'My mom resides in me' - Arjun Kapoor. - Page 3

This weekend belongs to another young new name: Arjun Kapoor, the only son of Boney and the late Mona Kapoor. Extremely lucky to have got a big break from Yash Raj Films (last year's Ishaqzaade), he was even luckier to have got a double role in his second film itself (Aurangzeb, released this Friday).

However, easy stardom seems to have already affected him. A TV crew that went to do one of those pre-release interviews with him was surprised to see how much he had changed between his first film and his second. The young girl interviewing him got the brunt of it because the air-conditioning wasn't working well and Arjun was irritable because of that.

What a lot of people don't know is that it is not stardom that's affecting Arjun.

He was always a bit uppity. When he was barely five years old, we had gathered a whole lot of celebrity kids for a children's day feature. A cake, some goodies, gifts and games had been arranged at a Juhu hotel by the publication I then worked for. All the celebs happily sent their kids across and all of them had a whale of a time. Except Arjun Kapoor. A junior reporter who was overseeing the photo feature called up to complain that Arjun was the only kid who was aloof. He kept picking up the phone in the hotel room (no mobiles in those days) and firing his driver, asking him to come there and be ready to pick him up immediately. All this when he was just five years old!

Arjun has always been a kid who kept to himself. He does have a lot of friends, mainly other celebrity kids like Dia Mirza's fianc Sahil, and B.R. Chopra's grandsons Kapil and Abhay. He lets his hair down only with them and is otherwise aloof. Not quite the friendly, effusive sort of guy that say, Ranveer Singh is.

So the arrogance has little to do with stardom. He was born with a little attitude.