Mita Vashisht Instagram – Oh My Gauche!
The first ever ‘professional’ photo shoot in Bombay (it was Bombay then, not Mumbai).
I have forgotten the photographer’s name, I remember only that he was a kindly Sardarji with a photo studio in Bandra, Linking Road from where I went to pick up the negatives and prints of the photoshoot a few days after the shoot (not to forget the ubiquitous ‘contact sheet’ that enabled us to choose which prints to enlarge)
There was no makeup person or hair dresser or ‘team’ to help or to fuss around me, just me with my little makeup pouch and a rubber band to tie up my mane which was glossy and abundant and seemed to have an energy of it’s own, (and never needed any setting to look good)
The magazine that wanted the shoot had sent over some oversized ‘fancy clothes’ that I wasn’t sure suited me (how self- conscious and picky I was at that age with ‘this is not me’) and I felt the least uneasy in this ‘sasta’ t- shirt that I had come wearing to the location for the shoot…
The poor sweet photographer tried getting me to look less gauche and more ‘alluring’ …. But Gosh! Even though I was three films and five tv serials old, off the film camera I was just Gauche!
#actressworld #indiancinema #photoshoots #bombay | Posted on 27/Jun/2023 18:42:30
