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Deepika Padukone or Ranveer Singh: Who's cooler?

She’s scripted a meteoric rise to stardom. He’s the most electric leading man we’ve had in this decade. Together they can set the screen on fire—but they sure know how to keep it cool. Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, India’s coolest, play doubles for Vogue.

Deepika Padukone is gorgeous, staggeringly successful and ambitious. Let’s get specific here: her beauty is backed by an athletic core—you get the sense that it won’t go away if she takes a break from her gym or make-up routine. She now occupies an enviable patch in the sun, loved by trade analysts and film critics alike. And she is dead serious about her plans to work with Woody Allen someday.

But she is not a Cool Girl—not by American author Gillian Flynn’s definition of Cool Girl anyway. She doesn’t belong to Flynn’s tribe of “pretender women,” the ones who make interviews easy by claiming to like burgers, backpacks and Game Of Thrones. She doesn’t sport a pretender accent. She doesn’t have a favourite superhero. She even hates Dubsmash. Instead, she is manically punctual. She stands up for causes on national television. She values family. And when asked what the coolest item in her wardrobe is, she says, without the least bit of irony, that it’s a mauve-and-gold Kanjeevaram her mother gave her.

It’s the end of a long shoot day—it’s 10.30pm—and we find ourselves in Padukone’s vanity van. She is folded into a two-seater couch with Ranveer Singh, still dressed in a pair of sequinned Discount Universe shorts from her last shot. The two share an easy camaraderie, having spent the better half of the year filming Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, an epic love story scheduled for a December release. Singh has finally taken off the bowler hat he’s been wearing all day (“for the heat and the women”), allowing Padukone to tease him relentlessly about the wisp of hair he sports on his bald head to play Bajirao.

They’ve been terrific sports through the day, arm-wrestling for the camera, even swapping the pullover and pants printed with their names to humour us. All day, I’ve seen Padukone snack on a chocolate loaf and cheese poppers, making the women in the crew squint their eyes. Singh has walked around with a peacock-blue face fan and complained about being a prop a number of times. “Nobody looks at anything else when Deepika is in the frame,” he tells me now, adding playfully, “I wouldn’t.”

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Deepika Padukone Photoshoot for Nilaya Collaboration by Sabyasachi

Actress Deepika Padukone regal appearance in bright red banarasi kanjeevaram silk saree embellished with zari weaved rich buttas comes around the saree border followed by embroidery border teamed with matching blouse she finished out the look with heavy kundan polki choker with matching earrings. designed by sabyasachi.

Deepika Padukone Photoshoot for Nilaya by Sabyasachi

About Sabyasachi Mukherjee:

Sabyasachi Mukherjee has a way of telling stories. Take for instance his latest collaborative project with Nilaya, a subsidiary of Asian Paints that creates wall coverings. The Sabyasachi for Nilaya collection has several prints in each of the five stories of the collection, namely: India Baroque, Makhmal, Jodhpur, Spice Route and Varanasi. The average fan of the Sabyasachi aesthetic will no doubt be eager to refurbish one’s home given the optimum timeline of the upcoming festive season but the story behind the artful wallpapers goes much deeper than ornate decor.

The artwork for each of the wallpapers is hand-rendered by artists of the Sabyasachi Art Foundation. “My sister and I started the Sabyasachi Art Foundation last year. My mother was an artist in Bengal in the ’70s and she never spoke English because she went to a Bengali-medium school. In the art world, if you can’t market yourself it can get a bit intimidating, so she didn’t really pursue her passion. Then she had us and we became very successful, so I guess there’s a little regret that she resigned herself to being a housewife. I think both me and my sister have been playing with a little guilt that our mother had to give up everything to raise us. So we decided that when we have a voice of our own in society we would do something for her. So we started the art foundation to do something for people like her,” says the designer.

The art foundation handpicks struggling artists from all across Bengal and offers room and board and mentoring along with a stipend. “They are usually in the wrong jobs—some obscure agency somewhere, where they work for four or five thousand rupees, so we give them a sustainable salary and set up a studio with all the paint, canvases and medium they want so they can spend about 50 per cent of their time creating art that we can exhibit for them and 50 per cent of the time to create something that we can use for my company,” says Mukherjee. This is the first time work created by the artists has been showcased on a commercial scale.

“I spoke to Asian Paints and requested the best printer in the world, and they made it happen. We created very large life-sized artworks so the imperfections are contained in them and not tiled, and then found somebody who could scan them and put them on a very organic substrate to make it look like wallpaper that’s probably done on hand paper to give it a very old-world, vintage feel. Despite the look and feel, it’s all waterproof and fireproof, and looks high-maintenance but it’s not—that’s where the technology comes in.”

The collection has been divided into different groups and stories, the first one being India Baroque, which is a celebration of north Calcutta. “A lot of people would use India Baroque in its entirety but some would do just a wall. One of my favourite cities in India is Jodhpur, so this collection is done in shades of indigo. Spice Route is about Indian folklore, fables, theJataka Tales, the Panchatantra; it’s for someone who uses a lot of Gujarati handcrafts in their home. Varanasi is inspired by the Varanasi brocades and their colours. Varanasi has a belt called peeli kothi, where all the saris are woven, so we wanted to introduce a bit of yellow in the collection. The last part of the story is Makhmal, which is velvet flocking. All old zamindar houses and nautch ghars used to have velvet because it was the fabric of royalty, so the collection is more opulent.”

“My customer base runs in thousands but the Asian Paints customer base runs in millions. When you have such a large demographic in the country, you have to design something for everyone. I wanted to also do strong non-commercial colours, besides the commercial colours, for everything ranging from homes to hotels.”

If you’ve visited a Sabyasachi store, his love for interiors would come as no surprise. “I think the sensibility of my stores is catching on—I see a lot of restaurants copying my aesthetic, I see old plates and deer heads and wall clocks and they say to me, ‘We came to your Kala Ghoda store and tried to recreate it.’ I think I am more of a home designer than a fashion designer. I’ve always liked doing homes but I got so consumed by fashion I never got the chance. I did a very beautiful project for the Taj in London, called the Cinema Suite, which was inaugurated by Mr [Amitabh] Bachchan. A lot of celebrities have visited it. This was also a part of the Art Foundation projects.”

Mukherjee plans on creating his home line in the future. He also has a culture foundation in the pipeline. “I’m a quintessential businessman; new retail is all going to be about what is handmade, what is lost, what smacks of culture. I think digitised retail will pave the way for something that is more organic so people who have stories to tell will be the next batch of entrepreneurs. Why not ride on the wave?” Surfboard.

Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone Launch Tamasha trailer: Photos

Deepika Padukone Ranbir Kapoor's Tamasha Trailer Launch Photos

There's something about Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone. They may have other partners in real life (and stellar ones at that) but when you put them together in one frame, you can feel their chemistry sitting in a desk all the way in your offices.

It's this exact chemistry that was the hero in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani and it's the same chemistry that is twisted around two different characters this time in Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha.

In the trailer, Ranbir Kapoor's character Ved meets Mona Darling (Deepika Padukone) in faraway France, and he falls for her free-spirited nature (no surprises there). Everything is breezy and fun while the two of them are in Corsica, amid laughs, songs, and beautiful scenic backgrounds.

But upon returning back to reality, Ved returns to his routine, and that's when the cracks appear in their relationship.

It's a story we've all heard before, and that is something Imtiaz Ali acknowledges in the trailer. "Why always the same story?" it asks.

Perhaps Tamasha is trying to decode relationships. And what better way than to have ex-lovers to do so? It's the actors' personal past that possibly brings that extra edge to their performances. Either that or Imtiaz Ali just brings out the best in both actors.

Meanwhile, we only get to hear strains of AR Rahman's music, which is a bit of a travesty. Tamasha is set to release on 27 November.

Watch the trailer here: