Sasha Bashir: Happy Deepavali !

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Happy Deepavali !

As usual I had a very busy and exciting Deepavali.

I always love the decorations around this time. The picture above was taken at a Deepavali open house I attended at the Mandarin Oriental.

While I was there I someone wearing a very unique saree. It had Andy Warhol style portraits on it of Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai.

And this was my little boy in his Deepavali outfit. Off white kurta with gold sequins. Yes, I am introducing him to bling bling. How can you NOT wear a sequinned kurta on Deepavali ?!

And next year, I want to try and do a kolam. These were some of the beautiful kolam on display in the lobby of my office building. Everyone who walked past admired them and many were taking pictures too.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: I love the decoration of the kolum during deepavali. So beautiful.; 8:07 PM
Unknown said...: BTW, you boy look so handsome :); 8:10 PM

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Biography

Sasha Bashir started out in the entertainment industry as a back up dancer for Malaysian award and music shows. After graduating from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Performing Arts, she returned to Malaysia and started working at the Malaysian National Theatre, Istana Budaya as the Assistant Director of Marketing and PR. During her time there, she still continued performing in live theatre shows with lead acting and dance roles in the productions Lady Swettenham, My Bollywood Summer, Titiwangsa and Emas 10. In 2006, Sasha hosted her first tv show Explorace - The Extreme Journey on Malaysia's No 1 tv station, TV3. In 2007, she hosted Beauty Secrets from the East. In 2009, she co-created, co-produced and hosted a documentary about Asian dances titled DANSA. It showed on TV3 and NTV7 in 2009. Sasha also published her very first coffee table book based on the documentary. Titled DANSA - A Dance Journey, this 200 page hard cover books featured over 250 photos taken while shooting the 13 episode documentary with a special 'behind the scenes' chapter. The book is available in all major Malaysian bookstores for RM 130. In 2011, Dansa returned to NTV7 with a second season with all new dances and locations. Sasha is currently working on her second book Dansa - The Journey continues and is due to be in bookstores by the end of 2012. A children's book which is being published for charity will also be released by early 2013. Sasha is currently working as one of the panel of producers for the NTV7 documentary program NTV7 which airs every Tuesday at 7.30 pm.