Actress Sayani Gupta tries on our Spring 2018 collections
and transforms the clothes with her carefree, confident spirit.
In between shots, she chats about films, music and literature
Sayani Gupta is a gritty and critically-acclaimed actor who straddles several creative boats at the same time. Her repertoire is beyond impressive; she plays a blind girl in Margarita, With A Straw with Kalki Koechlin, pregnant woman in Jolly LLB 2 with Akshay Kumar, and, most shockingly, transforms into a 14-year-old in Jagga Jasoos. Clearly nothing that this on-screen chameleon can’t portray!
Even as she tries on our Spring pieces, she changes with each outfit from a dancing flower-child to a smouldering star to a classic Bengali beauty. We shot her at the beautiful, sunlit Lavaash by Saby, an Armenian-Bengali cuisine restaurant in Mehrauli, New Delhi.
I love Bengali films. I can rewatch Satyajit Ray’s Goopy and Bagha series (1969) over and over tirelessly. Closer (2004) is also another one of my favourites.
I rarely see myself in other people’s work. That said, I’d have loved to play Natalie Portman’s character in Black Swan (2010).
‘Rafu’ from Tumhari Sulu (2017).
I usually love Cate Blanchett’s parts. The two characters she played in Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) being my favourite. I also love Khaleesi from Game of Thrones.
I was on a road trip across Taiwan with a friend when I found myself on the edge of the Pacific Ocean one morning watching the sunrise all alone with no other living creature in sight, and it was absolutely magical.
2017 was such a terrible year for everyone around the world. I hope 2018 makes up for it. As Tagore says it in one of his songs, life swings between sadness and happiness, I just hope to keep my chin up and make this year a good one!
Credits:
Photography: ANAND GOGOI
Hair and Make-up: AAKRITI KOCHAR
Location Courtesy: LAVAASH BY SABY, NEW DELHI