She is Bollywood’s very own fashionista. But it seems that the IT girl, Sonam Kapoor, will have to turn her style quotient several notches down to get into character for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’. And to essay a village girl residing in Punjab during the 1950s also means that the actress will have to do without her gizmos and gadgets. Mehra has asked Sonam to sweat it out without air conditioners and mobile phones and live like the village belle she is supposed to play in the film. An entire village on the Indo-Pak border, a few kilometres away from Ferozpur is now being transformed, to represent 1930s India by art director Sumit Basu. No cellphones, no computers, no gadgets, not even air-conditioners that’s the rule Mehra has laid down for the lead actors. “Sonam and Farhan have to feel like they belong to the 1950s, just as I’ve started feeling. Nowadays when I wake up, I am shocked to feel the chill of the air conditioner in my house. I am gradually cutting myself loose from all the luxuries we take for granted,” he says.
