Harshvardhan Kapoor

Driving back after my half hour with Harshvardhan Kapoor, 26, I felt as if I was just returning from a similar conversation with Abhay Deol, although that was a decade ago. Maybe this is because, like Deol, also a Juhu lad, young Harshvardhan (Anil Kapoor's son, Sonam Kapoor's brother) grew up in Bollywood, studied in the US, and rightly goes on and on about how he's not into typical "commercial" cinema, and would like to be "remembered 10 years later for alternative films he believed in." The kind of prep he's put in for his acting debut, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 'Mirzya', however, sounds very Hrithik Roshan — another Juhu 'Bollywood boy', if you may. Either case, it's only fair we start the excerpt of this interview with the obvious first question: