PV Sindhu is the name which made India proud at the Rio Olympics 2016. She is the first Indian woman to win a Silver Medal at the Olympics. As a result, she has become very famous and the endorsements came running to her door steps.

This made her triumph allow us to glam her up for the first time ever. Here is the Champion Shuttler PV Sindhu in a never-seen-before avatar. The Hindustan Times has joined with Sindhu to make her look even more beautiful.

“As an eight-year-old badminton tyro, when her father PV Ramana drove her all the way to the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy from Secunderabad, she never complained about the 56-kilometre daily commute. For eight years, the commute was the time when Sindhu and her dad chatted about the sport’s highs and lows, her mental preparation and how much she looked forward to the pre-dawn training sessions with Gopichand.”

It was on another long-distance journey that the 21-year-old, the first Indian shuttler to reach an Olympic final, realized she’d made a smooth landing on the nation’s collective psyche. This time Sindhu was checking thousands of messages that had flooded her Twitter timeline on the flight back from Rio.

“I had got my mobile phone back after three months and thankfully we had Wi-Fi on the flight. As soon as I unlocked my phone, there was a torrent of congratulatory messages for the Olympic silver. I became so emotional that I spent the rest of the 16-hour flight responding to every message. Although it had been an exhausting three weeks, I didn’t feel sleepy, or tired,” remarks Sindhu.

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The back-breaking commute is a distant memory. The family has since shifted to Kokapet near Gachibowli and today, the celebrated Olympic silver winner breezes into the academy every day, driving her gleaming red BMW 320d, gifted to her by V Chamundeshwarnath, President of the Hyderabad Badminton Association. “I enjoy driving it. We stay close by and I had a good car even four years ago. But the BMW is still special because it arrived along with the realization of my childhood dream: of winning a medal at the Olympics,” says Sindhu with a smile.

“Ever since I was 10 and began taking the game seriously, I’ve worked towards this. Before me, no woman from India had won an Olympic silver. That’s a record nobody can take away. Now, I need to do well in the All-England championship and Super Series events,” she says. On November 19, Sindhu lived up to her promise by winning the Super Series China Open, beating local favorite Sun Yu in the final. But once she returns home in December, it will be back to the 4 am training sessions under the eagle eye of Pullela Gopichand.

Rapid five with Sindhu:

1. Why is playing baddy good for everybody?

Playing badminton for 30 minutes every day is a complete workout that can suit everybody irrespective of their gender.

2. Your goal for the Premier Badminton League this year…

Giving fans in India’s cities an opportunity to watch Carolina [Marin] and me play in flesh and blood after seeing us on television in Rio and hopefully, taking the Chennai Smashers to the finals.

3. What is the coolest thing about life on the badminton tour?

The shopping! On the way back, mostly at airports, I like to indulge in some retail therapy. Like any girl my age, I love buying good clothes and make-up.

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4. We hear you are a cinema buff…

Yes, I love both Bollywood and Tollywood. My favorite Telugu actors are Mahesh Babu and Prabhas. But it has become tough to watch a movie in a theater after the Olympics. The last Hindi film I watched was Salman Khan’s Sultan and in Telugu, it was Naga Chaitanya’s Premam.

5. Your biggest indulgence?

Hyderabadi dum biryani with mutton keema and fish cooked by my mother.

Source: Hindustan Times

Images Source: Hindustan Times

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