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s we bid a happy goodbye to what is being tossed around as the \u201cworst year evaaah!\u201d we look back at the celebrities who made this year, a bit more tolerable. Except Fawad Khan, who was shown his place with some characteristic Indian intolerance. Still, Kanye West and Beyonc\u00e9 dropped this year\u2019s anthems while Priyanka Chopruh showed Jimmy Fallon who\u2019s boss by winning a hot-wings eating contest on his show. She will soon be in <\/span>Baywatch<\/span><\/i>, that will make our hearts burst with pride \u2013 but there still won\u2019t be place for a Pakistani star. <\/span>\n\nGo to Pakistan, Fawad\n<\/b>When Karan Johar decided to make a movie last year, he didn\u2019t think he would be setting a precedent. He could also scarcely have imagined that he would run into any trouble. This man, upholder of familial and cultural values \u2013 what could he do wrong? Never say never. The Maharashtra Navnirman Seva threatened to stall <\/span>Ae Dil Hai Mushkil<\/span><\/i>\u2019s release to capitalise on the \u201canti-Pakistan\u201d wave that had taken over the country after the Uri attack. Their reason was astonishingly simple: Because the film featured an actor of Pakistani origin and have you thought about how it will hurt the sentiments of the soldiers at the border? Of course you haven\u2019t \u2013 you\u2019ve been too busy gawking at Fawad Khan. <\/span>\n\nKhan seemed like the complete package: He started out as a (good) musician, he is a good actor, and he made thousands of women across the country swoon. In fact he\u2019s perfect save for the fact that he was born in the wrong country. Rather than defend the actor, Karan Johar went on to release a <\/span>video apology<\/span><\/a> promising he would never use another Pakistani actor in his movies again. Khan was forced to go back home and soon, all Pakistani artists were banned across the board. <\/span>\n\nBhakts were happy, the MNS was happy; this was a real victory. Everyone except those wanted an eyeful of Fawad Khan was happy. We had after all set at least two precedents we can be proud of: That politics can insert itself into the arts whenever it chooses, and that it is OK to extort filmmakers if your surname is Thackeray.<\/span>\n\n\u2013<\/span><\/i> Sagar S<\/em>\n\nPriyanka Chopruh Wins Hollywood\n<\/b>We don\u2019t take kindly to stars from other countries making inroads into Bollywood, but nothing makes us happier than having one of our own in Hollywood. This year, one actor crossed all hurdles to reach peak global celebrity status. Yass kween, Priyanka Chopruh who put India back on the map of the world [remember to roll your r\u2019s] with her exceptional talent of perfecting the American accent. But that\u2019s not the only reason she was awesome. <\/span>\n\nPriyanka Chopruh battled many odds to show the world what \u201chawt\u201d really meant for Indians by winning a hot-wing eating contest on <\/span>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/span><\/i>. Like she literally landed from Miami that morrrrning and the firrrrst thing she did was have a hot dog at a hot dog stand on the street, ermegerd! After braving that storm, she told Jimmy how Atamic Wings, like Nuclearrr was her jam. (All Nucleya fans back home have since been tripping over \u201cBass Rani\u201d.) In her own words, she\u2019s Indian and it\u2019s all about the spices. <\/span>\n\nNo one heard Jimmy saying, he was \u201cvindaloo\u201d all the way and even when he asked everyone to hashtag #FallonInIndia, no fucks were given. Because back here we were all like \u201cYeah, you know what guys, we are in New Yorrk. Let\u2019s do this.\u201d We didn\u2019t quite have the same reaction to her two-second appearance in the <\/span>Baywatch<\/span><\/i> trailer. We\u2019re pinning our hopes on the movie. If that doesn\u2019t live up to its promise, there\u2019s always <\/span>XXX<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>\n\n\u2013 Prachee Narkar <\/span><\/i>\n\nAnti-social Media Star\n<\/b>In a year when social media has had a field day watching celebrities air their dirty laundry on Snapchat videos and Instagram comments, the most compelling personal narrative comes from a star who has never betrayed her private life in as much as an interview. Beyonc\u00e9 sneaked up on an unsuspecting audience and belted out what will go down in history as the rawest, most powerful self-confessional ever drafted. In an hour-long visual album, she charts the fragile nature of monogamy and the consequences of its breakdown. It is the penultimate act of catharsis in what was clearly a very emotionally fraught journey. Of course it has a happy ending, but her point is made in the process. And through her marketing decisions.<\/span>\n\nReleased exclusively on Tidal, the streaming service owned by the man who scorned her, \u201cLemonade\u201d immediately became the most talked about album of the year, when most of the world didn\u2019t even sample the songs it was made of. All aspects were analysed, written about, meme-ified. Most touchingly, it ignited a series of personal stories where people spoke about infidelity and forgiveness.<\/span>\n\nBut the most powerful statement she made was on her own status as a celebrity. No other personality in the world could collaborate with Led Zeppelin, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, get the world\u2019s biggest woman tennis player to twerk as she sings, steal the thunder from every other performer at the Superbowl in a Black Panther-inspired performance, and live to tell the tale. Yet, there she stands, a southern black woman with an opinion on everything from police brutality, feminism, and the Black Lives Matter movement on an album about a cheating husband. Decidedly anti-social media and pointedly confrontational, Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s redefined what it means to be a celebrity with gravity in the age of smartphones and selfies. <\/span>\n\n\u2013 Nimisha Misra <\/span><\/i>\n\nKanye\u2019s Klairvoyance\n<\/b>On the year\u2019s most <\/span>snappy<\/span><\/a> song, \u201cFamous\u201d, Kanye West rapped about how he literally fucked Taylor Swift to fame. Kanye is not the world\u2019s best rapper, but the track is the perfect distillation of his record <\/span>Life of Pablo<\/span><\/i>. The up-and-down song acted as a precursor to the year Kanye would go on to have: Ask Mark Zuckerburg for <\/span>$1 billion on Twitter,<\/span><\/a> star in the <\/span>biggest celebrity scandal<\/span><\/a> of 2016, befriend Donald Trump and alter <\/span>fan-artist engagement<\/span><\/a> on tour.<\/span>\n\nThe album, btw, was released unfinished in February at Madison Square Garden accompanied by a fashion show, 20,000 screaming fans, and celebrities from all over the world. It wasn\u2019t even a physical release as everyone had to go home and download it from <\/span>Tidal<\/span><\/a>, but Kanye being Planet Earth\u2019s foremost hype man, still got the party started.<\/span>\n\nAt a time when pop acts are struggling to come to terms with the <\/span>constituents of an album<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Life<\/span><\/i> of Pablo<\/span><\/i>\u2019s theatre of anticipation, eventually exhilarating sloppiness, and the fact that it has remained unfinished to this day ten months after its release, has forever changed the way we consume and interact with an album. The <\/span>Life of Pablo<\/span><\/i> experience is the perfect summation of 2016: A mostly messy affair riddled with genius here and there, all only accessible by a <\/span>third-party app.<\/span><\/a> We might not have been prepared for the wreckage called 2016, but Kanye saw it coming <\/span>a mile ago.<\/span><\/a>\n\n\u2013 Parthshri Arora <\/span><\/i>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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