pspan data-olk-copy-sourceMessageBodyNearly seven years after Guddu Pandit made him a household name, Ali Fazal is now bringing Mirzapur to the big screen, backing Balan: The Boy as Indias rightful Oscar entry in the same breath, running a chikankari label out of Lucknow with his wife, and admitting that priorities shift in ways you dont consciously choose, like owning a BMW 7 Series instead of the Ford Mustang he always said he wanted. Elsewhere, Kush Maini talks us through what it actually takes to stay race-sharp for F1 and why racing in front of a home crowd in India would mean more to him than any podium abroad. On screen, Current Cinema traces how Indian cop dramas grew up, from CIDs Dr Salunkhe testing mystery chemicals with his bare finger to Shefali Shahs insistence that Vartika in Delhi Crime isnt a hero, just someone doing a job. Fashion gets a double bill: Gaurav Gupta on stretching his couture practice into MG Motors Cyberster and M9 concept cars while dressing everyone from Nicki Minaj to Lady Gagas cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, and eighteen-year-old Aryan Acharya, fresh off his Paris Fashion Week debut for Dior, on why his idea of trying hard is looking like he didnt. In watches, Montblanc makes its case for the sub-€10,000 collector with a 319-component manufacture chronograph, while Jaipur Watch Companys Gaurav Mehta explains how a stray Diwali conversation about turquoise turned into a two-faced, two-time-zone tribute to the Gateway of India. On four wheels, Audis new Q9 stretches 251mm past the Q7 to finally give the brand a proper answer to the GLS and X7, the Tata Sierra EV proves nostalgia can survive an actual Nilgiris hairpin, and our own road test of the BMW X3 30 xDrive M Sport Pro asks whether Bombays roads deserve 285-section rubber. And to round it off, a month with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 confirmed its on-device AI chip can keep your data off the cloud entirely, which is either reassuring, or exactly what a phone angling for your trust would say.spanp