Lights, camera, action… This might not be what you could possibly hear at the Bombay Film Institute near Ulsoor Lake. But you will hear trainer Aqueel Syed (35) cautioning, ‘An actor is just a puppet in the hands of a director. His only job is to come, emote and go back.’ He should know. Syed…
Welcome to the edge, says the denim jacket of her scrapbook. Danger: extremely flammable, cautions her ad campaign on an apparel line. Welcome to 34-year-old Suparna Mitra’s life. Her job is to make Lee part of every young adult’s wardrobe whose age is between 17 and 24. “The key in any sales and marketing business…
Sometimes it’s better to be untitled than be labelled at all. Look at the works of Shivani Bagaria (23) and one comes away with the feeling that she has done justice by keeping some of her works nameless. But that doesn’t mean, she’s all for things that don’t have a name. Some of the monikers…
Attitude can make or break a person. We as reporters are whipped by attitude every other time. And sometimes, it can be unsettling. I remember my English lecturer once saying, “You know because of what happened in the class (he had sent out a few students for not listening to him and doing their own…
It happened over dinner at an apartment on Cunningham Road. Housewives Vandana Virwani and Michelle Suri, both 37, thought of ways to get their professional lives back on track. “After marriage and children, we wanted to do something with our lives. One thing led to another and both of us decided to do affordable fashion,”…
