Mahadevan had such an idea in mind for years, but it was only recently that he set out to look for such a candidate. And that was when he chanced upon 24-year-old Aazman, selling mobile pouches and balloons at the traffic signal at Edappally, Kochi....
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…...
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...
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...
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’...
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...