Actor Ranbir Kapoor turned salesman once again. Not for a movie though. At the launch of the DVD of his latest hit Barfi! recently Ranbir gave some quirky excuses on why should people watch his film on a DVD.

"Since we know it is a health conscious country we live in, so instead of gifting Barfi sweets buy them Barfi! DVDs," said Ranbir, who played a deaf and mute character in his super hit film.

"When we have grand children, the film will not be in the theatres. So to show them and teach them about life the DVD is good. So you must invest today and reap benefits later... So buy a DVD for investment. Like you buy LIC, buy Barfi! DVD," he said.

"If you sell a smile through cinema, nothing is greater than that," he added in a lighter vein, as he was accompanied by co-star Ileana D'Cruz. In fact, the salesman in Ranbir was all set to go all out selling his film to the Oscar committee too. "Hope the Oscar committee gets some sense and they select the film. Else Dada will go there," he said.

However, Ranbir clearly does not practise when he preaches. Not at least when it comes to buying his own product. "I would like to gift it to my parents. I am praying UTV gives me a box of DVDs so that I don't have to buy. They are very expensive - Rs.399," he said.

Interestingly, Ranbir released Barfi! DVD coinciding the day of release of his debut film Saawariya five years ago. "Saawariya released five years back on this day. Great that I am releasing Barfi DVD on the same day...

That Diwali we worked on a film for two years and when it released it was out of the theatres in a day. Hopefully, this Diwali will be better... I have a strategy. I came one week in advance. So some DVDs should be sold by then," the actor said.