If you are a fashion follower, it's impossible to have missed spying Anu Emmanuel.
Sweet as a pie. Insanely chic. Unimaginably pretty in ethnic threads. She has found a spot among IG's go-to gals of style.
And the actor can easily pen 101 Lessons On Festive Indian Dressing even though she was born in Chicago.
Her wardrobe must brim with silks, chiffons, satin, florals and when she gets togged in them, all her fans can repeat, stumped, 'saab se sundar tum ho'.
Calling herself, ruefully, a 'beautiful mess', she chooses to 'stay a mystery' because 'it's better', she says.
The only time she looks back is to see how far she's come or give followers a glimpse of her spicy masala-wallah backless numbers.
Chocolate cake is her favourite, but it's rare to spot her in that rich shade of brown, because avowedly pink is her thing.
Action Hero Biju marked her debut in the Malayalam movie industry, while Tamil and Telugu films continue to be her stronghold.
All photographs: Kind courtesy Anu Emmanuel/Instagram
It's a good colour to refresh your wardrobe arsenal with for the rains and brighten the cloudy gray days.
The gol jalebi earrings have a charm of their own.
Indeed, that Telugu film could have been written for her.
She might be American by birth and grew up in Dallas, but glamorously swathed in a Benarasi, she's the girl all the eagle-eyed, trad-bad aunties at Indian weddings are on the hunt for, for their sanskari sons.
Are we the only ones who think she's matched the sari to her phone case :)))?
The yawn-inducing neutral ribbed top and skirt get a economy-cattle-class-to-biz-class-type upgrade with that crisscross of back straps that even GPS cannot unravel.
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