For years we have learned that the festival of Lohri commemorates the passing of the winter solstice. However, this year the winter has been unpredictable and has finally arrived after festival.
Needless to say, the change in the season calls for a change in the choice of outfits too. Here’s our outfit of the week to keep you fashionably warm.
Pair a striped jumper with a denim jacket and a warm scarf. If you’re a fan of experimenting with your outfits, go for a denim-on-denim number and pair the jacket and jumper combo with your favorite pair of jeans.
Complete your look wearing minimal accessories and a pair of ankle length boots.
Mumbai airport is the best place to randomly spot celebrities. That’s right, being the hub of the Indian film industry, the Mumbai airport, always gives us a glimpse of our Favourite celebs locked and loaded for some official work or a vacation. Unlike their regular appearances on events and different TV shows, celebs are found sporting their most comfortable outfits fabulously at the airport. Here’s a list of celebs spotted recently at the airport.
1) R Madhavan
R Madhavan is all set to promote his upcoming movie Saala Khadoos. The star was spotted at the Mumbai airport with his adorable co-star Ritika Singh. Both of them were seen wearing black sweatshirts with Saala Khadoos’s official poster printed on it.
2) Suniel Shetty
Celebs like Suniel Shetty hold a special place in our hearts and we love spotting them.
He was spotted with his better half at the Mumbai Airport looking dashing in a white teeteamed with a pair of blue denim jeans.
3) Sachin Tendulkar
The doyen cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was recently spotted at the Mumbai Airport giving the perfect outfit inspiration for men.
4) Imran Khan
The actor was recently spotted with his family at the airport. He looked happy posing for the shutterbugs dressed in a light blue polo t-shirt teamed with a pair of beige pants.
5) Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone never fails to surprise us. Be it casual or any other outfit, the actressknows exactly how to pull it off with great elegance and poise. This week she made heads turn by wearing a black oversized overcoat teamed with a pair of blue denims and knee length boots.
The trend of the 70’s seems to be making waves again. Have you noticed fringes in every other ensemble? Yes, these playful hanging threads and tassels are trending again. Fringes can be incorporated in your daily style quotient in numerous ways. Unlike the 70’s where fringes were a thing amongst the gypsies and the vagabonds, this trend is now here to stay and how. They can be incorporated in a very subtle manner and can also give a perfect professional look. So if you want to pull off this bohemian look in an elegant manner then here’s how you can do so.
1) The easiest way to incorporate fringes is to accessorize
Fringe accessories look chic and can be teamed with numerous attires without being the center of attraction.
For a more daring look walk out wearing a fringe jacket teamed with a pair of plain black trousers. This perfect street style staple will definitely make heads turn.
Bollywood’s young lovebirds Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt who debuted together in Student of The Year, were recently spotted outside Karan Johar’s office in Mumbai. Reportedly, the two will be seen sharing the screen in Karan Johar’s upcoming movie Kapoor and Sons so we are guessing they were spotted outside the office for work. Dressed in a navy blue shirt, Sidharth looked his usual self and Alia looked chic in a red and blue check shirt. Their appearance was momentary as they were seated inside the car engrossed in a conversation.
As of now, Alia is currently working on her upcoming movie Udta Punjab while Sidharth Malhotra is busy with Baar Baar Dekho alongside Katrina Kaif.
Pushkar, also known as “The Lotus Flower”, is a 2000 years old city in India making it one of the oldest cities of the country. Mostly known for being one of the five sacred pilgrimage sites of Hindu devotees, Pushkar is a perfect getaway destination, not just for people from India but also from outside.
Pushkar is a small town near Ajmer in Rajasthan and the best part about the city is that it has no railway stations. To get to Pushkar, you need to cross Ajmer city and the drive to Pushkar is magnificent. Pushkar is one of those cities that has retained its cultural charm by all means and has a lot to offer. Take a look at this list of places to visit in Pushkar and you’ll know what we are talking about.
1) The Brahma Temple
Pushkar is known to house the only Brahma temple in the world making it a very important pilgrimage spot for many Hindus/Brahma devotees. It is believed that Lord Brahma dropped a lotus flower in a lake (the Pushkar Lake) and the lake turned into a city, the Pushkar city.
Pushkar hosts the largest camel fair in the world in the month of Novemeber. This fair witnesses the presence of almost 50,000 camels with many of camel farmers, gypsies and musicians from deeper regions of Rajasthan and more than 200,000 global travellers. This is one the largest exchanges of livestock in the world and makes for the best time to visit the city to experience the best its culture has to offer.
3) Halwai Gali, rooftop restaurants and the “special” lassi
In spite of being a small and deserted town, Pushkar offers a variety of vegetarian food that can beat many non-vegetarian cuisines. The town refrains from offering alcoholic beverages but serves a rather rare substitute for alcohol called the special lassi (a term for bhang lassi). From the many places to visit in Pushkar, you must go to the “Halwai Gali” and try the malpuha and gulkand it has to offer. Pushkar also has over 250 hotels and many rooftop restaurants to get the perfect view of the city and the ghats.
Another one of the many things to do and places to visit in Pushkar is the desert safari. A large part of Rajasthan is covered in the Thar Desert and Pushkar is a part of it. It is also popularly referred to as the first desert city of Thar. On your visit to Pushkar, you must go for the Desert Safari that is normally 24-36 hours long. Along with the sand dunes, you’ll come across many local villages and their traditions especially rural weddings that have the charm to sweep you off your feet.
The Pushkar Lake is surrounded by 350 temples and 52 Ghats and offers you a chance to witness an infinite number of ritual offerings every day. If you’re a fan of watching sunsets, head to the ghats to enjoy a lake-view sunset along with the sound of the soothing evening aarti (prayer).
Just like the Brahma Temple, The Ajmer Sharif is a prime religious place for the Muslim community. It is the shrine of the famous Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti and is located 40 kilometers from Pushkar in the Ajmer City. If you visit Pushkar, there is no reason for you to not visit The Ajmer Sharif.
Moinuddin Chishti is worshipped for spreading a simple yet powerful message that there is no God; ” One call him Allah another call him God, but they’re one and only one”.
The most fascinating part of The Ajmer Sharif is the fact that both Hindu and Islamic devotees seek blessings at this religious place and it reflects the diversity that India holds.
Even though its fall, the weather is just not cold enough to be wrapped up in thermals and jackets. In such a scenario, your summer ensembles might come in handy, regardless of the season.
If you’re still confused about the style quotient to follow this week our outfit of the week might serve as the perfect inspiration to you. Look chic and stylish this week by pairing a shirt with a midi skirt. Midi skirts have been in fashion for a while and the best part about them is their versatility that caters to both casual and formal wear.
Midi skirts are available in different patterns and lengths, but we would suggest you to go for a striped or a plain midi skirt teamed with a subtle shade of pink or white on the top.
You can complete this semi-formal look with a trench coat to avoid windy evenings and a pair of high heels. Accessorise your look with an elegant neck piece and minimal make up using different shades of brown and bronze to set the winter mood and step out looking like a runway model.
Sheet masks have been the biggest celeb skincare trend of 2015. Not only are they perfect for the time-starved women, they make your skin look like it was pampered and nurtured for hours in turn making you feel great. But but BUT, like every trend, sheet masks also have a successor. Make way for FOIL MASKS. Yes, they are a thing now.
Foil masks have been making headlines and how, all thanks to the beauty brand Estee Lauder. The foil masks have been designed to give results even faster than the cotton/sheet masks.
Allow us to walk you through this incredible innovation. Foil face mask contains a metallic exterior and dual-matrix sheet that are dipped in anti-aging ingredients like hyaluronic acid. These ingredients penetrate deep into the skin and transmit a warm sensation enabling your skin to be at its comfortable best, whereas the metallic exterior gives you a more concentrated dose of active ingredients that boost your natural repair cycles faster than any other cotton mask available in the market.
The foil mask is advised to be worn for ten minutes at dusk as our skin has a tendency toregenerate while we catch that sleep. The foil mask has been made thoughtfully using anti-pollution technologies and anti-irritants like milk thistle, birch extract and magnolia bark extracts that prevent irritation and give faster results due to the foil-backed sheet that only lets the goodness of this mask flow in one direction; towards your skin.
The outer layer of the mask has a silver coating that acts as a shield, preventing the formula from escaping. The thing we like about the foil mask is that they come in two parts which permits you to wear the bottom part first and then do the top.
Do you like getting an insight of your favourite celebrities’ lives? We are sure most of you do, but too much of anything will make you sick. Be it the same track playing repetitively on every other radio station or the media updating you about the same old celebrity couples leaving you queasy and absolutely annoyed. Here’s our list of five most annoying celebrity couples.
1) Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh
Ranveer Singh goes on a shopping trip with Deepika’s family, flies down to Bengaluru from Malaysia just to get a glimpse of Deepika and the two still call themselves single. Doesn’t this bear enough proof about their relationship? It’s high time they decide upon their relationship status and shed off the tag of being a rumoured couple.
You can hate them, you can love them but you can’t ignore them. This couple will keep annoying you with their ego clashes. Watch Bound 2 and you will experience the Kardashian-West effect once again.
Isn’t it hideous seeing Johnny Depp cut ties with his wife for Amber Heard who is supposedly 23 years younger than him? Both of them could have done so much better.
Taylor swift has had a long list of ex-lovers and to our surprise all her relationships start with a bang and end with a whimper. However, we can only hope for her to find her soul mate so the social media posts STOP for good.
Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor’s relationship got annoying just as they started seeing each other as the two were spotted more on the media for their romance and less on the screens. Now denying a Bollywood relationship is very obvious but kissing on the balcony and then acting coy. NOT DONE!
Well well, we recently stumbled upon this old video and thought of sharing it with you guys. The video is like a short movie where there’s this badass protagonist (also referred to as a one ‘ape’ army) and a few other not-so-intelligent men. Let’s call this protagonist ‘Rambo’.
You must see how one our closest living relatives handled an Ak-47 as these fives army lads clearly seemed to have forgotten about the old saying “Think before you leap”. These army boys happily handed over one of their precious guns (loaded) to Rambo and rest is just history.
Displaying his brilliant combat moves, Rambo stole our hearts and how! Take a look.
Caution: Don’t try this at home boys! Especially if there are apes around you.
The Oscar fever has finally arrived in India. January has always been an interesting month for movie-goers in India, since all the December releases (read Oscar baits), are released. This time around we have some good movies coming our way. So brace yourselves for some of the upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in the month of January 2016.
1) Daddy’s Home – 1st January
Daddy’s Home as the name suggests is a comedy drama that portrays the efforts put in by the stepfather Brad Whitaker to develop a soft corner in his stepchildren’s hearts but his efforts go in vain when the biological father, Dusty Mayron returns. Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and Linda Cardellini. the movie hit the screens on 1st January 2016.
Run Time – 96 minutes
2) Our Brand Is Crisis – 8th January
Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan Our Brand Is Crisis is inspired by Rachel Boynton’s documentary (Our Brand Is Crisis) that was out in 2005. Starring Sandra Bullock as the lead along with Billy Bob Thornton the movie revolves around a rather experienced American political consultant, Calamity who is hired by a Bolivian politician to help re-elect a debatable president in Bolivia. This satirical comedy drama looks promising and is set release on 8th January in India.
Run Time – 107 minutes
3) The Hateful Eight – 15th January
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight is a perfect accord of action, humour and exaggerated violence taking us back to the time of the American Civil War. It takes us through the journey of eight strangers moving around in a stagecoach during bitter winter seeking refuge from snowstorms and sojourn for a while after the Civil War. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern the movie is set to hit the screens on 15th January 2016.
Run Time – 187 minutes
4) The 33 – 15th January
The 33 is a survival drama based on true events of 2010’s mining disaster that depicts the struggle of 33 men that were left stranded inside the San José Mine in Chile for over two months. It stars Antonio Banderas as Mario Sepúlveda, who sends videos to the rescuers making them aware about the miners’ condition.
Run Time – 127 minutes
5) The Boy – 29th January
The Boy is a horror film directed by William Brent Bell starring Lauren Cohan as the lead. The movie revolves around a nanny Greta (Lauren Cohan), who takes up a job in an isolated English village. Upon her arrival, she realises that she was actually hired to look after a life-size doll that the parents treated as their 8 year old son who had kicked the bucket 20 years back.
Run Time – 105 minutes
6) The 5th Wave – 22nd January
The 5th Wave is a sci-fi thriller inspired by Rick Yancey’s novel starring Chloë Grace Moretz as the lead in the movie. The movie is about Aliens that invade the Earth and are called The Others. Others look just like humans and strategically destroy the Earth in five waves (stages) causing utter chaos and devastation. The first wave brings the humans at close quarters to darkness, the second wave witnesses infinite number of deaths, the third wave comes as curse to the ones that are alive. By the time the fourth wave hits the planet only one thumb rule applies: trust no one as the occurrence of waves are inevitable. Chloë Grace Moretz is playing the role of a teenager who goes through leaps and bounds in an attempt to save her younger brother from the fifth wave.
Run Time – 112 minutes
7) Joy – 22nd January
Joy is inspired by the story of Joy Mangano and is a semi-biographical comedy drama depicting Joy Mangano’s Italian-American family across four generations. David O Russell teams up with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro once again to give us a beautiful insight into the life of Joy Mangano and her business dynasty that she created by devising the self-wringing Miracle Mop that in turn came as an impetus to her becoming the president of Ingenious Designs.
From thriller to comedy to romance this month’s Bollywood releases have a lot in store for us. If your idea of a perfect weekend is sitting comfortably and munching popcorns in a movie theatre, this list is for you. Here’s everything you need to know about Bollywood movies releasing in January 2016.
1) Wazir – 8th January
One of the most awaited movies of 2016, Wazir, is an action thriller starring Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar along with Aditi Rao Hydari and Neil Nitin Mukesh. The movie is a tale of two friends who are poles apart in nature; one is a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and the other is a fearless Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) officer. Both are struck with grief and despair that unites them to help each other come out victorious in the biggest game of their lives. However, little do they know of their mysterious, strong opponent lurking in the shadows who is well prepared to checkmate them.
Run Time – 102 minutes
2) Chauranga – 8th January
Chauranga is the debut feature film of Bikas Rajan Mishra and has won the best film award in many film festivals including the Indian film festival of Los Angeles. Inspired by a real life incident, the movie revolves around the journey of a fourteen year old boy, Santu who belongs to the untouchable caste of the Hindu hierarchy. The timid boy aspires to go to school just like his elder brother Bajaranji and is a son to an unmarried mother; a maid at the mansion of the upper cast village headman. Add Chauranga to your watch list to know how Santu’s dreams are crippled by the dark reality of caste hierarchy and how far his defiance fares him.
Run Time – 85 minutes
3) Chalk N Duster – 15th January
Directed by Jayant Gilatar and produced by Amin Surani, Chalk N Duster is an upcoming film starring Shabana Azmi and Juhi Chawla and Divya Dutta. The movie is an emotional journey of two teachers who worship their profession and want the best for their students. It highlights the problems that teachers and students face due to corruption and never ending greed for money.
Run Time – NA
4) Airlift – 22nd January
Khiladi Kumar is all geared up to rescue people from his helicopter this January in Airlift. Yes Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movie starring Nimrat Kaur as the female lead is a thriller, based on the biggest evacuation of Indians living in Kuwait during the Iraq- Kuwait war in 1990. Akshay Kumar will be seen playing a wealthy NRI businessman in Kuwait who unknowingly becomes the man responsible for keeping 1,70,000 Indians safe.
Run Time – 122 minutes
5) Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 – 22nd January
Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 is a sequel to 2012’s Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum and is the third part of the Kyaa Kool Hain Hum series. Just like the previous series, this is also a sex comedy starring Tusshar Kapoor , Aftab Shivdasani and Mandana Karimi in the lead roles along with Gizele Thakral, Claudia Ciesla, Krishna Abhishek, Shakti Kapoor and Darshan Jariwala in supporting roles. The movie is all set to release on 22nd January 2016.
Run Time – 131 minutes
6) Saala Khadoos – 29th January
Saala Khadoos is an upcoming bilingual sports drama written and directed by Sudha Kongara starring the very talented R. Madhavan in the lead role as a boxing coach along with a new face Ritika Singh who is playing a young aspiring boxer. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil (Irudhi Suttru ) and is all set to release on 29th January.
Run Time – NA
7) Mastizaade – 29th January
Produced by Pritish Nandy and Rangita Nandy, Mastizaade is a sex comedy starring Sunny Leone in a dual role along with Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das and Shaad Randhawa. Ritesh Deshmukh will also appear in a cameo role in the movie.
Birthdays come every year and most of us wait for them like there’s no tomorrow. Its one day of the year when people celebrate and feel special with all their loved ones around; getting gifts, fancy cakes, birthday surprises and what not.
But things don’t always go according to our plans. Somethings come complimentary with birthdays and we just can’t do anything about it. Yep, there’s a whole list of annoying things about birthdays that most of us go through year after year and there isn’t a real solution to them. Take a look.
#1 Birthday bumps
Well, lets face it, no one likes to get kicked on an ordinary day right? Then why birthdays? Birthday bumps are so 90’s and its time we let them be. It’s my special day and you better stay away from my booty.
As the clock strikes 12:00 those incessant phone calls can really get to you. It’s funny how people you haven’t heard from ages are sincerely calling you to wish you “glad you are you still alive!”. Make us wonder, where the hell were these people for the last 364 days?
Birthdays are undoubtedly the happiest day of a person’s life. But even then it all comes down to the moment of truth when you have to feed the first bite of the cake to the dearest one. Bam! That dilemma is the worst where so many people are just looking at you and you don’t know who to turn to. In that situation, take the first bite yourself. That is the best escape. You owe us one now!
Now that’s a tough one. Let’s admit it, your birthday can never really be your day. Trying to play sober in front of your family while you are drunk/hungover AF does not feel very pleasant. And the balancing act between family and friends is really hard to handle.
If you are planning to throw your birthday party at home we wish you luck. May lord give you the strength and perseverance to clean the random friend’s dried puke from your couch or your parent’s washroom (ouch!).
Be ready to go broke as a joke. You might have to live from hand to mouth for the rest of the month, but your friends on the other hand will have no mercy on you and exploit every bit of the free food and booze you have to offer. Welcome to the homeless community!
The whole idea of receiving gifts has always made birthdays exciting for everyone, but people fail to understand how gifts mean so much to most of us. So receiving a lame gift might make you want to punch them on the face or even worse, NOT receiving any gifts can make sh*t go down real bad.
If you have never received a birthday card playing ‘Happy birthday’, you must thank your stars as they can be one of the most irritating things on this planet. As you open the card you will hear a screechy voice singing happy Birthday to you and hell it will go on and on repeating the same thing making you want to tear it into pieces. Again, such cards are a passe.
When it comes to dressing up for the New Year’s Eve party, we’re bound to get confused with so many options around. What adds to the confusion is the cold weather that needs to be taken into account while selecting the perfect ensemble for welcoming the New Year 2016.
Ladies, put all that confusion away and take a look at our New Year party’s outfit inspiration by none other than Kangana Ranaut! Yes, the B’town fashionista who has groomed herself phenomenally overtime is here to help you.
Spotted at choreographer Bosco’s Christmas party recently, Kangana donned this elegant Dolce & Gabbana dress looking glamorous as ever. The Queen fame kept it simple as she finished her look carrying a nude Lady Dior bag teamed with a pair of nude pumps.
Inspirational enough?
To beat the winter you may also wear a trench coat and button it up to look chic.
Christmas is around the corner and choosing gifts can be a herculean task, especially when you are someone’s secret Santa and disappointing someone with a bad gift is not an option. If you haven’t planned the presents, and have somebody waiting with a sockunder their pillow, our list of gifts for Christmas might be of great help to you. Check out our list of last moment secret Santa gifts that are convenient to get and give the perfect gifts this Christmas.
#1 Coffee mugs
Coffee mugs make a decent gift when you are running short of time and are low on budget. They can be put to many uses like a pen stand, a brush-holder among many others. They also work as decoration in your house or at your workstation. What’s more, they work for both women and men so if there’s a confusion next time, turn to coffee mugs.
The best part about Christmas is winter and the best part about winter is scarves. Scarves never get passed on during the fall as they make for the perfect winter accessory, irrespective of the gender. Scarves can be worn with most of your outfits and the best part? It’ll make you feel good when you see your gift being actually used.
No prizes for guessing the cake and wine option when it comes to last moment secret Santa gifts. Most of us have a sweet tooth and can never say no to cakes and if you can say no to wine, you need to see a doctor right now! Gift cake, wine and maybe add cheese to set in the festive spirit.
Looking for a slightly unusual secret Santa gift for your friend? Turn to table lamps. Table lamps in modern designs are perfect for home decor and can effortlessly changes the ambience of a house by just plugging in a wire. We are sure everybody likes a little change in his or her home decor. Table lamps are easily available and can make for an amazing gift.
We exchange visiting cards on daily basis, but only a few of us are able to keep our visiting cards properly organised. Cards are generally found in some corner of our rooms or our handbags, which is why a card holder can be a very useful possession. We would suggest a card holder as an easy gift that is also relevant to both genders.
Wallets and clutch bags are used every day and no body can have enough of these. They are perfect secret Santa gifts and we would suggest sticking to neutral colours so your friends are not disappointed.
Time and tide waits for none, all it leaves behind are memories and the only way to capture time is by clicking pictures. Photo frames hold the pictures that are dear to your heart and make your day by keeping you closer to your happy memories. Secret Santa, you can also think of gifting a photo frame and save a lot of time.
Nothing says winter better than scarves. We have seen various kinds of scarves but this season blanket scarves steal the show. Yes, these oversized blanket scarves with subtle patterns are something you must own this fall. The best part about owning oversized blanket scarves is that they can be worn with countless outfits and provide that perfectly fashionable layer to your chic cardigans, leather jackets and coats. The super soft fabric is sure to make you feel comfortable and cozy unlike the scarves that are thick and feel like a python wrapped around your neck. If you are not a big fan of scarves and feel uneasy wearing them then these oversized blanket scarves might be handy for you. These scarves are easy to twist, can be worn in numerous styles and can also be used as a wrap.
Here are few tips you could use to wear your oversized blanket scarves. Take inspiration from the pictures below and find your outfit of the week.
#1 Here is a simple way to wrap your blanket scarf
