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take much to lure folks to Goa. On December 8, the draw was particularly
irresistible at the Marriott.
What with celebrity Goan boys—fashion designer Wendell Rodricks
and pop singer Remo Fernandes—teaming up for the first time for "The
Remo/Wendell Rodricks Experiment", a ramp show of Rodricks' Craftworks
Collection set to music from Fernandes' new album India Beyond.
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| Xavier strikes a pose (above); Rodricks drapes Arora
on stage (below); Vijay Mallya and Shobhaa De at the post-show do |
The seven models (Fleur Xavier, Malaika Arora) gave up the privacy of
the green room just this once-the dress-changes between sequences and
make-up were done on stage. Fernandes didn't sing. The 56-minute soundtrack
of his new age ambient album was played as "calming music" to
offset the frenzy on stage. The post-show party, at Ozone, India's first
designer bar, paled in comparison. The experiment worked!
-Natasha Israni
Talent Search
At the Channel V party celebrating the launch of yet another VJ hunt
at Delhi's Le Meridien discotheque CJs last Saturday, spunky VJ Kim (right)
stood on one leg for the benefit of the cameras. She needn't have tried-the
cameras would have clicked anyway. There  was
more in store. Around midnight, the burly bouncers stood aside in astonishment
to let in yet another burly customer, a saffron-clad sadhu-actually Bombay
Boys producer Manu Kumaran-who strode in imperiously. Kumaran was
in the capital shooting for his next film and was presumably dressed like
a saint to honour a holy vow-whatever that means. Earlier in the evening,
there was more bonhomie: over 40 hopefuls landed up for the audition at
CJs, the first in a series of VJ hunts and corollary weekend parties in
Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Goa. Sounds like more balancing acts for
Kim.
-Samrat Choudhury
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| Jadeja teeing off (left); Haque and Fuller on stage
(top); Chivas Regal chief Dhiren Chauhan (middle); the party goes
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On Course
Time: 11 p.m., December 9. Venue: Delhi Golf Club. The second Chivas
Regal Invitational Golf Challenge had ended a few hours earlier and the
party was beginning to swing. On stage, former VJ Sophia Haque
and fiance, ex-Channel V chief Jules Fuller were belting out Twist
again with Mumbai band Aquaflow. The mood was of celebration: the Indian
Airlines team of M.P. Singh and D.K. Ahluwalia had won. In the Individual
Stableford category, the 10-handicap L. Talwar beat Ajay Jadeja
(handicap 8) on net score. Jadeja wasn't around. Nor were cricket pals
Kapil Dev and Ian Botham, all of whom had played. So was anyone
missing them? Not likely: actor Mamik (Aamir Khan's brother in
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander) was talking of grass and Manali and the
band's guitarist Elvis was telling everyone he looked like Jesus Christ.
The tourney's next leg is in Mumbai in February. Hopefully the loo there
is easier to find and people don't ask: "So is it okay if I piss
on the 18th hole?"
-Samrat Choudhury
French Connection
Delhi fashionista Ritu Beri may have shown umpteen times in Paris,
but amchi Mumbai? It has been four years. At the Kingfisher fashion awards
in Mumbai's Turf Club last week, Beri got her opportunity, showing her
spring-summer Nirvana collection: from asymmetrical western silhouettes
to a cheeky embroidered lehenga show-stopper with missing side panels
that exposed model Jesse Randhawa's (left) hips partially. The
collection was presented to the live music of Frenchman Claude Challe.
He now plans to open a Nirvana Lounge nightclub in Paris in January; Beri
will design livery for the crew. No wonder, Beri brags: "He loves
my clothes."
-Himanshi Dhawan
 Printing
History
Movie classics apart, filmmaker Satyajit Ray also made an impressive
30,000 sketches for his children's magazine Sandesh. Some of those now
find place in "Wood, Metal, Paper", an exhibition tracing the
history of print in Bengal at Kolkata's Seagull Resource Centre. Ray's
grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, was a printing pioneer. So
was father Sukumar Ray. Says curator Ujjal Chakraborty who knew
Ray for over 20 years: "It was difficult to escape the Ray influence."
Always is.
-Labonita Ghosh
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