If you're successful and if you're part of the buzz then you're on the cover page of a magazine. Being a cover page model of a leading magazine can be quite a winner for most celebrities. But imagine if the cover page is a complete disaster - it's a shame for the magazine and a complete downer for the celebrity. Chandni Dev at Bollywood Hungama gives you a list of 2010's most disastrous cover pages.
Kangna in Andpersand
There is no doubt that she is possibly the only starlet who has the courage to wear edgy haute fashion clothes and look like a ramp queen, but even she can go wrong at times. Here, Kangna Ranaut chooses the cover page of andpersand magazine to demonstrate what not to do when posing for a camera. If we didn't know better, it almost looks like she is suffering from severe stomach cramps. 'Agony in motion' could be the perfect subject for this cover.
What South Scope did to the lovely Genelia DSouza in their August issue is a tragic story. If the image doesn't vouch for the magnitude of damage that took place during the photo-shoot here is another version. The dress looks extremely frightening, the hair is a bad case of hair extension (imagine its fake and still bad) and if Genelia was being asked to pose seductively (we're just guessing), it definitely isn't working. In short, the whole look would suit a circus trapeze artist.
Now we know what an extremely tired Rani Mukerjee would look like. An over worked, exhausted and extremely lackadaisical look would come across just as it does on the cover of L'Officiel's July issue. If you just took the face off, it makes for a very good cover. The dress fits and looks perfect; the pose is beautiful and sensuous and then comes the face. Emotionless, dead and the eyes look so tired, the whole look is dead. We know for a fact that Rani is capable of looking very pretty ... whatever happened on the photo-shoot then.
Even after being touted as someone who looks as stunning as Katrina Kaif, check out the irony on the cover page of Exhibit magazine's June issue this year. Why would anyone want their cover page to look like a ghostly image, in white, and then further burnout to that extent? I am not sure if they were going for the whole 'mannequin' look-alike theme but if someone plans to, here is a perfect example to get it. Here is also an example of how to make a perfectly pretty face look like a nightmare.
Look what they are putting on their cover pages these days - dead birds. Or at least that's what they got Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to shoot for on the cover page of Global Movie magazine's December issue. Not only does the lovely actress look strange with that monstrous thing placed on her head, she also looks far from a model. Disappointing is the word we are hinting at.
Preity in People's Magazine
Preity's selection for the people magazine's March issue cover page was talk of the town. And eventually when the cover came out, it was a real shock to see the final result. It seemed like Preity's lovely dress was ignored and the focus was on her face. Sadly, her pretty face is made to look puffed up and plump here. The hairdo is from the 80's and it's a complete and utter let down. Neither is she looking like a stunner and nor does it seem like a professional photo-shoot. A woman who could've been captured in her best was captured at her worst.
So this is what happened... Asian Woman magazine wanted to have the increasingly popular Kareena Kapoor on the cover of their December issue. But it seems like there were two major problems in having one of India's best actresses on the cover. Firstly, Kareena is extremely fair, and the cover designer probably believed that Asian women cannot possibly be fair and secondly "apparently" all Asian women have slanted eyes. So the makeup artist and post production team "fixes" these "issues" and the result is for all to see. They turned Kareena Kapoor who gives some of the best cover shots, into a truly unrecognisable "Asian" woman.
One wonders whether these actresses fear being typecast that they go ahead and do a daredevil photo-shoot just to prove that they are in fact capable of looking sensuous. Some of them just do it a tad bit too much like Sonakshi Sinha. It almost seems like a desperate attempt at sexy. Paradoxical isn't it? We saw her in Dabangg looking sexy in a sari and here? Well... ahem ahem...
The cake was obviously taken by Monikangana Dutta. There are so many questions that come to mind when one looks at the cover of FHM magazine's December issue, all starting with 'why'? First one why that top? Then, why that skirt? Then, why that hair? And last why on the cover? Whoever designed that attire was not meaning for anyone to look suave but sleazy.
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