Lets party tonight at Ekta's

The hosts were four — Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Gupta, Apoorva Lakhia and Dharam Oberoi. The invite was simple and sent through SMSes: "10 pm. Be there at Ekta's new home in Juhu Scheme to celebrate the completion of the first schedule of White Feather Films' Shootout At Lokhandwala. Bring in director Apoorva Lakhia's birthday and Neha Oberoi winning the Best Supporting Actress for a film down South."

Sunil Shetty whizzed in early and before anybody could pin him down, Anna whizzed out. He tells us, "I had been up till 5 am and was very tired. I stayed back in my office in the suburbs till 11 pm just so I could wish Apoo (Lakhia) as I am very fond of him. I was there for exactly seven minutes."

Apoorva Lakhia

Manisha Koirala came in with her new arm candy, 25-year-old Akshay whom she refused to introduce to anybody.

Koena Mitra (who has lost even more weight working out at home) was another early bird but she didn't run out at Cinderella's hour. She made it abundantly clearthat she doesn't drink every time someone asked her, "where's your glass?"

At 1 am, three cakes were wheeled in and the celebrations began Viveik Oberoi seemed to be enjoying himself and was seen in a deep conversation with designer Nandita Mahtani. They got along like a house on fire. Dino wasn't in sight.

Tusshar Kapoor walked in late after having gone for the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada. That didn't stop him boogeying to the title track of his film, Golmaal when it was played. When Ekta finally breezed into her party, she looked hot in a strapless black dress. She seemed to be relaxed and in good spirits setting the dance floor afire with Kahiin Toh Hoga's latest entrant.

Arbaaz and Malaika Khan, Chunky Pandey (with shorter hair, thank God!) sans wife Bhavna, Gulshan Grover, Raj Zutshi, Bunty Walia with his unusually subdued wife, Suman (she's normally full of beans at a party), Aarti Chabria, Masumi, Neha Dhupia, Sikander Kher (sans parents Anupam and Kirron) represented the filmi brigade while Eijaz Khan andAnita made an entry together after a long time, Shabbir Ahluwalia (wonder what Eijaz and he were conversing about for such a long time?), a cheerful Hiten and Gauri (coming from rehearsals of Nach Baliye), Ekta's new babies, Naman Shaw and Pulkit Samrat, Prachi Desai with sister, Akashdeep sporting his black tikka from Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Rohit Roy with wife Manasi, but without big bro Ronit and Urvashi with best friend Shanelle. This was one party where the TV stars outshone the filmi crowd with most of the Bollywoodwallahs making an early exit by 2 am.

The party rocked till 3.30 am but we missed Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal (who is said to be close to Lakhia) and Anil Kapoor — who lives right next to Ekta's new home!