Few 18-year-olds in the country generate as much interest as Suhana Khan. While there are the genes courtesy her famous parents, what makes her special is a rare confidence and clarity.
Over the last decade at Vogue, we have often scheduled shoots around the weather, the availability of locations, and even movie schedules, but this was perhaps the first time we scheduled a shootaround exam prep. But there’s a first time for everything. My first meeting with cover girl Suhana Khan was at this Vogue photoshoot, which was also her first-ever magazine shoot. Not that anyone there would have guessed it. The ease with which the 18-year-old conducted herself belied the lack of experience. The camera, it seemed, was an old and familiar friend.
Styling her was Anaita Shroff Adajania, Vogue’s fashion director and long-time friend of Suhana’s father, actor Shah Rukh Khan. “Suhana has the same quiet confidence that her mother had all those years ago. What I loved about her was that she walked in without an entourage, and held her ground. For me, it wasn’t about shooting Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter. It was exciting to work with a young raw amazing girl. Suhana has quite a spark—and everyone on the set picked up on that energy,” says Shroff Adajania, who now has the distinction of styling three members of the Khan family for this magazine.
Suhana’s excitement is infectious, and I find myself taken in by her enthusiasm as we chat over a cup of tea at her parents’ house in Mumbai, watching the sunset over the Arabian Sea. “I absolutely loved shooting this cover. Especially the dancing shots. I love dancing. It was so much fun. I was excited when my parents brought it up. I wanted to say yes straight away, but they wanted me to think about it—this is a very public thing. They wanted me to gain confidence from the experience, not lose it,” she says. Confidence isn’t something this teenager needs to worry about, at least not in front of the camera.
DANCE LIKE NO ONE’S WATCHING
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