Forget her long, lean and luminous brows. It is her disarming honesty and curious charm that hooks you in a jiffy. Actor Tara Sutaria certainly isn’t one to rest on her stunning beauty laurels (blame the genes). She has been busy honing her vocal cords, perfecting dance moves, signing on plum film projects and soaking up the making of movie greats over the past few months.
“I have been dipping into the making of classics,” says Tara, who shares her methodical research with over 5.5 million pairs of Insta eyes.” The unedited footage of Pakeezah, unsung documentaries on Meena Kumari, and Judy Garland put that together with Netflix binge sessions, including Bad Boy Billionaires, Teh Crown Season 4, David Letterman shows…” she further explains.
You could easily call Tara God’s favourite child! A lithe ballerina, cerebrally stylish, well-endowed with smashing good looks, an ability to articulate seamlessly in dramatic performances, a golden voice, and latent skills in wielding the charcoal on paper to sketch ruminations, while she bakes legendary pies!
“Being kind and gracious is an absolute must, that is how my parents have raised me,” she says of her simple upbringing in a Parsi family. “Beauty is as beauty does,’ my mum always says. While you are unique, you are never indispensable. I love and treasure the adulation that everyone showers me with. But I am aware that it could disappear tomorrow.”
Two years old in the film industry, and working on her fifth blockbuster, it has been an adroit shift, from the world of television and theatre to the coveted silver screen when she debuted in the movie Student of the Year 2. Her Insta bio reads Attraversiamo, meaning ‘let’s cross over’ in Italian, and Tara does just that! Bringing in enviable poise, having trained in classical ballet and Latin American dances from the School of Classical Ballet and Western Dance (she clinched a full scholarship to enrol at the Royal Academy of Dance, London). “I have trained for 15 years in singing, and am now back to frequent riyaaz, as opposed to just strengthening my vocal cords and techniques in the shower!” she says, having maximised on the slow down over the past few months. “I am singing a couple of songs in my upcoming film Ek Villain too,” she says brightly (she’s co-starring with Ahan Shetty in his debut film, currently under production).
Shilpi Madan for Elle India