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Wednesday, 26 October 2005 |
I was a Media Planner at Enterprise-Nexus, an ad agency in Mumbai
(which is now part of the WPP Group). I wasn’t there long enough to
find out if I would have been any good. But for reasons of argument,
let’s say I was.
One day, a model ditched the shoot and my boss suggested that I fill in
for him. Well, maybe he knew what he was doing, because modelling was
the last thing on my mind. Some time later at a party, a woman was
pleasantly lewd enough to metion that I filled up my jeans quite
nicely. What with one thing and another, I landed a gig for the Live-In
Jeans brand.
After I did the Philips press shoot with Atul Kasbekar, one of India’s
premier fashion photographers, he declared in an interview that I was
the face to watch in the future.
My big break came when I entered the Glad Rags Manhunt in March 99. I
almost missed the deadline, but luckily, I was allowed in. I reached
the finals and went on to compete in the Philippines. Well, it was a
tremendous boost when I ended up as the first runner up in my first
international modelling competition.
After that, began a whirlwind of modelling assignments. I was signed on
by Carrie Models in Singapore and did a fair amount of work there, and
later in Hong Kong, London and New York. When I returned to India, I
had a substantial portfolio.
For a while, I did music videos, which was exciting. You may remember my videos of Jhanjhar and Chupke Chupke by Pankaj Udhas
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