Women Oriented Bollywood Films: In Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Deepika Padukone’s character Naina tells Bunny (played by Ranbir Kapoor) that she cannot leave her clinic and her parents and that she will have to let him go. Flushed with love, Bunny doesn’t want to lose Naina again after eight years and he chooses her over a job offer in Paris. …
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Most Saturday nights, you’ll catch businessman Jairaj Singh chilling with friends at a neighborhood lounge, drinking and passing on the hookah. “Hookah smoking is all about style,” says the 25-year-old Singh. At another lounge, engineering student Rishabh Singh, 22, is equally hooked on as he takes a long puff. “I love the smooth taste,” he says. One of the cardinal …
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