NAME:Â Navin Thakur
GENDER: Male, he/him
DATE OF BIRTH: August 4th, 1985 (32)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wilmington, North Carolina
NEIGHBORHOOD: Masonboro
OCCUPATION: Unemployed
FACE CLAIM: Sidharth Malhotra
Amara and Zaid Thakur did their very best in bringing up their two children, Rajani and Navin, with whatever their means provided. Sometimes it was a struggle to provide especially during the seasons that their second generation, family-owned furniture business wasnât bringing in the cash like they wanted it to. Although, oftentimes the money didnât matter as much compared to the value of their unconditional love for their family. To the very best of their ability, they raised their children to be good, god-fearing, caring people.
Navin, being the eldest, was the first one to tread through the waters that was his primary education and so forth. With no oneâs but his parentsâ sage advice on what it was like to navigate through that new social sphere, Navin took to it pretty easily. He took to it maybe a little too easily, in fact. As luck would have it, he was basically the whole package. He was well-liked by his friends, he excelled in his academics and athletics seemingly unfazed. Over the years, it simply built up his confidence and his charm.
As he later made it into high school, Navin simply felt like he was playing a chess game three steps ahead of everybody else, including his parents. He knew that if he purported himself as the loving, doting brother to his sister and the poster boy of good behavior then he could pretty much get away with murder. Of course, he simply used whatever good graces he had to get out of the house on weekdays and raise hell with his equally reckless teenage friends.
Getting into college on the first athletic scholarship he could get, Navin felt like he had it made. This feeling only lasted until he was hit in the face with the reality that his former being a big fish in a small pond finally became him becoming a big fish in the motherfucking ocean. His grades were slipping, he was benched in football for an entire season and last, but most importantly, he wasnât receiving nearly as much female attention as he was used to. It was the understatement of the year to say that Navin was not handling it well.
His former vice of manipulating people to his will no longer held water and so he had to turn to other things for solace. It was your standard cocktail of cocktails and partying and the occasional, recreational drug use that led him to fall off the deep end. The first domino to tip over was him dropping out of a freaking English class. It was soon after followed by him getting kicked out of his team and by default, his scholarship for the aforementioned drug use. And finally, he dropped out of college altogether. This series of events was the unsurprising cause of his parentsâ disappointment in their former golden boy son.
He spent months living in their basement and leeching off of them until he found something new to do with his life. He began taking classes at the local community college simply to give himself some semblance of having figured out his next step. It was a happy accident that he was sitting in the back row of the school auditorium and listening to some Kanye song on repeat out of boredom when it happened. He got called up on stage to read for the always late lead of the play they were trying to produce. Navinâs initial trepidation and lack of enthusiasm in the task led to him finding one of his greatest thrills in life.
It started off small, as things always do, but before long Navin moved to New York to do audition after audition because he was finally doing something that he wasnât only good at but also something he was genuinely passionate about (or however close to passion men like Navin ever got). As soon as he broke it into Broadway, he decided that the next natural step for him was acting on screen. By the age of twenty-five, he transferred to LA and it wasnât long before he was booking movies with directors he could only dream of meeting in his wildest dreams and whatâs more, heâs finally been able to afford one of the houses he so enviously looked at in the wealthier neighborhoods in his hometown.
Before he knew it, he was a household name. Heâs currently at the point in his career where heâs no longer thirstily chasing after whatever job would take him. Instead, heâs sorely sought after. While he hasnât done much to change the goings-on of his life outside of his professional life (the socializing, the partying and so on), Navin has definitely grown more conscientious about which projects he chooses to associate himself with. As of the moment, heâs not taking any new projects, as he wants toâin the most unlike of himself mannerâtake things slow.
( + ) adaptable, hospitable, perceptive
( - ) facetious, impatient, vapid
