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Tuesday, August 3, 1999
Fortune's face/ Vimla patil
Sanjukta Sharma
The lady who launched a hundred faces as the Femina editor in the 70's and 80's, way up to the early 90's, has seen too many beauties bloom and fade. No wonder Vimla Patil associates a beautiful face with "inner strength," cliched as it may sound. "Only one woman in the industry," she feels, "has that spark. Hema Malini. She has managed to preserve a freshness that very few of the new lot have. It stems from a person who is true to her conscience. I have often asked her what the secret is. She certainly hasn't tried hard for it."Patil thinks that the likes of Julia Roberts, or, for that matter, "any of them" are nothing to write home about. "Even Princess Diana was a creation of the media. I don't think she had such a beautiful face." Does that mean Indian women are the best? "It's not about being Indian. It's just that the few beautiful faces I have come across happen to be Indians." Zeenat Aman's was a face that she cannot forget either. "I still remember the day she walked into my office. It's notoften that I have seen such youth and vibrancy." For Patil, the perfect beauty doesn't exist in any "industry." It's in the Shiv Purana. "If a face close to that of Parvati's were to exist, it would epitomise my idea of a beautiful face." Coming from a veteran, does that mean the perfect face still eludes our beauty industry? Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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