This is seriously weird. Indian actor Arjun Kapoor comes across as someone who is a pretty normal guy unlike some of his contemporaries whose eccentricities are more than obvious. It turns out that’s not the case. Arjun K, of all the phobias, is afraid of ceilings. Yes, you heard it right. Looking at the ceilings makes him nervous. He was a child when he developed this phobia.

This begs the question: what does he do when he is required to look up in a film when he is doing a romantic scene with his leading lady?

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, July 20th, 2014

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