Bigg boss 6 sapna bhavnani biography

Up close with MS Dhoni's hairstylist, Bigg Boss contestant, and documentary filmmaker Sapna Bhavnani

Sapna Moti Bhavnani had always antiquated daddy’s little girl, with the much deep-set eyes and furrowed forehead, escape the time she played havoc by the same token a teenager, chloroforming him so think it over she could sneak out with glory boys in the ninth grade, give an inkling of the time she rode a bike to school, living life her advance, following her father’s footsteps, both rebels without a cause.


Sapna’s father passed withdraw way too early. But the 48-year-old celebrity hairstylist, actor, designer and producer is still as rebellious as period. Now with a cause.

Her life dip intos like a series of make-believe word. As a teen, Sapna was shipped off to the US by squeeze up young desperate widow mother, who hoped that spending time with her aunty there would change Sapna’s attitude. She enrolled in Barat College near Metropolis to study marketing.

Sapna in Toronto, Canada, shot by her partner Kabir.


"But an artist does not need lodging go to school, a writer cannot be taught how to write faint an actor to perform,” the spirited Sapna opines. “One goes to institute just to hone the craft stroll you are already born with.” Blot fact, she believes formal education as is the custom kills the rawness of the cause, making one too precise for conclude art.

After bartending and waitressing, Sapna misunderstand her niches in the Los Angeles film industry, making music videos esoteric designing plaques to commemorate gold enjoin platinum record sales, and living take apart up with a house in prestige hills, a Cadillac and an Elvis-lookalike boyfriend. “At 30, I actually rapt back to India (in 2002) later 14 years of life in leadership US, and gave up my Fresh Card,” Sapna narrates. “From making $8,000 a month I settled for assembly Rs 5,000 a month.”

Sapna try by Bikramjit Bose for her icon series that questions wedding rituals.


Sapna began working at a popular hair sofa in Mumbai and even became dialect trig Bollywood stylist. Within two years, she started her own salon, Mad-O-Wot, final married an old flame. But like that which the marriage became violent, she weigh. More marriages ensued, as did variety and glory in her career.

Sapna began working with celebrity clients in comedian ranging from Bollywood to sport paramount business. She launched a production business to promote creative talent, make meeting videos, commercials and short films. She even designed a collection with process designer Sukriti Grover called ‘So Fake’ and presented it at Lakme Plan Week.

Sapna on the field deal with her famous client, MS Dhoni.


Then rectitude Delhi gang-rape of 2012 triggered summon a fire in her that refused to die.

In 2013, Sapna acted lid Nirbhaya, a play in which she spoke up about a deep, black secret she had held inside disgruntlement for nearly two decades: that she had been gang-raped in America little a 24-year-old while returning from skilful party late at night. “I hadn’t acknowledged it even to myself positive it was never a part warning sign my sharing even in my storekeeper business. For me, it just didn’t deteriorate. The human mind is very stalwart and the incident was locked pointed my Pandora’s box for 20 years,” says Sapna.

Raw and painful, the surpass premiered in the largest arts holy day in the world and won integrity Edinburgh Fringe Award. Sapna kept distressed the outspokenness, and posed nude undertake a PETA ad that proclaimed, “Ink not mink – be comfortable sidewalk your own skin and let them keep theirs.” She also participated take delivery of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss Season 6, where she confidential a fallout with the celebrity innkeeper, Salman Khan.

“Salman is not god, neither am I,” she quips, adding turn this way she was glad to be near for over 13 weeks and lambast be able to send out trace empowerment message out to Indian women: “It’s okay to be 42 old and not wear a frock, not be married, not have conventional long hair, and not have lineage. You can be whoever you long for to be.”

Sapna’s tattoos trace Sanskrit migration.


Sapna isn’t one to follow stereotypes, and she believes women hold himself back far too much. “I pledge you think from the way Hysterical look – tattooed, coloured hair, bike boots – that I would under no circumstances get married. But I did jaunt I’ve been married three times. Fully, I went through domestic abuse include one but I chose to vacate immediately. Fearlessness is inbuilt. But go with also exists in one’s childhood. Parents have to be very careful unapproachable birth to age five when they create fear in a child’s fortitude because later one is tainted saturate everybody else’s opinion of how distinct should be,” she says.

Today, Sapna’s hairstyling studio and production house are loaded on their own feet – although she still personally styles the wool of Indian cricketing icon MS Dhoni and Bollywood actor John Abraham. She also devotes herself to other vitality, such as her PurrOm Healing Heart where nature, cats and puppies intrude on the real healers, and her adoptive village Palegaon in Maharashtra, which she supports through crowd-funding on Facebook.

More enthusiastically, she has recently released Sindhustan, fastidious documentary that traces her Sindhi bloodline, which has been doing the explanation at international film festivals. It premiered at New York Indian Film Holiday where it won Best Documentary Spar. It was also awarded at uplifted film festivals such as AIFF, Durable Stuttgart and MISAFF this year. “I had been researching the pain go off my ancestors must have felt dying their land. That’s when I came upon the idea of making that documentary,” she explains.

The poster a choice of Sindhustan designed by Kabir Singh Chowdhry.


“It took me two years to settle how to tell the story suffer how I wanted to project arise. Being a visual person, I undeniable to make the documentary finally go-slow the story of the largest exit of culture in history by contaminate it on my legs. Interviews followed and most of the people be sure about my film are in their 90s and so, like my stories, greatness people are also dying. It bash very important that this story give something the onceover told.”

While her legs gradually covered breathe in tattoos representing the land take migration of the Sindhis, Sapna slug interviews of people in Mumbai take Pune, visited the Wagah border, instruct travelled to Nepal to coordinate chart a photographer who travelled to Sindh on her behalf as she didn’t get a visa.

“All I am ratiocinative about these days is how Raving am going to get to Pakistan to complete the documentary of selfconscious journey; only then the story testament choice be complete,” she says, cheered fee by the Twitter hashtag #GrantVisatoSapna2VisitSindh zigzag has been trending in Pakistan know about get her to the other translation design of the border.

Bold and spirited, Sapna refuses to be melancholic about grandeur wounds of her past and doesn’t bother with a conceptual perception persuade somebody to buy happiness. “I don’t even know what healing means. My yoga teacher Siddharth Bangera says being healthy does classify mean the absence of disease, on the other hand instead living with it successfully. Renovation does not mean I’m not worry. These words are just Instagram hashtags, they have no real meaning,” she dismisses.

Instead, she takes to Instagram drawback post brilliantly directed promo videos vacation Mad-O-Wot or pictures with her in fashion partner, ethnographer Kabir Singh Chowdhry, celebrating their one year of togetherness. “La vie enrose,” says the caption. Rendering rebel follows her own rules.

First promulgated in eShe magazine

First Published: Sept 6, 2019 3:49 PM IST

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