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Jaw, meet floor.
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Forty-one, more like HOTTIE-one, amirite?
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Shout-out to those who blazed the trail.
Kohli appeared in the Netflix original series Sense8 portraying Rajan Rasal, the fiancé of one of the main characters.
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Treasury is a recurring contributor on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore which airs on Comedy Central.
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Anil Kapoor is widely recognised as one of the most famous Indian actors worldwide. He's acted in the eighth season of the hit FOX series 24 as well as Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
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Nayyar has become a household name all over the world for his portrayal of Dr. Raj Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory. Nayyar was raised in New Delhi, and left for the U.S. to pursue a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Portland, Oregon.
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A Tumblr user has pointed out something way creepy.
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The pain is real.
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She’s a former Miss World; she’s starred in nearly 50 films and won countless awards for those performances; she’s a Guess spokesperson and an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; and her music videos have as many views as Taylor Swift’s.
But in the U.S. hardly anyone knows Priyanka Chopra’s name...until now.
On the seventh week of what has been a emotionally charged, action-heavy, grueling shoot for her ABC series Quantico, Chopra pinballed around the Montreal set like it had been anything but — laughing in between takes, snuggling up to the set’s puppy, and launching herself onto nearby gymnastics equipment.
Part of that boundless enthusiasm stems from Chopra’s unbridled love of the promising new fall show, which takes a cue from last season’s breakout hit How to Get Away With Murder by telling its story in two concurrent timelines: In one, an impossibly beautiful cadre of FBI recruits (including Chopra’s Alex Parrish) learn how to become agents, and in the other, Alex searches for the truth behind a deadly terrorist attack on NYC for which she finds herself framed.
But as Friday night turned into Saturday morning on the set of Quantico and that 5 a.m. wrap time felt light-years away, Chopra admitted she was fading. During a rare moment of rest toward the end of an otherwise restless day, she told BuzzFeed News with a laugh, “Nobody prepared me for this. …We’re shooting 16-hour days every day, and we wrap at, like, 5 in the morning. So, I’m a little bit tired at the moment, to be honest. But I’m super excited by everything that’s happening.”
And what’s happening is quite unprecedented. As one of India’s most popular actors, Chopra is easily the most famous to ever star in a U.S. television series.
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“Has there ever been an American show fronted by a relatively unknown actress who happens to be a huge star elsewhere?” film critic Raja Sen wondered to BuzzFeed News in an email. “It’s as if Marion Cottilard was cast on an HBO show before she won her Oscar."
While many American viewers will label 33-year-old Chopra as a “newcomer,” the truth is, she’s been working tirelessly in Indian cinema since being crowned Miss World in 2000. “She’s a bonafide star — and that means a lot in an industry where, despite the number of films produced, there are less than 20 actual A-listers,” Sen wrote. And, he added, “[Priyanka] made it on her own steam, which isn’t the norm in an industry reeking of nepotism.”
That steam, however, took a long time to build. Chopra’s fame didn’t come easily or overnight; it was a slow, uphill climb. She had to prove herself over and over again in Bollywood, an industry that — initially — didn’t seem to want her. “There was this one producer when I just started [acting] who wanted me for a project, but my dates weren't matching and he was like, ‘You know what? Girls are replaceable. And if she doesn't come at this price and on these dates, then I'll just get someone else. And if I don't get someone else, I'll just launch a new girl. That's how it works for girls,’” Chopra recalled with an anger that still brims at the surface more than a decade later. “I didn't want to be replaceable. I wanted to be irreplaceable. So that rubbed me the wrong way, and I think subconsciously that’s why I started doing empowered roles.”
Those carefully chosen roles have showcased dozens of sides to Chopra as a performer, and they’ve elevated her from ingénue to acclaimed actress to leading lady. “I'm very clear about who I am, and I don't like conforming to how I ‘should be’ — I really believe in being flawed and being unique, and I think that's what makes you special,” she said, adding that ultimately, she wants to make sure her performances “entertain people. That's who I am. However I can do it, whether that's through my music, my dancing, my Hindi movies, my show, I realized over time that … I live to entertain.”
At the height of Chopra’s international fame, ABC came calling. But she wasn’t immediately sold on doing American television. “I was very skeptical because TV is a big commitment,” she said. “My career in India is important to me and I'm doing some amazing work, which I'm excited about, so I was thinking in my head about how I could balance it all.”
But ABC wasn’t giving up, and Chopra was at least open to the idea, having built her career on going where the wind takes her. “I am destiny's other child besides Beyoncé. I'm telling you, destiny looks out for me, takes me places, and I say, ‘OK, that's what you want me to do? All right. All right.’ And then I give it my best.”
Chopra winning Miss World in 2000.
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So Chopra flew to Los Angeles for two months and read every script that ABC had in development. There were 26 in total, but Quantico was her favorite — by a mile. Not only is Alex Parrish the kind of empowered character Chopra wants to play, but the series presents a world filled with the kind of mainstream entertainment that spoke to Chopra’s sensibilities as a viewer.
“I didn't know anything about movies when I started acting, and I had never been to acting school and I never had friends or family in the business, so everything was super instinctive and I think I developed an instinct about picking things I would want to watch,” she said. “So when I read Quantico … it's not like, ‘I'm art, take me seriously.’ But at the same time, it doesn't take your intelligence for granted. It's fast-paced and had drama on major levels, which I love. I'm a movie actress. I love drama. It just made perfect sense. The artist in me couldn't say no.”
But Chopra’s casting wasn’t a given. Fifteen years after entering the world of show business, she was confronted with a first: auditioning. “I hate that, because it makes me sound so pompous, but when I became Miss World, lots of movie offers came my way and people were like, ‘Oh, she's Miss World, she should be cast because people will come watch the movie just because she's Miss World,’” Chopra said, adding that one role led to the next, and as she became more and more famous in India, auditioning wasn’t really a factor.
She had to remind herself of those very accomplishments over and over again before stepping into her very first audition for Quantico. “I went in the bathroom before I was supposed to go in front of all these people and I looked in the mirror and I said, ‘You've done 40 movies! What are you afraid of? You can make it work,’” she remembered with a laugh. “So I talked to myself for a little bit and then I walked in as if I owned the room.”
The pep talk worked, according to Quantico creator and executive producer Josh Safran. “The way Priyanka walks in a room is different from everybody else,” he told BuzzFeed News over the phone. “I was stunned. I didn't know who this person was, but it was very clear this person had a career — you can just sort of tell. She walked in as if she was sitting down to have an interview as opposed to an audition, where we were in the hot seat — and then she just gave an incredible read.”
Chopra on Quantico.
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For Safran, Chopra landed the part of Alex right then and there, despite the part being written as an American. So with her help, he set out to tweak the role to reflect Chopra’s roots, and Alex became Indian-American. “I believe the show very much deals in where these characters come from … where they're from is not just a plot point, it's the fabric of their character,” Safran said, adding that the only major change to Alex after Chopra’s casting was that following a childhood tragedy, her character had now spent a decade in Mumbai.
“We wanted to create a person,” Chopra said of those initial conversations about Alex. “She wasn't created for an Indian person; so now that you've cast an Indian girl, should her name be Indian? That's a stereotype to me. Alex is mixed breed — if you would call it that. She's half Indian, half American; her dad is white, so obviously my last name is going to be Parrish. Yeah, I could have had a more Indian name, but I didn't think you actually needed to change that. She's an individual. She could be anyone from anywhere; it's that kind of role.”
Chopra and her om bracelet in the Quantico pilot.
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Still, the Anglo last name paired with the American accent Chopra uses on the show has given some of her many Indian fans pause. But Chopra insists Quantico has gone to great lengths to ensure her Indian roots are front and center. “We've not run away from me being Indian at all. … I wear this om bracelet and the first shot of my show is this bracelet, which is considered lucky in India,” Chopra said, turning her wrist to display the charm. “I'm just really happy the first shot of the show is this. Alex is very close to her Indian roots. She's lived a decade in India, but she's an American citizen. … I still have an Indian lilt, but it's American because she's technically lived her whole life here. So we talked about all of those things before we shot the pilot and came to the consensus that this is how she should be. She's a modern-day global citizen who happens to be an Indian-American, and there are millions of people in this world like that. ”
But television has taken a while to reflect that. Almost more than any other network, however, ABC — with Fresh Off the Boat, Black-ish, How to Get Away With Murder, and Scandal, among others — has been proactive about the better-late-than-never realization that viewers demand onscreen diversity and begun casting actors who mirror global citizens. “It's incredibly important to show all ethnicities on television and be realistic to the world,” Safran said. “The FBI has all ethnicities, so I think it's incredible that I have Priyanka, the actor, as Alex, but I think it's also great to see an Indian woman at the center of a television show. It's important to show diversity whenever possible.”
With Quantico, Chopra joins a network lineup that includes Scandal’s Kerry Washington, How to Get Away With Murder’s Viola Davis, Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu, American Crime’s Regina King, and Blackish’s Tracee Ellis Ross. “We looked at Priyanka and thought, she’s a fabulous actress, she’s incredibly relatable to our audience, she’s empowered and fierce the way only ABC heroines are empowered and fierce,” ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in August. “She’s a sort of iconic ABC star, and we think the whole world is going to be talking about Priyanka as we come through into the fall and start our big marketing campaign for that one.”
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The campaign Lee referenced is now in full swing on billboards, buses, and buildings from New York City to Los Angeles, selling Quantico on the strength of a single element: Chopra’s face. It’s a savvy move, given that she boasts more than 30 million fans across social networks and speaks directly to an audience the network clearly believes is underserved. “It’s like hanging out with Beyoncé,” Safran said of his experiences in public with Chopra. “Wherever she goes, people know her, they notice her, they talk to her, they want things from her, yet she takes it all in stride and is so calm, cool, and collected, and so emotionally available and open. She's one of a kind.”
Yes, ABC’s marketing strategy puts a lot of responsibility squarely on Chopra’s shoulders; and while many would buckle under that kind of intense pressure, she clearly takes it all in stride. “I’m not presuming everyone who is Indian knows me and likes me, but we are one-fifth of the world’s population — at least I can get them in,” Chopra said with a laugh.
It helps that she’s used to the promotion of a project hinging on her. This time, however, it’s in new territory. “One of my friends came to L.A. and said, ‘Oh, it feels like Mumbai,’” Chopra said, as a playful smile broke out across her face. “I feel like after working in movies for 15 years, like, whoa, I’m coming to another country and feeling those same jitters that I did when I saw my first billboards go up.”
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But she wants to make clear that having an American series doesn’t mean she’s leaving Bollywood behind — in fact, Chopra is working twice as hard to maintain her place in Indian cinema while working on Quantico. All her spare weekends are spent flying home to complete two upcoming movies (adding to the 15 flights per month she generally averages), and she’s already reading scripts for the movie she plans to make once filming on the series wraps. “I want to balance both my careers because I love doing Indian movies and I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't do a song,” Chopra said. “It doesn't matter what language I speak. I don't think art should be restricted by borders or language or race or creed or anything. I could be anywhere in the world. I go wherever the work takes me. Like this, for me, isn't my big chance to make it in America. I don't want to prove a point.”
Chopra may not have set out to prove something with Quantico, but the effects of its potential success are widespread. From a financial standpoint, ABC could have a show with innate global appeal and the ability to sell it to international markets that might not otherwise buy a series about FBI trainees. Additionally, if Quantico is a hit, it could mean a lot more work for Indian actors in America. “Most Indian actors … fare like Aishwarya Rai, who had a big American launch with much publicity and pomp, only to be reduced to embarrassing bit-roles,” Sen wrote. “Because of this, Indian actors declare they’d rather stay in their own backyard where they can call the shots as loudly as they like.”
Now there’s a chance Quantico could change all that. “If Chopra does strike gold, you can bet a lot of them will hire accent coaches overnight and start rolling their R’s,” Sen wrote.
But regardless of how the show fares in the ratings, sells internationally, or immediately influences Hollywood’s casting practices, Chopra has already broken down a significant wall for burgeoning Indian actors who can now see that breaking into American television is at least possible. “I feel very privileged to be in this position,” she said. “When I was in high school in America and watched TV, I never saw anyone who looked like me. I feel very privileged that I'm one of the first few people to do that — but that's not the reason I'm doing it. I come from an extremely small city called Bareilly in India. Both my parents were army officers. I come from humble beginnings, and to sit in front of Sunset Boulevard and see my face the size of a building is pretty nutty. I have no blessed beginnings or superpowers that have brought me to where I am, except for the fact I'm not afraid to work hard. I'm not afraid of being tired or being pushed. So I feel like I’m saying that if I can do it, anyone can. I really believe that.”
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TIL Farah Khan threw up every time SRK took off his shirt in “Dard-e-Disco” and people got Tag Heuer watches for being a part of “Deewangi Deewangi”.
1. Farah Khan first noted the story for Om Shanti Om in a diary when she was handling the choreography for Bombay Dreams, a musical about a boy from the slums becoming a superstar
2. Many years later, after Shah Rukh Khan rejected the first draft of Happy New Year, Farah was reminded of the idea by her husband, Shirish Kunder.
3. The first draft of the script (without dialogue) was completed within two weeks.
4. The scene where Om saves Shanti Priya from the fire was a callback to Mother India, where Sunil Dutt saved Nargis from a fire that went out of control on set IRL.
5. Sajid Khan told his sister to include a stuffed tiger for the scene where Om was filming the fake fight scene after being inspired by a film called Tarzan 303. She loved the idea and ordered a stuffed tiger overnight.
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6. It was Shah Rukh Khan’s idea to yell “Naughty pussy” at the poor toy.
7. In the scene where Shanti Priya’s film Dreamy Girl is being premiered, the doppelgangers for a bunch of old-time actors started fighting on the red carpet over who gets a chance to go up first.
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8. Farah Khan, who was pregnant at the time that “Dard-E-Disco” was being shot, would throw up every time Shah Rukh Khan took his shirt off for the song.
9. Farah Khan thought that Deepika Padukone gave a “terrible screen test”. In fact, they thought her diction was so bad that they had to turn the sound off.
10. But she was so taken by Deepika’s beauty, that she decided to cast her anyway and dub her sound in selected scenes.
11. They auditioned even for the role of Deepika’s voice because they didn’t want a familiar voice for a new face.
12. Deepika’s character, Shanti Priya, was modelled on Hema Malini in the 1970s. They named the film Dreamy Girl based on the actual Hema Malini film Dream Girl (1977).
13. Deepika Padukone was only 20 when the film was being made.
14. Arjun Rampal was cornered by Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in a bathroom at Shah Rukh’s New Year’s Eve party to convince him to be a part of the movie.
15. He initially refused to do the movie because he thought his character was “too evil”, but was later convinced by Shah Rukh to join the cast anyway.
16. In fact, it was Shah Rukh’s idea to add the mustache to Arjun’s look.
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17. There were a total of 31 Bollywood stars in the song “Deewangi Deewangi”.
18. There would have been more, but many didn’t make it. For example, Fardeen Khan got arrested at Dubai airport in a drug case when he was on the way to shoot for the song.
19. Dev Anand refused to be in the song because he “only did lead roles, not cameos”.
20. It was Shah Rukh’s responsibility to rope in Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu for the song. But, they never showed up.
21. Amitabh Bachchan would have showed up, but he was a ~tad~ busy with Abhishek’s wedding to Aishwarya Rai.
22. Rekha took two days just to rehearse for her appearance in the song.
23. Aamir Khan refused to shoot the song because he was editing Taare Zameen Par.
24. But, Farah Khan said it was her dream to have the three Khans (Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir) in the same frame.
25. The song was shot over six days, wherein six people would come at a time to shoot their parts and leave. But, instead, they’d just hang around to chill with other Bollywood stars. NBD.
26. In the midst of all this chilling, Salman Khan, along with Saif Ali Khan, just cahj jumped into Dharmendra’s shot in the song and started dancing with him.
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27. All the actresses who featured in the song were allowed to keep their Manish Malhotra-designed clothes from the shoot.
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28. Every celeb who took their time out for the song was given a hamper with many gifts, including a Blackberry phone and a Tag Heuer watch.
29. For the Filmfare Awards red carpet scene, Farah Khan actually stood on the Red Carpet of an ACTUAL Filmfare Awards ceremony with her own camera and asked actors to deliver dialogues that she dictated.
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Why you should be excited: Ranbir's look from this Sanjay Dutt biopic bears an uncanny resemblance to the real man. Not just that, it is also Rajkumar Hirani's first film since PK in 2014.
Why you should be excited: This was the first Indian web series announced for Netflix and it boasts Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, and Saif Ali Khan in its cast. To top it all, the show will be directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan, Lootera).
Why you should be excited: As if Kangana hadn't cemented her queen status with her previous work, this is going to be a great chance for us to see her play a real one. It's also the first time she's doing a period drama, so that's something to look forward to.
Why you should be excited: Nivin Pauly in a Malayalam-Hindi movie written by Anurag Kashyap is what the world didn't know it needed.
Why you should be excited: Have you seen the stills from this movie? They look scary, and while there are no real details to go by, the movie comes across as a psychological thriller that won't be for the faint-hearted.
Why you should be excited: We've got a fun girl-run film on our hands here (AT LONG LAST), and Kareena's first post the birth of her baby Taimur. With the way the film has been cast and the promos so far, it looks like something you'd want to take your best girlfriends to.
Why you should be excited: Super Star Rajinikanth.
Why you should be excited: A movie that tackles caste in north India, has boxing in it, and a foxy AF Jimmy Shergill, all with Divine rapping in the background? SIGN ME UP.
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Why you should be excited: This is Prithviraj's directorial debut and honestly, what could go wrong when you've got Mohanlal in the lead?
Why you should be excited: The Balaji-produced web series was supposed to drop in 2017 but got stalled due to production issues. Now that it's complete, we will finally be able to watch Nimrat Kaur play an army soldier and my beating feminist heart needs to chill.
Why you should be excited: This movie about south Indian actress Savitri has a dream cast of Samantha Akkineni, Dulquer Salmaan (as Gemini Ganesan, no less), Keerthy Suresh, Prakash Raj, and Vijay Sethupathi. BE STILL, MY HEART.
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Why you should be excited: A new Netflix movie from India and the first after Brahman Naman. It has an illustrious cast of Ratna Pathak Shah, Supriya Pathak, and Raghubir Yadav. It also has relative newcomers Vicky Kaushal (Masaan) and Angira Dhar (Bang Baaja Baaraat).
Why you should be excited: This is going to be Prabhas's first movie since the Baahubali series. He didn't take on any other projects during his time as the lead of the series and watching him shed the Baahubali vibe is definitely something everyone is dying to watch.
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Why you should be excited: We see Saif playing a man with stomach cancer in a mostly English film (his first after Being Cyrus) and if the trailer is anything to go by, then we've got an eccentric ride ahead.
Why you should be excited: Of all the comedy series that Amazon announced last year, this is the only one that will be helmed by a woman. And to have that woman be Sumukhi Suresh is the delight of all alive and well, tbh.
Why you should be excited: Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are doing a movie together for the first time. UM. And also bb fave Fatima Sana Sheikh is looking like a total sword-yielding badass. So, I'm queuing up for this.
Why you should be excited: After their stellar chemistry in Ennu Ninte Moideen, Parvathy and Prithviraj will be seen together in the lead again for this film and that's honestly enough to make my ovaries burst.
Why you should be excited: AIB has been known to make stellar fictional content with their sketches and some even better stuff with Irrfan Khan. To watch the two forces combine to make a political satire show IS something to be more than excited for.
Why you should be excited: Shah Rukh Khan is playing a dwarf with Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif in the leads. If this CGI and story is anything more effective than Fan (RIP sweet child), then we might have a new era of SRK right here.
Why you should be excited: UM WHERE DO I BEGIN? We have internet darling Mithila Palkar playing a lead role for the first time in a Hindi film. This is Dulquer's Bollywood debut. And Irrfan Khan is going to be there to bless us with his brilliance. TAKE MY MONEY.
Why you should be excited: Mired by controversy, the movie is going to rake in the moolah regardless of the quality (if it does happen). That said, it would be interesting to see what Ranveer Singh does with his first negative role or if SLB can make a film that isn't a rehash of Ram Leela.
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Why you should be excited: This period drama about the 1971 Indo-Pak war is being helmed by a powerhouse of talent: Vicky Kaushal, Alia Bhatt in the leads and Meghna Gulzar handling direction. This is also the director's first film since 2015's critically acclaimed Talvar.
Why you should be excited: Based on the book of the same name, it will be a look into Manmohan Singh's life in the PMO, and he will be played by Anupam Kher. At a time when the ex-PM has been vocal about the current regime, it would make for interesting viewing to know more about his infamous silence during his tenure.
Why you should be excited: This biopic about the Indian space programme is not just going to see the uber-talented Sushant Singh Rajput in the lead as an astronaut, but also the return of R. Madhavan to Bollywood after Tanu Weds Manu Returns.
Why you should be excited: The film is Saif Ali Khan's daughter Sara's debut, and she has been cast opposite the illustrious Sushant Singh Rajput. The movie will also be directed by Abhishek Kapoor of Rock On! and Kai Po Che fame.
Why you should be excited: This is Anjali Menon's first film after the megahit Bangalore Days. It is Nazriya's first film since the same. AND they're bringing Parvathy to back them up. Prithviraj is here too. Oh, and Raghu Dixit is going to be composing some music for the film. I MEAN...
Why you should be excited: The trailer that dropped earlier this year boasts of a show that will combine math, science, and the underworld. If that could mean having our own Breaking Bad, I'm all up for it. Plus, Shashank Arora has been a name to watch out for since his big break in Titli.
Why you should be excited: Anil Kapoor, at age 60, playing a struggling singer while looking foxy as hell, with Aishwarya Rai in the lead and Rajkummar Rao (who will continue his streak of straight up KILLING IT next year too).
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Find out what it took to make these women winners.
Question: "What do you know about the textile heritage of your country? How old has it been?"
Answer: "Well, I think it started off with Mahatma Gandhi's khadi. It's gone a long way since then, but the basics of the textile heritage lies in there."
Question: "If you have to look for qualities in a husband, would you look for the qualities in Ridge Forrester from Bold & Beautiful or in Mason Capwell from Santa Barbara? Why?”
Answer: "The qualities I would look for in a man, between the two characters that you've given to me, would be in Mason. Though they do share a lot in common, from what we get to see, Mason does have a very caring side to him and a terrific sense of humour. And that really gels with my character."
Question: "If you were a police officer in the garden of Eden, who would you punish for the original sin: Adam, Eve, or the serpent?"
Answer: "If I was a policeman in the garden of Eden, I'd take all three of them to court. Every person in life is faced with temptation; you must be able to decide for yourself, make your own choices, and live by your own rules. Above all, fear god, because he is everywhere."
Question: "If you were a police officer in the garden of Eden, who would you punish for the original sin: Adam, Eve, or the serpent?"
Answer: "If I was the police officer in the garden of Eden, I would punish Satan, the serpent, because I believe that evil is instigated, not created. Eve thought Satan was right. She believed him. Let us get a moral from this: to decipher between good and bad, without being biased."
Question: "You have spent 30 days with your fellow contestants from 30 states of India. What learnings would you take back with you?"
Answer: "I think these 30 days that I've spent at ...with my fellow contestants have been the most dynamic days of my life and the only thing that was certain about the whole experience was uncertainty. The one belief that I would take back with me would be that I can change the world, because when I entered Miss India, it was only passion and a purpose, but through the journey, I had a vision. That vision in my head and the belief that I can change the world is something that I'm going to take back with me."
Question: "If given an opportunity to ask the judges a question, what would you ask?"
Answer: "I have only one question to ask everyone out here at this stage. When the world is seeking peace, why are we fighting over one border line? Do you think it's possible for each one of us to not live as Indians and Pakistanis, and to start living like human beings?"
Question: "In the context of the recent controversy, if you were Chelsea, what is the single most important advice you as a daughter would give to your parents Bill and Hillary Clinton, and why?"
Answer: "The most important piece of advice I would give my parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton, would be to stand by each other because, now is the time the world is testing us and we should put aside our differences and put up a brave front because family is the single most important unit."
Question: "Let's consider two often said quotes: 1. Fools seldom differ, and 2. Great minds think alike. Which one do you believe, and why?"
Answer: "I believe that great minds think alike, because intelligence is like a triple bond which joins minds to vibe at the same level. The higher the IQ, the greater the bonding."
Question: "Some believe that too much of everything is as bad as too little. What is your opinion?"
Answer: "Yes, it is true that too much of everything is as bad as little, because satisfaction and gracious acceptance is the keyword for a happy and peaceful life. Too much takes the satisfaction away."
Question: "The rate of divorce in India is on the rise. What do you feel is the cause of this? Is it western influence or something else?"
Answer: "Yes, divorce rates are on the rise in India. It is not the influence of western culture, I believe, because at the end of the day, it is you who decide who's worth you. It is the way you understand each other and go ahead. In life, that matters. Marriage is not where one completes you, but it is where one shares your completeness."
Question: "If you had a choice of creating 1,000 permanent jobs or feeding 1,000 starving children everyday, which would you choose and why?"
Answer: "The children are the future of our country and yes, I would like to feed 1,000 children every single day but on the contrary, I think that if I created 1,000 permanent jobs wherein an individual like me would benefit and their life would change, then I would empower that human being to, in future, be able to feed many more starving children on a regular basis because someone has shown them a kind deed and it has transformed their lives."
He wins for being the coolest Bachchan though.
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