Deepika Padukone on Maxim India Feb 2010 - Page 3

Originally posted by: xetaxeta

Holy cow, Deepika has breasts! I thought she was all ribstick. 😳

Really, I still don't see breasts lol. Maybe in the first picture? But then I heard that pushup bra does wonders.

She looks gorgeous woww, def her best photoshoot!!

Ya I also think this is her best photoshoot!

She looks so simple, natural yet so sexy at the same time. LOL

N she has amazing hair!

Honestly. What's so great about this? OK, so maybe to lay magazine buyers that haven't seen better covers, this might look breathtaking. But it's an absolutely uninspired shoot! Deepika looks OK, pretty as usual but nothing extraordinary. Or maybe just that I don't dig this aesthetic that Deepika represents. That after Ash, Deepika is the best looking of all Bollywood actresses says a lot, doesn't it, in terms of standards. Don;'t get me wrong, she's pretty. But that's all she is, to me. Just plain vanilla pretty. Her posing etc are so so unimpressive. For that matter ANY desi magazine/photoshoot ends up leaving a lot to be desired. The photographers so untalented, the styling and hair so so uninspired and B-O-R-I-N-G.

Originally posted by: joie de vivre

Honestly. What's so great about this? OK, so maybe to lay magazine buyers that haven't seen better covers, this might look breathtaking. But it's an absolutely uninspired shoot! Deepika looks OK, pretty as usual but nothing extraordinary. Or maybe just that I don't dig this aesthetic that Deepika represents. That after Ash, Deepika is the best looking of all Bollywood actresses says a lot, doesn't it, in terms of standards. Don;'t get me wrong, she's pretty. But that's all she is, to me. Just plain vanilla pretty. Her posing etc are so so unimpressive. For that matter ANY desi magazine/photoshoot ends up leaving a lot to be desired. The photographers so untalented, the styling and hair so so uninspired and B-O-R-I-N-G.

^Point. Indian glossies not only emulate the West but also blindly rehash stuff, stylistically speaking, that there's not even an iota of Indianness remaining. Look at all the Vogue India, Harpers Bazaar, MarieClaire, Elle etc covers. All the covers, editorials and spreads look like poor epigones or are repeats. Vogue India especially. Not only is it aping Vogue US by repeating featuring Bollywood actresses in rotation (Deepika, Katrina etc) but it's so entirely divorced from the indigenous Indian sartorial sensibilities. Have we ever seen a cover featuring an Indian model/actress in a traditional Indian attire? Like say a Benares Silk saree or a Kanjeevaram saree,or for that matter even a Manish Malhotra creation or a JJ Valaya or Tarun Tahiliani? Even the models they use depict a certain Western aesthetic. We've never got to see Konkona Sen SHarma or Vidya Balan or Hema Malini or Rekha have we? I'd rather see these women presented in a novel manner than buy a horrid Sarah Jessica Parker issue. Nothing aggainst SJP (except that the pic they chose is quite a horror and definitely not SJP's best). When they put Gisele on the cover she was in a bikini (how original), and to infuse some faux desiness into it lest not someone cavil about it not being Indian, the stylist paired it with a jacket by an Indian designer, a classic WTF moment, and it was such a waste of a model and a world class photographer like Patrick Demachier (sp?). I don't expect a men's magazine like Maxim to do such a cover, but the rest definitely can.