A moment that’s special

Chef Vikas Khanna—who has previously served as the judge of an Indian cooking reality television show—has hosted numerous celebrities at his New York restaurant, Bungalow, and his most recent visitor may easily be among the most notable too. Khanna shared on Instagram why Hollywood star Anne Hathaway’s visit held immense significance. “I still remember the day I had to delete all the files of [Hathaway’s film] The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City from my computer. I had saved these files to watch on a loop on hospital beds with my sister. I can’t even recall how many times Radha, Saman Mahmood, and I watched them together. She adored Anne Hathaway and knew all the dialogues by heart. She was happiest reciting every line from DWP. Somehow, I memorised them too. This was her painkiller,” he wrote. Vikas’s sister, Radhika Khanna, passed away in 2022 after battling lupus for many years. “Thank you, Anne, for taking away her pain when we repeated, ‘Everybody wants to be us,’ and laughed. I photoshopped my Radha into the photo, right next to her hero. I know she was there.”

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