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METROSCAPE
Driven To Compose
It's out. Playback legend Asha Bhosle,
a veteran of 12,000 Hindi film songs, has released Aap Ki Asha (Universal),
a CD-cassette and video album of pop songs, all of which have been composed
(and sung) by her. The launch at Mumbai's The Regent, was attended by
celeb fans Sachin Tendulkar, Adnam Sami and Zeenat Aman. Bhosle, who treasures
her dominant position in the MTV/Channel V popularity charts, has again
made a conscious effort to be young and upbeat-she doesn't want her songs
to be heard by old couples alone, she wants "youngsters to enjoy
them too, to get up and dance to them". Not surprisingly, there was
also a fashion show by designer Manish Malhotra with clothes based on
some of Bhosle's earlier hits.
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| SARTORIAL SINGING: Models catwalking to Bhosle's
hit numbers; Bhosle with Tendulkar and Universal's Lazarus |
Bhosle conversion to a tunesmith took time in
coming, more so when she had got offers to be a music director as early
as the 1970s. (She had dismissed the idea as "tough"). But last
year, while travelling long hours on the Mumbai-Pune highway, she effortlessly
hummed around with a few ragas ... which lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri later
moulded into words. And so a composer was born. Could acting be next?
-Natasha
Israni
Cook's Call
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| CHEW THIS: Gulati at Fabcafe |
Perhaps it is true; the personality of the cook
does enter the food. Rupa Gulati is a happy, chirpy, cook and her food
has something mysteriously mood elevating about it. At Fabcafe in Greater
Kailash-I in Delhi last week, the first of a promised series of interactive
events, the celeb chef talked through the preparation of a meal for 40
foodies with all the panache of a druid concocting magic potion. "Let
there be power," she began, and the stove was lit. Then the ingredients
for chilled melon soup, hot honey and mustard chicken salad and summer
fruits with vodka and phalsa sauce were magically transformed. Meanwhile
the evening had progressed to dessert and Gulati was squealing: "I
cook for a living. You think I'm weird?" One might have if the aroma
didn't so interfere with thinking.
For an event that began with a reading from
P.G. Wodehouse of the tragic tale of eggs "not merely burnt but cremated",
the fix that Gulati threw together in barely an hour was the expected
end. For the people the taste of chicken redolent with honey is likely
to remain with them.
-Samrat Chowdhury
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