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METROSCAPE
Time To Act
First ever theatre
appearance of Twinkle Khanna in India!" screamed the invite. Important
point not mentioned: All The Best, performed at Delhi's Kamani Auditorium
last week, also starred three talented actors who go by the names Vrajesh
Hirjee, Iqbal Azaad and Raghvendra Sharda. Another point: this hilarious
even if sometimes politically incorrect comedy about three friends-one
blind, one deaf, one mute-has already had a run of 296 shows in its Hindi
version, well before Twinkle happened. "But she is the crowdpuller,
so what's wrong with only putting out her name?" asks Veena Chadha
of Samagam, the cultural group that organised the show. "If we had
put out the names of the others, probably people would not have come."
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| LOVE QUADRANGLE: Khanna with Sharda,
Azaad and Hirjee |
So can Twinkle act? It's hard to tell from her
films, since she rarely rises above being a glamorous mannequin on screen.
But All The Best proves that she's evolved considerably since her Barsaat
days, that with a nip here and tuck there she might even be good some
day. Says producer Feroz Khan who originally cast Twinkle for a recent
US tour of the play: "Honestly, she's been a pleasant surprise."
She could do without the tom-tomming though.
-Anna M.M.
Vetticad
Scene Of A Century
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| DIFFERENT HOPES: Works by Chittaprosad
and Ara (right) |
The Exhibition: Changing Images, a pictorial
melange of 20th century Indian art brought to Mumbai's Jehangir Gallery
by Delhi Art Gallery. The gallery has been gathering old works of art
for some time now and releasing them to the public (and to auctioneers
abroad) drop by drop.
Curatorial misadventure? Well almost.
You have to be pretty gutsy to claim that the show represents an entire
century of Indian art. It's far too sketchy.
Why it works: Because many of the artists,
though not as celebrated, were crucial in the evolution of modernist imagery.
And the show also has some unusual works by more famous artists. But don't
expect any fireworks ... the pictures are safe, staid and stock, much
like most of contemporary India. And they can be appreciated strictly
in a regional context.
Who/what to look out for: Chittaprosad,
the sensitive Bengali draughtsman who caught the desperation of the Great
Bengal Famine in pen and ink. Also Ravi Verma's atypical landscape, Abanindranath
Tagore's Forest Night, K.H. Ara's Degas-like nude and Prabhakar Barwe's
quirky arrangements.
-Anshul Avijit
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| Bhatia (right) with Anish Trivedi and Aditi
Govitrikar |
Fashion Freeway
Predictably the FDCI seized the celebratory
initiative to throw the first party of the LIFW (photos above) at Indigo
restaurant. Among those who showed up was software wizkid (yes, he still
remains one) Sabeer Bhatia who had a polite soundbite ready, "I think
Indian creativity is exciting, at a par with the rest of the world."
Reassuring.
Excitement reached optimum levels at Mumbai
designer Rocky S show on Tuesday night with Hrithik Roshan, wife Suzanne
Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Preity Zinta and Ameesha Patel cheering wildly.
The showstealer was Rahul Dev in an off-shoulder tight tee with a hint
of pink lining-the idea being that if women can flaunt their clavicle,
why not men?
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| Hrithik Roshan at the Rocky S
show |
Tarun Tahiliani with Indigo's
Rahul Akerkar and Atul Kasbekar |
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| Massimo Redaelli of IMG Models,
Europe, with Sumeet Nair and Ravi Krishnan |
Glamorous guests at the Indigo
party |
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