The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Montreal beckons
Filmmaker and LGBT activist Sridhar Rangayan (in pic) will lead the Montreal Pride 2016 as a Grand Marshal. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join the founder and festival director of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
Sridhar Rangayan
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“I will be in Canada from August 5-22. It’s my first as a Grand Marshal; I am excited to represent India, the LGBT community, and South Asia,” he shared. Éric Pineault, founding president of Montreal Pride where Rangayan’s film Gulabi Aaina (The Pink Mirror) will be screened, said, “We are honoured to welcome Rangayan.”
The Montreal Pride is the largest LGBTQ gathering in the Francophone world and attracts close to 5,00,000 visitors.
Where have you been?
Pic/Satej Shinde
Ignoring the flurry of flashing cameras, Arpita Khan greets Esha Deol at a jewellery-themed awards held at a suburban five-star last evening. Nawaz Modi Singhania (centre) was also at the event.
The high is cheap
Bar Stock Exchange is going to have to roll up its sleeves with the news that Bar Bar is now coming to Mumbai this weekend.
While the first is inspired by the stock market, hiking price of alcohol in demand at the specific hour, Pune’s Bar Bar will sell booze at Rs 99 (popular brands) once a gang of tipplers places 12 orders.
For premium brands, it’s Rs 175 a drink once you cross the dozen mark. The more drinks you order at the table, the less each of you pays. Bye bye, Gokul? Maybe not. Bar Bar’s first outpost opens in Kurla.
India-China bye, bye
Lu Tang? Oh you mean Tang Lu?” asked a quizzical security guard at the Sagar Sangeet apartment in Colaba. The building is (or was) home to Tang Lu the Mumbai-based Chinese journalis, working for the Xinhua news agency who was expelled by India, for what news reports say, are activities incompatible with her profession.
Two other journalists, one from Mumbai and another from New Delhi, have also been asked to leave. This diarist attempted to meet her at her 14th floor apartment yesterday. Tung La answered the door, and when this diarist introduced herself as a reporter from mid-day, she seemed startled but allowed us into her home, after we presented our press card as identity. “Oh mid-day? Mumbai…” she said, while giving us entry. We spotted a gentleman and a few possessions being placed into huge cartons; clearly, the journalists were readying to leave.
Tang Lu said, “I am not going to speak but hesitantly revealed, “I am from Beijing.” On further prodding, whether she had been in India for seven years, she replied, “No; one year, I came last year. You know more news; you have read it (sic),” struggling to speak in English, seated beside a table strewn with books, including one on Hindi grammar.
She continued, “I cannot say anything,” and answered a phone call in Chinese. At that moment, she spotted this diarist click a picture on her phone, and snapped, “I think you should leave right now,” as the young man deleted the pictures from our phone. At the door, Tang Lu said, “If you publish…” and added, “I know now this is the way of the Indian media,” before shutting the door. It’s clearly India-China bye, bye.
Guess who won!
It's that time of the year, when spoilers about updates and eliminations, and of course, the winner of MasterChef Australia Season 8, are doing the rounds. So while, we won’t tell you who won it, the quizmaster in us prefers to drop a few clues — she’s a school teacher, hails from New South Wales, and wowed the judges with her orange dish representation in the rainbow challenge during the high-pressure Heston Week. Go figure!
The business of theatre
Salim Arif’s Chakkar Chalaaye Ghanchakkar based on a script written by Gulzar in the 1960s, opened to a full house over the weekend. The play that drew inspiration from William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors had earlier inspired a celluloid version, Angoor, starring Sanjeev Kumar.
Kumar Mangalam Birla with Gulzar
Featuring Zeeshan Aayub, Swanand Kirkire, Lubna Salim, and Shruti Seth in prominent roles, the stage version retains the dialogues of the movie, but Gulzar rewrote portions of the script to make it stage-friendly. Celebrities who attended the performances over the weekend included Yashpal Sharma, Javed Siddiqui, Neerja and Kumar Mangalam Birla.
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