OCTOBER 24, 2023
It’s the last week of October and Diwali is three weeks away, with 2024 on the ascent not far behind. The season is all about celebrating the new with mithais, movies and money – making it and spending it! And when it comes to a new actor debuting in the world of films in India in 2023, Suhana Khan is the first name that comes to mind given she is Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter, the reigning superstar of India. And new films on Diwali are always almost synonymous with Yash Raj Films, this year being no different with Tiger 3 starring the consummate screen pair, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, with Emraan Hashmi. After the colossal worldwide collections of Pathaan (January 2023) and Jawan (September 2023) of over a ₹1,000 crore and ₹1,100 crore respectively, both starring Shah Rukh Khan, YRF is shooting for even more coin with Tiger 3.
MUMBAI: Even before the release of her first film, Archies, Suhana Khan is a recognised face, beloved and adored by the public, landing her a Maybelline New York campaign in April 2023, headlining the brand in India. That she is loved and famous has a lot to with her father being superstar Shah Rukh Khan, but more so for her personable countenance every time she steps out in public. She expresses herself articulately, and is almost always smiling, polite and affable with fans, selfie-seekers and invasive photographers. She wears her father’s fame and name ever so lightly, just as her Papa, and not the monumental celebrity he is. It’s not like she just woke up one day and decided to act for a living because her father is who he is. She seems to have worked steadily and assuredly towards her dreams, graduating from Ardingly College in the UK, in 2019, winning the Russel Cup for Exceptional Contribution To Drama, but of course, given her artistic leanings. She featured in a 10-minute short film, The Grey Part of Blue, which is about a teenager’s experience of unrequited love, directed by Theodore Gimeno in 2019. After school, she went to the Tisch School Of The Arts in New York to study acting and drama. She came back to Mumbai from Tisch, well prepared and ready to start working as a full-time actor. Her first film, Archies, directed by Zoya Akhtar airs on Netflix on December 7th, wherein she plays the brunette Veronica Logde to ginger-haired Archie Andrews played by Agastya Nanda in the fictional town of Riverdale, set in 1960’s India. She looks the part in the teasers and the songs, pirouetting on skates like a poised ballerina. Needless to add, it is the most anticipated film on everyone’s watch list! “I am 5″3 and brown, and I am extremely happy about it and you should be too,” she once wrote on Instagram in September 2020, in a bid to end colorism and today, everyone is happier for the same. Because, Khan is here to stay and play. A new film, where she will be working with her father, to be directed by Sujoy Ghosh, has also been announced in September. The shooting for this untitled thriller starts only in November 2024 and it will be Khan’s first theatrical release.
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MUMBAI: Founder and creative director of Primal Gray, a clothing company based in New Delhi, Yuv Bharatram introduced his fashion label to Mumbai’s fashion forwards with a LAP (label awareness party) on Saturday evening. An alumnus of the Shri Ram School in Delhi, founded by the late Manju Bharat Ram in 1988, and owned by his family, the Shri Rams, Bharatram went on to graduate from the Parson’s School of Design in New York 2017. Having worked as an intern and apprentice with many fashion firms, the last being Hermes in Paris, France, in 2019, Bharatram launched Primal Gray in November 2022. The clothes are fun and easy, crafted from conscious materials and priced accordingly. A year on from the launch, he should perhaps look into retailing the Plexi-Glass Dress he made in 2014, with a flower mask made from recycled spoons, the idea of which stands even more poignant today, making it the right climate for avant-garde Indian fashion almost a decade later. “The Plexi-Glass dress was inspired by how people blindly buy and promote brands, buying the most ostentatious items of clothing just to show off the brand. They would rather showcase their wealth over being well-dressed. The dress is a statement of how other people can see through their insecurities, while they remain blind to the fact that people can see through their veil of superiority – the entrapment of the wearer in their prison of branded clothing,” said Bharatram of the 2014 dress. Primal Gray’s garments non-toxic additions to your wardrobe, but in no way is the label responsible for the toxicity of the wearer! The company also makes candles named after cocktails like Cosmopolitan, Espresso Martini and Negroni, to keep your chakras balanced and aligned, should you need to sage away unwanted energies.
Yuv Bharatram, photographed by Rubina A Khan
MUMBAI: The third film in the Yash Raj Films’ Tiger franchise, and the fifth in their ongoing spy universe series, Tiger 3, written by Aditya Chopra and directed by Maneesh Sharma releases on Diwali this year, on November 12. Starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, the consummate screen pair that made the first two films, Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) blockbuster hits, Tiger 3 has Emraan Hashmi playing the principal antagonist. Chopra intends to expand his super spy universe with multiple screen agents coming together like Tiger (Salman Khan) and Pathaan (Shah Rukh Khan) in Pathaan (2023). Tiger 3 traces the events of the agents in Tiger Zinda Hai, War and Pathaan.
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The first song from the film, Leke Prabhu Ka Naam, aired on the YRF Youtube channel on October 23rd, with Katrina Kaif looking bewitchingly fine in it. Tiger 3 is Kaif’s first release of 2023 as also Hashmi’s, marking the latter’s 20th year in the film industry.
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