Well this thing is bit dated. Recently Hello Mag co-hosted a Derby affair at Mumbai’s Race Course at Mahalakshmi. Nothing great to write home about the do. The usual splattering of stale Page 3s but what caught my attention was three women wearing same outfits (with a slight variation in colour) at the do. It’s a fashion disaster. Isn’t it???

Just see the pix below: Simone Singh, Hello editrix, Ruchika Mehta and a Poorna Patel, the daughter of our Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel who is also the IPL’s ‘Hospitality’ Manager wore identical outfits. Seems like the ensemble was part of the invite. My learned readers of this blog enlightened me that Pria Kataria PuriI is the designer of these Pucci(sh) print kaftans (which I feel are perfect for women who want to hide unsightly bulges) with slits on the sleeve but it seems to have caught the fancy of Mumbai dollies. Anyway I always thought Delhi is way ahead when it comes to fashion!

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Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan are in Delhi to be part of the wedding celebration in Passi family. Saturday night Sanjay and Shalini Passi hosted a dinner do and SRK, Gauri and their ‘compulsory baggage’ – Arjun and Mehr Rampal were there. ShahRukh wanted absolute media blackout at this dinner.

I feel bad for Sanjay and Shalini Passi as they love to be on Page3. In fact the Passi couple used to send Rs.25,000 to every Page3 photographer in Delhi on Diwali till few years back. Then I wrote about it in a newspaper and the 25K Diwali Bonanza to shutterbugs stopped. I still get an earful from them. And when it comes to flaunting their friendship with SRK and Gauri, they tactically leak the private pictures to tabloids once SRK leaves. It happened few years back when Passis sent the private pictures to Delhi Times the moment SRK boarded his flight.

But last night Shalini and Sanjay’s phones went unanswered. They didn’t dare to risk offending SRK by sneaking in paparazzi. Imagine their predicament while observing King Khan’s media blackout???

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I have posted the comments from readers of 108.168.206.104/~fashions/, which I feel are vital inside goss. Here they are:

Gauri says:

Can be easily figured out why Preity Zinta wud be giving so many press releases. No unpaid media will use different photos in every release when they are criticising her nobody will use words like sizzling or beautiful which she is not. Read this:

http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_preity-zinta-creates-a-ruckus-over-id-check_1532717

Publicity – is a part of it creating and then refuting the controversy AS MEDIA **ORE remaining in news. However more important is back in 2009 she had mallified Burman and Wadia over the SA brawl by giving press releases in India – brawl, beaten up, molested a woman etc etc. Someone had questioned her about that so this year she is taking opportunity to prove it wrong by playing the same game on herself? Could u have imagined this… Well not. Tell that to Burman and Wadia if u have any clout with them that its a matter of time – they are in for big trouble!.

parlour says:

So has Preity Zinta become the official escort of Mukesh Ambani now? Is it with the permission of Neeta Ambani or without? And if nothing of the sort then why does Mukesh allow a sl*t to be around him? Does he think the ugly horse lends him some glamour that his wife with chadti jawani cannot? Or is Zinta piling on and leeching on to famous or influential or rich men as is her usual habit?

whiteswan says:

Preity Zinta seems high or drunk when she wrote this blog.

http://blogs.bettor.com/Preity-Zinta-dismisses-talks-of-selling-Kings-XI-Punjab-a61662

She still thinks Yuvi is part of her team and she is going to make him captain!
Also in context of Ness note her emphasis on terms like “heir” “fortune” and “Jinnah connection”. She seems to think those are his only qualifications and chooses to completely forget brother Jeh Wadia!! Recall that before a decade, the Wadias were synonymous with patriotism, Indian nationalism, contributions to Indian business and the local Indian society. Interestingly after Zinta’s association, she has heavily publicized the Jinnah connection -giving press releases on her meetings with Dina Wadia or planting articles referring it again and again and in the process trying to put the Wadias at a disadvantage in India – having to justify their Indianness or their patriotism or face skeptical eyes so that she could then play a larger than life image of a Zara of Veer Zara bridging the India –Pak gap. Not surprising Ness had to recently justify his 200 years roots or his patriotism and intent to remain in India or having to say India is his motherland…. in the recent hospital issue.

As to IPL being her baby or she mothering it ..huh? After having so many public linkups they completely deny …then this ranting is entirely possible.

As to her tirade of press releases crying hoarse “she is not selling her IPL team” – how can a minority stake holder exercise right to yell on others’ behalf? Others were planning to sell way back in March 2010 before any IPL controversies began. But she is trying her level best to misrepresent facts – using words like faulty monetary transactions etc as reasons for exit plans. She seems to be desperately trying to obstruct their exit plans by such false reasons – when in reality her own fund sources are a question.

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Indian Fashion Fraternity’s one popular couple have split. It’s nothing to cheer about but a li’l birdie told me that it was an IPL Cheerleader who precipitated the split of an already troubled relation. And I thought ‘Cheerleaders’ are suppose to ‘cheer-up’ people but here the IPL Cheerleaders are causing lot of heartburn.

Ravi Krishnan, the head of IMG, India and a popular face in the fashion circuit, especially at Lakme Fashion Week and also at IPL – with the Rajasthan Royal Team has separated from his wife, Bandana Tewari. Bandana is the Fashion Editor of Vogue, India and a highly visible face at Indian Fashion events. The couple have a little daughter.

My reliable sources say that he split was triggered when Bandana found Ravi ‘enjoying’ the company of an expat Cheerleader. As I said earlier, the news is nothing to cheer about and i hope the couple sort things out.

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The self-proclaimed King of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan who recently made some arrogant statements like, “I am the owner of KKR, I am the mentor of KKR and I am the god of KKR”, literally thinks he is above law. Whatever happened on Wednesday night – Thursday morning at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai post KKR’s win over Mumbai Indians match was absolutely atrocious.

Being the owner of an IPL Team doesn’t give SRK rights to let his kids and bunch of their friends play at the cricket ground beyond midnight. And when a Security Officer asks the kids to wrap-up, the loving daddy that SRK is, loses cool and gets in to a fracas with the Security guy who was just doing his job. SRK claims that the a kid was dragged by the security but none of the images show that. All we see is an aggressive SRK and a security person whistling and directing kids to get off the field. Here is the audio of the fracas where you can hear SRK abusing. Is it okay for Shahrukh to use the ‘F’ word and the ‘MC’ word in front of his daughter?

AUDIO: http://ishare.rediff.com/video/cricket/listen-to-srk-s-outburst-at-wankhede-/6884603

Anyway nothing will happen to him as IPL Chairman, Rajeev Shukla is a buddy of SRK and every time he gets hauled up in the American airports, the first call that SRK makes is to Rajeev Shukla. Other Team Owners too will take his side and his best-buddy – the disgraced Lalit Modi is going crazy on Tweeter stating SRK is integral part of IPL and it is he who brokered peace between Sahara and BCCI when Sahara threatened to cancel the sponsorship of Team India.

I was rather amazed at Shahrukh’s blatant lie – “I don’t drink, except socially”. Well I have seen him dead-drunk at umpteen occasions. Come on Shahrukh, with greatness comes humility and that is what makes a person great!

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Zohal Hamid accusing Royal Challengers Bangalore player Luke Pomersbach for molesting her and beating up her fiancee, Sahil Peerzada and Siddharth Mallya for defamation and then back-tracking on all the cases post Sahil’s release from the hospital is awfully irresponsible act and shouldn’t be pardoned. The reason behind the backtracking is the hidden skeletons in Sahil and Zohal’s closet and the blatant lies that Zohal blurted out in front of media to gain sympathy.

Zohal is from Afghanistan and first moved to India before migrating to US. She is not a jewellery designer. If she is anything, it can be best described as a gold-digger party girl harbouring lofty ambitions of making it in Bollywood. The claim that Sahil Peerzada is Zohal’s fiancee and that they have been dating for around 4-5 years is all but lies. Zohal was seeing a Delhi based guy – Basant Chawla who owns the Fun ‘N’ Food Village till beginning of 2011 and Sahil Peerzada was seeing Gauhar Khan and also made an appearance on the reality show – ‘The Khan Sisters’ six months back as Gauhar’s ex. Hence the story of Zohal and Sahid being dating since past 4-5 years is bull-crap. There are reports of Zohal Hamid divorcing her American husband who paid US Dollars 200,000 as settlement.

Why were Sahil Peerzada and Zohal were staying in a room booked under Deccan Challengers? Well the answer is that he is the front-man of some investment made by a big-shot in Deccan Chargers Team. The story that Luke Pomersbach followed Zohal and Sahil to their room for a drink isn’t the fact. In fact they went there to ‘Powder his Noses’! What followed was euphoric and aggressive moments and fist-fight.

Sahil (whose real name is Sajjid) Peerzada who likes to hang around with his Bollywood friends was totally against any case against RCB Player as he did not want to get on the wrong-side of the Mallyas who have considerable clout in B-Town. Also he knew that if the case of molestation and fight and defamation are pursued lot of skeletons will roll out from his closet. And he cared a damn if Zohal’s character was assasinated or defamed. They have no right to waste the precious time the Police and The Courts.

The pictures here tell you the story of Zohal and Sahil and their wannabe ways with B-Town crowd. This pictures have never been published before and are exclusive of 108.168.206.104/~fashions/

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If 2012 was a great year for the Indian Movie Industry aka Bollywood, what with films setting new Box Office records by grossing over Rs.100 Crores, Rs. 200 Crores and out-of-the-box movies like Barfi, Kahani and Gangs of Wasseypur not only getting critical acclaim but turning to be a hit at the Box Office too.

But 2013 has started on a somber note for Bollywood. Sanjay Dutt was convicted by Supreme Court in the 1993 Mumbai Blast Case and was sentenced to 5-years imprisonment. Today the age-old Black-Buck case in Jodhpur that had indicted Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Neelam, Sonali Bendre and Tabu will be heard in the court and possible judgement would be pronounced. Salman Khan’s hit-and-run case is still sub-judice and he has a new case to deal with where fishermen have accused Salman Khan and his bodyguards of manhandling, threatening and causing damage to property. This small fishermen’s colony is just opposite the new bungalow that Sallu bhai has purchased.

Then we have Preity Zinta’s run-in with the Enforcement Directorate who recently probed her on the source of funds that she had invested in her IPL Team. Of course there are zillion of unverified reports of fimstars’ run-in with the law. Like recently it was reported that Saif Ali Khan manhandled a CISF man who asked him to vacate the VIP Lounge at the Lucknow Airport or Bipasha Basu being stopped at the Customs for carrying in undeclared valuables…

I think as we celebrate the 100 years of Indian Cinema, all the pending cases against our film stars should come to conclusion. It would be ideal way to celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema.

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Latest Bollywood entrant and star-daughter, Shraddha Kapoor recently had a fashion faux-pas moment. At a function, Shraddha wore a black sequined short dress and flesh-toned knickers. Couldn’t really understand the colour choice for the underwear. Wouldn’t black been the apt colour??? Anyway wearing contrast colour panty was a hidden fashion blunder on Shraddha Kapoor’s part but flashing them while sitting definitely was a blatant fashion faux-pas. I fail to understand why can’t they sit ‘propah’ while wearing a short dress.

My dearest Preity Zinta has been busy with IPL and is judiciously present at all the King’s XI Punjab’s matches. She relegiously dons custom-made Kings XI logoed tops and salwar-kameezs. But at one of the recent matches I discovered that PZ has let her belly grow. Must be relieved after PVR agreed to distribute her Ishq In Paris, Preity must be indulging in Punjab’s butter-chicken and dal-makhani. In the picture here PZ’s belly-bulge is very prominent. Poor girl wasn’t aware of the camera on her or else she would had taken a deep breath and sucked in her tummy.

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Sahara Shri – Subroto Roy may have announced exiting from IPL’s Pune Franchise and terminating the sponsorship of the Indian Cricket Team due to bad treatment meted out to him by BCCI head-honcho, the stubborn N. Srinivasan and encashing of the Bank Guarantee. But that may be just a smart move on Sahara Shri’s part to exit from IPL where he sunk in Rs.1700 Crores for Pune Franchise for 10 years. Recovering Rs.1700 Crores over 10 years through Pune Warriors seemed like an impossible task and on the other hand since the Government of India allowed private participation in Defence Industry, the biggies are plunging in. We already have Tatas, Mahindras and few more.

Sahara is planning to invest Rs.1500 Crores in a Defence Company -Pipavav Defence & Offshore Ltd, which is lately much in news. Nikhil Gandhi, the man behind Pipavav is a ‘Rag to Riches’ story and has many grey shades. However wonder why the group is so hush-hush about it and dealing through a rogue and tainted stock market manipulator, Vimal Rathod who was trapped by SEBI during his stock market manipulation for Karuturi Global??? Sahara has already bought in shares worth Rs. 150 Crores in Pipavav and now holds more than 10% stake in the company.

Now see the maths that fits so well that it makes me believe that Sahara’s exit from IPL and/or Cricket sponsorship in general is not about N. Srinivasan and Subroto Roy ego-tussle but something else. Sahara didn’t pay BCCI the yearly instalment of Rs. 170 Crore arguing that the franchise price needs renegotiation. But then shares worth Rs. 150 Crores in the said defence company was done just weeks before BCCI encashed Sahara’s Bank Guarantee. Rs.1700 Crores was the cost of Pune Franchise – a losing deal the way Pune Warriors were going. Why not invest Rs. 1500 Crores in lucrative defence business as India is one of the world’s top defence spenders that is looking to modernise its military.

More on this to follow…

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She is one of India’s supermodel and has the prettiest face in the glam industry. Yes we are talking about Indrani Dasgupta. Indrani and hotelier Karan Paul of the Apeejay Group are the hot-couple making the news in the capital.

Karan Paul, brother of Priya and Preeti Paul of Apeejay Group that amongst other businesses own the Park Hotel chain and Karan is also the co-owner of the IPL Team – Kings XI Punjab. Indrani has separated from her husband – Yzudhmanyue and had been seeing Karan for more than a year now.

The two makes for a great couple and if the grapevine is to be believed, Karan Paul and Indrani Dasgupta would get hitched soon!

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Yes the IPL Tamasha has started with Shahrukh Khan at the center of it all.

Here are EXCLUSIVE images for FS folks where you can see Deepika Padukone, SRK and what seems to be SRK’s current favorite – Kanika Kapoor having a ball backstage.

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Jaitley_Priyanka_rahul_robert Vadra

Lalit Modi, the former Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman who has taken refuge in London has an axe to grind with anybody who has anything to do with BCCI. Modi had dug out an interesting picture from his archives that shows Arun Jaitley (an integral part of BCCI) with Priyanka Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra having a great time watching a cricket match. The photograph seem years old as all of them in the photograph look much younger than now. Lalit Modi also Tweets – “A family that plays together, stays together”.

Lalit Modi

Arun Jaitley has been making snide remarks on the Gandhi family and particularly about Robert Vadra’s sudden riches in his election campaign. Lalit Modi takes a dig on that and Tweets, “Why won’t Arun Jaitley file anything against the 1st family – because he is part of that happy family”. Kapil Sibal and Digvijay Singh have been daring Arun Jaitley to file a FIR or go to the court if Jaitley feels Vadra has made money through illegal means. Modi is surely responding to that.

Lalit Modi also highlights that the photograph is not photoshopped and that it is from his photo archives.

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Dear designers, if you are doing the shows for IPL Nights, I sincerely think you should pull out, until and unless you getting paid for it. It is a tasteless tamasha where fashion is just an excuse to show legs and tits. Any self-respecting designer wouldn’t like a mockery of his work and IPL Nights are nothing but a mockery of fashion.

Yeah, if you are making the bucks, then I would say – Chalta hai. Otherwise it’s a tasteless tamasha!

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Now that IPL is on and Preity Zinta is back in the news, I discovered from very reliable sources that Ms. Zinta checked-in for a rehab program in the US. Now that explains what the lady was doing in US. In 2005 I did an undercover piece on Cocaine abuse and dealt with a top notch dealer who catered to Bollywood and he took various names and Preity Zinta was also in his client list. In fact I didn’t believe it till I saw a picture of Preity doing a line of cocaine saved in the dealer’s mobile phone.

If Preity has finally kicked the habit, it’s good news. Hope King’s XI dismal performance doesn’t push her back to coke.

Somehow IPL and Coke (not the Cola) has a strange relationship. Right from its Chairman to its many team-owners are known to be regular users of Charlie. Hope the cricketers don’t get influenced and hope soon Dope testing becomes mandatory for Indian Cricketers.

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Li’l Birdie chirped that on Sunday night (4th April 2010) post the Delhi Daredevils & Deccan Challengers match at Delhi where Daredevils thrashed Challengers, the ‘real’ after party was at the Presidential Suite (#1724) of the ITC Maurya. If you wondering why, it’s because Michel Adam, the owner of Fashion TV was holed in there with loads of ‘goodies’.

Wondering what is the F TV boss doing at IPL? Well Michel Adam & IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi are partners and Modi’s Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) holds the license for all FTV ventures in India – FTV, F Bar, F Salon et al.

When it comes to partying, Adam is a hardcore party animal. He travels with a bevy of blondes and that sure is an attraction. So it was at Michel Adam’s suite where all the action was -accessible only to the elite few – Michel Adam and his glamorous entourage, Lalit Modi, Vijay Malaya, his lucky mascot – Katrina, Sid Malaya, Anusha Dandekar, a media tycoon and hordes of blondes. Champagnes popped and cherries popped too, among other ‘stuff’.

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The fallen czar of IPL – Lalit Modi is confident of coming out triumphant. In fact he is confident to topple the entire BCCI. I discovered this from pretty high-level sources that Modi’s Pandora’s Box is extremely volatile and when it opens, all hell will break loose.I have been told that Lalit Modi has 300 trunk filled with files, documents and even photographs that are highly incriminating. I enquired, “Who is/are those who are locked up in Modi’s trunks?” “The whole of BCCI will be wiped out”, said the knowledgeable gentleman with a smirk. “Aage-Aage dekho, hot hai kya”, hu summed up.Well, I am no fan of Lalit Modi. His arrogant ways and nepotism did not go down well with me. They call him the Czar of IPL and I argue, ‘Whoever would have sat on that chair, which Lalit Modi made his throne could have done the same but probably in a more democratic way’. Only time will tell if Modi’s 300 trunk load of secrets will bring him back to the throne and splatter muck on BCCI’s face or do just the reverse!

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I was rather surprised to see Poorna Patel, the daughter of Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel at the IPL 4 Auctions in Bengaluru. The tall and sexy Poorna seems to have lost some weight. She, IPL’s Hospitality Manager appeared on the stage to handover winning bids to the celebrity auctioneer.

After all that brouhaha about a Delhi to Coimbatore Air India flight, IC 7603, scheduled to leave at 5.20 am on April 20, 2010 was aborted less than 12 hours before its departure to allow the aircraft to be deployed as a chartered flight for ferrying civil aviation minister Praful Patel’s daughter, Poorna Patel, and some IPL players from Chandigarh to Chennai, I presumed Paful would advise Poorna to quit IPL. Vijay Mallya’s daughter too worked closely with Lalit Modi for IPL but quit it post the ModiGate hit IPL. Praful Patel being a minister in the Cabinet, I thought he would ask Poorna to stay away from controversies.

Diverting an aircraft from a scheduled passenger flight for charter operations is forbidden under the law if the airline does not have another aircraft to operate the said passenger flight at the scheduled time. Yet the Bombardier CRJ 700 aircraft was pulled out of its scheduled flight allegedly on the demand of Poorna, the IPL’s hospitality manager. The aircraft (registration number VT-RJB), belonging to Alliance Air, was scheduled to fly the three-hour Delhi-Coimbatore route and return to the capital after leaving Coimbatore at 8.55am the same day. “But Poorna Patel called the airline on Monday evening (19th April 2010) and asked for an aircraft to do a chartered flight to Chennai from Chandigarh. So the aircraft was pulled out of the fleet. IPL paid for the chartered flight but the violation here was getting an aircraft scheduled for a passenger flight pulled out at the last moment for a chartered flight,” said an Air India official then.

Guess in India the powerful can get away with anything!

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