He’s been the man behind some of the biggest blockbusters from the Yash Raj stable, but most people outside the industry don’t know what Aditya Chopra looks like. After Hrs decided to conduct a sting operation…

Celebrated film-maker Yash Chopra’s talented son Aditya continues to be a mystery. In an industry teeming with ‘Please look at me’ attention-hungry seekers, Adi (as he is fondly called) runs away from even a hint of the limelight. His hide-and-seek game with the media is now legendary and there are many anecdotes about the lengths to which Adi will go to hide his face from paparazzi cameras. Once, he accidentally ran into the media while coming out of a movie hall (he wears a big cap pulled over his face so he can watch movies in theatres incognito), and is said to have broken into a sprint towards his car, with the photographers running behind him. As luck would have it, he dropped his mobile phone and as he darted back to pick it up, it made for an amusing sight as the pursuing photographers did a similar u-turn right behind him. Another time, while he was shooting for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in Amritsar, when Adi came to know that the media wanted to interview him, he apparently asked an assistant to dress like him, and gave journalists the slip by pulling his cap over his head. So finally when After Hrs discovered that one of his few indulgences include taking a late night dip in the pool of a suburban 5-star hotel, our photographer was set on his trail. On Wednesday More >