TOI: The Tattoo Brigade-- Angad

TV actors with a strong fetish for tattoos.

Not one but three!
Chhavi Mittal has not just one but three tattoos and the latest one being on her back which she got inked some 20 days ago. She says, "Apart from my latest possession, I have a butterfly on my lower back and my husband's (Mohit) name inscribed on my stomach in Urdu. The latter has emotional value as I got Mohit's signature tattooed. The other two are just style statements. I have a strong fetish for tattoos. However, I have to constantly control the urge for getting a new one. I always remind myself that this is something permanent and should be carefully thought of although, I have already decided the spot for my next tattoo. The minute I have a design in my mind, I'll head to the tattoo studio!"

Etching the four golden words
Khushboo Grewal, who was recently seen in Chhajje Chhajje Kaa Pyaar, has found a perfect tattoo for herself. "It took me two years to come to a design, since my first tattoo," exclaims Khushboo. While her first tattoo, her name camouflaged in flora and fauna, is on the right shoulder blade, her latest curls around her ankle. "One day an inspiration struck, and the words formed - Eat, Pray, Love, Sing." She didn't want the words to be inked in English and hence checked for translations in many languages, and the words sounded the best in French that go as Mangez, Priez, L'amour, Chantent. Her husband helped in creating the final version to be etched. "Instead of a fullstop between each of these four words, my husband suggested to part them with symbols, so Eat has a spoon and fork, Pray has folded hands, Sing has a melody, and Love, has a heart in red, that's been aligned to come on the left side," she beams.

A long-standing wish fulfilled
Angad Hasija got himself a tattoo that reads 'Om Sai Ram'. It has been a long-standing wish of the actor to ink himself with a Sai Baba tattoo as he is a staunch believer of Him. Incidentally, he played an ardent Sai Baba bhakt in his last show Phulwa. Angad says, "It was on my mind for a long time. Om Sai Ram sounds good and gives me positive energy. I wanted it to be visible so I chose my arm to get it inked on."

Neha Maheshwri & Saadia S Dhailey

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