LIVING BY HIS OWN RULES

Was clearly the star who ruled all the box office charts in 2022 and loves to live his life by his own rules. Known for his effortless yet magnetic personality, rishab shetty who hit a jackpot with his latest blockbuster kantara that went on To break all records turns cover boy for Provoke lifestyle magazine in our new Year special issue. Here's rishab – raw, untamed and Unadulterated, just how we like him as he bares his soul to us in this candid and exclusive tête-à-tête

- NAMITA GUPTA

PHOTOGRAPHER: Lucky Malhotra

WARDROBE: PN Rao

FOOTWEAR: Lifestyle

STYLING: Akansha Roy

VENUE: Conrad Bengaluru Hotel

HAIR & MAKEUP: TONI&GUY

PHOTOGRAPHER: Lucky Malhotra

WARDROBE: PN Rao

FOOTWEAR: Lifestyle

STYLING: Akansha Roy

VENUE: Conrad Bengaluru Hotel

HAIR & MAKEUP: TONI&GUY

Please tell us about your growing up days. What was your dream career in your childhood days?

I’m from a village called Keradi in Udupi, Coastal Karnataka. There’s a famous temple near my house called the Kollur Mookambika. If you’ve watched Kantara you would have seen the Kodachadri hills and the procession. That is the hills where the procession takes place. It belongs to Kollur temple and is very famous. I was born there on 7-71983. My father Y Bhaskar Shetty is an astrologist and _ still practices. My mother Ratnavati Shetty and is a homemaker in the village. She also looks after all the agriculture in our farms. I have an older brother and a sister and I’m the youngest of all the three kids. I studied till my fifth standard in that village itself and after that I came to a nearby village in Kundapur and studied there till PU.