12022026-LSTC-01.qxd 2/12/2026 12:02 AM Page 1 c m y b REUTERS/PTI TRIBUNE New role Life Tamannaah Bhatia began her tenure as the brand ambassador for the stateowned Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited on Tuesday. CHANDIGARH | THURSDAY | 12 FEBRUARY 2026 Grey is the new pink! ANNE HATHAWAY & LANA DEL REY Ralph Lauren and wife Ricky Anne Loew-Beer Ralph Lauren debuts its Fall 2026 collection ahead of New York Fashion Week Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2026 women’s collection with grey-toned corset blazers, velvet dresses and crystal brooches on Tuesday, ahead of the official start of New York Fashion Week. The New York-based apparel maker’s fashion show comes after it raised its annual sales and margin outlook last week. Its core dress and suits designs, along with price increases, have helped Ralph Lauren to lure more wealthy Gen Z shoppers. Model Gigi Hadid opened the show with a dark-coloured turtle neck under a brown skirt set. Other models sported Grammy-nominated Indo-American pianist and composer Charu Suri’s latest album Shayan asks listeners to slow down pageboy hats, patterned scarves and fur coats. “It’s a little more mellow, a little more black and dark velvet, definitely more on the browns,” David Lauren, Ralph Lauren’s son, said about the collection. “It’s quite elegant, and it’s in the fabrication and the detailed craftsmanship.” Ralph Lauren’s nearly 100person guest list included Vogue Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director Anna Wintour, and actresses Anne Hathaway and Ariana DeBose. The brand’s 88-year-old namesake Ralph Lauren is “such an important American designer,” Hathaway said. “He is such an important New Yorker, and so I’m just thrilled to be in his orbit.” — Reuters Rooted in long been described as a pioneer of raga-jazz. Yet Shayan marks a deliberOR someone who has spent ate pause from virtuosity. “I didn’t want most of her life on global stages, Charu to do yet another flashy album saying, ‘Look Suri’s latest work does something qui- how fast I can play.” she says. “I wanted to bring etly radical: it asks the listener to slow an album that had true depth and benefited down. Shayan, the Indo-American people.” Drawing from evening ragas such as pianist and composer’s first non-jazz album, is Kalyani, Desh, Bageshri, Durga and Jog, a meditative, deeply intentional record rooted Shayan explores a spectrum of emotional states in Indian evening ragas, created not for per- rather than a single mood. “We’re not all going formance but for rest. to have happy, cheery evenings,” Charu The album’s recent Grammy nomination in explains. “You’re going to have evenings where the Contemporary Instrumental Album cate- you are very mournful, melancholic. Ragas mirgory has brought Charu global attention yet ror human emotions. They’re like a universe.” again, but the impulse behind Shayan is inti- Each track, she adds, was shaped to be its own mate and deeply personal. “I wrote cosmos. “I worked hard so that every Shayan for my mother,” she says. single track wasn’t repetitive.” “After my father passed away The album features a three years ago, she had trouremarkable ensemble, I ble sleeping. But also, I think including Premik Russell it’s very fair to say that a lot Tubbs of the Mahavishwrote Shayan for my of people are having nu Orchestra, long-time mother. After my father extraordinary levels of critouring partners and passed away three years ago, sis and stress right now. musicians she had People are anxious, admired for years. she had trouble sleeping. It’s very they’re not able to sleep.” Charu believes music fair to say that a lot of people are The album, she adds, functions as a powerful having extraordinary levels of emerged at a time when she emotional technology, herself was running on empcapable of sustaining peocrisis and stress right now. ty. “I had such a brutal touring ple through crisis. “I have People are anxious. schedule for two to three years. I people from Ukraine with toured all over the world performbombs falling around them who ing, and as a soloist, composer, bandtell me my music is helping them leader, orchestrator, and the person managing sleep better at night,” she says. “When the world everything, it was a lot. I think I probably is falling apart, the only thing saving you from burned out from concertising and touring.” going mad is that piece of music. The power Born in India, Charu’s relationship with cannot be underestimated.” music began early. At five, when her father The Grammy recognition, she adds, feels less took up a job in Nigeria, the family home came like a culmination and more like validation, not with a piano. Surrounded by vinyl records — just of her work but of Indian-influenced instruBeethoven, Mozart, jazz, pop — she gravitated mental music finding a wider audience. “When to the instrument. “I was the kid who was play- I first started doing this style, no one knew what ing five or six hours a day,” she recalls. By the I was doing. They said, ‘It sounds cool, but what time she returned to Chennai, she was per- are you doing?’” she recalls. “Now I see the posforming complex concerti, touring extensively sibility of it moving from niche to mainstream, and winning competitions. “Music wasn’t without losing authenticity.” something I did. It was who I was.” Looking ahead, Charu is exploring new That intensity carried into adulthood, shaping projects, including blending Brazilian a career that spans continents and genres. rhythms with ragas. Composing for Hindi Known for blending Indian ragas with jazz and film is also a thought she is toying with and contemporary instrumental music, Charu has her major inspiration is AR Rahman. Gurnaaz F GIGI HADID Shahid Kapoor confirms Farzi Season 2 ARIANA DEBOSE ragas ‘The fakers CHAT UP are back NICK JONAS IN BODYMAN at it’ After three years of anticipation, Shahid Kapoor has officially confirmed that the second season of Farzi is in the works. The actor made the announcement on Tuesday through his social media handle, sending fans into a frenzy. Taking to Instagram, Shahid shared a picture with Raj Nidimoru and Krishna Dasarakothapalli, collectively known as Raj & DK, who serve as the creators, producers and directors of the series. Confirming the development, Shahid wrote, “The fakers are back at it.” Raj & DK also posted an image of piled-up currency notes with the caption ‘Round 2 in progress’, signalling the return of the series. Singer-actor Nick Jonas has joined the cast of the action thriller Bodyman. Gary Fleder, whose feature credits include the Jason Statham actioner Homefront and the John Grisham adaptation Runaway Jury with John Cusack, Gene Hackman, and Rachel Weisz, will helm from a screenplay by Byron Balasco. Jonas will also produce the film alongside Spencer Berman. c m y b NICOLAS LEADS SPIDER-NOIR Prime Video has unveiled the first-look images from its upcoming live-action series Spider-Noir, offering a striking glimpse of Nicolas Cage in his first leading role on television. The newly released photos introduce Cage as Ben Reilly, also known as The Spider, alongside Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, and Karen Rodriguez as Janet Smart. TEYANA TAYLOR TEASES Teyana Taylor is planning to make a major fashion statement at the 2026 Academy Awards, where she is nominated for Best Actress for the first time. “I might not be thinking about a speech, but I am absolutely thinking about a ‘fit. You know what I mean? I will throw a ‘fit on that club,” the One Battle After Another star said. Though Taylor kept details about her Academy Awards ensemble under wraps, she teased fans to “stay tuned” until her grand entrance on March 15.