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The first time he wore lipstick was for a school play at the all-boys St Columbus High School in Delhi where he played the role of a Kashmiri girl. At the age of 15, he joined Barry John's theatre group in Delhi and besides essaying roles of his own gender, he portrayed two or three female characters. On winning the MTV VJ hunt, he quit theatre. But his tryst with women characters continued.