>Yup. My dear friends Tarun and Celia have stumbled upon a shamanistic practice that is truly unique. The way to have a great glowing aura is to simply go naked and get someone to cover you with mud. If that is a bit difficult to execute, an oil bath could do, too, but not with…
Yup. Anushka Sharma is yet another Bangalore girl who has made it big on the India map, after Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, Vaishali Desai, Rani Jeyraj (Miss World) and Nafisa Joseph (late MTV veejay) among many others. When she came to me many moons ago, she hadn’t even got a proper portfolio done of hers. She had…
Deepika Padukone who serenaded Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om and later Ranbir Kapoor in Bachna Ae Haseeno (both onscreen and offscreen) is someone I knew more than six years ago. She was at the time inching her way to stardom on and off the ramp. She was also figuring in TV commercials at…
I know her. Vaishali Desai. Ever since she took those baby steps to modelling and later acting. On one of those photo shoots for the publication I was working for at the time, she said that she was famous director Manmohan Desai’s grand niece. I was even more taken aback because Manmohan Desai is the…
She looks completely different from what she looks like on screen in Hey! Ram. For that matter, Vasundhara Das, 31, also looks very different from the schoolgirl I used to know, following her parents around to department stores or social gatherings. Here is an interview I did with her way back in 2000. “I am…
