Aditya Roy Kapoor is incredibly likeable.
And it has nothing to do with that boyish charm and those sculpted abs (though I’d hardly be surprised if there existed fan clubs dedicated to his torso).
Aditya Roy Kapur’s appeal lies in how good-natured and disarmingly friendly he is. He tells us he’s happy to wear either the Rajesh Pratap Singh denim jacket or the Moschino T-shirt, as the Cosmo Fashion Editor deems fit. He talks about how his relationship with his (naturally curly) hair is a “tricky one”, and how he’s always had an Afro but “had to kind of chop it all off”, and he hasn’t still found a way to style it well, and therefore, ends up blow-drying it for “20 bloody minutes”. He reveals, between chuckles, that the weirdest rumor he has heard about himself is that he is a prince (“I’m definitely not a prince, just a boy from Colaba,” he laughs).
Aditya’s general ‘niceness’ might have something to do with how he doesn’t take celebritydom too seriously. (“I mean, I feel very fortunate to receive adulation and love from people,” he tells me, later. “If I’ve had a bad day and someone comes up to me to say that they love what I do, it can totally change my mood. But there are other parts of my life that are equally important. And I find that I’m unable to be in the public eye all the time...be a public persona all the time. I need to be have my own space, to retreat. I need to just be normal and do normal things. That is equally important to me...I can’t be ‘on’ all the time).
This story is from the February 2020 edition of Cosmopolitan India.
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