I’ll be back!
I’ll be back!
They both took to politics via cinema. On Monday Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa met Arnold Schwarzenegger who was in her capital for the music launch of a forthcoming film directed by Shankar. “It was fantastic to sit down with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa before our event tonight (Audio launch of ‘I’) and talk about her state’s success and challenges. That’s the advantage of being an actor who was also a Governor!” tweeted Arnie. We, meanwhile, can’t get over those shoes.
Happy homecoming
False alarm
R eserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was speaking at a FICCI function at a SoBo five star on Monday morning when the hotel’s fire alarm went off. This was not a security drill but an actual alarm. A false one, as we later found out, but what was surprising is that neither the Governor who continued to speak through the clangour, only his furrowed brow betraying emotion, nor any of the esteemed guests, made a move to leave the room. And here we thought that regulators understood only too well the importance of alarms as advance warning of trouble. Or is it that Raghuram Rajan restricts himself to the economy?
In the Math capital
C hennai sure seems to be drawing ‘em Hollywood types these days. While Arnie’s visit was drowned in hype, almost unnoticed in town was the crew of The Man Who Knew Infinity, the biopic of mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan starring a dhoticlad Dev Patel as Ramanujan (pictured), Jeremy Irons and our favourite comic actorwriter Stephen Fry who has been tweeting, not very originally, about Chennai’s spicy curry. The film directed by Matt Brown is based on a 1991 biography by Robert Kanigel. The crew that shot in Chennai and a village at Kumbakonam left for New York on Monday morning.
Tailpiece
T he diarist was pleasantly surprised to see Mumbai girl and now HRD minister Smriti Irani strolling through posh Khan market with her husband Zubin who has since relocated from Dahanu to Delhi. The couple was there, without any security trappings, looking for kitchen stuff for their new bungalow and also some feng shui plants and chimes. Guess Smriti who has caused much comment with her high profile ministry, needs all the luck.
We also saw two Delhi University students walk up to the minister and thank her for withdrawing the fouryear undergraduate programme. Must say we do like Smriti’s low key style.
They both took to politics via cinema. On Monday Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa met Arnold Schwarzenegger who was in her capital for the music launch of a forthcoming film directed by Shankar. “It was fantastic to sit down with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa before our event tonight (Audio launch of ‘I’) and talk about her state’s success and challenges. That’s the advantage of being an actor who was also a Governor!” tweeted Arnie. We, meanwhile, can’t get over those shoes.
Happy homecoming
U day Shankar, CEO of Star India and one of the smartest media executives there is, is creating news of his own. The diarist can reveal that Uday and his wife Anupama have just bought themselves a sprawling 3, 400 sq ft (carpet) flat on the 14th floor of an under-construction building at Breach Candy next to the Singhanias’ JK Tower. Why that should make news is because realty circles are abuzz over the whopping prize that’s been paid for the home. At Rs 1.30 lakh per square foot this deal is the second highest in Mumbai after last year’s sale of a flat in Darshan on Mount Pleasant Road at Malabar Hill which went for Rs 1.35 lakh per square foot.
False alarm
R eserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was speaking at a FICCI function at a SoBo five star on Monday morning when the hotel’s fire alarm went off. This was not a security drill but an actual alarm. A false one, as we later found out, but what was surprising is that neither the Governor who continued to speak through the clangour, only his furrowed brow betraying emotion, nor any of the esteemed guests, made a move to leave the room. And here we thought that regulators understood only too well the importance of alarms as advance warning of trouble. Or is it that Raghuram Rajan restricts himself to the economy?
In the Math capital
C hennai sure seems to be drawing ‘em Hollywood types these days. While Arnie’s visit was drowned in hype, almost unnoticed in town was the crew of The Man Who Knew Infinity, the biopic of mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan starring a dhoticlad Dev Patel as Ramanujan (pictured), Jeremy Irons and our favourite comic actorwriter Stephen Fry who has been tweeting, not very originally, about Chennai’s spicy curry. The film directed by Matt Brown is based on a 1991 biography by Robert Kanigel. The crew that shot in Chennai and a village at Kumbakonam left for New York on Monday morning.
Tailpiece
T he diarist was pleasantly surprised to see Mumbai girl and now HRD minister Smriti Irani strolling through posh Khan market with her husband Zubin who has since relocated from Dahanu to Delhi. The couple was there, without any security trappings, looking for kitchen stuff for their new bungalow and also some feng shui plants and chimes. Guess Smriti who has caused much comment with her high profile ministry, needs all the luck.
We also saw two Delhi University students walk up to the minister and thank her for withdrawing the fouryear undergraduate programme. Must say we do like Smriti’s low key style.
