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TRENDS THAT WILL RE-RULE 2021
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...
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CREATING THE ‘PRINCESS WEARS PRADA’ LOOK
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...
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FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC
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...
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WE ARE PREPARED FOR THE ENDGAME
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...
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KODAVA BOY MAKING IT IN B-TOWN
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...
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KICKING UP A MUSICAL STORM
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...
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FASHION WITH A HEART
Your brand might be global but seems to have a heart firmly placed in India? Yes, I am a Sikh American with Punjabi and Thai heritage. Although I grew up in the United States, I spent almost every summer as a child in my parents’...
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THE CUTEST PERAN-PAATTI COMBO!
How did you come about with the idea of featuring your grandmother in your social media videos? It wasn’t preplanned. It just happened. I used to do videos on my own and one day I needed my grandma for a particular dialogue cover video from...
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TAKING ON TRADITION WITH A PEN
Re-writing tradition has never been a smooth sail, and history reveals that the re-writers have received more stones than bouquets. The case has been no different with singer-writer duo Sooraj Santhosh and Shruti Sharanyam (formerly known as Shruti Namboodiri) either, who decided to re-write the...
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IF YOU KEEP WORKING THROUGH THE ROUGH TIMES WITH SINCERITY, GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN
We’d be lying if we do not agree that he caught our attention in Ala Vaikuntha-purramuloo and that’s saying something cause he was sharing screen space with Tollywood’s ultimate hottie – Allu Arjun. That led us to watch ChiLaSow and we weren’t left disappointed. Sushanth...
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