In step with the rest of us
In step with the rest of us
TV commentator and former Pakistan ace batsman Rameez Raja who is in town for the CEAT Awards steps out to take in a glorious Mumbai sight
Conscientious coupling
Correction: It was previously reported that Rega Jha is the daughter of Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha. This is not accurate. We were misinformed and we apologize for the same.
No room of one’s own
DIRECTOR Neeraj Ghaywan’s been pounding the pavements of Versova and Lokhandwala, looking for a new flat to rent – and apparently winning national awards and being feted at Cannes, doesn’t cut ice with the city’s hard-nosed housing societies. It’s not that he’s too picky – he’s seen and selected four, and been turned down, because “filmy bachelors are not allowed” he says. About to sign the dotted line on one last week, after the landlord who lives abroad had given the go-ahead, he was rejected at the last minute by the building corp for not having the “right profile”. Now the neighbourhood is packed with young men making their way in the industry, so why would Ghaywan be singled out so? Turns out most of the young men are happy to pad their resume a bit, claiming a fictional family, or a nice settled job with an MNC, something the director is uncomfortable doing. There’s an inconvenient truth for you.
Capital move
A few weeks ago, we unravelled for you the knotty legal wrangling of the Amarchand Mangaldas brothers, Shardul and Cyril Shroff. The split of the country’s largest legal firm has birthed competing interests, and as the two brothers bickered, legal eagle Zia Mody swooped in to poach some of their top talent. Cyril is biting back now – he’s lifted a long time Zia loyalist, our Mumbai dikra Percival Billimoria, right out of her camp. Ever since Percy shifted the party to Delhi, to his Chattarpur farmhouse to be precise, we’ve been rather cross with him, but for this new move we wish him the best, even though he says he’s quite gutted to be leaving. Hmmm, we’re sure there are ‘compensatory’ factors to fill the void.
Rerouted funds
THE India Foundation for the Arts helps many a young (by which we mean inquiring) mind with grants to bankroll or sustain their work – but what when the folks who’re in charge need some guidance of their own? The foundation’s young and charismatic executive director, Arundhati Ghosh took on a two-month leadership fellowship in London, and just got back last week. She’s still reliving the exhilaration of some “awesome” sessions with cultural leaders, and hoping to fix the “faultlines” she discovered in herself. But it was the ‘steely demeanour and piercing look’ of the head of MI-5 (just like Judi Dench, was Ghosh’s expert academic opinion) which made the deepest impression. Hopefully she won’t be subjecting the fresh batch of funding hopefuls to new interrogation techniques – we doubt the disposition artistic will hold up.
Tailpiece
HE is the really rude contestant from Bigg Boss and she is the really haughty girl from Chak De and naturally when the twain met, sparks flew. The two, we hear, are now a couple and are often spotted by her Versova neighbours often going off for post-midnight spins in his BMW. What has the poor neighbours flummoxed though is the couple’s insistence on wearing baseball caps to camouflage themselves. It’s not exactly as though the paps are chasing them.
TV commentator and former Pakistan ace batsman Rameez Raja who is in town for the CEAT Awards steps out to take in a glorious Mumbai sight
Conscientious coupling
LITTLE blue birds are chirping all around Tanmay Bhat. No dear readers, we’re not snapping on the heels of social media trends, you know us better than that. We mean the birds that suddenly appear, every time love is near. Even as political parties burn effigies, Bhat’s long-time girlfriend, Rega Jha is his pillar of support, staunchly in his corner. And she’s no backdrop prop either – the feisty and funny 24-year-old is the Indian ed head for one of the world’s largest content sites. While Bhat’s feeling the heat for turning it up on two Mumbai mega-icons, the flame between them burns bright fuelled by a commitment to common causes. Given how short media memory is, here's a timely reminder - Bhat's last foray onto the video chatting app also got a lot of hits- for embracing feminism, which Rega champions too. It sure is a brave new media world.
Correction: It was previously reported that Rega Jha is the daughter of Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha. This is not accurate. We were misinformed and we apologize for the same.
No room of one’s own
DIRECTOR Neeraj Ghaywan’s been pounding the pavements of Versova and Lokhandwala, looking for a new flat to rent – and apparently winning national awards and being feted at Cannes, doesn’t cut ice with the city’s hard-nosed housing societies. It’s not that he’s too picky – he’s seen and selected four, and been turned down, because “filmy bachelors are not allowed” he says. About to sign the dotted line on one last week, after the landlord who lives abroad had given the go-ahead, he was rejected at the last minute by the building corp for not having the “right profile”. Now the neighbourhood is packed with young men making their way in the industry, so why would Ghaywan be singled out so? Turns out most of the young men are happy to pad their resume a bit, claiming a fictional family, or a nice settled job with an MNC, something the director is uncomfortable doing. There’s an inconvenient truth for you.
Capital move
A few weeks ago, we unravelled for you the knotty legal wrangling of the Amarchand Mangaldas brothers, Shardul and Cyril Shroff. The split of the country’s largest legal firm has birthed competing interests, and as the two brothers bickered, legal eagle Zia Mody swooped in to poach some of their top talent. Cyril is biting back now – he’s lifted a long time Zia loyalist, our Mumbai dikra Percival Billimoria, right out of her camp. Ever since Percy shifted the party to Delhi, to his Chattarpur farmhouse to be precise, we’ve been rather cross with him, but for this new move we wish him the best, even though he says he’s quite gutted to be leaving. Hmmm, we’re sure there are ‘compensatory’ factors to fill the void.
Rerouted funds
THE India Foundation for the Arts helps many a young (by which we mean inquiring) mind with grants to bankroll or sustain their work – but what when the folks who’re in charge need some guidance of their own? The foundation’s young and charismatic executive director, Arundhati Ghosh took on a two-month leadership fellowship in London, and just got back last week. She’s still reliving the exhilaration of some “awesome” sessions with cultural leaders, and hoping to fix the “faultlines” she discovered in herself. But it was the ‘steely demeanour and piercing look’ of the head of MI-5 (just like Judi Dench, was Ghosh’s expert academic opinion) which made the deepest impression. Hopefully she won’t be subjecting the fresh batch of funding hopefuls to new interrogation techniques – we doubt the disposition artistic will hold up.
Tailpiece
HE is the really rude contestant from Bigg Boss and she is the really haughty girl from Chak De and naturally when the twain met, sparks flew. The two, we hear, are now a couple and are often spotted by her Versova neighbours often going off for post-midnight spins in his BMW. What has the poor neighbours flummoxed though is the couple’s insistence on wearing baseball caps to camouflage themselves. It’s not exactly as though the paps are chasing them.
