Kareena Kapoor on the cover of Vogue India. Photo courtesy: Kareena Kapoor—The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva/Penguin Books India
Tashan bombed but it gave me my two biggest hits: size zero and Saif.” That’s the saucy first sentence of one of the last chapters in Kareena Kapoor: The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva, a new book by Kareena Kapoor. Written with Rochelle Pinto,
staffer at Vogue.in, it’s a girlie book with pink pages dotted with
Kapoor’s pictures from childhood to celebrity-hood and dainty sketches
of perfume bottles, stilettos, panties, scarves, bikinis, lipsticks,
even lehnga-dressed girls at sangeet ceremonies.
The
best bits of the book are its photographs, the most disappointing, its
too-breezy tone, giving the impression that a stylish woman’s life can
be as simple as “super”. Words like supercool, super hot, super sexy,
super voluminous, pop up here and there—all written in first person by
Kapoor, or Bebo. The anecdotes unabashedly underline why she is “her own
favourite”, as she claimed famously, batting her mascaraed lashes in Jab We Met.
It
is a well-produced book, reproducing chirpy little post-it notes and
diet charts, punctuated with Bebo’s stunning pictures from her private
albums to fashion magazine covers.
The
diet section is overhyped with much that you have heard before. There
is the same old busting of diet myths, emphasis on eating five times a
day, reliance on nuts, fruits and water (okay, home-made ghee is a
surprise!), the importance of working out every day, and why we must
not deny ourselves the food or freedom to eat what we really want.
Add
to it what to wear for weddings and red carpets, hair-colour advice,
red lips, smoky eyes, a chapter on making your relationship work, even
how to groom your man, with her bite-sized confession on Khan’s Kareena
tattoo, and you have a women’s magazine template trimmed down and
dressed up as a style book. “As Saif says, Sara (Khan’s daughter) and I
connect on a chick level,” writes Kapoor. This book will make you want
to agree.
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