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METROSCAPE
No Kidding
V may not have realised it yet. But it has committed
a big boo boo. A contest on the music channel asks viewers the question:
What Hindi film song does Nicole Kidman dance to in the film Moulin Rouge?
Never mind the options. The answer anyway is "none of the above".
Yes, this much-awaited Kidman-starrer features the song Chumma chumma
to which Urmila Matondkar shook a shapely leg in the Bollywood film ChinaGate.
But no, Kidman is nowhere on the scene when the song makes a fleeting
appearance in Moulin Rouge. A pity for cine-goers who were hoping to compare
the Hollywood star's dancing skills with Matondkar. Greater pity, considering
that Kidman dances her way through the rest of the glitzy film set in
19th century Paris. But how did V slip up? "I think it's a marketing
ploy by Channel V because Kidman almost dances to the song. I mean, just
as the last word of the song ends, she rises from below the stage,"
reasons a hapless Gaurav Sabharwal, spokesperson for 20th Century Fox.
It might be some compensation that the film's director Baz Luhrmann flew
in to Mumbai for the premiere last week. Now if Kidman comes too, perhaps
all will be forgiven.
-Anna M.M.
Vetticad
HIGH SPIRITS:
When it rains, it pours beer. Mumbai's party-hoppers had enough excuse
to let their hair down last week when the UB Group's Millennium Alcobev
Ltd (MABL) relaunched its Sandpiper beer with not just one spirited party,
but a profusion of dos sprinkled across the week. The venues-from Mumbai
discos Beyond 1900's and Avalon to restaurant-bars Sidewok and Watering
Hole-had guests like Indipop crooner Mehnaaz (far left) and now-back-in-the-party-circuit
Sangeeta Bijlani (right, centre) enjoying more than just their mugfuls.
The Las Vegas theme nights that the parties were, roulette tables, croupiers,
and games were also thrown in. Behind the bar, Gladrags Mega Model 2001
first runner up Zinobia Boocha and Miss India 2000 finalist Raavee Gupta
kept the guzzlers and games going.
-Natasha
Israni
Flash Gordon
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Sen and Narang
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Mumbai's maverick restaurateur Sanjay Narang
has done it again. A glitzy launch party last week was a fitting prelude
to the opening of Gordon House Hotel, Narang's first "boutique hotel",
in Colaba. As expected of any Narang do, the city's sleek set showed up
in eager numbers to raise a toast, stealing the limelight from the hotel's
new eateries-Tides, All Stir Fry and Noodle Bar. Spotted making heads
turn were Lara Dutta with beau Kelly Dorji, Shah Rukh Khan with energetic
son Aryan, Kabir Bedi with daughter Pooja, newly-weds Suman Ranganathan
and Gautam Kapoor, and adman Prahlad Kakkar. Models Marc Robinson and
Waluscha D'Souza blissfully walked hand-in-hand, as did Narang with lady-in-waiting
Sushmita Sen. The only announcement that came though was that Narang's
pounding South Mumbai discotheque Three Flights Up that he had earlier
shut down, would soon be reopening at Gordon. But this time only for exclusive
members by invitation.
-Natasha
Israni
 HAVING
A BALL: "A man wiping the lady as though
she were a towel." No, not an excerpt from the Kamasutra but a description
of another activity that necessitates close contact between a couple-ballroom
dancing. The phrase incidentally refers to Cha Cha Cha. At idea (a fitness
studio run by actor Anil Kapoor) in Mumbai last week, new German-trained
ballroom dance instructor Sandeep Soparkar, 26, demonstrated the Samba,
Jive, Waltz and Slow Fox trot. Soparkar, who has choreographed for Zubeidaa,
brought along actress Kitu Gidwani, whose slinky manoeuvres injected necessary
glamour into the proceedings.
-Natasha
Israni
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