On Thursday evening, Pritish Nandy managed to do what Chetan Bhagat could only term as the ‘IPL of poetry’! The multi-talented Pritish got eminent personalities like Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Anupam Kher, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Chetan himself to be present for his literary do. But that was the only joke cracked on IPL, what with Tharoor being present!
Aishwarya, looking pretty as a picture in a simple beige dress, said that she’s no orator but was glad to be introduced to Pritish’s works. She then read out a few lines from his book.Anupam recalled the time when he had first met Pritish in 1983. “By the end of the evening, Pritish told me ‘You’re a nice guy, I don’t like you!” He addedthat there’s a hidden actor in Pritish just as there’s a hidden poet in him.
Shashi joked that years back, young college girls wrote verses in the hope of becoming a poet like Pritish.
When the emcee started to introduce Ash as ‘the most beautiful face of India’, Anupam pointed at himself which made Ash and others burst into laughter.
When the emcee started to introduce Ash as ‘the most beautiful face of India’, Anupam pointed at himself which made Ash and others burst into laughter.
Seen in the audience were Anil Dharker, Meghna Gulzar and Ruslaan Mumtaz.
AGGRESSIVE HUMOUR!
Praising Pritish, Gulzar remarked that he found his poetry progressive and full of aggression. “But then aggression is something all Bengalis have, who can say that better than me!” he laughed, obviously reffering to wife Rakhee. The audience dissolved into peals of laughter.
AGGRESSIVE HUMOUR!
Praising Pritish, Gulzar remarked that he found his poetry progressive and full of aggression. “But then aggression is something all Bengalis have, who can say that better than me!” he laughed, obviously reffering to wife Rakhee. The audience dissolved into peals of laughter.
Starring Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Vishal Malhotra Written & Directed by Milap JhaveriRating: ** ½They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Those wholesome take-home-to-Mama type of chicks.And they don’t make such innocent yeh-kahan-aa-gaye-hum rom-coms either. So naturally, or not so naturally, writer-turned- director Milap Zaveri gets his heroine, the toothy, endearing wholesome and fetching Jacqueline Fernandez to fly down to earth from Venus.One-way, business-class.Women we were always told, were from Venus. Now we’ve proof of that.Many of this pleasant film’s most likeable moments send out inoffensive echoes of Hollywood comedies about ladies from another world, like Splash and My Girlfriend Is An Alien. The final brew is aromatic in scent and minty in taste. The effect lasts fleetingly, though.The situations that crop up once the alien beauty lands range from the predictable to the strained. No one in this film is in it for posterity. It’s a film done with a wink and a chuckle that communicate itself to the audience effectively. Everyone in Zaveri’s film is looking for love. Riteish Deskhmukh more so than others. Apparently love has been eluding his character since infancy. Baba’s searching.There’s a touch of Ram Gopal Varma’s Rangeela in the way the vagaries and eccentricities of the film industry are brought into play. Strangely Milap’s writing skills, so much on display in many of the most successful comedies in recent times, is missing in the scenes set within the Bollywood film industry.Sure. we get a good dekko at well-known stars. But they aren’t woven into the script as they were in other films about the film industry like Guddi and Rangeela.The scenes where Riteish courts the delectable ingénue from outerspace lack subtlety but get marks for grace. Riteish Deshmukh, a competent performer in any given circumstance, is engaging in the comic moments, but a little awkward doing the full-on roses-and-moonlight stuff. Matinee idol making girls faint, Deshmukh ain’t.