20 years of Tamannaah: The actress speaks about her roles and new jewellery line
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20 years of Tamannaah: The actress speaks about her roles and new jewellery line
This is a landmark year for Tamannaah Bhatia — she completes 20 years in Kollywood. She made her Tamil debut with the film Kedi in 2006. Two decades down the line, the actor is a pan-India star having worked in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu films and big blockbusters like Baahubali. We catch up between shoots.
“I just shot for Rohit Shetty’s Rakesh Maria with John Abraham. Then there is Rangers, an action adventure film — a Luv Ranjan production; and Vvan with Sidharth Malhotra. It’s rooted in some amount of folklore, depicting culture in an interesting way,” she lists out, adding, “This is a fresh outing for me. People have seen me a lot in the southern film industry. This entire phase and all these films will be an interesting outing for me for the Hindi side of the audience.”
Post this she will start her schedule for Purushan with Vishal, Ragini 3, and Shantaram.
With the camera still rolling, and despite back to back shoots, Tamannaah has found time to embrace one of her passions and become an entrepreneur. The actress recently launched Tamannaah Fine Jewellery in Mumbai (available at the retail store and online). This is jewellery — rings, necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets — in 14kt and 18kt gold with diamonds and gemstones like emerald, ruby, and tourmaline.
Pieces from her first drop | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“It took two years to come up with the first drop, which has five collections,” says Tamannaah. And keeping the month of love in mind, the brand just dropped Heart Knot, pieces that prominently feature diamond hearts. “The first most impactful piece I came up with and felt like we were onto something was the half and half torque necklace, inspired by the Indian hasli. The torque is like a metallic pipe and we attached it with links. We created our own links, called flick and that plays out a lot in our collections,” she explains.
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