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METROSCAPE
Act Of Faith
With her latest
theatre performance as a desperate Broadway wannabe called Theda Blau,
all tacky clothes and guttural voice, Sharon Prabhakar has come a long
way from her year-end croon capers on Doordarshan. Prabhakar played lead
in a rumbustiously high-energy comic romance called 2BU at Mumbai's Tata
Theatre . Blau is no Evita, though she too is in search of the perfect
man and career.
 She
finds both in an unsuspecting roly-poly TV producer Vita Pignoli (played
by Yashwant Singh) who expresses a passing interest in her. Within minutes
of meeting him, Blau decides he is her Prince Charming. What follows is
a peek into Blau's chaotic life and Pignoli's attempts to escape her.
In proper comic tradition, all ends well and everyone's happy.
Besides the play (directed by her ad-guru husband
Alyque Padamsee), Prabhakar is juggling plans of starting a public-speaking
institute and holding a concert early next year. She was also at pains
to remind all who would listen that besides the breezy comic touch, the
play had an undertone of encouraging faith and personal belief. Wonder
how many people noticed that?
—Himanshi Dhawan
Glamour Games
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LOVE THAT DRESS:
Puri and Chaudhary
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Who said the fashion world is bowing to bindis?
The West still rules, it seemed, when Pria Kataria Puri-whose client list
appears to have Bianca Jagger, Barbara Bush and Ivana Trump-got Mumbai's
super-glitz set to lend their gaze to "occidental couture" as
part of her Fall show at the Taj Hotel.
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SAY CHEESE:
Yash Birla glitters with the girls |
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STARRY, STARRY NIGHT: Jackie Shroff natters with Puri's
husband Sameer
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But on the ramp it was mostly good old kurtas
with faux fur, heavy Indian jewellery doubling up as hair ornaments and
plenty of lehngas. The flirtation with the occident went as far as some
asymmetrical necklines and bootleg trousers.
The happy-and-married strut clubbers Malaika
Arora, Noyonika Chatterjee, Vidisha Pavate and Rajlakshmi Roy stood out
on the ramp.
Actor Mahima Choudhary, a friend of Puri's, beamed
down the ramp in a heavy gold, antique lehnga and bustier, making many
in the crowd wonder whether the bridal walk would inspire her into a walk
down the aisle with rumoured beau Leander Paes. Chaudhary laughed off
such visions with "That lehnga was so heavy-I think it'll be a long,
long while before I don a lehnga for my own marriage!"
—Natasha Israni
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