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  • Prateik Babbar Upcycled Late Mother Smita Patil’s Kanjeevaram Sarees For ‘Manthan’ Mumbai Screening | People News

    Mumbai : Actor Prateik Babbar, who made a style statement when he attended the Mumbai screening of his late mother Smita Patil’s film ‘Manthan’, wore a suit-pant made from her Kanjeevaram sarees.

    Designer Rahul Vijay, who designed the outfit, recently took to his Instagram to share details about it. Rahul also thanked Prateik for giving him the chance to create the masterpiece.

    Discussing the creation process of the outfit, he wrote, “Thank you @_prat for letting me dig into the archives of your late mother, and the very iconic Smita Patil. When Prateik called me up asking me to dress him up for the Indian premiere of ‘Manthan’, Smita Patil’s first movie that was shown at the recent Cannes Film Festival, I knew I had to bring in elements of Smita Patil’s style into his look”.

    “Now this was challenging because we were getting womenswear pieces and moreover we didn’t know what we would end up finding from Smita Patil’s wardrobe that would match Prateik’s style,” he added.

    Rahul shared that Prateik’s aunt helped them choose two silk Kanjeevaram sarees that had been preserved over the years. His idea was to merge Indian textiles with modern silhouettes, and he designed the outfit in consultation with Monica Shah of Jade by MK.

    They created a cropped double-breasted tuxedo in plain black silk, with the pinstripe pattern from one saree turned into wide-legged pants. The red border of the second saree was used for the sleeves, adding a touch of elegance to the ensemble.

    Rahul wrote, “We wanted to keep the silhouette very very modern considering we were recycling Indian sarees. I always like the juxtaposition of Indian textiles with modern silhouettes. And finally, we decided on a cropped double-breasted tuxedo in plain black silk and we recycled the second pinstriped saree into wide-legged pants and used the red border of the saree as trims on the sleeves ( the design was lifted from a recent look that the brand did for their couture collection)”.

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    At the screening, Prateik was joined by his girlfriend, actor Priya Banerjee, who added a personal touch by wearing Smita’s saree and her jewelry

    Apart from Prateik, attendees included Naseeruddin Shah with his wife Ratna Pathak Shah, Dr. Kurien’s daughter Nirmala Kurien, and Amul MD Jayen Mehta.

    Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, the founder of the Film Heritage Foundation, the non-profit organization responsible for the restored print, was also present.

  • Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth: A movie on relationships that continues to be related within the generation of Tinder

    A movie made 40 years in the past about relationships that continues to be related within the age of Tinder — this is Mahesh Bhatt’s Nationwide Award-winning Arth for you. Made in 1982, the semi-autobiographical movie through Bhatt, starred Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. Shunning the sector of ‘heroes and heroines’, it used to be inhabited through actual other folks with warts and all and but every used to be handled through empathy and minus any judgment.

    Within the occasions after we’re in a race to make the largest pan-India motion pictures that could be a spectacle and don’t in point of fact display a reflect to the society, Arth provides us an opportunity to concentrate on the private and take an in-depth have a look at the dynamics of marriage.

    As a movie journalist I must have watched Arth a lot previous in my lifestyles, however I noticed it not too long ago, on a solo teach travel. Except for re-validating the truth that Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil are one of the crucial highest actors we’ve had within the historical past of movies, it reaffirmed the conclusion that motion pictures can also be made with out cliched tropes, through making characters as actual as lifestyles is.

    The lifestyles adventure of Shabana’s Pooja and Smita’s Kavita shape the crux of the movie that’s in keeping with a person dishonest on his spouse to be with every other lady. From seeing Pooja cry as her marriage falls aside as a result of her husband is dozing with a starlet (performed through Smita Patil) to peer her develop into an impartial lady who struggles to discover a activity, after which effectively stands on her toes used to be seeing a complete lifestyles being lived on display. Observing Kavita in finding her guy in every other lady’s husband, after which deciding to depart him as a result of he isn’t the supply of her happiness used to be freeing. Inder, for all his faults, isn’t painted as a villain, however as anyone navigating via lifestyles as highest as he can. He feels the wish to be clear about his extramarital affair, respecting his marriage and informing his spouse concerning the affair prior to leaving her, he doesn’t abandon her right into a black hollow of a messy marriage.

    Whilst Shabana’s Pooja is a mirrored image of a girl that the majority girls, who’re stuck in this kind of scenario, would aspire to be, it’s Kavita who takes the cake for me. There’s a line within the movie the place the 2 girls confront every different and Kavita tells Pooja, “It wasn’t your husband I fell in love with however the guy Inder (Kulbhushan Kharbanda’s personality) is.” And that, even supposing controversial, is what her love for Inder is all about. All of the whilst she fell in love with him, lived with him, she used to be conscious that Inder is a married guy, however Bhatt superbly brings out the inner adventure of Kavita.

    At no level within the movie Kavita is proven because the vamp, as maximum Hindi motion pictures painting the ‘different’ lady. Kavita’s vulnerabilities are robust within the movie, and displays a reflect to why she is the best way she is. The movie additionally talks about Kavita’s psychological well being with empathy and figuring out. This used to be at a time when mental problems weren’t handled in motion pictures. On the similar time, it additionally displays how obsessive anyone in love can also be, on this case a girl who repeatedly worries about how the person she loves will in the end return to his spouse and chooses a lifestyles this is way more solid than a dating produced from a damaged marriage.

    Arth additionally has but every other memorable personality, Pooja’s home lend a hand, performed through Rohini Hattangadi, who’s a sufferer of home abuse. Her husband too has an extramarital affair and she or he is the person who works, runs her house and desires to avoid wasting up sufficient for her daughter not to are living a lifestyles equivalent as hers, recover instructional alternatives as a substitute. There’s a scene within the movie when Pooja inquires concerning the bruises on her face, and the way she reply that it’s her husband who beats her up once you have inebriated, since he has a mistress.

    Arth is set complicated relationships, however it is usually as a lot concerning the company of girls. Pooja unearths her true self, unearths happiness in solitude, uncommon for a girl who cried over her husband leaving her. Pooja additionally rejects advances made through Raj (performed through Raj Kiran) who stands through her, helps her and falls in love together with her. It’s this second within the movie the place Pooja in point of fact flies in glory. She additionally adopts her maid’s daughter. Pooja’s arc within the movie is inspiring at each and every step.

    Each girls in Arth are sturdy characters. As Bhatt displays Pooja’s expansion, inside and exterior, he additionally displays Kavita’s expansion. She is proven as anyone who’s mentally and emotionally depending on Inder, however the second she realises how her dating with him isn’t bringing her any happiness, she leaves him. And as soon as Inder is going again to Pooja, the girl who prayed for her husband to go back to her, and is proven the door.

    In different motion pictures we’ve observed how girls’s lives revolve round a male protagonist, however right here, a male lead is used as a catalyst to 2 girls’s trips, evolution and self acceptance. The movie additionally sticks out for its exceptional song, the layered lyrics penned through Kaifi Azmi, Iftikhar Imman and Rehbar. Songs within the movie — “Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho”, “Jhuki jhuki si nazar”– act like a balm to the aching center that make stunning melodies to return to even nowadays.