Besties no more?

They dolled up in the same kind of clothes, wore the same face paint and defined their brows in such a shade of black that I actually found it hard to tell them apart. Until recently, Mimi Chakraborty , Nusrat Jahan,

Sayantika

Banerjee and, to an extent, even Tonushree Chakraborty, were four bodies, one soul.Their Gulabi Gang -the filmi title they took on for the group -was about happy faces pouting, posing and creating a stir on social media. I remember, only last November, at the concluding party of Kolkata International Film Festival, one of them spilled the beans on how they shared beauty tips all afternoon! And there were other things too, as beauty is not just skin-deep. From had-been and would-be boyfriends to work and travel, the girls were each other's secret keepers. But differences cropped up recently -so much so that the girls finally disbanded Gulabi Gang. The story goes that Sayantika, unhappy about the distribution of work in You Know Who's team, which repeats its heroines like old faithfuls, was left bickering after a lion's share of films went to Mimi and Nusrat. Tonushree, known to work outside the production house and spend time with rumoured beau Rajkumar Gupta in her free time, was never part of the discord and Sayantika still shares the same camaraderie with her. But Mimi and Nusrat, who are still thick, don't seem to be on Sayantika's speed dial anymore.Though Sayantika and Nusrat partied with

Tonushree

at Rajkumar Gupta's Diwali bash, the BFFs have moved away from each other. With Sayantika landing a meaty role in Srijit Mukherji's next, things are yet to be sorted out. I'll like to see them melt a bit like the pancake they sport on their pretty faces.