Bollywood Gallery # 16 - Page 6

Amitabh Bachchan launched Aarti Kochhar's book, which is a compilation of the favourite recipes of Mukesh Ambani, Narayan Murthy and Kapil Dev among others. For a change, Amitabh came half an hour before time and his entry caused a furore in the media and the guests, as all wanted to have a glance at him. WHAT Book launch of Recipes for Success WHERE Crossword, Kemps Corner WHO Amitabh Bachchan, Farzana Contractor, Bijal Meswani..

Kingfisher organised a screening of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Rains played spoilsport as many- couldn't show up. Mika was one of the first to come and partied till the wee hours. Kishen Mulchandani went haywire, and hugged almost everyone. Kishwar Merchant and Hiten Paintal were glued to the screens. WHAT Special screening of Grand Prix WHERE All Sports Bar, Andheri WHO Mika, Kishwar Merchant, Hiten Paintal, Gary Richardson, Kamlesh Hemdev

WHAT Hair styling session WHERE Infinity Mall, Andheri WHO Shabana Azmi, Jimmy Shergill, Pooja Bedi, Sapna Bhavnani, Dilshad Pastakia, Kim Sharma Hair stylists came together for a styling session of sorts. The do went on for the entire day. Saif Ali Khan came and did a vanishing act due to the chaos. Pooja Bedi came late in the evening. Stylists Savio Pereira and Aalim Hakim stood out among the best. Others who visited included Dilshad Pastakia, Asha Hariharan, Mini Mathur, Kim Sharma and Dipannita Sharma. Sapna Bhavnani sported a rock-chic look.

o grud ges, no gila shiqica. She's known to let the proverbial bygones be by- gones, explaining her Mehbooba Mchbooha danceron in Ram ( opol \\ arma ki Aug. Filnunak- ers swear by her cool temperamonL punctuality and talent for making buddies and influencing people. Hiren Kotwani in conversation with Urmila 11atondkar .. Why did you agree to do Mehbooba Mehbooha? Wouldn't you have rather played Basanti or Jhumroo as the character is called in the illm? Trust me, if fd played ifusanti, vou would have asked me. "Why dirinT you do Mehbooha Mehboo- ba, considering your dancing skils?" When I was offiared Mehbooba, 1 don't think I'd have been as happy if Ed been olored Basanti's role. HPsides, you're forgetting that he s not making Sholay. I don t know what exady he's making. What about inevitable comparisons? It would be tremendously unfair to compare my song to Helen's. If at all, compare Himesh Reshammiya s song to Helen. It s acituilly the same song. MaWka Sherawat's outfit, hairstyle and styling in general, everything is exactly like Helen's song. Coming to my song, we didn't want anything to do with the origi- nal, it's turned out \\will think, it makes my heart go dhak dhak. There was this buzz that you would be doing a couple of projects with Ram Gopal Varma s Factory What happened? Tou guys create and kill this buzz. So, you tell me. I don't know what Ramuji's making next. He doesn"1 oither I guess. You were called MF Husain's new muse when you agreed to do his movie. What happened? Husain saab is busy globe trotting aH the time. He's working on a big proj- ent, a museum of sorts. I don't know when he'll make a film but we ve dis- cussed it, I'd love to be a part of it Whenever he makes in Ever come close to marriage? Haap re! No way The closest I've come to marriage is by speaking about it in interviews. Why can't I just be a sexy eligible single woman? Forget marriage, Fre never telt the need to be in a relationship just for the sake of having a man in my life.

IA Oll 11' lsha Shariani can pl over her cricketer beau. Can Kim Sharma be left lx hind? Suna hai Kimi haby was anting a maha- wealthy businessman from Wor1i... and she seemed quite pleased with the way i1 was going. They mm while night Clubbing, Kim was on 1he rebound from Yu\\-raj Singh, and Mr a while it samed that some sugar had returned 10 the Cole gal's life. Then it seems the guy is majorly obsessive... and apni Kim had no choice but to tell him to take a hike. But what about Yuli? ('an't they just kiss and make up? Holme his mum insists on playing the kahah me haddni. I tell you, these saus-bahu situ- alions start even before the soul pheras nowadays