These boots are made for stalking
These boots are made for stalking
Actor Sonam Kapoor in stealthy, all-black garb at a Bandra studio on Sunday
WHO says Halloween is an all-American festival? For a city that ne’er sleeps, Mumbai’s seasoned party folks are only too happy to play dress-up at the drop of a witch’s hat. Over 1,000 people attended Dino Morea’s events company bash at a Worli five star hotel, including Sonam Kapoor dressed wickedly as Wednesday Addams and Preeti Jhangiani as a Sardar gentleman. But the private fun was saved for Tanya and Arvind Dubash’s scary soiree at their Worli Sea-face duplex. A table full of pumpkins greeted Roohi Jaikishan (who was bringing in her birthday the next morn), Shweta Bachchan Nanda (more of a Mumbai socialite than a Delhi daughter-in-law with the amount of time she spends here), Ness Wadia and his beautiful girlfriend Hannah, who dressed so imaginatively as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’hara.
Running out of fizz?
IN January this year they announced they were splitting their professional alliance. What they didn’t say was their marriage was on a sticky wicket too. Parle Agro’s CMO and Joint MD Nadia Chauhan and Sajan Raj Kurup, founder of CLA, the advertising agency Parle had commissioned for the past eight years, are on shaky ground. Friends of the two say they have been separated since February this year and are trying to work their issues out. Nadia, 29, is one of the daughters and heiresses of Parle Agro’s Prakash Chauhan. Kurup and she have two children: fiveyear-old daughter Nia and two-year-old son Kian. “Like many couples, we are facing our share of ups and downs,” Nadia tells this diarist. “But we are not getting divorced and hope to work this through.” And we hope so too.
Snap-chaat
BEING invited for dinner at one of the poshest residences in the world could have its downside. We don’t mean not having a dress that’s not snobby enough. But ask Masaba Gupta, Madhu Mantena, Jacqueline Fernandez and her manager, and a score or so others, who were guests at the launch party of the MAMI film festival over the weekend. All of them have been down with a bad case of food poisoning. We hear the chaat counter was the devil here and whoever has a propensity for street-food seems to have fallen prey. May we suggest it’s best to eat street food on the street? And a little hand-wash in the kitchen?
Rising to the occasion
THE India ambassador of One Billion Rising, Eve Ensler’s global campaign against violence against women, Kamla Bhasin, launched the trailer of Madhureeta Anand’s Kajarya in Delhi yesterday. The feature film that has travelled to many film festivals deals with sex selection in India. “As an Indian, I feel ashamed that over 40 million girls are missing in India, because they were either not allowed to be born or are killed. The families that give up on their daughters are educated and the medical establishment is also party to this heinous crime. There is a law against this crime and yet sex-selective abortions continue in India. Kajarya is a powerful film, directed by a passionate woman, Madhureeta Anand, trying to jolt us and make us rise against this violence,” says Bhasin ahead of the film’s trailer launch yesterday. Kajarya, played by Meena Hooda, is a villager who is tasked with killing female infants, while Ridhima Sud plays a journalist.
Tailpiece
THIS Thursday, a suburban five-star sees a megawatt dinner with 40 exclusive guests, many of whom are international journalists. A spokesman for the hotel labels this an evening full of surprises, with pyrotechnics, dancers and elephants brought in to kick in the festive season. The first round of save-the-dates were sent out by Malini Vachani Akerkar, wife and partner of restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, and photographer Sheena Sippy, who were roped in to co-host. The two ladies and the hotel didn’t see eye to eye on certain matters and the ladies opted out. “We had some differences so Sheena and I didn’t pursue any further, but it was all amicable,” says Vachani Akerkar. We also hear many on the ladies’ guest list have declined too, but Vachani Akerkar didn’t comment on this.
Actor Sonam Kapoor in stealthy, all-black garb at a Bandra studio on Sunday
Chills and thrills
WHO says Halloween is an all-American festival? For a city that ne’er sleeps, Mumbai’s seasoned party folks are only too happy to play dress-up at the drop of a witch’s hat. Over 1,000 people attended Dino Morea’s events company bash at a Worli five star hotel, including Sonam Kapoor dressed wickedly as Wednesday Addams and Preeti Jhangiani as a Sardar gentleman. But the private fun was saved for Tanya and Arvind Dubash’s scary soiree at their Worli Sea-face duplex. A table full of pumpkins greeted Roohi Jaikishan (who was bringing in her birthday the next morn), Shweta Bachchan Nanda (more of a Mumbai socialite than a Delhi daughter-in-law with the amount of time she spends here), Ness Wadia and his beautiful girlfriend Hannah, who dressed so imaginatively as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’hara.
Running out of fizz?
IN January this year they announced they were splitting their professional alliance. What they didn’t say was their marriage was on a sticky wicket too. Parle Agro’s CMO and Joint MD Nadia Chauhan and Sajan Raj Kurup, founder of CLA, the advertising agency Parle had commissioned for the past eight years, are on shaky ground. Friends of the two say they have been separated since February this year and are trying to work their issues out. Nadia, 29, is one of the daughters and heiresses of Parle Agro’s Prakash Chauhan. Kurup and she have two children: fiveyear-old daughter Nia and two-year-old son Kian. “Like many couples, we are facing our share of ups and downs,” Nadia tells this diarist. “But we are not getting divorced and hope to work this through.” And we hope so too.
Snap-chaat
BEING invited for dinner at one of the poshest residences in the world could have its downside. We don’t mean not having a dress that’s not snobby enough. But ask Masaba Gupta, Madhu Mantena, Jacqueline Fernandez and her manager, and a score or so others, who were guests at the launch party of the MAMI film festival over the weekend. All of them have been down with a bad case of food poisoning. We hear the chaat counter was the devil here and whoever has a propensity for street-food seems to have fallen prey. May we suggest it’s best to eat street food on the street? And a little hand-wash in the kitchen?
Rising to the occasion
THE India ambassador of One Billion Rising, Eve Ensler’s global campaign against violence against women, Kamla Bhasin, launched the trailer of Madhureeta Anand’s Kajarya in Delhi yesterday. The feature film that has travelled to many film festivals deals with sex selection in India. “As an Indian, I feel ashamed that over 40 million girls are missing in India, because they were either not allowed to be born or are killed. The families that give up on their daughters are educated and the medical establishment is also party to this heinous crime. There is a law against this crime and yet sex-selective abortions continue in India. Kajarya is a powerful film, directed by a passionate woman, Madhureeta Anand, trying to jolt us and make us rise against this violence,” says Bhasin ahead of the film’s trailer launch yesterday. Kajarya, played by Meena Hooda, is a villager who is tasked with killing female infants, while Ridhima Sud plays a journalist.
Tailpiece
THIS Thursday, a suburban five-star sees a megawatt dinner with 40 exclusive guests, many of whom are international journalists. A spokesman for the hotel labels this an evening full of surprises, with pyrotechnics, dancers and elephants brought in to kick in the festive season. The first round of save-the-dates were sent out by Malini Vachani Akerkar, wife and partner of restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, and photographer Sheena Sippy, who were roped in to co-host. The two ladies and the hotel didn’t see eye to eye on certain matters and the ladies opted out. “We had some differences so Sheena and I didn’t pursue any further, but it was all amicable,” says Vachani Akerkar. We also hear many on the ladies’ guest list have declined too, but Vachani Akerkar didn’t comment on this.
