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Gauri turns Mannat into Barbados!
Afsana Ahmed
[26 Apr, 2007 l 2128 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK]
Khans plan World Cup party for Bollywood friends
Tomorrow night, Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow Mannat at Bandra will rock in true filmi style.
SRK's lovely wife Gauri, often described as Posh Spice (Mrs David Beckham) among the glamouratti crowd and her friends, is planning a big bash for close friends from the industry.
These Khans don't need an excuse to party, but if there is one, who's complaining! So, the event is being planned as a cricket cheer party for the Australia-Sri Lanka World Cup finals tomorrow night at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
The couple will also celebrate the birthday of Mushtaq Shaikh, their good friend and the author of SRK book Still Reading Shah Rukh. A cake will be cut to bring in Mushtaq's birthday.
The Khans are assured of a packed house.
And guests at Mannat are sure of having great music during the breaks, an elaborate home-cooked dinner, and a gossip session.
A close friend of Gauri's says that the guest list includes Bollywood rockers like Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, Saif Ali Khan, Karan Johar, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, the lovely Tabu who hardly makes public appearances unless the occasion demands, Raveena Tandon alon with husband anil Thadani, Kajal Anand, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder, and Mushtaq Shaikh amongst others.
"Gauri regularly has girlie bashes with her close friends at Mannat, but this time, the party will be bigger and better. She has taken the initiative to organise the party and has been personally calling up all of SRK's friends. They are wonderful hosts. The setting will be really tasteful but also casual — which sums up Gauri's sense of style, elegant yet informal," says her friend.
All the guests are intense cricket lovers. "With India's exit from the World Cup, the excitement level is a little low. But like SRK always says, 'It's the sporting spirit which counts.' So we will forget our biases and root for the best performer," says the source.
The party begins after 10 pm, when everyone, including Shah Rukh Khan, will wrap up their shoots and hurry to Mannat to let the Saturday night fever begin.
Afsana Ahmed
[26 Apr, 2007 l 2128 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK]
Khans plan World Cup party for Bollywood friends
Tomorrow night, Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow Mannat at Bandra will rock in true filmi style.
SRK's lovely wife Gauri, often described as Posh Spice (Mrs David Beckham) among the glamouratti crowd and her friends, is planning a big bash for close friends from the industry.
These Khans don't need an excuse to party, but if there is one, who's complaining! So, the event is being planned as a cricket cheer party for the Australia-Sri Lanka World Cup finals tomorrow night at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
The couple will also celebrate the birthday of Mushtaq Shaikh, their good friend and the author of SRK book Still Reading Shah Rukh. A cake will be cut to bring in Mushtaq's birthday.
The Khans are assured of a packed house.
And guests at Mannat are sure of having great music during the breaks, an elaborate home-cooked dinner, and a gossip session.
A close friend of Gauri's says that the guest list includes Bollywood rockers like Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, Saif Ali Khan, Karan Johar, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, the lovely Tabu who hardly makes public appearances unless the occasion demands, Raveena Tandon alon with husband anil Thadani, Kajal Anand, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder, and Mushtaq Shaikh amongst others.
"Gauri regularly has girlie bashes with her close friends at Mannat, but this time, the party will be bigger and better. She has taken the initiative to organise the party and has been personally calling up all of SRK's friends. They are wonderful hosts. The setting will be really tasteful but also casual — which sums up Gauri's sense of style, elegant yet informal," says her friend.
All the guests are intense cricket lovers. "With India's exit from the World Cup, the excitement level is a little low. But like SRK always says, 'It's the sporting spirit which counts.' So we will forget our biases and root for the best performer," says the source.
The party begins after 10 pm, when everyone, including Shah Rukh Khan, will wrap up their shoots and hurry to Mannat to let the Saturday night fever begin.
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