti, told us that he's been coming to the dargah for almost 4-5 years, since the time he started writing the story of "Rockstar". He added, "I feel some kind of a drive when I come here. The story brought me here and I want to thank Afsar bhai for helping us. The dargah comes at a juncture in the movie when the internal journey of this character begins and he finds himself spending too much time at the dargah and a certain sense of spirituality enters him and his music without his choice and without his intention. We just felt that we should come here to seek the blessings of the saint, for the music, before it hits the stands.