Shalini Passi Instagram – Shalini Passi, an art entrepreneur, whose eccentricities are now a rage after her debut in Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives, is a persona frozen in time. That time is now. Some are even calling her the new self-care guru. Passi is now everywhere. She knows nothing lasts forever. This fame that she had always aspired for has come to her at last. She is now a part of Bollywood.
She walked the runway for several designers over the last few years and, in 2020, in a flaming red dress, she was a part of an allegorical tale in artist Vibha Galhotra’s The Final Feast, where she is the protagonist who cuts a blue “globe-cake” before the rich and the elite leave the earth that has fallen apart after human greed has finished all resources. Inspired by The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci, the staged-photo work is a sarcastic take on the rich and the rising inequality. Passi fit the part perfectly. For the artist, it was an obvious choice.
There is a makeup and hair team on standby. Passi is very particular about how she looks. Like the lady in the House of Love, she doesn’t reconcile easily to imperfections. Being a socialite is no easy task. You must entertain well and rise above the competition. Passi is a Delhi woman who was born and married into privilege. Her husband, Sanjay Passi, is a billionaire and Passi says she was interested in arts and was a painter but then decided to buy art and promote it. The fame in Bollywood will help her promote Indian contemporary art.
Art is the way she got into Delhi’s very reserved elite circles where abstraction is discussed over champagne.
@sinha.chinki writes.
Cover 1 – @shalini.passi in an outfit by @samantchauhan, poses for Outlook against a sculpture by Ravinder Reddy.
Cover 2 – @shalini.passi in an outfit by @samantchauhan, poses for Outlook against a dystopian Delhi landscape created by @poojairanna.
Cover 3 and 4 – @shalini.passi in an outfit by @rajeshpratapsinghworks (inspired by @mithusen26’s art), poses for Outlook against a dystopian Delhi landscape created by @poojairanna
Photo of Shalini Passi by: @vikramsharmaphoto | Posted on 01/Dec/2024 18:57:01
