The sexiest of them all: Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor
Bollywood’s golden couple, Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, have been voted the sexiest man and woman in the 2015 edition of the HT Youth Survey with 25.4% and 27.2% of votes, respectively. Ranbir’s closest competition came from cricket hero Virat Kohli (17.2%). But Katrina Kaif, on the other hand, won only by the slightest of margins. Deepika Padukone almost edged her out with 24.9% of the votes.
In fact, Ranbir Kapoor’s ex-girlfriend beat Katrina amongst students who are either employed part-time (29.1% to 25.4%) or full-time (25.9% to 22.6%) and came really close among those aged between 18 and 21 years (26% to Katrina’s 27.9%). Even women voters seemed conflicted, narrowly siding with Katrina (26.7) over Deepika (25.2%).
“Although Ranbir’s last few films haven’t done well, he makes really sensible choices,” says Priyanka Sahoo, 24, from Mumbai.
Newcomer Alia Bhatt came in at third position with 15.8% of the votes, proving popular amongst part-time working students (23.1%).
The men’s side was far less competitive. Virat Kohli’s immense popularity with women (18.3%) and part-time employed students (26.9%) guaranteed him the number two spot. “Many girls are watching cricket for the first time ever because of Virat,” says Madhavi Marasini, 24.
It was slightly tighter for the number three spot, however. Alia Bhatt’s co-debutants from Student of the Year Varun Dhawan (10.5%) and Siddharth Malhotra (8%) came in at numbers three and four, respectively.
Curiously, there was disparity amongst male and female voters with regard to these two. Men significantly preferred Dhawan (10.6%) to Malhotra (5.7%), whereas it was much closer among women (Dhawan edged out Malhotra by just a margin of 0.1%: 10.4% to 10.3%). Perhaps the question has answered itself.
The inclusion of Emilia Clarke and Kit Harrington comes as little surprise especially with Game of Thrones being the most pirated show on the planet. Their share of the votes, though, is remarkably low (0.5% and 1.9%, respectively).