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BHUMI PEDNEKAR, AS GOOD AS IT GETS Volume 69 # December 2020 / ISSN NUMBER 0971-7277 December, 2020 Tough HRITHIK talking with ROSHAN goes to TAB U Hollywood AAMIR, SRK AND SALMAN come together in a film DEEPIKA PADUKONE Spy games Gotcha!BHUMI PEDNEKAR, AS GOOD AS IT GETS Volume 69 # December 2020 / ISSN NUMBER 0971-7277 December, 2020 Tough HRITHIK talking with ROSHAN goes to TAB U Hollywood AAMIR, SRK AND SALMAN come together in a film DEEPIKA PADUKONE Spy games Gotcha!BHUMI PEDNEKAR, AS GOOD AS IT GETS PHOTOGRAPH: LAKSHETA MODGIL, NIMISHA TIWARI STYLING: PRANITA SHETTY HAIR & MAKEUP: BHUMI PEDNEKAR Outfit: Gauri & Nainika Jewellery: Goenka India 24 32 Editor’s Choice The ed is all praise for 04 Bhumi Pednekar We embark on another 64 journey with FLYX Filmfare OTT Awards 10 36 44 48 Masala fix Fashion & lifestyle Fatima Sana Shaikh The three Khans will be Manish Malhotra completes 44 captured in a retro mood 08 together in Laal Singh 20 30 years in showbiz Saiyami Kher keeps her Chaddha, Deepika 48 replies short and witty as Padukone to play an Exclusives she answers 40 questions agent in Pathaan. Alia Exclusive Cover Story: Film destination UP and Bhatt says no to Neeraj 24 Bhumi Pednekar talks 50 the forthcoming film city Ghaywan and other grist about lessons learnt during Remembering the late from the rumour mill the lockdown and being a 54 Soumitra Chatterjee crusader for the environment Preview Tabu talks about being Your say 32 part of the OTT space Aahana Kumra wants more Sharad Kelkar is in a Readers send in 12 meaty roles 36 happy place 60 their rants Pratik Gandhi is happy with Nora Fatehi talks about Shatrughan Sinha’s 16 the success of Scam 1992 40 making it big in Bollywood 62 wacky witticisms 08 olivesatyourtable.in Olives at your table INDIA @olivesatyourtable.in Olives at your table INDIA The content of this promotion campaign publication represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility. The European Commission and the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) do not accept any responsibility for any use that may be made of the information it contains. Letter from the Editor New age heroine Bhumi Pednekar broke every stereotype associated with the Hindi film heroine when she burst on the screen with Dum Laga Ke Haisha. She was overweight, deglam and what’s more, had a better character graph than the hero. We hadn’t seen anything like that before or since. She was a pioneer, a mini-revolution in the works. Even she mustn’t have realised the far-reaching consequences of the steps she had taken in her debut film itself. To everyone’s surprise, the film, which brought to light the travails of a mismatched couple, proved to be a runaway hit. This clearly indicated that the audience was willing to invest in something edgy, something real. That they were willing to invest in a story and didn’t necessarily care if washboard abs and exquisite good looks weren’t part of the package, showed that the taste of the audience was evolving. With each new outing, Bhumi ensured that Dum laga Ke haisha wasn’t just a flash in the pan. That she was committed to being counted as a serious actor in the long run. For example, in her film, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, she played a woman have to stay home and who willingly gets married to a man suffering from erectile do the household work, on social media she’s will you be able to manage? But I managed it really well. As I said, I learnt a lot about my dysfunction. She loves him and finds it enough to sustain a On screen, she’s fighting patriarchy with her powerful roles, sister’s work. Her law making the right noises for conserving the environment. Over our zoom call, I also meet the young, world was completely simple girl who loves doing make-up and likes to look good at all times. Clearly, there’s more to Bhumi unknown to me. I have Pednekar than meets the eye. “You know because of the roles that I do... I don’t get to glam up in a newfound respect for she played a dark- my films. But in real life I’m so away from those roles or those characters that I play, I take out all my her because I’ve always frustration on myself when I’m not in front of the camera. I love playing dress-up,” chuckles the actress. looked at her as just relationship. The ailment can be cured and with her support, it COVER STORY One wouldn’t have known that she’s as fond of make-up kits as she’s of method acting. The stark my younger sister. For contrast between Bhumi’s on-screen and off-screen personalities makes her more real than ,most. along Her with the first time, I saw her Saand Ki Aankh as a professional and candid replies make you aware she’s actually woke and not pretending to be so., Herher firstrelatability project is whereher USP and the more you learn of her inspiring journey, the more your respectDurgamati grows. Bhumi started off on realised the amount a strong note with Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), then went from one high to another in her career and of work she puts into five years later she’s reached that point where author-backed roles are being written for her. 2020 started it. I learnt a lot from does get cured. It was such a progressive thought and her character my mum as well. My off on a high as she received the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) for Taapsee Pannu. And she’s closing the year with the spectacle called mum writes and we discussed it a lot. she’s the solo lead. The candid, that witty, kind compassionate of explains the actress lack of talksa special nineteen-to-the-dozen someone in her life... about Excerpts... making Outfit: A I walked down our her way in a man’s world, surviving the lockdown, becoming a warrior for environmental issues andHumming losing her heart to showbiz — way family history. I learnt handled every aspect of it with grace. In Bala, so much about my grandparents and my This year has also given uncles and aunts. Like us a lot of time to sit back this time was tough, and introspect. What are but it’s a period that I’m the biggest learnings going to miss and I’m complexioned girl. Her whole character sketch was a one-woman you’ve had this year? going to hold close to The biggest learning I’ve my heart. I’m already had this year definitely getting withdrawal has to be that we give symptoms. As much ourselves too much as I want to go shoot, crusade against fairness creams. Our heroines have time and again importance. We all feel nothing takes away like we are invincible from that, I’m already and that nothing can having withdrawals affect us. And that we that I’m not going to are above everything have this for a long else, well, we are not. time again. been the brand ambassadors of such products. These products I think the Universe has given all of us a tight Tell us one thing that slap and taught us a big really made you sad this lesson that don’t mess year and one thing that with the basic running you are thankful for? of the world. The year 2020 has been a tough exist because our nation is obsessed with white skin. She went helped me become a year. Losing a friend, a humbler human being. co-star, that was one of Also since I spent so much time with my family, on a lighter note, against the grain and triumphed. In Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, she I feel I’ve relearnt a lot of things about my sister and my mother and a lot of things about I think all actors today have become myself as well. Things that I thought I’m not quite woke about their responsibilities played a woman who refused to stay in a marriage when her capable of doing like cooking... I’d thought towards society, which is good. I feel oh my God I’d never be able to cook... you happy that I’m an actor at a time I can get so busy with your contribute this much husband wasn’t able to provide her with a toilet inside his rural career that you start feeling that if you ever AS AN ACTOR AND AN BHUMI PEDNEKAR THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALIST HAS BEEN INSPIRING TO SAY THE LEAST. home. Her rebellion sparked a movement and set her husband on PHOTOGRAPHS: LAKSHETA MODGIL, NIMISHA TIWARI | STYLING: PRANITA SHETTY RAHUL GANGWANI FINDS OUT MORE ABOUT HER JOURNEY Woke BeautyHAIR & MAKEUP: BHUMI PEDNEKAR | Outfit: Gauri & Nainika | Jewellery: Goenka India the path of being a public crusader against open defecation. COVER STORY COVER STORY I’m a consumer of the film in January. There OTT platform. So I love is a certain amount of all our OTT platforms. relevance and also the You don’t have to mouth reams of dialogue to get the point There’s path-breaking business needs to keep work happening on rolling. Besides, the these platforms. But kind of reach all our being a film actor, OTT platforms have someone who is so is immense. used to seeing her films across. She showed that in the underrated gem, Sonchiriya.
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