The Cannes 09 schedule is out, and the lasgerst film industry failed to feature here. There is no Indian film that qualified for the prestigious film rendezvous this year!
Now we have to wait and watch which Indian beauty charms the fashionistas at this event!
Some of the New York State’s laws!
WHile in TEXAS, do as the Texans do, becaus eyou could get arrested for misbehaviour like…
Cheers!
OK… I’ve met multi tasking cabbies, but mostly their moonlight jobs are travel agencies, or PIMPING. But yesterday, I was coming back home at 23:00 hrs, and still chatting up my cabbie, to have him ask me if I liked art. Being an art curator, my enthusiasm tripled. Then he started talking about the kinds of painting and sketching. I was hooked and intrigued and bloody flabbergasted!
When he dropped me off, he very politely said, “Btw, I take art classes in the day, here’s my card, call me if you need help. Also, I sell my paintings; come and have a look if you can!” Stumped, and in love, that’s what I was. He’s in my friends list now!
I was surfing the internet for news, my everyday dose of newspapers, where i discovered a headline where Preity Zinta was quoted being very livid. I went onto check what was the issue and found her complaining about the quality of journalists today. (http://www.itimes.com/public_content.php?cid=84042&ref=toi_rn) She was particularly livid with the scourage a particular young lad had done through Mumbai Mirror. I empathise and realize the lack of research based journalism. I apologise for any mis-representaions on my part.
the benchmarks!
It took four and half hours to crown another Indian woman a Pantaloons Femina Miss India. (Well the title has changed from Femina Miss India to Ponds Femina Miss India to now Pantaloons Femina Miss India; I guess they sell more than just the name of the contest)
I watch this show for the sheer nostalgia and hope. I honestly love Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Priyanka Chopra and Lara Dutta among a bunch of the older Miss Indias. These women were not even churned through the ‘training or polishing’ process and were still so god-dammit charming. They were inspired b y more than Mother Teresa and their mothers and wanted more than ‘world peace’. I miss those misses!
Well the show began with the gorgeous Malaika Arora being the beauteous her, and welcoming judges such as Deepika Padukone (Gorgeous hamesha!), Asin (pretty), Nandita Mahtani (for her style quotient), Sushmita Sen (a little over fed Miss Universe still!) and Ajay Devgan (why?). Then came the absolutely absurd preliminary round winners such as Gilli Miss Golden Heart, Jealous 21 Miss Sexy Legs (if I open a bar, that’ll be priority), Indiatimes Miss 58888 (is that how they define the perfect figure now-a-days?), Sony My Miss India and the best of the lot was Kohler Miss Bold (this should lead to a mental contradiction with the contestants- should be the desi demure girl or should be the hard ‘bold’ slutty mama?); and the rest were the old ‘Best Smile, Best Body yadayada!
I guess even the event organizers knew that these women were not hot enough to burn the TRP meter, so they got in a 3 lovely lads to spice things up. First a frosty Genelia D’souza swinging to the 80, a slightly not interested Kanga Renault trying to dance and the cherry was Priyanka Chopra with her desi girl bonfire! One of the other entertaining factors was Swapnil and Karan sprucing up some cheap but fun humour! I guess it was the male ooglers, thus passed the womanly ear! But what crash landed on our ears was the choice of music, with ‘I wanna make love to you’ being followed by ‘masakalli’ for the ramp stamps!
A friend of mine called just to vent, saying the posing was poise-less, walking wastes and answers (like Wichita saying she wanted to change her nose and God should work on Humans and world peace!) annoying!
Well through the rut came the not so gorgeous beauties- the winners:
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth- Shriya Kishore (wordy but not sturdy beauty!)
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India World- Pooja Chopra (talented but the ‘bold’ kinda beauty)
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe- Ekta Chawdhary (sweet but not salty enough!)
Well some more surprises were the announcement that the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World and Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe have the same pedestal and stature. NEWS: for many years, they both have the same stature, no winning!
Hope these women meet an alchemist, and India meets another world beauty!
Anoop Desai an Indian American from North Carolina is in the final 8 of American Idol but will he eventually claim the title?? America is an immigrant nation yet biased towards the caucasian race. And to support its theory of diversity you’d see an African American even it out. But other races are either completely neglected or given the token slot. American Idol in its entire history of 8 season has only had 2 Indian in the last round of the competition. Sanjaya Malakar in Season 6 and now Anoop Desai in Season 8. The fact that there is only one Indian in competition is indication enough that America is less likely to vote someone of Indian origin as the new America Idol. Even then we hope that Anoop Desai does the unthinkable.
The other contestants in the Top 8 are Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, Scott Macintyre
India has just seen a display of some people’s interpretation of fashion. The 3 main fashion weeks, namely, the Wills India Fashion week and the Delhi Fashion week in Delhi and the Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, were supposed to display Autumn/ Winter lines for the upcoming season. What surprised me throughout was the lack of seasonal sense, or may be it was lack of exposure that made these people just make ‘clothes’ for ‘fashion’…not ensembles or garments for the chillier days, or as some of lecherously call it-‘winter fashion’.
I have been dying to see hats and gloves on the Indian ramp. It’s not that the Indian terrain does not suffer chill winters, but we believe in shawls and sweaters I guess. Nida Mahmood, my new favourite, brought out some fun but springish fashion! The rest was not really worth the talk!
Lakme India Fashion Week on the other hand was a sensation for reasons more than one! Firstly the 50th birthday of Barbie, which had them doing a Barbie themed show. Secondly Vikram Chatwal’s ‘Mai Mumbai’ show, which had Naomi Campbell grace the Indian ramp for the very first time, with the likes of Manolo Blahnik and Roberto Cavalli collaborating. Also, with full drama from stars like Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan trying to add humour to fashion, Manish Arora may feel threatened! (FYI: I was majorly upset with Manish Arora for giving the Delhi Fashion Week a boring collection!) And lastly, a better sense of fashion prevailed with a new location at the Grand Hyatt!
In all, I’m melting in the Mumbai heat, dying for summer fashion to hit the stores on time, so that I can sport my hats and skimpy summer dresses before I evaporate!
The Millennium’s hottest supermodel, and mum, Gisele Bundchen bares all for Vanity Fair, to add to the hotness. The rockstar of a model shows and glows in her skin. This can add to the already burning summers and actually be fetal!
Haha…
But this is one collector’s edition for all fashion fans!
As Heard, a statue of Jade Goody will be erected near her childhood home, to honour the efforts of the cancer-stricken ’star’ and to encourage young women to be screened for cervical cancer.
I have my doubts here. Firstly, she’s not the first woman struck with cancer. Secondly, she wasn’t even a national loss to cancer to be ‘commemorated!’ And lastly, how on earth will her statue encourage women to get themselves checked? They may retaliate and never watch reality television!