Tabla de contenidos para October 2015 en Maxim India

EVEN THOUGH IT CURRENTLY IS impossible to imagine the movies without his brilliant performances, few know that his life could have taken a path far from the limelight if he had followed in the footsteps of his family’s military tradition. His real acting vocation began at an early age, with appearances in which he played characters he would later on in life, as a professional, play again. Unfortunately, the young man had to confront all kinds of obstacles before being able to begin a true acting career: The loss of a scholarship, bankruptcy and war-like conflicts that ended with the breakout of the Second World War. It was then that the idealistic Lee offered himself as a volunteer of the Royal Air Force, and was incorporated in the department of…

HE’S ARGUABLY THE BEST ACTOR OF HIS GENERATION—THREE back-to-back blockbusters is powder to that particular keg. His bloodline is dripping with Bollywood blue blood, his cousin has been christened ‘India’s best-dressed woman’ and his superstar uncle, ‘Mr. India,’ makes Omar Sharif look like a bungling illiterate when it comes to style and debonair. He’s a social media vampire vacuuming Likes, emoticon thumbs, Pins and Pokes like some plague of virtual popularity—the guy only has to Instagram himself munching pasta and the Internet crackles and chatters like a giggling schoolgirl. To be fair, a large proportion of his near three million fans do fall into that particular bubbling cauldron of raging hormones but that’s what comes from being a fully paid up member of an exclusive club of young actors with…

A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE WINNERS OF THE REAL MAN TWITTER CONTEST: VHARUN ARORA | SAKSHI VIRMANI | DWIBHASHYAM SRAVAN | STUTI AGARWAL | NIKHIL KOHLI | AKANKSHA ALREJA IS CONFIDENT PAPA CJ, Comedian If you haven’t heard of Papa CJ, you’ve obviously been living under a rock. Voted Asia’s Best Stand-Up Comedian, this guy makes people roll over with laughter for a living and the only thing that gets him onstage, in front of thousands, is his self- confidence. DOESN’T CONFORM LOKESH VERMA, Tattoo Artist Verma always knew he wasn’t going to fit in with the rest. As a pre-teen, when his friends wanted to play cricket, he wanted to sketch and create art with ink. Twently years later and he’s doing just that, and is extremely successful as…

The bar in Pétionville leaned drunkenly on a hillside. The power came and went, plunging the city into darkness at intervals, lingering just long enough to keep the beer cool in the ancient ice chest. But it was too dark a time for beer. Haiti was, as usual in the early 1990s, bathed in blood, but men never drink as much as they do between funerals, and there were so many of them in Port-au-Prince those days that the processions often intersected. Pétionville was an upscale section, at a lofty remove from the vast slums at the waterfront, but even here among the rich folks, you could feel the country sliding deeper into violence. The democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had fled, and the poor Haitians who had put him…

WHAT HUBERT CARRIES IN THE SIDECAR Essential spare parts (small size, small weight, small volume) Clothes bag (carries essentials only, depending on where in the world he is and the weather conditions there) Survival food (10 litres drinking water, can of sardines, meat spread, soup powder, coffee, one dry codfish) Camping gear (tent, sleeping bag) Crank winch (a sturdy rope winch) Basic cooking utensils and petrol gas stove Computer and camera THERE ARE MEN WHO SPEND DECADES AS hardened corporate suits, till it dawns on them that they are actually bikers. I spent 18 years riding an Enfield until I realised I was really a suit. It is both ironical and poetically just that I should be penning this story of a man who pushed the boundaries until they gave…

I AM NOT THE HERO OF THIS TALE. I AM THE VILLAIN. WHEN I LOOK BACK ON MY TEENAGE YEARS, I SEE A MALNOURISHED NERD WEARING CHEAP BLACK-RIMMED PLASTIC GLASSES TOO BIG FOR MY LITTLE FACE YET TOO SMALL FOR MY GIGANTIC EARS. AND I SEE BROWN HAIR CHOPPED AWKWARDLY SHORT—AT MY REQUEST. I HATED MY CURLS. EVERYONE ELSE HAD STRAIGHT HAIR, AND I WANTED TO FIT IN. My losing ways continued not just through high school—where my prom date left the dance with another guy—but through college and my twenties. I eventually got a job touring with rock bands as a music journalist, yet even with an all-access backstage pass dangling around my neck, the adventures happened to everyone else. But one day, everything changed: I embedded myself in…

Right now, how important is fashion for Indian men on a scale of 1 to 10? Fashion over the last decade has become an integral part of our lifestyle and we have seen a great explosion in the last two years. It has moved from being restricted to just occasion wear to an everyday element attached with you. I am happy with the progression, and would say that it’s somewhere between 5 and 6 on 10, but I would like it to be a perfect 10. How is men’s fashion evolving in India... say, from what it was 10 years ago? It is heading towards being smarter, edgier and quite hippy. Again, with the boundless reach that e-commerce provides, international fashion is spreading its wings in the Indian industry as…

DRESS BLUES: Donning a denim suit doesn’t have to evoke the dreaded “Canadian tuxedo,” a denim-on-denim disaster that has unfairly plagued several men for decades. In truth, not only is the blue jean blazer roughing up the runways of Paris and Milan, it doesn’t require fussy tailoring and has an undeniably rakish appeal. Consider it a “jean jacket” fit for the boardroom and the bar. —CHRIS WILSON WITH HIS HAUNTED eyes and louche, film noirish air, 21-year-old Alain Fabien Delon carries more than a strong, Gauloise-scented whiff of his father, legendary French actor Alain Delon. He’s thin and lanky, thanks to equally impressive DNA passed down from his mother, Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen. Vogue Hommes International, which featured the model and actor on the magazine’s fall/winter 2013 cover, likened…

Maxim spent a food-fuelled afternoon at the Hard Rock Cafè recently and our palates were in for a pretty sweet treat. Here’s what we tried and recommend you should order too: The Legendary Burger. Its classic American flavours are spot on and they’ll never tell you what’s in the secret sauce. Looking at the menu, you can tell it’s been crafted keeping in mind burger-lovers of the vegetarian and non-vegetarian variety. The Chicken Burger features a chicken patty topped with avocado, pico de gallo and mozzarella cheese (the Maxim staffer writing this is suffering from serious hunger pangs currently). If you’re looking for more variety, opt for the Jumbo Combo because it gives you a taste of all their most popular starters and it’s big enough to share between three…

It’s not every day that you get to see some of India’s biggest corporate houses put their business rivalries aside for another kind of competition—on the football field. The unique feat was achieved at the Sports Illustrated Legends Cup—India’s first and the biggest national corporate football tournament. Kicking off its first leg last month, the tournament was held at the Powerplay grounds in Bengaluru, on Sept. 19 and 20. About 37 of the country’s biggest corporate houses coming on board as participants, the trophy for the Bengaluru leg was finally lifted by Maverick Solutions in both the men’s and women’s categories. The Cup will now organised in Mumbai, followed soon by Delhi. The national winners stand to win a trip to London.…

What’s the last thing you design before you go? My future?! Since that won’t be possible, I think it will be a retrospective of my work. Describe your last meal. Varan bhat (Maharashtrian version of dal chawal) and maybe Alphonso mangoes... I would like to go peacefully and without other animals inside me! Are you going to heaven or hell? Heaven, hopefully. I try to rake up air miles to there when possible. The one artist you wish you’d met and why? Madeline Vionnet in fashion for her innovation and focus, and Vincent Van Gogh to actually see him paint—I absolutely love his work! How do you die? Without regrets, I hope. The one thing you’ve been the most proud of ? That my parents are proud of me. What’s…

CREATING THE PROPER MUSICAL accompaniment for a romantic evening is every bit as critical as washing the sheets. The wrong songs could send your potential bedmate trooping out into the night, while a well-considered playlist can help set just the right vibe. You don’t want to be the guy cluelessly streaming free Spotify or SoundCloud, getting assaulted by mood-ruining ads for a local community college or the new Imagine Dragons album every 10 minutes, do you? Herewith, some essential rules for constructing the ultimate “sexxxy” playlist: “For me, it’s a lot of Frank Ocean, the Knife, Zola Jesus, the National—basically, the same songs you’d play if you suffer from chronic depression,” says comedian Whitney Cummings. “The hardest part is naming it so it’s not just called ‘Sex Mix’ on your…

BIG BERTHA ALPHA 815 DRIVER This driver might look rough, but it has a sharp swing. It provides the fastest ball speed out of all Callaway’s drivers. You can hit the ball with any part of the head and it will still go far beyond, due to the widened sweet spot. (Sweet Spot: The closer the ball hits off the sweet spot, the higher the ball speed will be.) 42,000; callawaygolf.com WOOD The naming comes after the earliest golf heads which were made of wood that was readily available in the area. The first metal ‘wood’ was developed in the 1980s, and metal eventually replaced wood due to strength and versatility. The first shot you take with the wood is the key thing to golfing, since it’s all…

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