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Inside-outside with Kangana

Updated on: 08 September,2016 06:01 AM IST  | 
Malavika Sangghvi |

Always nice catching up with Kangana Ranaut, whose sensitive observations and well-chosen syntax never cease to delight

Inside-outside with Kangana

Kangana Ranaut
Kangana Ranaut


Always nice catching up with Kangana Ranaut, whose sensitive observations and well-chosen syntax never cease to delight. We spoke to the actress yesterday, who was back from a workshop in Atlanta for Hansal Mehta’s upcoming Simran and attending to mundane tasks at her well-appointed apartment in Khar.


“The onslaught of the monsoons resulted in me having to repair the roof of my terrace,” she said about the area, containing among other things, a compact pool. We mentioned a photograph of hers at the airport we’d chanced upon a few months ago, at the height of a particularly challenging period for her, in which she’d resembled a Lara Croft clone, all sinew, swag and spiked heels.


“Fashion is a way of manifesting outside, how you feel inside,” she said thoughtfully. “I guess at that moment, I needed to project a feeling of wearing armour. Fashion is an ever-changing kaleidoscope; a form of art,” she said. So, carrying forward the analogy of clothes being a kind of three-dimensional walking Rorschach test, we asked our soft-spoken friend what she’d worn that morning.

“This morning I felt dreamy, so I wore a billowy blue chiffon dress,” she laughed. We suppose a certain pesky former colleague can breathe easy for a while.

Calling Putin, dialling Li
Guests who attended the recent birthday celebrations of KK Modi in Taipei, Taiwan, have not stopped raving about the grand scale of the arrange-ments. From a 20-hour non-stop food and beverage facility, to guests been regaled by a top Pakistani female singer, said to be a great favourite with Indian industrialists, who is rumoured to charge R40 lakh for an evening’s performance.

Vladimir Putin and Lalit ModiVladimir Putin and Lalit Modi

But of course every thing paled in comparison to the patriarch’s flamboyant son Lalit Modi. “He was in top form,” purred a leggy socialite about London’s best-known exile. “He would hold court every evening in his suite and it’s there that we got to know of his high-flying connections,” she said, adding “Lalit is in daily touch with Vladmir Putin and China’s Li Keqiang”.

Li Keqiang and Arun Jaitley
Li Keqiang and Arun Jaitley

“What’s more, he seems to be on speed dial with his namesake on Raisina Hill as well as with his chief aide Amit Shah,” said the diva with not a little awe in her voice. Really, what about his ongoing war of words with FinMin Arun Jaitley, we enquired confused. “Oh that,” she said, “What I gathered is that it had the blessings of higher ups.” Tucking this away as some highly intriguing insight in to realpolitik, we enquired what the famous exile was up to besides internat-ional statesmanship.

“What I gathered is that the top leadership in China has requested him to create a property for Chinese football on the scale of India’s hugely successful IPL,” she said, adding, “secondly, he appears to be passionate about taking the scientific approach developed by Portugal’s Champalimaud Found-ation across the world. Apparently, they have created a treatment for cancer that’s under $1,200,” she said. A mega football league for China, speed dialling Putin and international medical evnagelism? – welcome to exile Lalit Modi style.

AD Singh spoofs himself
Friends of serial restaurateur AD Singh were ROFL at a recently-shot clip of a speech made by Mumbai’s second finest export to Delhi (after Piyush Goyal, that is) in which he’d set himself up (mostly unintent-ionally) in a hilarious spoof.

AD Singh
AD Singh

Filmed as an acceptance speech for winning Restaurateur of the Year this weekend, it had Singh, the subject of many of his BFF, actor Rahul Bose’s best caricatures, at his hammy best, rolling his eyeballs, sighing audibly in an attempt to be funny.

“I could not make it to the actual ceremony,” explained Singh, “So I sent in a taped version, which they played on the occasion this weekend and which many people liked so much that they uploaded it on YouTube.” Er, hang on to your day job is what we said about the restaurateur’s nascent acting talent. “That bad?” he said nervously.

Well let’s just say Amitabh Bachchan and SRK have no reason to worry, we replied. Now we’re eagerly waiting to see Rahul Bose’s version of AD attempting to act.

With reverence and joy
Ganpati at actor Nana Patekar’s home is a splendorous affair, as seen from this picture taken on Rushi Panch-ami, the day after Ganesh Chaturthi. From all accounts, the thes-pian’s murti is simple, traditional and made by the same idol maker in Girgaum that he has been going to for decades.

Ganpati at Nana Patekar’s home
Ganpati at Nana Patekar’s home

What also differentiates his from other, more showy celebrations, is that Patekar himself attends to the rituals “He painstakingly arranges each flower, one by one, around the idol; an activity that takes up most of the day,” says an insider adding, “And then, he repeats this over the next 10 days.”

(From left) Kunal Vijaykar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rahul Ranade, Rajdutt & Nana Patekar
(From left) Kunal Vijaykar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rahul Ranade, Rajdutt & Nana Patekar

And given that Patekar maintains an easy, open house for friends and well wishers, the likes of director Mahesh Manjrekar, musician Rahul Ranade and Patekar’s guru and veteran director Rajdutt, along with funny man Kunal Vijayakar had all dropped in this weekend to share in his joy.

Delhi’s savvy, Mumbai’s money
It might just be one of the biggest art collaborations between Delhi and Mumbai. Collectors and art aficionados this week in both cities were intrigued to receive a save the date missive from India Art Fair’s dynamic inceptor Neha Kirpal and Mumbai’s art maven Manish Maker, of the famous real estate clan.

Sent by SMS, the message invited them this Sept-ember for the launch of a ‘new global partnership, which celeb-rates a historic moment for Indian art.’ “Everyone in the art world knows how the organisers of the India Art Fair, have been scouting for investors,” says an insider, adding “Maker might just be the person who makes the venture sustainable.” Delhi savvy and Mumbai money? Nice!

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