Kusha Kapila

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kusha Kapila

• Does Kusha Kapila drink alcohol?: Yes
  

• Kusha grew up in North Delhi and did her schooling in South Delhi.

• She did theatres in college and used to take part in the street plays.

• Initially, she wanted to become a journalist.

• After completing her graduation, Kusha joined the Bhartiya International Company as a Merchandising Intern for 3 months.

• Subsequently, she worked as a Product Design Intern at Chisell Effects, Noida.

• She started her career as a Fashion Correspondent for a Delhi-based firm, Apparel Online in 2013.

• Next, she worked as a Trend Analyst and Content Writer at Fashion Forward Trends.

• She has also worked as a Copywriter, Digital Content Head, and Content Developer at different organisations.

•  In 2016, she moved to Times Internet and worked there as a Fashion Editor.

• Thereafter, she joined iDiva as a writer and ended up working there as a fashion editor. At iDiva, Kapila started creating videos with her fellow employees. She created a fictional character “Billi Massi,” an elite, opinionated South Delhi woman, which received immense popularity from the audience.

• Kusha took the idea of her popular character “Billi Masi” from a lady that she met in real life. Kusha came across that lady at a friend’s relatives’ party at Chattarpur Farms in Delhi.

• Subsequently, she started portraying different characters in her YouTube videos.

• She has worked with many popular Bollywood celebrities like Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor.

• Kapila loves doing poetry and has made a small poetry section titled “Kavita Ki Kavita.”

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Was feeling poetic today, so presenting – Kavita ki Kavita. Tag yourself because let’s admit it, we’ve all been there. Tag your kutti kaminis also, I’m tagging mine. . . . . . . . . #kavitakikavita #yesoffence #betashaadikarlo #dontsettleladkiyon

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• She is fluent in Hindi and English languages.

• She has featured on the covers of magazines like “Harper’s Bazaar.”

  

• Kapila is passionate about philanthropy and is associated with NGOs like VoLIndia and Naz Foundation (India) Trust.

• Kusha met Karan Johar for the first time during a fashion week in Mumbai. When she reached the venue, she was amazed to see Karan waving at her and saying that he was a big fan of Kusha.

  

• Kusha has a huge fan following on social media with celebrities like Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Sonam Kapoor, and Arjun Kapoor following her on Instagram.
  

• In her leisure time, she likes listening to music, watching films, and swimming.

• In August 2023, weeks after announcing her separation from her estranged husband Zorawar Singh Ahluwalia, she shared a long emotional note on Instagram in which she wrote that she had been experiencing grief since the separation. She wrote,
  

  It’s a weird thing, this grief or whatever version of it I am currently experiencing. As overcome I am by its heaviness – I guess chest days feel like this – I am also strangely dwarfed by it, to the point of feeling like an injured nail on a pinky toe. Almost like a big bang in motion, only it’s on a microscope slide.” ^[2]India Today