While cleaning a bus depot, which was her workplace, she excitedly said ‘hi’ to her friends who were boarding a bus to college from the same depot. But her ‘friends,’ who she went to school with, refused to acknowledge her presence. The experience left an...
When Kani Kusruti was first offered the role of the lead character in Biriyani, she refused. “I was about to leave for a month-long project at Amsterdam, plus I was half-minded about the character. I felt a male gaze in the approach,” she says. So...
Padmashri Tabassum Fatima Hashmi is a powerhouse within herself and is considered one of the country’s finest actors and for good reason too! We catch up with the actor on a lazy December afternoon as we converse light-heartedly about cinema, life and so much more…...
Have you ever had holiday anxiety? The anxiousness that builds up before a trip or a vacation, where you only hope that everything goes well and nothing gets screwed up? We’ve all been there. We’ve all dreaded unorganized and unplanned trips for this reason exactly....
As we brace ourselves to enter a new year, it feels impossible to make predictions about the state of the world — and especially the state of fashion. The fashion industry has seen major shifts due to the pandemic. The future is still a bit...
Royal houses across India are slowly but surely getting into the world of curated and bespoke fashion — what prompted your house to also join this bandwagon? For all of us who share the same background, it’s a natural progression. Everything created in the earlier...
Artistes are now considered non-essential. I don’t know what you think about that but as an artiste myself; it feels like a slap on my face. It is rather interesting though, that despite artistes being considered non-essential; music, art and entertainment are what people most...
This year felt like the end of the world, no? All through 2020, I felt like we were reliving Avengers: Endgame. This year really made us feel like life is indeed super uncertain. Looking back, I cannot help but giggle at the fact that a...
As a boy from Coorg, how difficult was it to break into acting in Mumbai? The world for an actor is anyway a difficult one. Even if I would have been from any metropolitan city, I would have faced the same hardships. And honestly I...
The band is everything you’d assume they’d be! High on energy and absolutely adorable! It adds to their charm that they can break into pitch perfect song at the drop of a hint of a great melody — that and the fact that they celebrate...
