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METROSCAPE
Fashion Freeway
The black passes at Lakme's fashion finale party
at the Taj Rooftop were to kill for. Shobha De was in poised red and Parameshwar
Godrej plunged in a little golden number. The lift was crowded, and got
stuck when a shapeless Vijay Arora leapt in to join Rohit Bal's entourage
which screamed, "Someone's overweight! Must be Vijay!" The night
before at Mayfair Rooms, toy boys danced amatory circles around Gudda,
a grotesque gyration of supplication in a laser-spattered cabaret of applause.
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| Babajee with her model beau |
Devika Bhojwani captured the mike and Sunil Alagh
loved it. Model Viveka Babajee in an asymmetrical knee length dress was
glued to her beau while ubermodel Yana Gupta kept to herself on the little
dance floor. Diandra Soares carried her birthday cake around in the company
of Vidisha Pavate and Diya Abraham among others, Jessy Randhawa in a Gavin
Miguel dress was the party showstopper, while Tarun Tahiliani, in a cobalt
blue chikan kurta, complained woefully of ... er ... a muscle spasm. Achala
Sachdev had more curves on her than clothes while Anuradha Mahindra, as
usual had let her hair down. Malini Ramani left early-"stressed out"
she was ... hold it ... taking the slow bus to Goa!
-Natasha
Israni
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Birthday babe Soares with Pavate
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Bal and Kumar with model Rahul
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Health
Beat
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| CASSETTE OF CONCERN: Mishra (right)
with Shah |
How do you tell a person about a "delicate"
matter? Bursting into song might be inappropriate. Not for Sonata Foundation,
a Kolkata-based non-profit organisation. Last week the group released
Songs for Life, an album of eight Bengali tracks that deal with AIDS.
By the end of this month, they will bring out 70,000 more copies to be
distributed by panchayat-level workers as part of an innovative awareness
pitch. The lyrics-mostly penned by Sonata workers from their experiences-tackle
the taboo is two ways: a direct-approach that sounds like a medical almanac
set to music, and another more coy and allegorical technique. "Bengal
is a low-risk state, but it won't stay that way forever," warns Health
Minister Surya Kanta Mishra, who released the cassette along with Governor
Viren J. Shah. Certainly no reason to be on song.
-Labonita
Ghosh
 SHOOTING
STARS: The Bollywood fever in Kolkata started when Anil Kapoor and
Rani Mukherjee dropped by to promote their latest release Nayak, even
taking time out to shake a leg at a local disc. Aamir Khan and his Dil
Chahta Hai troupe followed, though they were not as dance-floor friendly.
What's it with these star dos? "Sophisticated films like these are
no longer raking it in the cow belt. The east is the new target,"
quipped a wag. That had to be it!
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