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This Mumbai rap duo is dishing feel-good, yesteryear, fusion nostalgia
Updated On: 02 July, 2023 06:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Acting is in his genes. But, so is writing. Karan Kapadia is rapping lines he scribbles between shots and he is getting noticed
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Classmates from Jamnabai Narsee School, Karan Kapadia and Adam Jai Malvi make up The Lotuseaters. Their latest, Tere Bina, is a love ballad in collaboration with Thai singer Rimi Nique. Pic/Ashish Raje
This is not the first time that we’ve heard Karan Kapadia rap. A year ago, we chanced upon an Instagram Reel of the actor, who is the son of late actress Simple Kapadia and nephew to Dimple Kapadia. Our fleeting attention span must have led us to the next Reel, because, when we meet Karan at a Juhu studio to discuss his latest single Tere Bina, we have little memory of the song. Karan, who has turned up in a white tee paired with black track pants, admits that his music has been a silent work-in-progress. So, he is a bit surprised too by how Tere Bina, which dropped online last week, has taken off. “We knew that it’s one of our best, but we didn’t anticipate this response,” he says. His new-found fan is his actress aunt, who otherwise listens to Sufi singer Abida Parveen. A now viral video of Dimple, shared by daughter Twinkle Khanna, has her grooving to Karan’s song. “She just loves it, and has been playing it on loop. We were at the doctor’s the other day, and she even got him to hear it... I was so embarrassed,” he laughs.
One half of The Lotuseaters duo, the 29-year-old has been making music for the last two years with friend and former schoolmate, Adam Jai Malvi. The beginnings of the project were not incident-free. “I was supposed to begin work on a web series when I tore my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] while playing football. I couldn’t shoot; I was bedridden,” shares Karan, who made his acting debut with Blank (2019) alongside Sunny Deol. “It was around this time that I started writing and messing around with beats on YouTube. I felt I was getting better at it, but I didn’t know anyone in the music business who could help me.”
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