So far in my life I have had only two celebrity crushes. I am talking major feelings, posters all over the room, knowing about every single work of theirs. That kind. It is so much fun to do it. Project all the infatuation onto a real person but know for sure that it will never reach them. It is a form of unrequited love if you ask me. But it is not the painful kind. It is the playful kind of unrequited love where you know for a fact that the feeling will never be reciprocated. And eventually we grow out of it!
It all started when I was 13. I was introduced the Harry Potter universe. I fell in love with the boy who portrayed Harry Potter. I blame it on the brand new hormones flowing in my system at that time. And I fell hard for this British boy. He was closer to my age at that time. And he was portraying a damaged kid who was exploring a whole new world with almost little help from adults. That felt like me on most days. I dug around trying to watch every single work of his. Daniel Radcliffe till date is trying to break free from the Wizard Boy image. He did some pretty crazy scripts. Movies you can only watch when you are high or tripping on LSD. I watched or tried to watch most of them. People thought I was too obsessed to do so.
I remember begging my brother to help me download December Boys. It was one of the first movies he did apart from the franchise as far as I could tell. With an eye roll my brother agreed and my whole family made fun of me. Those were some good times to be frank. Makes me smile thinking about how my father would tease me over this. I used to fantasise becoming friends with the boy wonder too. Yeah I was young and stupid thinking a girl from a city in India could befriend a Richie rich kid living in London.
Why am I writing this now? Well I just read that Daniel Radcliffe is expecting his first child with his 10 year long partner. So there goes my childhood crush. It was good while it lasted. Not that I ever had any chance. I just have a bucket list wish to meet him in person once. At what point? I have no idea.
If you have read till now, you might ask me who the other celebrity crush is. Well that is a bit more recent. It all started when I watched this movie “Kaidhi” There was a very scary voiced man in it. Even in that dimly lit movie I thought he looked cute and his voice booming. Arjun Das. Oh where do I even begin with this guy.
Everything about that man was Ufff! His voice, his hair, the way he smiled. I fell for him then and there. It feels so childish even saying it out loud. But this guy is perfect for me. His height, weight, voice, all of it. Only thing is he probably does not even know of my existence. Which is a good thing in a way. I can swoon from all this distance and just laugh at my own teen like behaviour. I mean I don’t think he completely does not know of me. We have spoken on the phone once. Way before he became viral. Have to thank a friend who made it happen. And well I have one up over most fan girls I believe.
Maybe someday I will try and meet him. That is a bit doable. And when I do, I shall put up another blog post on how it went…
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