Waris Ahluwalia in April 2013. The sunglasses are made in France and are available in four colors. Ahluwalia's first film was "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004) by Wes Anderson, as Vikram Ray, with a cast that included Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Cate Blanchett. He played a short role in Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed "The Grand Budapest Hotel". His film "Beeba Boys", directed by Deepa Mehta and starring Randeep Hooda, was released on October 16, 2015. In February 2016, Ahluwalia stated he was barred from boarding an Aeroméxico flight secondary to his turban and that therefore he was
The Grand Budapest Hotel particular brand of artificiality that I like to use is an old-fashioned one." He had previously used miniatures in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and more extensively in "Fantastic Mr. Fox". In designing the hotel, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen did extensive research, looking at vintage images at the Library of Congress of hotels and European vacation spots. Also visited were existing locales such as the pastel-pink Palace Bristol Hotel and the Grandhotel Pupp, both in the spa town of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic as well as the Grandhotel Gellért in Budapest, Hungary. The model used was