Keep your eyes on Rohan Nazareth (Mumbai via Bengaluru). He just landed the exclusive Indian campaign for a French leather house. He’s 24. He has a broken nose and a perfect smile. And he never, ever looks at the camera first. Photographs for this feature were styled by Arjun S. Grooming by The Bombay Barber Co. Location: The Royal Bombay Yacht Club.
He can wear a Rs. 2,000 kurta like a maharaja or a Rs. 2 lakh suit like a thief running from a heist. That tension—between the everyman and the fantasy—is where the magic lives. Debonair Magazine India Models
Take (28, Lakme Fashion Week regular, face of a major luxury watch brand). He isn't classically “pretty.” His nose has a bump from a college rugby accident. His walk is a little lazy, a little dangerous. “I was rejected seven times because my ‘look wasn’t clean,’” he tells us over black coffee at a Bandra studio. “Then a European designer saw my test shots and said, ‘Finally, a man who looks like he’s lived.’” Keep your eyes on Rohan Nazareth (Mumbai via Bengaluru)
For decades, the Indian male model was a background note—a chiselled accessory to a lehenga, a pair of broad shoulders behind a female superstar. Not anymore. Today’s model is a multi-hyphenate disruptor: part athlete, part actor, and full-time icon. At Debonair , we’ve stripped away the filters and sat down with the men redefining the country’s visual landscape. The industry has shifted. The tall, fair, brooding archetype has been replaced by something rawer: real faces with real stories. Casting directors are no longer looking for mannequins; they’re looking for characters . He has a broken nose and a perfect smile