RISING & SHINING

2024 has made a star of Sharvari. She may not agree, but as she talks about upcoming plans, family, food, and more, one thing is clear—there is no stopping her.

- Stuti Agarwal

She ties her pinafore apron over her ganji (tank top) as the sweet morning sun rises to filter through the kitchen casement window in her apartment in Paris's Rue des Fossés SaintJacques. Only a few hours before her day begins at Le Cordon Bleu, but enough to try her hand at the madeleines she learnt in class yesterday, her dalmatian, Miso, snoozing next to her feet.

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It is July and she's on an assignment in Tanzania to photograph the great migration across the Mara River. Her moss-green ganji is a perfect camouflage against the beige of the car she is standing in. Miso, too, blends perfectly with the zebras he is silently watching hoisted next to her.

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The rutilant lights of Not Just Jazz By the Bay, Pune, shine down on her as she takes her seat on the grand piano, ready for her set in shiny silver ganji. She strokes Miso below the ear, both of them worried how her rendition of Coral Keys will match up to the suddenly popular Saturday Night Fever hits.

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She's in front of the camera and the clapper has signalled the start of the scene. She has only a day to shoot the Delhi-6song, Masakali...

"No! Masakali is out of the question. I have a very serious pigeon phobia," she chimes.

"What if we replace them with parrots or some other bird?" I ask.

"No, no birds at all. I think it is all the fluttering"