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In passing
SUCHITRA BEHAL
Young at heart
Director Karan Johar may have turned a year older and a wee bit greyer, but he is still “young at heart”. Johar, who recently turned 37, considers age to be mind-specific. “You’re only as old as you think.” He said his fundas on relationships were the same as before: “Hope, faith and commitment. There have been times when my faith has been put to test but I have never lost hope.” He still rates his father as his biggest hero but is honest enough to realise that he may not have inherited his father’s intrinsic goodness. “ And, for him, even today Mum’s the last word. “I still go by what she says and she is an exceptionally strong force in my life.” Does that make him a mama’s boy? Johar shrugs that off to be interpreted as you want.
Star fashionista
One Kapoor from Bollywood’s first family is content not to face the camera. But Riddhima Kapoor, Rishi and Neetu’s daughter and sister to Ranbir, is no push over and has charted out her own growth plan in the world of fashion. No, she won’t be designing for her brother at all — “I did not agree with some of the clothes he wore in some of his films” — instead she has set up her own fashion label in Dubai. “I hope to extend this to London,” added Kapoor. Meanwhile she’s okay with not being “media savvy and neither was I interested in acting. I love watching films, especially those in which my parents had a role but that’s it.” While she designs for women, she is willing to design for her brother only “if there is an exceptional role “Meanwhile she’s all right doing brand endorsements and designing.
Spiritual side
Does his intense spirituality sit at odds with his work in a highly commercial atmosphere? No, says choreographer Shiamak Davar, there is no dissonance. Davar, who claims to owe his success to his spirituality, said that everything he did was dictated by this simple fact. “Khorshed Bhavnagri, my spiritual mentor, taught me everything about reincarnation, karma and divine justice. I believe that we are born again and whatever we do, good or bad, returns to us.” He added that those “who hurt others end up hurting themselves”. “I do not believe that we have any right to judge or condemn people. Revenge is an ugly emotion and causes the worst damage possible. Whatever I have done in my life, I owe to this one single powerful factor,” said Davar.
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