Aged 52, Aditya’s debut film Mumbai-118, will be released next month. “He is a fool,” says cousin Randhir Kapoor. “I would have launched him 30 years ago after he finished his stint as an assistant director to me on Dharam Karam.” Bearing a striking resemblance to his dad from the good old Yahoo days, Aditya wishes to bring in his mother Geeta Bali’s style of acting. At home, Shammi Kapoor is the happiest, “My son finally comes around. After years of nagging, he has listened to us at last. Better late than never.”

Like just any other Kapoor, Aditya started off as an assistant director along with J.P. Dutta and Kuku Kohli for Dharam Karam. However, he quit movies and moved to marketing. “I wasn’t ready for films then,” he says. “I got into a marketing job and travelled all over the world. I helped sell amusement parks across the globe including our very own Fantasy Land and for that at least, my kids were happy with me,” he says adding, “I used to sneak out and smoke cigarettes here,” pointing out to a room right beside Randhir’s at RK Studios. “Dutta, Kohli and I were the three musketeers, notorious for the mischief we caused on the sets,” he adds. “We worked hard though, amidst all the mischief.”