Monday, May 2, 2016

Anushka Sharma’s Style Evolution Will Amaze You!

Anushka Sharma’s Style Evolution Will Amaze You!

Best dressed this week: Parineeti Chopra and Shraddha Kapoor


The best thing about a summer wardrobe is the spectrum of colours and prints one can play with. This week, Parineeti Chopra stepped out wrapped in a rainbow of hues at the H&M store, while overseas, Kerry Washington, Jessica Biel and Kate Hudson played with abstract patterns that shouted out for attention.
Then there were the ladies who doused themselves in solid pops of colour. Shraddha Kapoor went the metallic route in a royal blue Prabal Gurung, Karlie Kloss picked a purple Victoria Beckham gown in remembrance of late singer Prince, and Lindsey Vonn picked a semi-bejewelled piece in a tart shade of lime. It’s safe to say that blacks and whites are great, but it doesn’t hurt to play with crazy colours.

This is how you can make Sonam Kapoor your digital BFF


If you thought social media was the only way to peek into your favourite star’s life, Sonam Kapoor’s big new project is going to change the way you fangirl forever.
Launching today in collaboration with Disciple Media, Kapoor’s eponymous app is the actor’s way of connecting with fans all over the globe on a more personal note than ever before. “I think of this app like my little home, where I can invite people in and tell them, ‘This is what I live like, this is who I am, this is what my friends are like, these are my likes and my dislikes.’ I’d been thinking of doing something for a while, and then the guys from Disciple came down from London and they said, ‘Why don’t you do a Sonam-specific app?’”
From make-up and hair tutorials to fitness tips, and behind-the-scenes footage from shoots and films, the app ‘Sonam Kapoor’ is going to give the world access to her most personal thoughts and moments. “The app is still a work in progress in terms of cleaning it up, and collecting more data,” Kapoor tells us. “Right now, it’s going to have book reviews (I love to read!). I’m also doing something called Sister Act, which is basically my sister (Rhea Kapoor) and I, and a couple of my friends, talking about topics that are relevant, or even irrelevant to us. There’s also trends I like right now, archives of my work, which I like to call my Chronicles, and a section called Workohol—not workaholic—which highlights all the things I do. You can also expect movie posters that you can download, and eventually, merchandise you can buy through the app as well.”
Think that’s where it ends? Not a chance. The best part about the app is a feature called My Tribe, which allows Sonam followers everywhere to connect with one another, and the star. “I don’t like the word fan,” Kapoor confesses. “I see people who like me as part of my tribe. I’m a part of them, they’re my community. My favourite feature of all has got to be Sonam Live, where at any given moment you’ll get an alert saying I’m going live and you can basically watch me wherever I am; it’s raw unadulterated footage, no censors.” Isn’t it too much, people have asked her. But Kapoor’s theory is simple: “You not being on social media, or not being approachable, does not make you more mysterious or aspirational. It makes you irrelevant.”
The app is now available on iTunes and Google Play

All the pictures you need to see from Bipasha Basu’s wedding celebrations


After a roaring bachelorette and much excitement over the last few weeks, Bipasha Basu‘s wedding celebrations with beau Karan Singh Grover are finally in full swing!
On April 29, the bride-to-be celebrated her mehendi, and turns out the rumours about the theme were true. Juhu’s Villa 69 transformed itself into a rose-hued wonderland for the event. Basu even matched her ensemble to the setting, picking a rose-print Anushree Reddy lehenga complete with floral headgear and pearly pink nails. There to congratulate the couple were close friends including Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Shamita Shetty, Sophie Choudry, Anusha Dandekar, model Candice Pinto and designer Rocky S.
As for the wedding on April 30, Basu chose a typical Bengali bridal ensemble by Sabyasachi, accented with traditional jewellery. The wedding reception followed right after, for which the bride changed into a head-to-toe gold look. In true Bollywood fashion, the guest list was brimming with stars including Amitabh, Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta, Dia Mirza, Dino Morea, Abhay and Bobby Deol, Genelia and Riteish Deshmukh, Malaika Arora Khan, Neha Dhupia, Sophie Choudry and Tabu. Don’t miss a single picture from the slideshow!

Did you spot Priyanka Chopra at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner?

We’ve been talking about whether Priyanka Chopra, our April cover girl, would take time out of her buzzing shoot schedule to make it for the 102nd annual White House Correspondent’s dinner, and she did! The dinner, which is currently in session at Washington, is the last one to be hosted by President Barrack Obama and FLOTUS Michelle Obama, as this year marks the end of his term. Comedian Larry Willmore of ‘The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore’ is the entertainer for the evening. Chopra was spotted on the red carpet in a black plunge-neck Zuhair Murad gown, alongside others from the star-studded guest list: Emma Watson, Michele Dockery, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, Aretha Franklin, Karlie Kloss, Adriana Lima and Kendall Jenner amongst others.

Here are some of the arrivals on the red carpet from the event:

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Priyanka Chopra
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Anushka Sharma: “I’m not a product of how people want to see me”

Anushka Sharma: “I’m not a product of how people want to see me”


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Anushka Sharma is convincing even without a script. She speaks so fast, and with such earnestness, that in two hours I feel like I know her.
We’re in the living room of her Andheri penthouse, sitting on a black sectional sofa strewn with quirky cushions, beneath a New York-style exposed brick wall. On the wall above our heads is a massive abstract photo frame, and in my vision is Sharma, curled up in skinny jeans and a black tank, with the backdrop of the sun setting on Versova beach. “I don’t understand art, so I don’t have any paintings. For me, that would be a waste of money. Photographs are more real for me, so you’ll find pictures and posters rendered on different surfaces across the house,” she says.
“Waste of money” is not a phrase many actors use. For Sharma, this penny-wise attitude comes from her upbringing as an Army kid, something that has calcified her public image of the terminally honest girl-next-door—the anti-diva in Bollywood who has a hearty laugh and says what she feels like saying.
Today, Sharma is the big-ticket actor who still lives with her family and wouldn’t have it any other way; her 20th-floor apartment is next to ones belonging to her brother and parents. “It’s a good setup. While I’m living with my parents, I still have my apartment. We are a close-knit family, so staying together is the best feeling,” she says.
It’s perfect given her idea of unwinding: “When I’m not shooting, I love spending time at home—talking to my parents, playing with my dog (a frisky Labrador named Dude) and just watching shows like Brain Games with my dad.”
Sharma calls her older brother, Karnesh, her “best friend” in the industry. In 2014, their lack of Bollywood blood didn’t stop the siblings from launching a production house together. “We make a good team. We share the same tastes and are always on the same page,” she says.
Titled Clean Slate Films, the production house was launched to showcase content-led material by newer talents. “It’s a collaborative effort. She handles the creative side of it and I look after the logistics,” says Karnesh, who gave up a job in the merchant navy to join the movie business. “The only way we are different is that she talks too fast and I’m a slow thinker,” he jokes.
LEADING LADYThat Sharma is one of the youngest actresses in the production business hints at her path-breaker tendencies—she’s ready to write her own rules (and scripts) and live by them. “People asked why I was doing it in the prime of my career. But we only say this about actresses because we assume that they need to do it to find work towards the end of their careers. I’m not into production to make films that glorify me or to replicate films that have worked at the box office; I’m doing it because I want to create quality cinema,” she argues.
She doesn’t seek validation in awards either. Despite portraying strong leads in films, Sharma, so far, has only won awards for supporting roles. “I genuinely don’t believe in awards. It’s rewarding enough that a film like NH10 (2015) got the response that it did, and that because of its success I’m now producing a film with Fox Star Studios, which is funny, romantic and poles apart from NH10,” she says about Phillauri, which stars Life Of Pi actor Suraj Sharma and Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh alongside her.
Sharma’s film roles amply demonstrate her range—a city girl working at an MNC (NH10), a glamorous jazz singer (Bombay Velvet), and a righteous scribe (PK), among others. “My characters are wildly different, but they have one thing in common—most of them are that of an independent, successful, working girl,” she says, “I pick a film that has a strong plot. I’d never pick one to piggyback on a big actor or director’s name.” Her decision to turn producer with NH10, an unconventional, dark action-thriller with a strong female lead, speaks volumes about her intrepid nature. “I’m not a product of how people want to see me and how I should be or ought to be. I am what I am. I’ve never done anything just because it has worked. I love taking risks and following my conviction,” she says.
You can’t blame her.
Her life is the typical Bollywood tale we usually see in movies. And the way it’s panned out seems so unreal that sometimes even she can’t believe she’s living it. “If you push me back 10 years and told me all this would happen to you, I would have said, ‘Shut up! Are you crazy? It’s impossible!’”
Read the whole interview in Vogue India’s May 2016 issue that hits stands on May 2, 2016.
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Photographed by Errikos Andreou; Styled by Anaita Shroff Adajania; Hair: Gabriel Georgiou/Anima Creative Management; Make-up: Rosario Belmonte/Anima Creative Management; Production: Temple Road Productions, Divya Jagwani; Props: Bindiya and Narii; Photographer’s agency: DEU Creative Management; Assistant stylists: Priyanka Kapadio, Fabio Immediato; Photographer’s assistant: Sajna Sivan; Production assistants: Saakshi Kaushik, Aishwarya Reddy; Location courtesy: Amateur Riders Club, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai