Is this the face that uncorked a thousand scares? Begowned thus, Helen herself would have been glad to let herself be cast in marble; like her, singer Kanika Kapoor has launched a conflagration in this towered Ilium of ours—three parties, 160 guests, the spectre of coronavirus sprinkling a fine dust over all, waves of indignation, police complaints, the tearful infector (this we imagine) sunk in quarantine. One day, Kanika will sing of all this.
Mar 27, 2020
The off-shoulder black dress that makes us puckish, those slippery, sheer sleeves, that hint of a necklace, the picture snuck behind a giant phone that an errant finger blocks…no lockdown can dampen Ananya Panday’s spirit. Reading, painting, baking chocolate chip cookies with her sister do certainly help, but dressing up in black eats the whole cake.
Mar 27, 2020
Flanked by an orange halterneck (teamed defiantly with trackpants), and an yellow halterneck dress pinched invitingly up front, with a printed, kaftanesque dress heart-stoppingly abbreviated in between, you could be forgiven for taking the scene as LA, circa 1971. Alas, that bunched up red gown spoils the effect. Our subjects (L to R, Bani J, Kirti Kulhari, Manavi Gagroo and Sayani Gupta) are the leads of the series Four More Shots Please! The first season was slammed for not being nuanced enough. Why, that heavily tattooed arm extending itself to support an aching limb is subtlety personified!
Mar 27, 2020
Against a pale blue sky, they clap for those who are putting themselves in grave danger in this hour of crisis—Abhishek, Aishwarya, little Aaradhya, other family-members and the patriarch, Amitabh Bachchan. The latter apparently re-tweeted a post on the deleterious effect of state-sponsored clangour on the virus on March 22-an amavasya. Can’t believe your ears? You won’t if you’re a fan, but do investigate and decipher these revealing interstices of unreason. You’ve got time on your hands.
Mar 27, 2020
Bollywood actor Tamanna Bhatia walks the ramp during Bombay Times Fashion Week 2020, in Mumbai.
Mar 14, 2020
She has been a most cherished inhabitant of this page and thus we note with the utmost stupefaction that assorted dafooses bodyshame the irreproachably lovely Shruti Haasan for being ‘skinny’ or taking recourse to plastic surgery. A defiant response was received through text (read it elsewhere) and photo (you got it!). Our one question: Would you chav girls (and boys) ever match her? Answer honestly.
Mar 12, 2020
A nasty virus maybe doing the rounds, making people scuttle back to their holes, but Holi is for flouting norms, our shudh desi bacchanalia. At the colour-splattered Holi bash held by Isha Ambani in Mumbai, you’d have to be the driest of hypochondriacs to miss it. Priyanka flew in with Nick Jonas to give the latter a first taste of gulal. Katrina was at hand to share his surprised joy. And you thought the rival actresses try not to share the same frame!
Mar 12, 2020
Does an outfit seemingly inspired by Henry VIII’s wardrobe, albeit gorgeously stitched, not militate against the figure-hugging norms of the fashion world? But Freida Pinto doesn’t care as much, now that she’s nearly an old hand in Hollywood. She poses here with actress Leela Ladnier for the premiere of Mira, Royal Detective, a mystery adventure series for the young inspired by Indian culture, for which they lent their voices.
Mar 12, 2020
Katharine O'Brien, left, writer/director of "Lost Transmissions," poses with cast member Juno Temple at a special screening of the film at the Los Angeles Film School in Los Angeles.
Mar 12, 2020
Bollywood actor Amyra Dastur gestures as she poses for photographs during ‘Holi’ celebrations at a party, in Mumbai.
Mar 10, 2020
Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez celebrates the Holi festival in Mumbai.
Mar 10, 2020
Bollywood actor Vidyut Jammwal during a women's bike rally on International Women's Day in Thane.
Mar 08, 2020
Katy Perry performs before the start of the Women's T20 World Cup cricket final match between Australia and India in Melbourne.
Mar 08, 2020
Leela Ladnier and Freida Pinto attend the LA Premiere of "Mira, Royal Detective" at Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
Mar 08, 2020
Another walk down the catwalk; another voluminous, crimped gown and the obligatory, ‘bold’ cut. But let that be...after scaring the wits out of cinema-going citizens in Ghost Stories, Janhvi Kapoor has been handed the meatiest of roles—that of Kargil War fighter pilot Gunjan Saxena. Shall she make the most of The Kargil Girl? The cockpit is another world; they do things differently there.
Mar 05, 2020
Some people have an indescribable urge to escape their natural destinies, even privileged ones. Why else, would the (adopted) daughter of one the most powerful men in the world’s most influential movie industry wade into a career of a “self-produced adult entertainer”? Radical departure or plain boredom? But Mikaela Spielberg, 23, does salute her “most evolved parents”. Resigned acceptance is probably attained in an evolved state.
Mar 05, 2020
Big, fleshy leaves like these are top dogs of the botanical world—sucking deeply of the sun to give its texture a thick, waxy feel. They have to, otherwise they wouldn’t be the cover of choice for carnivores in jungles, for frolicsome dames in love in thousands of Bollywood films, and for advenurous minxes and artful lensmen in urban jungles. Luxuriate, then, in Kiara Advani’s knowing innocence in Dabboo Ratnani’s annual calendar. We’re still looking, for green is a soothing colour.
Mar 05, 2020
Blessed is the film that rides on such happy coincidences on its promo run—as Baaghi 3 nears the starting block, stars Shraddha Kapoor and Tiger Shroff celebrate their back-to-back birthdays, on March 2 and 3. Shraddha, in a fabulous dress, needs two hands to wield the knife. Guess the flavour? Butterscotch would be a fair bet.
Mar 05, 2020
Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt attends the special screening of Netflix web series 'Guilty', in Mumbai.
Mar 04, 2020
Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt (C) along with her mother Soni Razdan (L) and sister Shaheen Bhatt attend the special screening of Netflix web series 'Guilty', in Mumbai.
Mar 04, 2020
