Shanaya Kapoor and Adarsh Gourav didn’t arrive on Sunday Brunch with Kamiya Jani, our editor-in-chief, to promote their film Tu Ya Main. They came armed with stories, some chaotic, some nostalgic, and some so blunt they almost felt rehearsed (they weren’t).
What’s On The Table For Shanaya Kapoor & Adarsh Gourav?
The setting was Blah! in Mumbai, plates steadily filling the table: lotus stem, spicy chicken wings, sushi, and a safe bowl of curd rice because Adarsh wasn’t feeling his best. Food first, as is always on Kamiya Jani’s table. But within minutes, it stopped being about what was ordered and became about where they came from.
It started with what might be the most Mumbai-coded debate in recent memory, SoBo versus Nalasopara. Shanaya, amused and observant, pointed out that South Bombay people speak softly because they’re physically close. “You’re sitting or standing right next to each other,” she implied. In Nalasopara, though? People are spaced out and you have to throw your voice. The volume isn’t aggression; it’s geography. It was funny because it was specific, and it was specific because it was true.
When Kamiya asked what they’d order for each other, the question took a detour into memory. Adarsh drifted toward Chembur, not today’s Chembur, but the version he pieces together from podcasts about Mumbai 70 or 80 years ago. He spoke about the idea of a “Chembur forest,” an older, wilder city that existed long before high-rises and traffic. You could tell he enjoys excavating Mumbai’s past the way some people scroll Instagram.
Shanaya’s memory was louder and warmer. Her dadi’s house was like home to iconic and grand dishes like Jungli mutton, Fish fry and more. She didn’t romanticise it in abstract terms; she described it the way someone describes a room they grew up in. “The more the food, the more the love,” she recalls. It was clear that in her world, affection arrived in serving spoons.
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Crocodile Bets, Honest Confessions & Acting Journeys!
Then came the crocodiles, and not metaphorical ones! Since Tu Ya Main features them prominently, Kamiya Jani, our editor-in-chief, brought up Powai Lake, where crocodiles actually live. Adarsh responded with a story that sounded like a terrible idea disguised as a teenage thrill: ₹500 bets with friends over who would jump into the lake.
Somewhere between crocs and scorpions talk, the conversation tilted inward. Adarsh shared that he was discovered while singing on stage and someone asked if he wanted to act. That question eventually led to his first on-screen appearance in ‘My Name Is Khan’! That’s a legend in itself!
For Shanaya, becoming an actor wasn’t a grand family announcement or a dining-table confession. In a Kapoor household steeped in cinema, it felt organic. She spoke about loving theatre as a child and about an uncomplicated attachment to films, and it all felt too natural.
And then the questions turned mischievous. We asked them about the fakest compliment they have ever received and what the most expensive restaurant bill they ever had to pay?
We also asked Adarsh specifically if he has ever “dined and dashed.” The last one lingered because Shanaya had just narrated a chaotic Wasabi-related restaurant episode. When it was Adarsh’s turn, he didn’t try to sound edgy. “I don’t have the balls to do it,” he admitted.
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By the end of the brunch, the plates were half-finished and the stories fully served. There were sibling dynamics, childhood textures, expensive bills, and near-criminal hypotheticals. But what stayed wasn’t the menu, it was the way both of them traced who they are, through neighbourhoods, lakes, grandmothers’ kitchens, and accidental auditions.
Tu Ya Main may revolve around crocodiles, but this brunch revolved around memory, mischief, and Mumbai, in all its accents.
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