As pan-India blockbusters and period films boomed, so did the demand for Sheetal Sharma. ‘Actors have to look like the characters they are playing, not just pretty and handsome.’
At the Bikaner House exhibition in Delhi titled The Legacy of Bhanu Athaiya, the Oscar-winner costume designer's six decades of work put India's fashion history in perspective.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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