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Soha Ali Khan's 'The Perils of Being Moderately Famous' is an easy read

While Khan, much like most of her family, has been a Bollywood actor, she isn't as "famous" as her parents

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The Perils of Being Moderately Famous, Author: Soha Ali Khan, Publisher: Penguin, Pages: 210, Price: Rs 299

Manavi Kapur
At a Women in the World event hosted by Tina Brown in 2015, Soha Ali Khan was on the panel organised by beauty brand Dove. She was their brand ambassador and was on the panel to talk about unrealistic standards of beauty that women in general and Bollywood actors in particular subscribe to. “It took me three hours to look like this,” Khan proclaimed in a rare moment of sobering honesty from someone belonging to the film industry. Petite, slim and everything that fits the “perfect” woman bill, Khan was asked a question, rather cheekily, from someone in the audience.

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