British Fashion Council
Chopra had to achieve 6 kilograms as a girl from the Punjab, after which lose it as a mannequin; she had five “looks” within the film, connoting the phases by way of which her character passes. Although the media spread rumours that Chopra was ravenous herself to scale back her weight to that of a supermodel, she stated that her look was achieved with two months of training and a disciplined food regimen. The film’s climactic scene by which Chopra walks the ramp at Paris Fashion Week was supposed to be filmed in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop, but Bhandarkar couldn’t shoot there. In mid-August 2008, key scenes with Chopra, Raj Babbar and Kiran Juneja—Chopra’s character’s parents—were filmed in Chandigarh for authenticity; Bhandarkar said, “we wished to deliver the essence of the city alive within the scenes”. The director stated the film took about 106 days to …