IN AN ANCIENT LAND OF MAHARAJAS, MOGHUL EMPERORS AND MYSTICISM – REIGNS A RICH AND POWERFUL PRINCESS. AND SHE HOLDS THE KEY TO ONE OF HUMANITIES’ GREATEST MYSTERIES … THE SECRET TO ETERNAL YOUTH AND BEAUTY.OR AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT HER PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL SAYS ….
SUPER: “COME IN!!!!”
(00:39)SUPER: “NO NO NO. PUT IT BACK”
00:00:45 (HINDI)SUPER: “NO NO NO. PUT IT BACK”
METICULOUS, FASTIDIOUS AND AMBITIOUS … BEAUTY IS SHAHNAZ HUSAIN’S BUSINESS.UPNATSOT: CHASTISING MAID…. BIG BUSINESS.
14:12 IT’S VERY LONELY ON THE TOP, JUST STANDING UP AND SAYING I PROMOTE AYURVEDA, I REPRESENT INDIA, WE’RE THE BEST.
BEFORE THE DAYS OF ANTIBIOTICS AND COSMETIC COMPANIES … AYURVEDICS HAD AN ANSWER TO EVERYTHING FROM HEADACHES TO HAIR-CARE.IT’S A HERBAL, SPIRITUAL FIX-ALL GROUNDED IN HINDUISM’S ANCIENT TEXTS.AND SHAHNAZ HUSAIN HAS BUILT A 2-HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR DYNASTY BY BOTTLING THOSE TRADITIONAL POTIONS … AND SELLING THEM TO THE WEST AS HERBAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS.
JH: ARE YOU THE PRINCESS OF THE POWDER PUFF?
I’M VERY GOOD AT MY JOB BECAUSE OUT OF SHEER PRACTICE OF SO MANY YEARS. I NEVER HAVE ANY EMBARRASMENT SAYING WHAT I WANT TO SAY AND I’M NEVER SHY. (ENDS T3:14:37)
15:26:16SHE IS DEFINITELY A WOMEN WHO’S TAKEN SOMETHING VERY HUMBLE YOU KNOW, LIKE A HOMEGROWN RECIPE LIKE A HOME GROWN COSMETOLOGY, SOMETHING FROM THE BACKWOODS AND MADE IT GLOBAL. 15:16:28(CUT) ….
30 YEARS AFTER OPENING HER FIRST SHOP IN NEW DELHI – SHAHNAZ HUSAIN BOASTS 485 SALONS AROUND THE WORLD. “SUCCESS” MAGAZINE HAS CALLED HER THE WORLD’S GREATEST WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR.NOT BAD FOR THE GIRL WHOSE STRICT, CONSERVATIVE PARENTS MARRIED HER OFF WHEN SHE WAS JUST 15.
OH SHAHNAZ HUSAIN IS ENTIRELY SELF MADE. SHE WAS AFTER ALL JUST A MUSLIM GIRL WHO CAME FROM THIS EXTREMELY ORDINARY BACKGROUND SO TO PUSH AHEAD IN THIS GLAMOROUS WORLD OF COSMETICS, IT IS MIND BOGGLING.15:21:09. (ENDS 21:17)
ALMOST AS MIND-BOGGLING AS THE SELF-PROMOTION -- EXALTING HER AS CRUSADER AGAINST WESTERN COSMETIC COMPANIES. … “NATURAL” INDIA AGAINST THE SYNTHETIC WEST.
WHEREVER THERE’S AN OUTSTANDING PERSON, 90 PER CENT WILL BE AN INDIAN … CUT … (24:13) SO I THINK INDIA HAS A TREMENDOUS FUTURE. WHETHER THE WESTERN WORLD WANTS TO ACCEPT IT OR NOT IS THEIR PROBLEM.
(T3:04:29)NO PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING WHO’S THE BOSS AROUND PLANET SHAHNAZ.LIKE ALL ROYALTY WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD EYE SHADOW, THIS PRINCESS HAS BUILT A PALACEAND IT’S LIKE NO OTHER.
JH: WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR UNIQUE SENSE OF STYLE?PSH: (LAUGHS) IT’S IN YOUR GENES, YOUR BORN WITH IT.
EVEN IN THIS CASTLE OF KITSCH ..SUCCESS DOES HAVE IT’S BURDENS:SUCH AS MANAGING THOSE BOTHERSOME SERVANTS. THEY’VE DONE IT ALL WRONG . THEY’VE PUT ALL THE FLOWERS - ALL THREE IN ONE LINE – AND I HAD DONE IT TOTALLY DIFFERENT. THERE ARE SEVERAL SERVANTS PER FLOOR – WHO DO NOTHING BUT TIDY AND WASH AND CLEAN. THAT’S THEIR JOB.
JH: HOW MANY SERVANTS DO YOU HAVE WORKING HERE?
PSH: IN THE BUILDING ABOUT A HUNDRED IN ALL THE FLOORS. (00:19:20)
5:13:30 SUCH ARE THE TRAPPINGS OF SUCCESS – I BECAME WOOED BY A NARCISTIC FANTASY. I FOOLED MYSELF THAT I TOO COULD JOIN THE RANKS OF HER HERBAL, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
SO PRINCESS I’M WONDERING IF YOU’D BE SO KIND AS TO GIVE ME A FEW BEAUTY TIPS?PSH: WELL, YOU’VE GOT A DRY SKIN. WHY DON’T YOU GO INTO OUR SALON AND SEE HOW GOOD OR BAD WE ARE?
JH: I’D LOVE TO GIVE IT A TRY.
PSH: MOST WELCOME. COME!
JH: THANK YOU.
BUT I WOULD NOT BE THANKING HER FOR LONG.
THE PRINCESS TELLS ME I’VE GOT DRY SKIN. CAN YOU HELP?
V: YES SIR. MY NAME IS RAFIQ VENUS
JH: VENUS? MR VENUS?
V: YES, SIR.JH; AND YOU’RE THE CHIEF BEAUTICIAN HERE?
V: YES, SIR.
MORE LIKE CHIEF TORTURER.WITH A SEDUCTIVE SMILE – VENUS CAST HIS CRUEL SPELL. THIS IS NOT THERAPY … IT’S BRUTALITY.
BUT THE WORST WAS YET TO COME.BEFORE I COULD SAY AYURVEDIC ALOE VERA – MY FACE WAS ENCASED.
JH: I CAN’T SPEAK, VENUS.VENUS!?
V: YES SIR?
JH: I CAN’T SPEAK: BLIND, MUTE AND IMMOBILE – THE PRINCESS AND HER HENCHMAN HAD TRANSFORMED ME INTO A HOT-PINK REPLICA OF THE ENGLISH PATIENT. PERHAPS IT’S THE SECRET OF SHAHNAZ HUSAIN’S SUCCESS – FACES WHICH CAN’T TALK CAN’T COMPLAIN.BUT AS LONG AS PEOPLE STAY OBSESSED WITH BEAUTY – THIS PRINCESS WILL PROFIT.
SUPER: “COME IN!!!!”
(00:39)SUPER: “NO NO NO. PUT IT BACK”
00:00:45 (HINDI)SUPER: “NO NO NO. PUT IT BACK”
METICULOUS, FASTIDIOUS AND AMBITIOUS … BEAUTY IS SHAHNAZ HUSAIN’S BUSINESS.UPNATSOT: CHASTISING MAID…. BIG BUSINESS.
14:12 IT’S VERY LONELY ON THE TOP, JUST STANDING UP AND SAYING I PROMOTE AYURVEDA, I REPRESENT INDIA, WE’RE THE BEST.
BEFORE THE DAYS OF ANTIBIOTICS AND COSMETIC COMPANIES … AYURVEDICS HAD AN ANSWER TO EVERYTHING FROM HEADACHES TO HAIR-CARE.IT’S A HERBAL, SPIRITUAL FIX-ALL GROUNDED IN HINDUISM’S ANCIENT TEXTS.AND SHAHNAZ HUSAIN HAS BUILT A 2-HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR DYNASTY BY BOTTLING THOSE TRADITIONAL POTIONS … AND SELLING THEM TO THE WEST AS HERBAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS.
JH: ARE YOU THE PRINCESS OF THE POWDER PUFF?
I’M VERY GOOD AT MY JOB BECAUSE OUT OF SHEER PRACTICE OF SO MANY YEARS. I NEVER HAVE ANY EMBARRASMENT SAYING WHAT I WANT TO SAY AND I’M NEVER SHY. (ENDS T3:14:37)
15:26:16SHE IS DEFINITELY A WOMEN WHO’S TAKEN SOMETHING VERY HUMBLE YOU KNOW, LIKE A HOMEGROWN RECIPE LIKE A HOME GROWN COSMETOLOGY, SOMETHING FROM THE BACKWOODS AND MADE IT GLOBAL. 15:16:28(CUT) ….
30 YEARS AFTER OPENING HER FIRST SHOP IN NEW DELHI – SHAHNAZ HUSAIN BOASTS 485 SALONS AROUND THE WORLD. “SUCCESS” MAGAZINE HAS CALLED HER THE WORLD’S GREATEST WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR.NOT BAD FOR THE GIRL WHOSE STRICT, CONSERVATIVE PARENTS MARRIED HER OFF WHEN SHE WAS JUST 15.
OH SHAHNAZ HUSAIN IS ENTIRELY SELF MADE. SHE WAS AFTER ALL JUST A MUSLIM GIRL WHO CAME FROM THIS EXTREMELY ORDINARY BACKGROUND SO TO PUSH AHEAD IN THIS GLAMOROUS WORLD OF COSMETICS, IT IS MIND BOGGLING.15:21:09. (ENDS 21:17)
ALMOST AS MIND-BOGGLING AS THE SELF-PROMOTION -- EXALTING HER AS CRUSADER AGAINST WESTERN COSMETIC COMPANIES. … “NATURAL” INDIA AGAINST THE SYNTHETIC WEST.
WHEREVER THERE’S AN OUTSTANDING PERSON, 90 PER CENT WILL BE AN INDIAN … CUT … (24:13) SO I THINK INDIA HAS A TREMENDOUS FUTURE. WHETHER THE WESTERN WORLD WANTS TO ACCEPT IT OR NOT IS THEIR PROBLEM.
(T3:04:29)NO PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING WHO’S THE BOSS AROUND PLANET SHAHNAZ.LIKE ALL ROYALTY WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD EYE SHADOW, THIS PRINCESS HAS BUILT A PALACEAND IT’S LIKE NO OTHER.
JH: WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR UNIQUE SENSE OF STYLE?PSH: (LAUGHS) IT’S IN YOUR GENES, YOUR BORN WITH IT.
EVEN IN THIS CASTLE OF KITSCH ..SUCCESS DOES HAVE IT’S BURDENS:SUCH AS MANAGING THOSE BOTHERSOME SERVANTS. THEY’VE DONE IT ALL WRONG . THEY’VE PUT ALL THE FLOWERS - ALL THREE IN ONE LINE – AND I HAD DONE IT TOTALLY DIFFERENT. THERE ARE SEVERAL SERVANTS PER FLOOR – WHO DO NOTHING BUT TIDY AND WASH AND CLEAN. THAT’S THEIR JOB.
JH: HOW MANY SERVANTS DO YOU HAVE WORKING HERE?
PSH: IN THE BUILDING ABOUT A HUNDRED IN ALL THE FLOORS. (00:19:20)
5:13:30 SUCH ARE THE TRAPPINGS OF SUCCESS – I BECAME WOOED BY A NARCISTIC FANTASY. I FOOLED MYSELF THAT I TOO COULD JOIN THE RANKS OF HER HERBAL, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
SO PRINCESS I’M WONDERING IF YOU’D BE SO KIND AS TO GIVE ME A FEW BEAUTY TIPS?PSH: WELL, YOU’VE GOT A DRY SKIN. WHY DON’T YOU GO INTO OUR SALON AND SEE HOW GOOD OR BAD WE ARE?
JH: I’D LOVE TO GIVE IT A TRY.
PSH: MOST WELCOME. COME!
JH: THANK YOU.
BUT I WOULD NOT BE THANKING HER FOR LONG.
THE PRINCESS TELLS ME I’VE GOT DRY SKIN. CAN YOU HELP?
V: YES SIR. MY NAME IS RAFIQ VENUS
JH: VENUS? MR VENUS?
V: YES, SIR.JH; AND YOU’RE THE CHIEF BEAUTICIAN HERE?
V: YES, SIR.
MORE LIKE CHIEF TORTURER.WITH A SEDUCTIVE SMILE – VENUS CAST HIS CRUEL SPELL. THIS IS NOT THERAPY … IT’S BRUTALITY.
BUT THE WORST WAS YET TO COME.BEFORE I COULD SAY AYURVEDIC ALOE VERA – MY FACE WAS ENCASED.
JH: I CAN’T SPEAK, VENUS.VENUS!?
V: YES SIR?
JH: I CAN’T SPEAK: BLIND, MUTE AND IMMOBILE – THE PRINCESS AND HER HENCHMAN HAD TRANSFORMED ME INTO A HOT-PINK REPLICA OF THE ENGLISH PATIENT. PERHAPS IT’S THE SECRET OF SHAHNAZ HUSAIN’S SUCCESS – FACES WHICH CAN’T TALK CAN’T COMPLAIN.BUT AS LONG AS PEOPLE STAY OBSESSED WITH BEAUTY – THIS PRINCESS WILL PROFIT.