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Imran Khan makes Kareena Kapoor an older woman!

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The actor claims he had a secret crush on his Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu co-star in his teens. Uh oh…

We know stars say a lot of things while promoting their films, but something Imran Khan said while talking about Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu reallyhad us laughing out loud. EMAET is the first time Imran is being paired with Kareena Kapoor, and they play two people who accidentally get married. When asked about Bebo in an interview, Imran reportedly said that ever since her first film, Refugee, he has nursed a silent crush on her. He added that he found it difficult to even talk to her till they began shooting for the film. Poor Kareena. Bad enough that she is playing a heroine who is a year older than the hero on screen, but her own co-star makes everyone believe that she is actually much older than him!

We can understand when Abhishek Bachchan says he had a crush on Zeenat Aman, or Ranbir Kapoor confessing to his silent passion for Madhuri Dixit, or even Vidya Balan saying that she kinda liked SRK (which one?) when she was younger, but Imran saying that Kareena was a part of his boyhood dreams really takes the whole bakery. Think about it and you’ll see that there’s an age difference of only two years and three months or so between them. Sigh. Here Kareena is trying to move away from the Khans and act with younger heroes, and Imran is inadvertently making it look like she is from an older generation. We wonder what Begum-to-be Bebo has to say about this!

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The Dirty Picture’, ‘Don 2′, ‘Players’: Style is the new script in Bollywood

Style and fashion in Bollywood have undergone a sea change

When did styling become a substitute for script? I wondered that as I watched Abbas-Mustan’s Players, and found myself marvelling more at the sequined jackets and cool ripped jeans than the incoherent script. This is happening to me more often—in Don 2, Aisha, Anjaana Anjaani, Pyaar Impossible! or Main Aurr Mrs Khanna, I followed the clothes more closely than the plot. Shahrukh Khan’s superbly styled outfits, Sonam Kapoor’s nail colour and Kareena Kapoor’s jackets made a bigger impression. British costume designer Sandy Powell, who has eight Oscar nominations and three wins, was once asked what is key to the art of costume design for film. She replied: “What you are doing is helping create a character. You’re hoping to make a character believable. I think it’s equally important that costumes don’t distract. It would be wrong if someone went to a film and all they could remember were the costumes.”

In Bollywood, the opposite seems true. Hindi movies and fashion have been joined at the hip since the heroines in Yash Chopra’s Waqt set the nation’s style quotient in the 1960s. But rarely has film fashion and styling been as prominent as now. In 1993, I did an article on the emergence of the Bollywood designer. There were a handful of names: Manish Malhotra, Neeta Lulla, Anna Singh. The costume budgets for an A-list star ranged from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh. I wrote breathlessly about Sridevi’s feathered look in Chandramukhi costing Rs. 34,000 and Madhuri Dixit’s Rs. 50,000 outfits in Rajkumar. Today, a stylist might find a nice pair of designer shoes for that money. But even back then, Bhanu Athaiya, Oscar-winner and grand dame of costume designers, was dismissive. “Costume designing is an art,” she said, “what is happening here is only a fashion parade.”

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