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The leading multi brand concept store ‘Kitsch’ and its ecommerce vertical Rocknshop.com recently previewed the latest spring summer 2015 collection ‘The Knot’ by designer duo Hemant & Nandita. Marking the beginning of the duo’s retail for this season with the store and the website, the collection is now available exclusively at Kitsch and Rocknshop.com.
Stationed at the posh locality of Defence Colony in the capital, Kitsch offers what is known to be one of the most exciting collections from the label ‘Hemant & Nandita’.
Bringing in the flawless amalgamation of Aztec and retro with a hint of ikat weave, the designers presented sky high wedges, handbags and visor caps as the part of accessories that perfectly complimented their designs.
Ya ya we get it, some of us don’t really like this festival of colours but shamelessly love the fact that it’s one extra/added/blissful staying-at-home kinda holiday every year. Believe us; we get you and have all the reasons to hate Holi as well. Like why would one really want to get dirty with colours in the first place and later spend two hours in the shower scraping it off? Sounds stupid, right? Here, take a look at a few reasons that makes Holi such a drab and a truly unexciting festival
1. Too many colours! Like who would want to see so many colours around them? Life in monochrome is way better. Isn’t it?
3. Socialising and get-togethers? Spreading love and happiness through colours? Are you kidding? Why do all that when you can stay home and waste your life.
4. Who needs the spirit of festivity? I mean there are so many different kinds of ‘spirits’ out there already right? (…that just harm your body and soul!)
7. They say Holi marks the harvesting of winter crop (Rabi) therefore it’s a super significant festival too! Well, all right but it’s just a holiday at the end of the day, right?
8. An opportunity to forget all differences and indulge in unadulterated fun? Who would like to do that when those ‘differences’ between people are way above their happiness and peace?
On a serious note, if you do think all these reasons still don’t make you want to put on those old clothes and walk out to be a part of Holi celebrations, then we’re sorry!
Holi is one of those few festivals that are celebrated with unbridled zest in our country, irrespective of people’s religions, ethnicity and nativity etc. We urge you….go out and make memories. Forget the differences and mark new beginnings! Bye.
2nd March 2015 shall be remembered as the night when the daughter of late Gulshan Kumar tied the knot with Hitesh Ralhan. Making it one of the biggest nights in Bollywood, Tulsi Kumar’s wedding reception saw countless celebrities strutting their fabulous outfits.
Stars who added glamour to the wedding reception party included Sridevi, Sonakshi Sinha, Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Karan Johar, Dia Mirza, Amisha Patel, Bipasha Basu, Vidya Balan and many more. Here’s a sneak peek into the glitzy night with the who’s who of the industry.
Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji was recently in New Delhi to be felicitated with a National Award. National Institute of Gender Justice’s chairperson Seerupa Mitra Chaudhary bestowed this honour for incredible her work in the movie ‘Mardaani’ and for creating awareness about child trafficking. Here are the pictures.
If you love to travel and are always on a look out for reasonable deals then you cannot afford to miss our app of the week on your phone. ‘Hopper’ constantly tracks air fares and analyses how the prices move to help you pick the best rates. Here’s everything you need to know about the app.
This free app constantly monitors upward and downward movements in air fares and helps you buy your tickets at the cheapest predicted price.All you need to do is download ‘Hopper’ on your phone and put in your travel details. By means of a calendar, the app will indicate the cheapest and most expensive time to buy your tickets. It’s ‘Price Prediction’ tool analyses the prices in real-time and lets you know the right time to plan your travel.
‘Hopper’ also has a ‘Watch This Trip’ feature that alerts you the instant the best fare is available for your travel dates via a push notification. Once you’ve booked your tickets, you can just click on ‘Stop Watching Trip’ to disable the alerts.
This app is only available for Apple devices as of now.
This week’s ‘Outfit of the week’ took inspiration from a mix of comfort and style for a laidback formal look. We found this outfit here and created a unique Forever 21 version for you to pick from the stores. Take a look.
Pick a bright-coloured summer blazer and pair it with contrast cotton pants. You may add a belt that matches your bag and shoes. Add a touch of bling with fashion jewellery pieces. And yes, for those bright days, do not forget to carry your sunnies.
Let’s just start by saying there’s no one in this world who holds the power of judging what’s right and what’s wrong (unless you’re the Almighty). There may be similar opinions and then there would be clashes. Certain social taboos amongst communities and people are sometimes the biggest reasons for failure in offering justice and here’s a perfect example of it.
Arpit Sharma – Part-time Musician, Sapiosexual, Aspiring Single dad (on Quora) and a great soul (that’s what we’d like to call him) wrote a little something on this Q&A website that struck a chord deep inside our hearts and touched us in a totally indescribable way. We felt this needs to be shared with the world. Before having a good laugh over those ‘GB Road’ jokes or how one should never visit that place because it’s just “vile” or simply how great it is, we’d insist that you spare a couple of minutes for something that might….we repeat – MIGHT just change the way you and others think. Take a look.
PS – Thank you Arpit Sharma for sharing this brave yet heartrending story with the world. We sure hope that these little steps would someday change the way the world thinks.
“As kinky it sounds, trust me it is not.
You don’t get to have sex (yeah, you don’t get laid there; you have sex) in spacious rooms. It’s a 4×6 structure, which they call as rooms, where you can barely breathe and most people don’t have an erection for the first time (Yup, I’ve been there and I’m not the only one). You’d see prostitutes fucking 6-7 men or probably more than that in an hour in a suffocating column with sadness in their eyes and frustration & helplessness inside them.
If you’re a little bit soft hearted; you might as well start hating yourself, people, & circumstances. My personal experience taught me this when, while waiting for my “night” to start, I saw a little 1 year girl child playing with her mom (whose husband is a cook there) and other prostitutes were pampering her to overcome their sadness.
It is definitely not one of those places, where even the most hated women on earth belong. Many of the girls, fall into this due to poverty and live to send their earned money to their parents so they can “live”.
I met this women, who was from Nepal; drunk, smoking cigarettes who left her husband in Nepal and came to Delhi. I’m pretty sure she hadn’t planned to become a prostitute and did want to have a life like a normal girl. There was this another old lady (I’m sure she also had to fuck several men in hour in her time); her hair became grey, had wrinkles which were stamped on her face by time. I couldn’t see any hope, happiness in her eyes; not expecting empathy from anyone. I once heard, a person dies when hope inside him dies; she probably had died decades ago and so other girls in there or in any other red-light area.
Building in which they live in, is a 5-storey structure which can shatter with a small earth-shake; well, I guess they don’t have anything to live for anyway. At-least, that’s what I’d think if I were in their place. And, then there are beast like us, so called MEN, who thinks it’s COOL to visit the place at least once in a lifetime to brag about it with their friends. There’s nothing to brag about in one’s suffering. There’s nothing to be proud of penetrating someone who is hollow inside. It’s only cruel to insult a body with boobs & vagina by raping her hundred of times a day. (Yes, it is a rape. Just because she didn’t resist doesn’t mean she wanted to sleep with you.)
Talking about it in hygienic terms, it is definitely not the place where you’d want to stay for more than 5 minutes and these women spend their life in that place. Most girls die in initial phase of their journey.
I wish government legalize prostitution so that if these women cannot escape this slavery then at-least, as a basic human right, can live in hygienic conditions and have some right of a being a human.”
The festival of colours is upon us and everyone is prepping to let their hair down and celebrate this exciting occasion. This year let the Holi colours bring good health, prosperity, happiness and abudance in to your world. Here’s a guide by Dr. Madhu Kotiya that explains how these colours can make a difference to your life.
If you are having relationship issues, use red and pink herbal gulal and mix sandalwood and rose petals for harmony & love in the family.
If you are facing financial troubles, you should use green & yellow colours & mix a pinch of cinnamon powder. This will open the doors of wealth & avert any financial obstructions.
For health issues, go for blue & purple colours with lavender fragrances and herbs. This will heal health problems & create a perfect balance of well being.
To enhance concentration for students, they should use brown, red and gold and mix a pinch of turmeric & cardamom powder. This helps in enhancing focus and retention.
When it comes to big movie releases this month, Hollywood is taking the lead. That’s right, with only a couple of big Bollywood releases scheduled for March, your month ahead is going to be packed with some solid Hollywood movies. Take a look at these eleven films hitting the screens this month and what they are all about!
1. Fifty Shades of Grey – 6th March
First up is ‘Fifty shades of Grey’, the much awaited romantic flick based on British author E. L. James’ bestselling novel of the same name. The release was unfortunately (and expectedly) delayed in India due to censor board issues. But looks like 6th March will finally be the day of some steamy scenes in Indian theatres with Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan).
Run Time – 125 minutes.
2. Focus – 6th March
Releasing on the same day (after being rescheduled as well) is the American romantic dark comedy ‘Focus’ starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie as marvellous grifts who get romantically involved only to fall apart later. Things go awry when they meet again after three years realising that they are on the opposite sides in the same scam! What happens next? Find out on 6th March.
Run Time – 104 minutes.
3. Unfinished Business – 6th March
Another comedy scheduled to hit the screens on the same day is ‘Unfinished Business’. Starring Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco and Sienna Miller; this Ken Scott directorial revolves around an adventurous journey of a businessman and his two associates through Europe and their bizarre encounters along this not-so-business-like trip.
Run Time – 91 minutes.
4. In The Heart of The Sea – 13th March
Our favourite Thor is back in a new avatar with the biographical thriller ‘In The Heart of The Sea’. Starring Chris Hemsworth and Cillian Murphy, the movie’s plot dates back to the year 1820 when a New England whaling ship Essex is rammed by a mammoth-sized whale while leaving the ship’s surviving crew stranded in the middle of the sea. Things get worse with each passing day when the surviving crew is pushed to their limits to stay alive.
Run Time – 121 minutes.
5. Cinderella – 20th March
Following Disney’s animated adaptation from the 50’s, ‘Cinderella’ hits the screens on 20th March. Starring Lily James as Cinderella, Hayley Atwell and Cate Blanchett, this British/American fantasy flick perfectly depicts the magical life of Cinderella with a few twists in good ol’ fairy tale fashion.
Run Time – 112 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DF6U1HcGQ
6. The Divergent Series: Insurgent – 20th March
The second installment of ‘Divergent trilogy’ a.k.a ‘Insurgent’ is scheduled to release on the same day. Following the events of the previous installment from the series, this sequel stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Octavia Spencer.
Sean Penn starrer ‘The Gunman’ revolves around the story of a former Special Forces soldier and military contractor suffering from PTSD and looking to settle down with the love of his life. However, in order to achieve a stable life he must run across Europe to clear his name and deal with the events that unfold on the way. Based on Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel ‘The Prone Gunman’, this action-thriller is slated for release on 20th March.
Run Time – 115 minutes.
8. Tracers – 20th March
Releasing on the same day is another action-thriller ‘Tracers’ starring the ‘Twilight’ star Taylor Lautner along with Marie Avgeropoulos and Adam Rayner. Lautner plays the role of an NYC bike messenger struggling to make ends meet until he meets Avgeropoulos who helps him find his passion for parkour.
Run Time – 93 minutes.
9. Dragon Blade – 27th March
Hong Kong action legend Jackie Chan is back with ‘Dragon Blade’ along with actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody. This historical action flick is based on the story a group of missing Roman soldiers who travelled to China in 48 BC.
Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart starrer comedy ‘Get Hard’ is set to tickle your funny bone this March. When an innocent businessman (Ferrell) gets convicted for a crime, he decides to take help from the man who washes his car (Hart) to prep for a life behind bars.
Run Time – 100 minutes.
11. Home – 27th March
If you get Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin and Jennifer Lopez in one big fat animated movie, there’s nothing else to do but to devour it with tonnes of popcorn and coke! The movie circles around the story of two very… umm… different friends – a human and an alien and their rib-cracking adventurous journey to discover the true meaning of the word called ‘Home’.
Run Time – 94 minutes.
To plan your Bollywood movie calendar for this month click here.
If you’re bored of wearing your same old denim shirt try this small inexpensive hack and make a new statement. Watch this tutorial and learn how to refashion your old denim shirt.
Looks like Bollywood is taking a small break with just three interesting movies in its kitty this month. Catch ‘Dirty Politics’, ‘NH10’ and ‘Hunterrr’ at a cinema near you this month to get your much-needed dose of B’town masala. Here’s everything you need to know about these Bollywood movies before booking your tickets.
Dirty Politics – 6th March, 2015 K.C. Bokadia’s ‘Dirty Politics’ is set to hit the silver screen on the Holi weekend. In lead roles are Mallika Sherawat, veteran actors Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff and Ashutosh Rana. As the name suggests, the movie is set against a contemporary political backdrop and is already making headlines for Mallika Sherawat and Om Puri’s steamy on-screen chemistry. Rumour also has it that Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was offered a role in this movie back in 2012. Take a look at this trailer to find out what we are talking about.
NH10 – 13th March, 2015 Anushka Sharma’s debut production ‘NH10’ has her and actor Neil Bhoopalam as a part of the star cast. It is slated for a release on 13th March. This thriller is about a young couple’s rather disastrous rendezvous with a group of violent criminals while they are on a road trip.
Hunterrr – 20th March, 2015 Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl’s sex comedy ‘Hunterrr’ will be out on 20th March. Starring Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Apte and Sai Tamhankar, this movie revolves around the life of a lecherous sex addict and his encounters with women. Just one look at the trailer would want you to book your movie tickets right about now.
To plan your Hollywood movie calendar for March click here.
Bollywood’s fashion diva Sonam Kapoor attended the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards’ press meet and looked absolutely gorgeous in an Elie Saab nude gown and Louboutin pumps. Minimal jewellery from Anmol and Mahesh Notandass and a Thalé Blanc’s clutch perfectly complimented her look. A pop of red on the lips and side swept hair added to the perfection. She was styled by Namrata Soni.
While promoting his upcoming movie ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy’ at a college in Mumbai, Sushant Singh Rajput made quite the statement by pairing a suit with harem pants and brogues. The students at the college organised a fashion show inspired by the movie and he was seen participating actively with everyone. Take a look at the pictures.
London Fashion Week AW’15 concluded recently and the event turned out to be a rather playful sister of the New York Fashion Week. With fashionistas strutting the streets in their best ensembles, the city looked like it had a five-day affair with fashion’s best. Here are the looks we absolutely loved from the streets at London Fashion Week.
If you are planning to experiment with your look in the coming fall, do not forget to miss out on the statement-eye wear as seen on all these gorgeous ladies including the supermodel Cara Delevigne!
Planning to raid those end-of-season sales? Buy every cape you see, yes every! Capes go well with dresses, pants, skirts… which is almost everything. Don’t believe us? See for yourself.
If you like your little bundles of joy to enjoy every bit of fashion as much as you do, dress them up like these beautiful mommies did. We know that fashion for kids is out there but this is adorable to a whole new level.
This BuzzFeed’s video on ’11 Messages Of Female Empowerment From Women In Hollywood’ is something everyone should watch today! Coming straight from the Oscar’s red carpet, these powerful women celebrities talk about what makes absolute sense for all the women in the world! Take a look.
