Marissa Bronfman

A charming and funny film about a rather cantankerous group of seniors (played by Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and others) who relocate to Udaipur to live out their twilight years, opened Friday. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" feels a bit like a beautiful photo book, bursting with richly...

While many people may still be fatigued from attending a whirlwind of international fashion weeks, it is in fact time to start planning for next season, especially if you're an Indian designer. Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 saw five days of shows put on by designers both new...

While international editors, stylists, models and photographers were busy with such celebrated shows as Chanel, Louis Vuitton and YSL in Paris for the parisienne leg of fashion week fall 2012, a very different fashion fraternity was equally occupied on the shores of the Arabian Sea with Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort...

Twice a year, in the frantic and fashionable city of Bombay, Lakme Fashion Week showcases collections by some of the country's most respected and sought after designers alongside fresh, emerging young talent.

Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 kicked off on Friday with the highly anticipated Gen Next show, which...

Malini Agarwal is without a doubt, India's most famous blogger; an independent, effervescent young woman who has turned a hobby into a business, desire into reality and a whole lot of passion and hard work into an enormously successful brand.

Based out of Bombay, a pulsating city that's home...

I had my first look at Le Mill back in March, mere days before Mumbai's first concept store threw a glittering launch party to celebrate their entrée into the city's scene of trendy, high end retailers.

Nestled almost anonymously in the chaos of Mumbai's dockyards, behind bustling Crawford market,...

It was a sunny spring day in Toronto when I first met Veronica Chail -- all dressed up from the OMNI studio to meet me for coffee at a Starbucks on the funky Queen Street strip -- but idyllic atmosphere aside, we had something very serious to discuss: IIFA 2011....

After being escorted down a long winding hallway I entered the hotel's banquet room to the ebullient sound of Hindi music and stomping feet, where dance king Shiamak Davar was rehearsing with his dancers and Bollywood actor Bobby Deol for the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards in...

For over three decades makeup magician Mickey Contractor has been wielding his magic wand on Bollywood's brightest beauties for dozens of hit films and advertising campaigns. Gender discrimination in the film industry forced him from hair into makeup, where he felt frustrated with archaic beauty ideals and lighting technology that...

The fans were screaming, the media running and the celebrities dancing -- yes, it was the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards that brought Bombay and Bollywood to the streets of Toronto for a decidedly spicy IIFA weekend full of film, fashion and masala-style fun. Keep reading to find out...

With a fresh aesthetic and international influences, India's hottest stylist is making her mark in both fashion and film; if you don't already know the name Pernia Qureshi then it's time to take note. She gained invaluable experience with a handful of enviable jobs in New York City...

The 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards are bringing the excitement of Bollywood to Toronto this June 23rd to 25th and the buzz for this extraordinary awards show is at a fevered pitch. The glitz and glamour of the popular Hindi cinema industry is set to take over Toronto and...

Winding her way through the narrow laneways of dusty Bombay bazaar one hot day, Angela Hartwick happened upon a number of Bollywood cinema relics, and saw something many others had obviously missed.

Payal ki Jhankaar (The Tinkling of Anklets), 1980. Madhu; Mumbai,...

If you're not familiar with the terms sartorial contraceptive, birth control glasses and lady boner, then you're obviously pitifully unaware of fashion's latest verb going viral, man-repelling, a phrase birthed by The Man Repeller herself, Leandra Medine. After stumbling upon her blog, becoming a reader, then realizing I...

Celebrated The Price is Right icon and passionate animal advocate Bob Barker told Toronto on Friday that it's time for the city's zoo elephants to pack up their trunks and journey south.

The Toronto Zoo has three gentle giants in captivity -- Thoka, Thika and Iringa -- who are...

This summer Canada is bound to get a whole lot hotter with the spiciest stars in Bollywood holding court in Toronto for the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Weekend and Awards, June 23rd-25th.

Bollywood superstars Preity Zinta and Anil Kapoor were in Toronto on Wednesday to announce the IIFA...

It's no surprise that year after year we find ourselves scrambling at the last minute to find presents for our friends and family, hoping that the perfect gift will miraculously reveal itself and free us from shopping servitude and generic giving.

But what if the perfect gift was actually...

The Art Gallery of Ontario decorated for the Maharaja Gala. Christina Gapic, AGO Photographer.

It is an opulent celebration of a dazzling period in Indian history but don't let the Art Gallery of Ontario's latest exhibit, Maharaja: The Splendor of India's...

LG Fashion Week has made its home at Heritage Court in Toronto but the spring 2011 shows didn't amount to much of a house-warming party with only a handful of designs garnering much attention, never mind acclaim. A few new, young designers made admirable efforts and stylish stalwarts received...

The Canadian Opera Company kicked off a brand new season with the classic Verdi opera Aida, and while everyone raved about the vocals it seemed they were all raving mad about the sets. There was of no elephant on stage but the hoopla over set designer Hildegard Bechtler's stark,...