Style check with Rahul Khanna

Rahul Khanna, who dresses up stylishly, admits that he loves clothes but hates the process of acquiring them.

He loves the kakori kebabs at Maurya Sheraton’s Dum Pukht and the anda paranthas near IIT, but the one thing that Bollywood heart-throb Rahul Khanna always goes back to is the vada pau at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, where he spent only one year before leaving for acting school in New York. “I’m a self-confessed foodie – even when I was campaigning for my father (Vinod Khanna) in Gurdaspur we had the most awesome aloo paranthas. But with that huge appetite I have to workout everyday to keep my weight under control,” says Khanna.

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In the Capital to launch Tommy Hilfiger watches, being manufactured by Titan, Khanna, who was stylishly dressed in a white shirt with floral embroidery, admitted he loves clothes but hates the process of acquiring them. But the one place he always comes out of with a shopping bag is Hugo Boss, UK. “Style to me is a reflection of one’s aesthetics, lifestyle and personality. But honestly I’m quite snobbish about designer labels – I like Prada for shoes and wallets, Hugo Boss for shirts and trousers, Rajesh Pratap Singh for his straight cuts, as well as Vikram Phadnis,” says Khanna.

Khanna, who has just completed shooting for Vikram Bhatt’s Elan where Anna Singh has done most of his wardrobe, confides that he’s not adventurous with colours and sticks to black, blue and white, though of late he has realised that red looks great. “Elan is a film with six heroes and shot mostly in Europe. After a long time I’ve done a hard core commercial film, and it was great fun,” concludes Khanna.