“IN CASE ACTING DIDN’T WORK OUT, MY PLAN WAS TO DO MY MASTERS IN BRAND MANAGEMENT”

—RAKUL PREET SINGH

professionally-shot, sanitised broadcasts of her life – the kind her peers are likely to put out. Rather, you’ve got Rakul in an apron as an amateur cook, mixing ingredients and baking chocolate pancakes, or her make-up routines in which she appears, surprisingly, sans make-up, slathering on a homemade banana mask on her face. Fans, who log in to get a peep into her life, are rewarded with an unabashed candour, that’s quite refreshing, as it is rare, in the world she inhabits.

You can’t take the golfer out of a girl though. She comes back to the game when it comes to defining her mantra for life. “Golf teaches you that it’s all about the moment, focussing on the shot in hand. It also teaches you balance. You might get a hole in one but that could be a fluke. Next moment, you’ll lose a couple of balls and things will go downhill. On the other hand, things could be going quite badly but suddenly you’ll get an ace or a couple of birdies, and turn things around. Golf teaches you that you shouldn’t get arrogant, and at the same time, never lose hope,” she proffers sagely.

So, what hope do gentlemen golfers, potential suitors as it were, have, when it comes to getting to ‘play a round’ with her? “Pfft!” she says, pooh-poohing the question. “He doesn’t need to play, I can teach him golf! In fact, I don’t care what he does for a living, as long as he does it well. That’s what I live by,” she says with conviction. Right. That settles it. She might be Bollywood’s girl next door, but for most of us hapless golfers, she might as well be on the moon.

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A golf columnist and television producer, Meraj Shah is a former editor

with Golf Digest India. He’s played at 220 courses in more than 40 countries.