Every woman now swoons over him like he were the next best thing since Christian Grey. But what was his boyhood like?
Standing tall at an impressive six foot two, you’d be damned if you missed the sight of him in the city. Splashed on every billboard, songs of his on loop on the telly like they were running out of fashion soon, Aditya Roy Kapur now undeniably features on every female twentysomething’s must-have celebrity fantasy list –because let’s face it, we all have one. His story, however, is far from being the archetypal Bollywood masala-filled one you’d expect.
Growing up in Cuffe Parade, he was referred to as ‘Roy Kapur’ by all his friends– some of which we managed to catch ahold of. We wanted the juice, after all. A lover of football, Roy Kapur would often be seen dribbling away with some of his friends. “In fact, until a year or so ago, he’d be playing football with us and let’s just say that he takes the sport very seriously,” shares Siddharth Panjabi. No, he didn’t take his shirt off during goal celebrations and no, he didn’t have a group of women cheering him on while he played. And while he was known to be extremely competitive on the football pitch, cricket remained his first love—even claiming to wanting to become a cricketer when he was younger. “He was a fast bowler as far as I remember,” says Panjabi, fondly remember seeing Roy Kapur being a quick runner during some of their cricket games.
Roy Kapur was in, fact, an understated young man, who never took himself all that seriously. Two weeks before the release of Aashiqui 2, he was at a café in South Mumbai, in his typical attire— a loose shirt, faded jeans and a pair of slippers that screamed anything but ‘Bollywood star’. And today, Roy Kapur does not seem all that different from the teenager that walked the streets of Cuffe Parade, carpe diem-ing it away.
His claim to fame is anything but a spruced up dapper semblance; the scruffy look is one that has gotten him more than just some brownie points from the ladies. Whether donning a dapper suit or outdoor duds, this rugged bearded man proves that a little scruff never hurt anyone. “Roy Kapur was always known to be quite the looker!” shares Dhanraj, a fellow GD Somani student. Rest easy, girls, for he wasn’t the Don Juan you’d imagine him to be. “He was always known as the good looking guy that never bothered to make use of his popularity with the women,” adds Dhanraj.
“Salome Roy Kapur, Aditya’s mother, always involved us in the annual play and we only really took part in it so we’d end up missing class during rehearsals,” shares another GD-ite. And Aditya was not any different from his peers on that front. His funny bone that most can vouch for, coupled with his annual plays, catapulted the young man to the Channel V arena before gradually progressing onto the silver screen.
A non-conformist in the Indian film industry today is worth a great deal if we had to go by Aditya Roy Kapur’s new-found fame; the maverick combination of his ‘don’t care’ attitude and a mysterious rough look today feeds into the Indian female psyche (read: loins) like no other male lead in Mumbai. But for Roy Kapur, this isn’t a typical Bollywood-hoaxer move; the seductive and sporty no-shave-mug-meets-nonchalance seems to be innate.
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