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 Girl uninterrupted
The recent box office hit Page 3 has rocketed her into the arrived club. She may have the girl-next-door look yet her acting ability speaks volumes.
Saibal Chatterjee on the talented and confident Konkona Sen Sharma, who first made waves with Mr & Mrs Iyer and is now busy shooting for mother Aparna Sen’s 15 Park Avenue.
Star
sons and daughters are often spitting images of their illustrious parents. They
have to countenance constant comparisons with the latter, usually to their grave
disadvantage. But Konkona Sen Sharma has broken the mould. Actor-filmmaker
Aparna Sen’s talented daughter has carved a niche and identity for herself –
quickly and painlessly. Says the young actress: "We share the same value
system and beliefs, but I am unlike my mother," says the confident young
actress. She is right. Nothing that Konkona has done so far on the screen has
ever been remotely reminiscent of Aparna Sen, even when she shared screen space
with her mother, as she did in Rituparno Ghosh’s spry Titli.
Flair
for fusion
Nirupama Dutt meets designer Anjali
Kalia, who strikes a balance between Indian aesthetics and contemporary demands
"We
are all part of a living cultural tradition. Clothes too reflect a
culture. As we move forward in design today, the effort is to bring a
fusion between tradition and contemporary sensibility," so says
young Anjali Kalia, a Chandigarh-bred fashion designer.
Holi in
Thailand
Shirish Joshi on Songkran, a three-day water festival that marks the Thai New Year
A crowd of high-spirited
revellers carrying buckets of water and coloured water pumps gather at a street
corner. Suddenly, screams and laughter erupt from the group as they are accosted
by another bunch of youngsters who shower them with buckets of cold water and
smear their faces with handfuls of powder.
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