Siddharth Mallya

Aanchal Kumar and Candice Pinto

No, it’s not Siddharth Mallya (where was Deepika Padukone btw?!) but People Magazine and Maruti Suzuki SX4 hosted “The Sexiest Party 2010” to celebrate the Sexiest Man Alive! Special edition and the ‘Men are back’ theme on Wednesday…

Spotted: Shriya Saran, Kulraj Randhawa, Rocky S., Chetan Bhagat, Arjan Bajwa, Hrishant Goswami, Queeni Dhody, Sandeepa Soparkar & Jesse Randhawa, Arunoday Singh, Salim, Angad Bedi (with his mommy), Sabina & Anil Chopra, Anchal Kumar, Candice Pinto, Vir Das, Masaba Gupta, Shaheen Abbas, Nachiket Barve, Anita Dogre, Ayushman Khurana, Milind Luthria, Shilpa Saklani & Apoorva Agnihotri, Raghav, Shweta Salve, Karan Grover Singh, Teejay Sidhu, Karanveer Bohra, VJ Bani, Chhaya Momaya, Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan.

Angad Bedi with his mother

Arjan Bajwa

Jesse Randhawa and Sandip Soparrkar

Masaba Gupta

Rocky S. with Models

Shriya Saran

Vir Das with girlfriend Shivani

But wait, who IS the Sexiest Man Alive?

Apparently that would be Salman Khan – shirtless. Hmm.

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It was a year ago that we first asked Miss Malini to give BollySpice her report on the star studded GQ Men of the Year awards. How time does fly! Once again we go to the great Miss Malini to give us all the fabulousness that is the GQ India Men of The Year Awards 2010! Check out who won and who was there and especially check out the host with the most, Rahul Khanna who helped out the divine M with pics from the event!

Rahul Khanna (photo courtesy @R_Khanna)

Last year I remember being pretty psyched about my proximity to Bollywood royalty at this event, this time I was busy soaking up sunshine poolside at the Udaivilas in Udaipur so I couldn’t attend GQs glam night at the Grand Hyatt on Sunday evening, but that’s never stopped me from scoring you some pictures has it? 🙂 I’m sure those who attended drooled amply over Rahul Khanna, Aamir Khan, John Travolta and Arjun Rampal on my behalf. Ok, so I have to ask, are Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor attending gigs together because they have a movie coming out or movie karte karte pyaar ho gaya? I’m just saying!

Psst! Rahul Khanna (now one of my favorite peeps, on and off Twitter) tweeted these picture post the show. Lol. Too cute na? Follow him now @R_Khanna. Wanna know who the winners are?

Here’s a list!
GQ Legend award – John Travolta
Writer of the year – Rana Dasgupta
Designer of the year – Ashish Soni
Excellence award – Rohan Bopanna
Global India – Nikesh Arora
Most Stylish Man award – Arjun Rampal
Artist of the year – Subodh Gupta
Ultimate GQ Man award – Abhishek Bachchan
Businessman of the year –Adi Godrej
Excellence award – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Sportsman of the year – Arjun Atwal
Lifetime Achievement award – Naseeruddin Shah
Producer of the year – Karan Johar
Women of the year – Priyanka Chopra
TV personality of the year – Arnab Goswani
Actor of the year (presented by Chivas)- Ranbir Kapoor
Agent of Social Change award – Narayana Murthy
Cinematic icon award Aamir Khan

Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra

John Travolta and Aamir Khan

Kabir Bedi

John Travolta and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Arjun Rampal and Meher Jessia

Naseruddin Shah

Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Karan Johar

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Shabana Azmi (pretty in pink!)

When someone like the legendary Shabana Azmi turns 60 you can bet Bollywood’s big guns will come out and celebrate. (Even if it means running into an ex in the case of Rekha and the Big B.) It looks like Shabana had an amazing birthday party at the new super club, Trilogy, Sea Princess Juhu last night amid a motley mix of friends, family and selected colleagues from the film industry. (Dude, I hope I look that happy when I turn 60!) Shabana revealed, ”…all the arrangements for the party were done by my gal pals, Parna (best friend for decades), Shahana Goswami and my sister-in-law Tanvi.” You know, I was just marveling the other night when we randomly happened to watch Amar Akbar Anthony how gorgeous she was then, and even now (when I last spotted her at a play at the NCPA.) For her birthday she wore my favorite color, hot pink.. and from the pictures it looks like they told everyone to wear headgear. Of course some took this way more seriously than the others, check it out!

Rekha

Amitabh Bachchan & Jaya Bachchan

Sandhya Mridul

Mansi and Rohit Roy

Amrita Rao

Divya Dutta

Anil Kapoor, Farah Khan and Zeenat Aman

Vidya Balan

Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek and Jaya Bachchan

Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Jeetendra Kapoor

Nita Ambani

Anil and Tina Ambani

Ritesh Sindhwani and Farhan Akhtar

Parmeshwar Godrej

Ratna Pathak, Rekha and Naseeruddin Shah

Spotted: Javed Aktar playing host, Amitabh & Jaya Bachchan, Anil & Tina Ambani, Nita Ambani (looks Mukesh Bhaiya gave this one a skip to avoid running into baby bro), Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rekha, Farhan Aktar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Parmeshwar & Adi Godrej, Nita Ambani, Rhea Kapoor, Farah Khan, Anil Kapoor, Tabu, Dia Mirza, Amrita Rao, Rohit Roy (what no Ed Hardy? This was your chance boy! Lol.), Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam, Salim Sulaiman, Sunidhi Chauhan, Alyque Padamsee with his daughter Shazaan Padamsee, Zeenat Aman, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Gurinder Chadha, Farah Khan, David Dhawan, Yash Chopra, Ayan Muhkerji, Bijon Das Gupta, Rakesh Roshan, Vidya Balan, Divya Dutta (love her sari), even Ritu Kumar hopped over after her show at Fashion Week along with Anita Dongre and finally Rashmi Uday Singh trooped in with a cowboy hat and a cowboy hat themed cake!

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MissMalini’s Top 5 Bollywood Songs to Dance to (right now now now!)

So I just burnt a CD (or two) for a friend of a friend who wanted some tunes to play at her wedding sangeet, which got me thinking that really I should keep you posted on the hot tracks in B-town just in case you are a) also getting married or b) know someone who is and have to do the customary synchronized song-and-dance right? Bear in mind this is entirely based on the stuff that I’m currently tripping on (and what I’m hearing pretty much every weekend at my favorite clubs in Bombay.) Here are the Top 5 Bollywood songs to bust a move right now! Oh and I decided to go with the videos so you can pick up some moves to fit the beats.

‘Uff Teri Ada’ (Karthik Calling Karthik OST)

Starring: Farhan Akhtar & Deepika Padukone
Sung by: Shankar Mahadevan & Alyssa Mendonsa

Like I said I really liked this movie and this song in particular was pretty damn awesome. The reason it has this excellent electronic edge to it is because the Midival Punditz & Karsh Kale put it together. #WIN!

‘Prem Ki Naiyya’ (Ajab Prem ki Gazab Kahani OST)

Starring: Ranbir Kapoor & Katrina Kaif
Sung by: Neeraj Shridhar, Suzanne D’Mello

This is my personal favorite. Something about this songs makes we want to jump up and dance (sometimes on a speaker, sometimes on a bar) Its just a fun, crazy, happy song and its kinda cool because when we go out everyone does the moves from the video in sync, learn them now!

‘Tere Liye’ (Prince OST)

Starring: Vivek Oberoi & Aruna Shields
Sung by: Atif Aslam

No idea what it is about this song but people are going ker-azy over it right now. Even clubs that don’t play Bollywood will shrug and blast this now and then. Its catchy though and a lot of my very “Bollywood” friends just LOVE to act out all the words, good fun!

‘Tera Hone Laga Hoon’ (Ajab Prem ki Gazab Kahani OST)

Starring: Ranbir Kapoor & Katrina Kaif
Sung by: Atif Aslam

Another fabulous, soul-stirring Bollywood biggie. Its interesting that the most mushy movie songs are actually the most fun to dance to (after enough liquid motivation that is!) Also clearly with a voice like that, Atif is so the man (and everybody across the world seems to think so!)

‘Dhan Te Naan’ (Kaminey OST)

Starring: Shahid Kapoor & Priyanka Chopra
Sung by: Sukhwinder Singh and Vishal Bharadwaj

I don’t think I need to introduce this song, its the ultimate dance-your-pants-off Bollywood party song inspired in entirety from a song off the Pulp Fiction soundtrack called “Miserlou” for a change however we weren’t the first ones to rip it off. The Black Eyed Peas composed “Pump It” (cool video btw) along similar lines (I’m guessing they asked first though.)

*’Amplifier’ (Album: Unforgettable)

Sung by: Imran Khan

*Oh and here’s a bonus track. This is a bit random but for some reason people LOVE this song (and I must confess its growing on me.) The lyrics are INSANE/HILARIOUS “ni gaddi sadi bedhja ni jattiye, ni door tenu lehja, we arriye, ni woofer tu meri,meri, mein tera amplifier, fier”
Lost in translation: “babe jump into my car, I’ll take you far, you’re my woofer, I’m your amplifier, fier.” Lol!

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I got the chance to interview Rahul Bose today about his upcoming release The Japanese Wife (which by the way, sounds like my kinda movie). The bitter-sweet souffl

Saturday night’s star-studded ceremony featured some of Bollywood’s biggest acts with of course a shimmering parade down the red carpet first! Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan returned as the masters of ceremony along with Karan Johar (clearly the trio are a well-oiled machine.) The winners included; Best Film and Best Director (Rajkumar Hirani) for 3 Idiots, Best Actor & Best Actress to Amitabh Bachchan & Vidya Balan for Paa. Boman Irani bagged a well-deserved Best Supporting Actor for 3 Idiots, Kalki Koechlin for Dev.D. while A.R. Rahman’s music won for Delhi – 6. Meanwhile the critics favored director Nandita Das for Firaaq, Ranbir Kapoor in Wake up Sid, Ajab Prem Ki Gazan Kahani and Rocket Singh, Mahie Gill for Dev.D.. And now here are the more “juicy” highlights, just like I promised; the good, the bad and the ugly way!

The Good…

– Katrina Kaif sizzled on stage with a range of hits from Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani (and oddly) Britney Spears’ 1,2,3.
– Riteish Deshmukh serenaded his current fav Jacqueline Fernandes, on stage to Nach Ve from Jaane Kahaan Se Aayi Hai.
– Deepika Padukone danced to her very popular tracks Uff Teri Ada and Twist.

– Shahid Kapoor raised the bar with his tribute to Michael Jackson on Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel, Dangerous and Smooth Criminal (moon walk et al).
– Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan also got Sexomatic and Chiggy Wiggy (I would normally have filed this under *barf* but I like them more than I hate that song!)
– Bollywood’s real life couples Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan and Hrithik & Suzanne Roshan attended the Filmfare Awards 2010 night together hand-in-hand, awwwww.
– On receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award Shashi Kapoor simply said ‘thank you’.

The Bad…

– Salman Khan hit the stage with a medley of his all time favorites from Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, Andaz Apna Apna, Judwaa, Partner, Wanted and London Dreams – paired with Kareena Kapoor for eye-candy. I’m sorry but the dude can’t dance. Not anymore anyway, since his upper body is about as flexible as a brick wall and my apologies to the Kareena fans but I really don’t think Kareena’s that pretty at all but she definitely dances better than him! (Psst! Kareena missed the awards cos she was shooting an ad film – that’s why SRK Twittered that he missed her – but she pre-recorded her performances for the telecast – clever!)
– Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif are nowhere near being BFFs. Why? Over a boy of course! Ranbir Kapoor seems to be the bone of contention between these two so they gave each other the cold shoulder backstage even though they were both performing. But they’ve ignored each other before so no biggie really.

And The Ugly!

– Is it just me or is Vidya Balan looking a little aunty-esque here? Anyhoo, aunty Balan went up and collected both the Best Actor and Best Actress awards on her lonesome-ownsome. Why? Because the Bachchan’s are pissed, that’s why!
The Bachchans flip Filmfare

The Bachchans flip and skip Filmfare (don’t get too excited this picture is from a pro-voting campaign!)

-And how! Ever since The Times of India tabloid, Mumbai Mirror printed that article about Aishwarya Rai’s pregnant pause (to which she wrote this scathing reply) Bollywood’s first family would have nothing to do with an award show hosted by the same media house. Big B announced the news on his blog that the whole Bachchan family and Paa director Balki is going to miss Filmfare this year:

“There is much here that needs explanation and it would need expanse and more time. Suffice to say for the moment that despite a few personal apologies from management, no public apology has taken place. You cannot abuse me in public and then come and say sorry to me in private. So even though we have great relations with the family in ownership and despite the fact that we have continuously responded to their needs whenever desired, unstintingly – the lawyers notice has been delivered to the editor of Mumbai Mirror, seeking on a legal plane retraction and apology and we have informed Filmfare that neither will Aishwarya be performing at the event, for which all preparations had been made and neither shall any of us be attending. Which includes Balki the director of the film, even when Paa has been nominated in five categories for the evening. No coercion, just a voluntary decision of solidarity. Thank you Balki!! Instead he shall be coming over to discuss a few new and exciting ideas for our next film!! Couldn’t have chosen a better time!!!”

Oh boy and in your face! So ummm…Vineet Jain – who’s your daddy now?! (Sorry I just felt like saying that, he seems like the guy who usually gets everything he wants!)

Filmfare’s fashion victims

– Every award show has them. The ones who show up looking straight up fugly! (What kills me is how much money they must have dished out to look like that!) Mugdha Godse wore a sheer purple colored saree straight out of blingy saas-bahu serial. Mahi Gill’s black-brown gown was a close second (on the disaster scale) to her cakey foundation. Lara Dutta who used to be so stylish (what happened?) wore a voluminous Chinese satin gown. (Heads up ladies, it’s never a good sign when “voluminous” is the only word left to describe your dress.) Simi Garewal looked a little like a danish pastry in her dress (just another reminder of her sickly sweet rendezvous style) and Shruti Hassan looked a bit like an out-of-work fetish model in a beige Christian Dior ensemble. Oh dear.

And there you have it, everything you needed to know (relatively) about the Filmfare awards this year.

Watch: The 55th Idea Filmfare Awards will be telecast on March 7th at 8:00 pm on Sony TV. You can even watch online, woohoo, this is where it’ll be happening with a 🙂

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In a blog titled Aamir Khan & Katrina leave us full of Love & Longing in Bombay she gives all the scoop!

Aamir Khan & Katrina Kaif

Dr. Vijay Mallya (Chairman UB Group), Aamar Khan, Arun Dutt (Guru Dutt’s son), Katrina Kaif and Karan Johar

OMG, can I please just first tell you how unbelievably gorgeous Aamir Khan is in the flesh? I’ve been listening to this whole 44-playing-a-22-year-old debate with some trepidation, but now that I’ve seen him up close and personal I can tell you he’s still way cuter than any 22-year-old could ever hope to be, seriously the man is smoking hot (yes yes Katrina’s gorgeous too and dude what a sari!) And now that I’m done gushing my heart out here’s the gossip from CineBlitz Gold’s book launch titled “Love & Longing in Hindi Cinema”.

So we all know these things never start on time, but I get the feeling there was high drama involved at the Taj Lands End, Bandra on Monday night when the press (who had been waiting patiently for the event to begin) started getting restless about two hours in. Quite a lively bunch the press, particularly one lady in green who seemed intent on starting some sort of riot! Enter Vijay Mallya. Now just before he walked in I heard a few whispers about how “The Chairman” had not yet left. Left where? His house? The yacht? Who knows, but when he did eventually make it to his very own Cine-glitzy book launch he looked flushed (and dare I say ever-so-slightly sauced up?) Eventually when Katrina Kaif, Aamir Khan and Karan Johar were escorted in they totally blanked him and assumed the PR position (aka smile & nod).

Now given my Aamir Khan bias and the perfectionist he is, my theory is that AK was probably bang on time. Katrina perhaps a paint-dab-or-two later (ditto Kjo) but Mr. Mallya meanwhile was knocking back whiskey’s somewhere and lost all track of time, eventually hitting up the Taj Lands End about 2 hours late and coming very close to loosing his celebrity star power for the press; hence the slight lost puppy avataar and a fair amount of rambling about the benefits of booze (much to Aamir’s amusement). A source confirms, “Mallya was late so they both were waiting for him to arrive, there is no answer to why he is late. That’s his style everybody knows it. AK was at his house near by & KK was at Mehboob studio.”; See? Elementary my dear Watson.

Vijay Mallya on booze & Bollywood

Katrina Kaif

Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif

Once the press caught sight of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif though, all was forgiven and the most rapid fire of camera flashes I have ever seen ensued, well at least until the cute emcee announced how we were all here to celebrate love and LUST! Amazing. (Love & Longing my girl love & longing, Bollywood’s still working its way up to lust!) Aamir was eloquent, Mr. Mallya was every bit the terrible tycoon you’d expect him to be and Katrina batted her eyelids nervously (she also took the opportunity to drop two hints about wanting to work with Aamir, Kjo were you listening?!)

Nishi Prem (Editor CineBlitz) Dr. Vijay Mallya, Aamir Khan, Arun Dutt, Katrina Kaif and Karan Johar

Overheard…

Mallya: “The first thing I ask the editor of OK! magazine when I see her is, are you OK?”
(drunk or sober, you be the judge)

Press: “Katrina zarra Hind mein please!”
Katrina: “That was Hindi you just thought it was English!”
(clever but sounds like she’s used that before!)

Press: “Aamir what’s the most romantic pair that you’ve worked with?”
Aamir: “What’s the most romantic pair that I’ve worked with? The only romantic pair that I’ve worked with that I’m not a part of is Ajay & Kajol in Ishq!”
(lame press question #fail)

Press: “Karan you said your favorite romantic scene is from QSQT but you’ve used the romantic slow-dancing-in-the-rain sequence twice (in Kuch Kuch Hota Hain and Dostana) then how come that’s not your favorite scene?”
Karan: “Because it isn’t!”
(lol, love that.)

Press: “Aamir who is your favorite leading lady?”
Aamir: “K-k-k-k-k-k Kiran!”
(and score!)

Pyaasa: Waheeda Rehmaan & Guru Dutt, Katrina Kaif & Aamir Khan

Pyaasa – then and now (Kat doesn’t quite look the part as much as AK does n’est pas?)

Pyaasa – then and now

The book looks amazing though, its a celebration of CineBlitz magazine’s 35 years of cinematic coverage. Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif grace the cover and are meant to be replicating an iconic moment in romantic Indian cinema between Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehmaan in Pyaasa. Guest writers like Karan Johar, Vikram Bhatt, Javed Akhtar, Aamir Khan, Sriram Raghavan have shared their insights on the twin emotions of love & longing and its one of those things every self-respecting Bollywood addict must proudly display on their coffee tables. I couldn’t resist and bought a copy and felt all nostalgic flipping through it, you’ll love it I swear 🙂

You gotta check out Miss Malini’s blog post to see (video and high def no less) even more! As she says: “My super duper eye-candy blog featuring Bollywood heavyweights (no reference to actual size) like Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Karan Johar in high definition video (after a minor set back due to the whole process unfortunately colliding with YouTube’s housekeeping time-line doh!) But we’re here now and that’s what matters.” Besides checking our her blog for more super stories you can also follow Miss Malini on twitter @missmalini and on YouTube.

I know you’ve probably seen TONS of pictures and footage since Bollywood descended on couture week at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai but just incase you missed it here’s a recap bulletin (and loads of eye candy of the Bollywood variety!)

* Bollywood director-turned designer Karan Johar & Varun Bahl launched their men’s clothing line which they showcased at the grand finale (while all the press had a field day with clever headlines like “Karan Johar has designs on men!”)

* The theme was “Rock Star” and the philosophy of the clothes; formal and sophisticated with a modern yet understated tone of Glamor. (Understated? The clothes maybe, but who the hell was looking at the clothes!)

* Shah Rukh & Gauri Khan dazzled at Kjo’s show; Shah Rukh Khan wore a semi formal black shirt, jacket and formal trousers, Gauri was glammed up in gold. Other Bollywood heartthrobs Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor also walked for Karan, first in studded jackets and then single side button suits. (Yummmmy!)

* There was just as much Bollywood off the ramp as on it. Kareena Kapoor looked hot in a red sequined dress along with her beau Saif Ali Khan.

* Priyanka Chopra also wore a golden sequined dress.

* Carol Gracias looked stunning, stood tall and confident. (I’m guessing a lot of double-sided tape was involved.)

* Dino Morea rocked his boxers with washboard abs (OMG Ladies!)

* Spotted at the HDIL Couture grand finale night were Karan Johar’s avid supporters Kajol, Manish Malhotra, Preity Zinta and Hrithik & Suzanne Roshan.Shruti Hasan and Zayed Khan sashayed down the runaway for designer Manav Gangwani. Shruti is wearing an ensemble worth one crore rupees; mostly thanks to her diamond encrusted choli.

* Salman Khan quoted saying, “Katrina never had problems walking down the ramp, her only problem was her acting.”

(Wait, What? Ok ok so I think he really put his foot in it at his recent “Being Human” show, at HDIL Couture Week, all Sallu’s friends walked the ramp for him including; Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. So when Salman was quizzed about the best one on the ramp, he instantly said Sanjay Dutt and then mentioned everyone except Katrina! Of course the paparazzi immediately went nuts pointing out that he missed Katrina’s name to which came that killer reply. Lol! Guess who’s sleeping on the couch this weekend?)

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Last night Olive, Bandra in Mumbai came alive with the haunting lyrics (both old and new) of the incredible Hindi-Urdu lyricist, Gulzar to commemorate the launch of his new book, “100 Lyrics” and to belatedly celebrate his 75th birthday. For those who follow Hindi and love old Bollywood tunes; the kind (as Asha Bhosle said) that had soul, I dug up (with a little help from my BFF Google!) some of Gulzar’s finest lyrics for you’re reminiscing pleasure. Enjoy.

Tere Bina Zindagee Se Koi… (Aandhi)
Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koyi, Shikwa, To Nahi, Tere Bina Zindagi
Bhi Lekin, Zindagi, To Nahi
Kaash aisa ho,tere kadmon se chunke manzil chale, Aur kahin, duur kahin
Tum agar saath ho, manzilon ki kami tho nahin….

Mera Kuch Saaman Tumhare… (Ijaazat)
Mera kuch samaan tumhare paas pada hain,
Ooo, Saavan ke kuch bheege bheege din rakhe hain,
Aur mere ek khat mein lipti raat padi hain,
Woh raat bhula do, mera woh samaan lauta do,
Mera kuch saamaan tumhare paas pada hain…

Amazing right?

According to the press note “the book contains lyrics to 100 of Gulzar’s most memorable songs of all time that have been hand-picked by the artist himself. ‘100 Lyrics’ is a bilingual volume containing the original lyrics in Devnagari script alongside lucid evocative English translations, and features anecdotes about the composition of the lyrics, as well as a wonderful introduction by Gulzar himself; this collection is full of nostalgic charm and poetic finesse, and will delight readers for hours on end. The book has been translated into English by Sunjoy Shekhar.”

Bhupdiner and Mitali Singh performed to some of Gulzar’s iconic melodies much to the delight of Kirron Kher, Pritish Nandy, Anurag Basu, Ayesha Jhulka (remember her from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, haven’t seen her in ages right Last I recall she was in the Umrao Jaan remake.)

Didjya Know?
Gulzar is married to actress Raakhee. They are now seperated but never divorced. They have a daughter Meghna Gulzar.

Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to the arts, and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002.

He has also won a number of National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards in various categories.

In 2009, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Jai Ho” in that year’s smash-hit film Slumdog Millionaire

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While the UK franchise of GQ Magazine held their Men of the Year Awards (now in its 12th year) on September 9th 2009 (Psst! Frieda Pinto was there for that by the way) Alex and Namita Kuruvilla played host as GQ India kicked off its very first awards show last night at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. GQ India celebrated 16 inspirational Indian men (and 2 outstanding women) leaders who shone brightest in their field from sports to politics, film, literature, business and fashion. And dude I have to say what a turn out! Now I’m hardly one to scoff at a fancy party and their (will they show up?) wish-list but I was hardly expecting to share (was it red?) carpet space with the likes of Amitabh & Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Rahul Khanna, Irfan Khan, Karan Johar, Lara Dutta, Abhay Deol and even Priya Dutt all on the same night!

Also Rahul Khanna (who unfortunately does a very good job of remaining out of the press and away from Mumbai) made a dashing appearance as the evenings dishy host and was even yummier than I recall. Plus he’s funny, follow him @R_Khanna on Twitter and you’ll see what I mean. Just before he went on stage he tweeted this picture with the caption, “One of the perks of hosting the GQ Awards… ;-)”

Oh look! I spotted Miss Pinky again sometime later in the lobby but I’ve promised I won’t say anything about her outfit. (See Rahul I did good didn’t I? And thanks for letting me use your picture!) By the way didjya know Dino Morea tweets too @DinoMorea9? Another yummy.

Pre-show the lobby was full of Page 3’s favorite faces (amongst other fairly fruit-ily dressed guests) I spotted A.D. & Sabina Singh, Narendra Kumar Ahmed, Arjun Khanna, (Bollywood’s favorite designer) Manish Malhotra, (Bollywood’s favorite stylist) Anaita Shroff Adajania, Bandana Tewari, Fahad Samar & Simone Singh who was called up to do a last minute award announcement (flawlessly of course she’s a seasoned emcee) got these gorgeous earrings from Calcutta aka Kolkata, apparently there is a flourishing designer jewelry market there, who knew? Devraj & Nikita Sanyal are my peeps, Niki and I used to work together at Go 92.5 FM (what a blast) and Devraj has several high-end jobs (you could call him my inspiration) He’s the Global CEO of Desihits Inc. and also co-owns Brioni India!

Ivana Perovic is one of my favorite party people. She has really great energy and I’ve watched people gravitate towards her at every event, if you ever frequented Not Just Jazz by the Bay many years ago you’ve probably even seen her dancing up a storm with beau Daniel Shah (he owns the once-rocking Club Cabana in Goa, now they want him to give it up because he’s not a local, sucks.)

But like I was saying for an awards show maiden effort they sure packed it chock-full of star power. Also the evening was very tastefully done, cocktails in the lobby (with mood lighting, hence my sunburned picture effects) no crazy Bollywood song-and-dance number between awards and mostly short and sweet acceptance speeches (thank the lord.)

Oh and they flew down two killer acts as well, one was this insanely talented hip-hop dance troupe off “Britian’s Got Talent” (I could just image Abhishek Bachchan bopping to the beat when those guys were dancing and it made me happy inside) and the other a jazz, punk, rock fusion duo on violins that looked like Roxette but played like Vanessa Mae. Sadly the violin-couple got a slightly confused reception and most of the glitterati hot-footed it to the lobby for a drink following an uncomfortable exchange of glances that quite clearly said “don’t look now, they’re not famous but they’re still being weird!” OMG speaking of weird, I just realized never-miss-a-party Kishen Mulchandani was MIA (LOL didn’t get an invite? Could it be?!)

I saw, Abhay Deol, Irrfan Khan, Shashi Tharoor, Karan Johar and Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Omar Abdullah, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Saif Ali Khan, Lara Dutta, Kareena Kapoor, Karan Johar, Malaika Arora Khan, Katrina Kaif, Chitrangada Singh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Dino Morea, Farhan & Adhuna Akhtar, Shobhaa De, Esha Gupta, Queenie Dhody, Simone Singh, A.D. Singh, Harsh Mariwala, Tanya Dubash, Nandita Mathani, Kalyani Chawla, Yash Birla, Manish Malhotra, Narendra Kumar, Chitrangada Singh, Sophie Chowdhary, Sheetal Mafatlal, Atul Kasbekar, Rita Dhody, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Arjun Khanna, Aki Narula and the thalassemia patient Nafisa Piludiya, who was called on stage to meet her hero and Lifetime Achievement awardee Amitabh Bachchan (for approximately 10 seconds.)

Here’s the complete list of winners too…

Writer of the year – Neel Mukherjee
Artist of the year – Atul Dodiya
Designer of the year – Rajesh Pratap Singh
Breakthrough Talent of the year – Abhay Deol
Excellence of the year – Vishal Bharadwaj
TV Personality of the year – Sreenivasan Jain
Businessman of the year – Aditya Puri
Excellence of the year – Kareena Kapoor
Outstanding Achievement of the year – Irrfan Khan
Sportsman of the year – Leander Paes
Excellence of the year – Karan Johar
Inspiration of the year – Shashi Tharoor
Ultimate GQ Man of the year – Saif Ali Khan
Global Indian of the year – Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
Woman of the year – Katrina Kaif
Young Leader of the year – Omar Abdullah
Lifetime Achievement of the year – Amitabh Bachchan

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