ll Happy Birthday ''The True Lover'' Aditya Roy Kapur ll

Aditya Roy Kapur was born in Mumbai to a Punjabi father and a Jewish mother,^[1] Salome Roy Kapur nee Aaron, Miss India 1972 (Eve's Weekly) who did modelling, acted in a film, Tu Hi Meri Zindagi (1965) with Deb Mukherjee,^[2][3] before becoming a film choreographer, known for choreographing the song, "Main Shaayar Toh Nahin" in Bobby (1973).^[4][5] Aditya did his schooling from G. D. Somani Memorial School, in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, where all his siblings studied and where his mother directs school plays.^[5] Subsequently he graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Currently he lives in Mumbai. Aditya is not a trained actor, though he has taken dance lessons and also diction classes to improve his Hindi accent. According to him he "had no burning ambition to become an actor," and was content being a VJ, until he was called to audition for London Dreams. During his school years, he wanted to be a cricketer but he quit cricket coaching classes after sixth standard.^{[citation needed]}

His grandfather Raghupat Roy Kapur left his home and the family business of departmental store chain, Midumal Durgadas, aka Roy Bros in Lahore in the 1940s and shifted to Bombay (now Mumbai) to get associated with the film industry. He eventually acquired the pseudonym G Rakesh and produced by his first film, Shahenshah Akbar in 1943, with K.N. Singh as the lead. Soon his wife and children joined him and he went on to produce films like Zanjeer (1947), and even directed films Lekh (1949), with Motilal and Suraiya and Banwra (1950) with Raj Kapoor and Nimmi.^[5][6] His maternal grandparents, Sam and Ruby Aaron were qualified dance teachers, who introduced the Sama dance form to India, and also taught actorBhagwan for film Albela (1951).^[5] Kapoor is the youngest of the three siblings, his eldest brother Siddharth Roy Kapur is the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures, who recently married noted Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, his other elder brother Kunaal Roy Kapur is also an actor, who has acted in films such as Delhi Belly (2011) and Nautanki Saala (2013).^[4]

Wishing Aditya a very Happy Birthday..!!