I’m not hip to the lingo, so I may accidentally throw in some “hot geeks” and “hot dorks”. But you get the general idea, right?
Everyone’s favorite nerd, obviously. Shahrukh in glasses, with his laptop for a nice bedtime tech session
Aamir’s waist line? Nerd Truth
Laptop bag, glasses, sports coat over casual shirt? Prithviraj nails the look
Now, for a special theme post like this, where my Bengalis at???? Oh yeah, Priyanshu! He’s Jeff Goldblum’s hotter Indian doppelganger.
More Priyanshu! Love the later life way his body filled out
Love how excited this young woman is, especially compared with how blase he is.
And Parambrata because I am spoiling all my Bengali fans today! Glasses, shy smile, it’s the best.
That “squint into distance” look, is that too cool for a nerd?
ARK looks good in glasses, but his hair seems a tad too gelled and modeled for pure nerditude.
Oh Sid. There isn’t even any glass in those frames, is there?
Baseball hat, glasses, t-shirt, this is kind of the “Hollywood nerd director” look, isn’t it?
Ayushmann with the glasses playing? This feels a bit too much like peacocking his nerdiness.
Ranveer, playing “nerd” like it is a fantasy costume
I do love me some shy nerdy John, even if it is in character for a movie
Did you know that Kunal now spends most of his time running the very successful crowdfunding website he founded? True Nerd! And I love the combination of glasses/beard/button here.
Kunal, you own a website! You don’t have to go all fake-nerd!
Oh yeah, that’s much better. Might just be a close up of the other shot, I don’t care.
Anyway, Hot Nerd Day! Let us all Celebrate!!!!
dontcallitbollywood 
Just from the looks of the photos here, it would be Parambrata Chatterjee (is it really he??? – because if I look at the Google pics there is nothing nerdy about him).
So, I go with Rajkumar 🙂
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It’s really him! But I think at least one of those photos is him in character so he looks different.
Rajkumar definitely perfected that particular kind of “film nerd” look that you see in film school graduates.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Prithviraj, Priyanshu and Kunal.
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As the only true nerds, or the only hot nerds, or just the nerds you would take home?
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They are the hottests nerds I would take home.
BTW Priyanshu – what happened to him? And OMG he and Jeff Goldblum should buy the rights to Fan and make an american remake.
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We need Miss Braganza to weight in as the Bengali expert, but I think Priyanshu is just living his life and doing Bengali movies? Or else he has stolen Jeff Goldblum’s life and turned into a Hollywood actor.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:02 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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In truth, I haven’t thought about Priyanshu in a while, but from the Internet he seems to have taken a turn into small roles in Hindi films, and hasn’t done a Bengali movie in a while. (Also, whenever I see him on screen I have to check to make sure he isn’t actually Indraneil Sengupta, see below).
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Oh wow he does look like Jeff Goldblum.
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Kunal!!!! 😍
Rajkummar would be nerdy except he’s wearing Moschino which is the antithesis of nerdiness.
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Wait, what’s Moschino? It sounds like chocolate.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:53 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Moschino is a designer brand that’s known for being really over the top and edgy: https://nowfashion.com/moschino-pre-fall-and-menswear-fw-2020-28875
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Do they know their hats don’t fit? Should we tell them?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:24 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Yay, a post for me! Bengali actors still dominate the hit nerd category. Although for my money the really Jeff Goldblum-looking one is Indraneil Sengupta.
https://images.app.goo.gl/fGa1NCx2C2VNchbe9
And don’t forget hot nerdy Rahul Bose:
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At this point, I am wondering how sure we are the Jeff Goldblum himself isn’t Bengali? Or that his father didn’t go on a wiled trip through Calcutta decades ago?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 7:57 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Right??? Maybe Jeff Goldblum enjoys sneaking into India and being in Indian films as his alter egos?
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I never made the Indraneil-Jeff Goldblum connection before but now I don’t think I can unsee it!
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That does seem like a very Jeff Goldblum thing to do.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:50 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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