Celeb-rating Holi

On Holi, celebrities tell TOI about all the things that add a dash of colour to their lives, besides the festival of course...
Mamta Mohandass: My family, friends and music are what adds the brightest colours to my life. All of them put together define my personality
Sneha Ullal: Undeniably, this festival of colours is what adds colour to my life. It’s a day when I can shed my inhibitions and act like any other young woman my age would.If I happen to a great a break from my shooting, I would celebrate the day too.
Hansika: Colours have always played a very important role in my life. I love Holi — a festival of fun and frolic. My work and my family make my life colourful. In fact now I am now aiming to be like a rainbow in the sky (by attaining professional highs).
Rana Daggubati: Right now my life is very colourful because my debut film has received overwhelming response and I also have a Bollywood film in hand. Family and my friends make my life more colourful.
Sushant: When life is rocking, we say life is colourful to show to suggest that colours are integral part of our existence. Since I adore blue colour, I love gazing at the sky often. And I love Holi because it’s bright, multi-hued and brings in many cheers.
Shraddha Das: New people, new friendships and new thoughts are some of the new colours that I have added to my life. I am looking forward to my Bollywood debut release. So there’s a lot of colour in my life now as I celebrate the festival with my family and friends.
Sonu Sood: I am celebrating the festival of colours on the sets of my film in Panchgani with the cast and crew. My family will also be coming down from Mumbai and I feel it’s family and your loved ones who add colour to your life.
Sammir Dattani: Life is nothing without your loved ones so. So the different people I meet and care about add colour to my life.
Sharvanand: I can proudly say my life is always colourful with my family and friends around me. But success of my films adds the extra tinge to it.
Zulfi Sayed: Colour in my life means being with my family, friends, and work which keeps me going.
Perizaad Zorabian: My family adds all the colours to my life. My parents for their unconditional love and support, my husband for being my soul mate and best friend and two gorgeous babies who remind me every single minute that there is god.
Sophie Chowdhury: My crazy family, travelling to new and wonderful places, beautiful music and movies...and not to forget my wardrobe in which everything is colour co-ordinated. Haha! I see life in technicolour not black and white!
Kashmira Shah: Love, the year around, adds colours to my life. I think love is the most important aspect of life. When you feel loved, you feel in heaven and that’s when you start seeing life in its beautiful colours. Love and be loved and the world will be a better and more colourful place.
Shibani Kashyap: Music adds colours to my life. It adds a spark, a brightness into my life. I can’t imagine myself without music. And yes, I love the Bollywood Holi songs.
Lilette Dubey: My children are like the colour red — a vibrant and joyous colour — that provides meaning to my life. Nature in its beauty is the green which energises and envigorates my life. My work is yellow —- a colour of happiness, fulfillment and nourishment, and pink, the colour of love, suffuses everything with magic.
Vinay Pathak: Being myself and feeling happy makes me feel colourful even on days besides Holi.
Purab Kohli: One can bring colour into one’s life by spreading joy, peace and happiness. And begin by doing that today!
Rajniesh Duggal: This year is special because it’s my daughters first Holi. Being with the two most beautiful women in my life — my wife and daughter— adds a lot of colour to life.
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