Up close and personal

with Kamal Hassan.

Kamal gets candid

with WTF, he thanks

the student community

for their support.

P

VOL 01 | ISSUE 07 | 1-15 FEBRUARY 2013 | FORTNIGHTLY | FREE | RNI - TNENG05547 / 22 / 1 / 2012-TC

Our exciting movie special WTF-FAME is out to woo movie lovers! Packed with outspoken reviews, exciting updates and new talent, WTF-FAME promises to be the movieholic’s dream!

P6-9

Chennai ppls! Enough with all this ban talk, come enjoy the celluloid charm of Kamal Hassan in his magnum opus Vishwaroopam. Look for the WTF volunteers in your college, answer a few simple questions and win a couple pass to a special screening of Vishwaroopam on 14th February at 6.30pm at Escape- Satyam Cinemas, Express Avenue Mall.

S IMP LYSPE L LBOUND

DA

YN

IGH

TA

DV

ER

TIS

ING

.CO

M

No . 62 - Sudhas Parad i se , Pondy Bazaar , Ch - 17, Ex t : 4207 1131 | No . 75, Pondy Bazaar ,Ch - 17, Ex t :4212 3226 | No . 120, LB Road , Adyar , Ch - 20, Ex t : 4211 6068 | Anna Nagar P laza No . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 Gr . F loor , C47 I I nd Avenue , Anna Nagar , Ch - 40, Ex tn 4207 1121 |

@care narayanapear l s . com | narayanapear l s . com

2 1-15 February 2013

Four friends decided to have a drinking night after a very stressful week of exams. As planned Steve and his other three friends met up at his place and the bottle started doing its rounds around

and eventually they all end up getting sloshed! This is when Steve started his Ramayana about his painful love story.

Steve: Hey macha’s hope you are doing well, but I care a damn be-cause I am not doing well. Why? Why? All because of one girl who stuck onto me like a lizard, not able to tap it or kill it. I better not mention her name because you know why. What can I say, that lizard sucked the hell out of me. Every second, minute, hour, she was always behind my back checking on me. If my guess was not wrong she should have been the great granddaughter of Sher-lock Holmes. All that I do, whether talk or eat or sleep, she assumes it to be that it’s with a girl. Damn! The freaky thing is she even restricts me from talking to my mother. Haha! Why you ask? be-cause she is also a woman.

One day accidently my friend called me up for some help, but to my bad luck, it was exactly at the time when she usually calls me. A few seconds later she did and I got jacked, as my call was on wait. So once I finished with my friend’s call, I called and told her that it was my college mate. She started the usual stuff, suspected that I was talking to a girl and said drop dead, and broke up with me. I was sad but I felt like I was relieved from that soul sucking creature.

So I moved on. But to my luck my friend knowing about all this, she tried to console me. Then I thought OK let me take a ride on this ship and we got close. Finally, it turned out the way I expected. Then I was thinking what if she tries all the nonstop tension to break up the relationship between this girl and me. So I decide to go up to her face and tell her that I’ve moved on in life and found a girl who deserves me the most and I’m going to spend my life with her. You should have seen her face. Her world crashed.

But macha’s so many days I used to drink with tension mounted on me but today is the day I am finally drink-ing happily. Old monk rocks!

WTF conceptualised byRohit Ramesh (CEO)

Editor-in-chiefLisa M

Art Director

Director of Operations & Chief Circulations OfficerNitin Edida

Students coordinatorsSanthanaNihal Kukreja

Published & Distributed byRohmen & Co.Old no. 7, New no. 15, Parthasarathy Gardens,Alwarpet, Chennai 600018.

Corporate Communication:ceo.wtf@gmail.com

Recruitment:recruitment.wtf@gmail.com

Advertising:cmo.wtf@gmail.com

Circulation:cco.wtf@gmail.com

Printed byRasi Graphics (P) Ltd.,DP 69-71/A Sidco Industrial Estate,Thirumazhisai - 602107.Ph: 26811737

It’s time to tell them to WTF!This issue of WTF is especially close to the entire team because we realised that while we want to support the un-heard voices of the youth in the city, we found you all shouting for and some-times against the whole Vishwaroopam scandal. We were lucky enough to meet the man himself, Kamal Hassan, who was completely overwhelmed by the support he has received from the student-community of the city. We want to bring to you his voice about movies, freedom of speech and the youth!

WTF-FAME, is the coming together of cinema and movie lovers, we are launching this special section of WTF with an exciting movie night. Can’t book those tickets at Sathyam? Here’s a chance to win yourself and your loved one a truly entertaining movie-going experience. This is just the beginning we are planning to come out with more such exciting movie screenings and lots of exciting goodies and offers are going to be up for grabs!

We also have featured our regular sec-tions, where you will meet aspiring mu-sicians, filmmakers and models. Read on and enjoy this issue. If you would like to write for us or be featured please email ceo.wtf@gmail.com

Editor-in-Chief

Look where a pint or two can take you

Ever wondered why you

get philosophical when ine-briated and are under the influence,

its because our guards are down and our creative juices are flowing. We spend our

sober days being exactly what we’re told to be and then that moment when our lips kiss a cold chill glass of elixir it realises none of this really

matters. WTF-Guzzlers Cue is your chance to find out if there are things inside of you that needs a little nudge, a little liquid courage to get things going. Come grab a drink with us and we will

let you express yourself in words to share with others who may find some earth-

shattering gyaan or well maybe just plain funny!

31-15 February 2013

Happily ever after, or is it?Have a love-story, a not-so-happy-ending to tell us, we will let you vent, rant and get feedback.

4 1-15 February 2013

WTF-COMPLICATION CORNER

Q. I’m nineteen and I fancy a boy, we’ve been texting one another on a friendly basis which was fine until a girl from school messaged him on

Facebook and asked him questions like if we were dating and are we meet-ing up because I said we were (which I didn’t). He was annoyed that a strang-er messaged him and that I said those things. Now I think things will be awk-ward between us. What should I do??

A: If the guy feels the same about you he would have told the stranger that its none of her business and yeah you people are dating, but now he has

replied a NO to her so may mean that he doesn’t feel the same way about you. Explain the situation to him and tell him the truth maybe he will understand and realise you were just shy to tell him how you really felt. If he tells you he wants to be friends first then try and be his friend and win his favour.

Once upon a time there were two good friends Sonia and Maria. Sonia had a friend called Vinay.

He was a very handsome guy, and quite attractive so girls fell for him. But things at one point turned the other way, when Vinay found himself attract-ed to Sonia’s friend Maria. So, he tried to talk to Maria with Sonia, but Sonia is very hesitant, because that’s the twist, she loves him. But Sonia being a good friend with Vinay she felt like she didn’t want to disappoint him so she helps him.

Do you really think a girl in love with a boy will help this boy who loves her friend?

Actually Sonia misleads Vinay and gives him wrong information about Maria. Vinay was so happy he was get-ting Sonia’s help that he never doubted her and tried to implement all the plans that Sonia directs him to do. Sonia be-comes damn happy because her plan is in action and she will finally get Vinay. Vinay goes to talk to Maria, and all that he tells her makes her very angry.Maria avoids him, but since she is a kind girl she begins to think if this guy likes me why is he approaching me in the way I don’t like, but she doesn’t think too much about it. Later, she tries to find out about Vinay, she was shocked about the type of guy he is, and her puzzled mind begins to think that someone has been helping him to speak to her. Out of the blue, she comes to know that Sonia not only knows him for many years, but also loved him. She gets this information from a mutual friend.

Maria tries to reason out why Sonia didn’t tell her this, despite of them being close friends. So she links all the informa-tion which were bits and pieces and fig-ures out what possibly could have hap-pened. She goes up to Sonia and breaks it down into a simple form asking if she likes Vinay. Sonia gets nervous and blabbers for a while and finally she says yes and admits that she was the one who told Vinay the way to approach Maria.

Maria not even knowing much about Vi-nay, wanted to punish Sonia so she says from now on I too like Vinay. And both of them they try to hit on him and square him as soon as each of them could. They try, and try and try, but obviously it’s well known that Vinay is a handsome guy. So there are many fishes in the sea and he falls for the new fish who enters the sea and gets drowned, and leaves the other fighting fishes to linger all alone fighting forever and ever

Shrestha knows she looks pretty enough for every guy to look at her and admire her but she had a lot

of attitude and she ignored talking to the guys in her college. She had a life outside college which she loved being in as she had Harsh to take care of her and who loved her more than anyone else could do. They were together for five long years with a tag put on them by everyone as ‘happily ever after’.

People did not know that Shrestha was different from what she appeared to be and she wasn’t that nice and true like everyone thought her to be. Shrestha once met a guy called Gautham who was her senior in college, he was crazy about her and would do anything just to have her in his life. Gautham had seen her in college one year back and had a crush on her but when they became friends his happiness knew no bounds. He didn’t try to win her over when they became friends but did tell her the truth that he did like her from the first time he saw her.

According to people around Shreshta was talking to him a lot as she didn’t want to see him hurt himself for her, she acted so goody goody in front of the people around her that every-one in college stared talking about Gautham running behind her. People did not know that her msgs to Guatham were different from what she would

tell everyone, she was telling him that see loved him and it can’t happen, she always gave him high hopes of mar-rying him. She spent almost 24*7 of her day texting him and talking to him. Gautham started liking her more after seeing her behaviour. He fought with everyone possible just to be with her, he stopped being with his friends and started staying alone and just loved being with his phone all the time. She started going out with him and they got into a relationship. They stayed with each other everyday evening after col-lege hours in his house.

One fine day Gautham bunked college and Shrestha also bunked and went to his house and they got very intimate, blah blah blah happened, she spent her whole evening lying on his lap and telling him she would do anything just to be with him. The next day she walks into his house with Harsh and blames everything on his head. She says “he forced me into it and harassed me and I couldn’t resist myself”. Gautham stood shocked there thinking what the hell is happening. She takes him aside and tells him “I know you never loved me and it was all fake, you got whatever you wanted now what more do you want?” Gautham could do nothing, he just looked at her talking and tears dropped down. He thought, trusting girls so easily is the biggest mistake guys make.

51-15 February 2013

It’s no news that both men and women are genetically engineered different, from their anatomy to their thinking. While women are considered soft, they are also known to be resilient, men on the other hand, they

are considered physically strong and often emotionally inept. Women are better at emotional bonds but suck at driving, men are great at fixing a problem but really suck at the emotional stuff! Well you can’t have it all, it was clearly in the grand scheme of things to mix it up and keep things interesting on this planet. WTF

caught up with college students both girls and boys to figure out what really is the difference in opinion.

Questions to the lovely ladies1. Do you believe in love at first sight?2. What do you think about live-in relationships?3. First thing you look for in a guy? Meera1) Yes, but it is rare 2) They are a new concept which could be meaningful 3) Character

Sangeeta1)No way 2) Not interested 3) Character

Anjali1) Yes 2) No idea 3) Character and good looks

Priya1) Not at all 2) it’s too farfetched for me 3) Smartness

Riya1)Yes 2) Works in west not here 3) Character

Out of the five girls, only one believes in true love. Four find character an important criteria to select a guy and about live-in relationship, most girls seem scared or find it bizarre.

Questions to the cool guys1. Do you believe in true love?2. What do you think about live-in relationships?3. First thing you look for in a girl?

Ankush1)No 2) It’s kind of waste 3) Talented and caring

Ameer1) Yes sometimes 2) Kind of difficult 3) True love

Sudarshan1) Yes I do 2) waste of time 3) Fair and tall

Micheal1) No 2) Enjoyable idea 4) Eyes and character

Teju1) No 2) Bad for good people 3) Positive thinker and good char-acter Out of the five boys, only two seem to believe in true love. Four find the idea of live-in relationship bad, two find it a waste of time and only one thinks it’s a good idea. Talented, character and beautiful ranked high on the things they look for in a girl.

6 1-15 February 2013

WTF’s exclusive interview

with Kamal Hassan, we find out the

actor and film-maker’s thoughts on

Tamil Cinema, freedom of expression

and his gratitude

towards the student

and youth community.

After what seemed like an endless array of disagreements, press conferences and public gatherings outside his Eldams Road office. We found Kamal Hassan, the actor and filmmaker, calm and rather

composed for a man clothed in a series of contro-versies. From the DTH screening to the Muslim com-munity banning his magnum opus Vishwaroopam, Kamal has once again emerged victorious, much like the heroes in his movies.He ushers us into his lobby that is dotted with posters and paintings from his illustrious career. Nothing too glossy, just like him. We sit down to have a quick chat and he begins with the rigidity in Tamil cin-ema, “Carving out an intelligent cinema within the Tamil industry is a challenge. Many have tried and failed, including myself. It has a very solid founda-tion.” What do you mean by solid I ask, “Strong, it’s bloody strong and it is very difficult to change. I have been hacking away at it for some time.”A lot has been said about the genius that is Kamal Hassan but he is quick to dismiss it. “Many have the audacity to call me a genius and I really am not, but it is not humility, I will tell u why I am and why I am not. When mediocrity has been set the standard, rubbish becomes admissible. That’s how I became a genius, I am trying to be excellent and they call me a genius. You have brought down the bar so much that someone trying to push boundaries becomes a genius. But, I am still trying and cannot say I have succeeded. It is a life-long pursuit”The rampant shift in how movies are viewed by the youth is very evident among filmmakers trying to be relevant with the youth, “The vociferousness of the students is what is going to change this order. Tamil cinema has realized the ticket sales are not in the hands of the moms and dads, it is the youth that is real the force today. They are the ones that are watching movies. In an attempt to please them Tamil cinema is becoming crasser and crasser. It is becoming foolish rather than young. The youth are now going for a Hindi or English film because they don’t find what they need in Tamil. A few are try-ing to change this; there are a few movies that are above average. When there is a movie striving for excellence, they are embracing it and are celebrat-ing it. We may not have achieved it in Vishwaroo-pam but they know we are trying so they are sup-porting us and joining us in our efforts.”The delay in screening of Vishwaroopam brought about important issues like freedom of expression and creative liberty, “Freedom of speech is a dan-gerous thing to tamper with. Students know it, poli-ticians know about it but they don’t care, for them it’s a nuisance. Students are aware of it, virtually so, because there is an attempt to curb their speech all the time, at home, at college. They were able to connect with what we were going through with Vishwaroopam because of this. The unanimous sup-port over the net and even sometimes physically outside on Eldams road. It all happened and they may say they don’t need any thanks. But I am also saying I want to do what I feel and I want to thank them profusely. This is not an enticement to make them come and by my tickets, it is their preroga-tive. If they like it and if they do appreciate it they should go.”Film criticism should not be lazy is his message, “I take this opportunity to slip in a message; they should shut down bad movies and applaud good movies. They must take it up seriously, we cannot demand something if we are not part of the system. Don’t call cinema ‘timepass’, to people who say that, I say don’t pass time this way. Don’t use euphemism; call a bad movie bad even if it is mine. So I can use it as a fulcrum to raise my standards. Only if you are honest in your criticism can there be honest cin-ema.

71-15 February 2013

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

IS A DANGEROUS

THING TO TRAMPLE,

STUDENTS ARE VERY

AWARE OF IT.

EXCLUSIVE

8 1-15 February 2013

The desired starting point of anything written on this now world famous film is to say whether it is offensive in any-

way, to anyone or not. Well, to get the token announcement out of the way - it is not. The Vishwaroopam controversy over the past few weeks has operated solely on two ends of the spectrum - either it’s been utterly comical or unbearably sad.

The film too plays like it could have oper-ated on just one end of the spectrum but has its footprints all over the place. That’s not to say it is a bad film by any means or there are no Kamal moments, in acting or writing. The legitimate introduction plays out like one of the best Kamal has ever had in film in a long long time. Possibly ever. It is built up beau-tifully, even if Pooja Kumar’s deliberately grating Brahmin accent stands in the way at times, there is a Kamal histrionics microcosm packed all over leading up to this moment. And what a moment it is. Entirely worth re-peat viewing.

This is followed by the Afghanistan segment of the story that’s probably best shot but also tries to move between a serious human inter-est story and a mindless spy thriller. There is a moment where he seems to suggest the problems with terrorists brought up as jihadis is that they’ve never had a chance at child-hood in their life but that’s probably some-thing that sounded much better on paper and didn’t translate as well on screen.

VISHWAROOPAM

The New York City part of the story moves in brisk pace but how much you buy of it prob-ably depends on your tolerance for some corny writing and few racial and foreign stereotypes as characters. What’s more bothersome here is a little exposition. An act of deception in the charged Afghanistan story is well set up but it comes back as a flashback to painfully knock it into your head. Last week’s Kadal suffered from similar problems. As rewarding and ambitious as that film is, it adulterates with spoken meta-phors. But Vishwaroopam isn’t as ambitious. It is happy giving you just the high moments. But that’s a question to two much loved artists of the 80s and 90s, Mani Ratnam and Kamal Haasan - where did the subtlety go? Why is there a “this the audience will get, this the audience will not” debate going on in the drawing board?

Vishwaroopam is a film that ends up biting off more than it can chew, of which Kamal is probably repeat offender. It tries to find a heart within the terrorists but it also spoils this devel-opment with some mickey mouse set pieces in-volving RAW agents, FBIs and the Indian Prime Minister! It clearly wants to play to the galleries. This is Kamal balancing a tightrope, an activity he seldom succeeds in as we’ve seen in the past few years. There is a deep void from the point of view of terrorists that he wants to go into but also wants to deliver a film that a more wider audience will enjoy. And that way, this is also an incomplete film. The problem is there isn’t much here that would make the wait for a com-panion piece hard.

This might come across as a negative reaction to the film but the truth is, it is solid entertain-ment. It also makes you question what it was that offended anyone here and why this had to be briefly banned. It is a well made, well shot action film and that’s all it is. The only question - Why is a man named Kamal Haasan making this?

- Aditya Shrikrishna

91-15 February 2013

Meet Vignesh Kumar, a second year civil engineering student at Anna University, Guindy. He is an aspir-

ing filmmaker who has just completed his first short film titled Onnukulla Onnu.

Vignesh has always written short stories and has been an avid movie lover. It took him close to five months to shoot this short film. What started out as just a college boy’s passion project, it soon turned into a profes-sionally shot and edited product. “I wanted to work with professionals because this would mean that my quality is ensured. I have invested over a lakh on the movie, but most of it is for editing and coloring the movie,” explains Vignesh.

Being new to the field, he had to pursue the whole gamut of factors that go into film produc-tion himself, “I have been lucky; my college friends and family have been so supportive, I found my actors through Facebook and then just went around looking for people to work with from editing to music. It has been a great learning experience,” he adds. “Arulmozhi Varman, edited my movie, he has worked for several films, presently works at an edit suite called-Inn Studios. He is the one who has guid-ed me throughout the process and I have paid heed to his advice.”

So, yet another movie about soul-swapping? Not exactly a novel idea, “There is a claim by a few viewers that I copied ‘Change Up’. But, what I claim is that I just got inspired by the soul-swapping stuff and again there are 19 such films and I’m the 20th director to make a film on this concept. Plus at 27:13 of the film u can see a tag reading INSPIRED BY CHANGE UP, so I am making no claims whatsoever,” offers Vignesh.

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/OnnukullaOnnuYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Br09mj3myU

Soul-swapping meets coming of age issues. This fantasy thriller is available on Youtube, while it took me a while to get the hang of what was really going on, once into the movie, I thoroughly enjoyed the innocence and spon-taneity of the movie. Your heart goes out to the sheer effort and belief put into the production. While this may not exactly be Oscar-ready, Vignesh surely has tickled his creative bones and is on to something good. Engineering may not really be his forte after all. WTF wishes him the best.

Claim to fame: Won Best theme award at Na-tional Academy of Cinema and Television-Film Festival, Bangalore, 2012. Out of 90 films in nine languages.

- Team WTF

Vignesh Kumar

Dev & Dinesh from Onukkula Onnu

Arulmozhi Varman - Editor

10 1-15 February 2013

DON’T MISS EVENTS

DEEPWOODSMusic, dance, fun, food, greenery

and all round feel-good atmosphere. Its back! Bigger, better and whole lot more fun. Madras Christian College, way down in Tambaram will play host to students from all over India during its cultural extravaganza, DEEPWOODS 2013. Come Valentine’s Day , MCC is going to be the place to be, Feb 14th,15th and 16th will be an extended weekend of fun and excite-ment.

STEROID STEROID (Addiction to Dance) which

will be conducted on 24th February 2013 at Kamaraj Arangam, Chennai is for those with a passion for dance. It is an open level dance competition in which well-known and highly re-puted dance teams from colleges and schools will participate. This is a pure-ly a western group dance competition where the 1st prize would be Rs.1 Lakh cash, 2nd prize - Rs.50,000 cash and 3rd prize - Rs.25,000 cash. The event will be judged by well known cine personali-ties like, Mr. Nagendra Prassad (Actor/Choreographer)

TECHOFES ‘13Techofes ’13 South India’s biggest

cultural festival has completed 66 years of nonstop entertainment. It will be held at College of Engineering, Guindy from 20th to 23rd February. It will feature Live In Concert -to ener-gize the air n pep up the stage singer Karthik – the heart throbbing singer of this generation will be accom-panied by Andrea and many other prominent voices – Suchitra ,Rahul Nambiar,Sangeetha. There will be other events like Tamil debate, dance competitions and a star-studded night of performances.

Grab your popcorn, sit back and let the celluloid journey begin! We bring to you a wonderful chance to take a break from col-lege life and relax with your best friend or loved one and catch a sensational movie. WTF is hosting a special screening of the much-awaited Kamal Hassan starrer- Vish-waroopam on Valentine’s day! You can catch this movie right before you head out to a V-day bash or your cosy dinner date! We have started this initiative for our read-ers to enjoy the best in cinemas. This will be a regular feature and you can look for-ward to many more such exciting screen-ings, offers and there are lot more goodies to be won so stay tuned to this space! Look out for the WTF-FAME logo!

All you have to do is spot our WTF volun-teers outside your colleges and they will quiz you about WTF. Lucky winners will get two tickets complimentary for Vishwaroo-pam on the 14th of February, 2013 at 6.30pm at Escape Cinemas, Express Avenue Mall.

111-15 February 2013

Meet Chennai-based band System 04, they love to rock on stage and came together with a common love for music. WTF had a quick chat with them and

here’s what they have to say about their origins and music.

How did you guys meet?Benjamin Bessel went on a look out to form a band and

he found Ashwin. They both jammed and found a vibe so they decided to stick together. Benjamin was looking out for a bassist and that’s when he found Sunny Deepak (Ex-Adam and Evil). Sunny came over to the jam pad and jammed with Benjamin and Ashwin and liked their kind of music and agreed to tag along with them. Akshay was interested in joining a band he came along and he just fitted in perfectly as the drummer. And recently in Decem-ber end of 2012 we wanted a keyboardist and we found Akshay Parameshwaran.

Your first original song is always special, how did yours come together?

We kept jamming and jamming until we came up with something which we all liked. Our first song was Mask of Lies which we composed in a few days. It is about decep-tion. Ashwin and Benjamin sat together and got the song done and the rest of the band members improvised on it.

What initiative are you guys taking to grow?We make sure we jam atleast twice a week and work on

our stuff. Lot of initiative is taken by everyone, as everyone is dedicated to jamming and making music. Well, apart

from jamming we meet pretty often and hang out and have good conversations about the band.

How would you describe your sound/genre? Well, we consider ourselves a Hard Rock/Alternative Met-

al band. Everyone has come from different backgrounds of music.

What is the vision which you all have for years to come?

*Laughs* Well, we don’t know ourselves. We would love to become big and play our music everywhere around the world.

How was it performing to a live audience? It’s an awesome feeling and an amazing Vibe. We love to

play our music for the people. We have played a couple of gigs in Chennai and one in Bangalore as of now. It’s awe-some and we are looking forward to play in many other places and in different cities as well.

If you are given a chance to share a stage with an international band, which one would it be?

Well, we all have different answers for this question but on a mutual decision we all would love to play with Avenged Seven Fold.

12 1-15 February 2013

SPOTLIGHT

Owned and published by Rohit Ramesh, Old no. 7, New no. 15, Parthasarathy Gardens, Alwarpet, Chennai 600018. Editor-in-chief: Liz. RNI - TNENG05547 / 22 / 1 / 2012-TC

Meet Deekshita Iyer, she is passionate about modelling,

loves to sing and is also a trained dancer. An actor in making perhaps?

How did you get into mod-elling and what did you think about modelling?

Well, I’ve always had the passion to be in the lime-light right from a very young age. And it hap-pened when a veteran, a prominent face on the small screen as well as the big screen, spotted me in the road and approached me about modelling. My father, a conservative per-son was very reluctant to say yes to this career. So, I took that person home and made him talk to my dad.

And then finally, it hap-

pened! But only on one con-dition that there should be no compromise on studies. What do you like doing apart from work and study?

I have a very large friends circle. So, apart from college and work, all I do is hang-out with friends and also I’m a hardcore Rahmaniac,

I listen to ARR songs 24X7. And, I’m a singer and danc-er, I also practice carnatic music and dance otherwise. I was a Barathanatyam dancer! And yes I read a lot of Mills and Boons. What is you favourite memory in your model-ling career?

Well, my first one! When I did not know anything about modelling at all. I was given training to walk the ramp, I was super ner-vous and was so conscious about myself that I walked like a cat that had just sto-len a piece of fish and was hiding it from the world.

When I was done, my coor-dinator told me that I had literally cat-walked! Photo credit: A P Prashanth