Many lives: Actor & entrepreneur Lara Dutta Bhupathi is a woman on the go

Having launched Arias three years ago, 'after two years of R&D', she is determined to make a dent as the go-to, affordable, quality Indian brand in a very competitive segment

At a time when the film industry, facing its worst crisis in a long while, went into a cocoon, Lara Dutta Bhupathi found herself in one of the most productive phases of her life.

Between 2020 and now, at the height of the pandemic, she had three web series — Hundred (Disney+ Hotstar), Hiccups & Hookups (Lionsgate Play), Kaun Banegi Shikharwati (ZEE5) — and a film, Bell Bottom, where she essayed “the role of a lifetime” as Indira Gandhi. She also organised the biggest celebrity-driven fundraiser for Covid relief in India in collaboration with TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs, a Silicon Valley-headquartered