We are not quite sure what singer Kanika Kapoor’s connection with Milan is, but we know that Italy’s fashion capital features prominently in her life
We are not quite sure what singer Kanika Kapoor’s connection with Milan is, but we know that Italy’s fashion capital features prominently in her life.
And that’s where this pic was shot in the company of Solange Knowles, sister of pop icon Beyonce. “Kanika recently met Solange in Milan where she had gone to attend a private affair,” we are informed. “Like Kanika, she’s a singer too, and the girls bonded over their love for Bollywood and fashion.”
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Solange Knowles and Kanika Kapoor
So after Beyoncé’s Bollywood debut on Coldplay’s Hymn for the Weekend as a Bollywood goddess, is it the turn of younger sis for another jab at the world’s biggest film industry? And that too with Kanika Kapoor? Watch this space...
Lalit’s ire
For all his lotus-eating ways across the globe, IPL founder Lalit Modi has often demonstrated an empathy with the underdog, as was witnessed when he spoke out in favour of Maharashtra’s drought stricken farmers a few months ago.
Said Bencherki and Lalit Modi
This week friends of the London-based sybarite were startled to see him posting at least a dozen vituperative comments about a Morocco-based playboy and alleged woman abuser on various social media platforms. ‘Please anyone know a man called Said Bencherki who a few days ago beat up a young #woman black?& blue,’ thundered Modi adding, ‘has anyone else been attacked by this woman abuser?’
Enquiries to Modi about the matter are still to be answered, but as a long-time Modi watcher said, “Once Lalit makes up his mind to go after someone, he doesn’t let go until his enemy is vanquished. Don’t know the details but this gent is already toast.” Meanwhile, the accused’s FB timeline is littered with more Modi ire: A@#*& e- u are a complete disgrace to mankind...’ etc, etc.
The migratory bug
The migratory bug appears to have bitten noted interior designer Kavita Singh real hard. Not only did the long-time resident of SoBo move home and hearth to Bandra recently, but now she appears to have undertaken another move in the opposite direction. This week, clients of the statuesque designer received a ‘change of address’ missive, announcing that her eponymous artefacts store has relocated from Bandra to Gamdevi.
Kavita Singh
Singh meanwhile, is currently in Jaipur to hone another project: the relocation of the famous jewellery store to its new location: the Taj Apollo Bunder, in the place of an iconic bookstore. Books making way for jewellery? Another sign of the times we suppose.
Waiter, there’s some salad in my hair
To say we were underwhelmed by Pooja Dhingra’s much hyped, but abysmally run Colaba eatery, Le 15, is an understatement. Having heard much about Dhingra’s entry in the F&B space, we’d visited it on a couple of occasions, only to be disappointed by its wholly derivative faux Parisian atmo and disinterested service bordering on arrogance. What kind of café owner doesn’t bother to check if her customers are satisfied, we wondered.
Pooja Dhingra
Be that as it may, our weekend sojourn to the said cafe was traumatic to say the least. Not only did our bowl of simple green and red salad take inordinately long to arrive, but the woman on the next table, who’d discovered not one but two hairs in her Asian Green Salad (“one short ,the other long and wrapped around a noodle”), and was complaining bitterly to the manager, was not even being civilly attended to, we noticed.
This, when Dhingra, who passes off as ‘owner of Mumbai’s most famous French style patisserie’, claims ‘Bollywood stars, sportspeople, corporate czars and politicians’ as regular guests. All there for the hairy salads, undoubtedly.
Maid in India woes
Our Oolong-tea serving hostess friend was beside herself.
“The absolute gall,” she croaked in her famous morning-after voice.
She looked at us expectantly, waiting for us to ask her for more details, but when that was not forthcoming, proceeded nevertheless.
“I just got off the phone with Mrs A and she had the funniest tale yet of ayah effrontery,” said the OTSHF.
“Two weeks ago she hired this absolutely perfect housemaid: clean, sprightly, dressed in a crisp cotton sari…” We shot the OTSHF a look that meant get on with it.
“...Who she hired on the spot. Day One: Mrs A came home to find her apartment spotless and shining and her maid on the ladder cleaning the chandeliers!” said the OTSHF.
“Day two was even better: the maid was making pickles,” said the OTSHF. “However, Day Three was a shocker. The maid came to Mrs A in the morning looking extremely upset and said she was quitting immediately because her servant’s quarter was infested with a ghost who the maid referred to as ‘Woh’. Apparently ‘WOH ’ had tried to strangle her at night,” said the OTSHF.
Whoa, we said.
The OTSHF ignored our feeble pun.“Now Mrs A, who didn’t believe in ghosts but had no interest in arguing about their existence with her maid, settled her dues and sent her packing …”
Until? we prompted.
‘Until a few days later, the doorbell rang and the maid walked in declaring ‘Madame, I love you. I want to come back and work with you.’ What about ‘Woh’? asked Mrs A. ‘Oh, I have found a solution,’ said the maid. And stepped aside to let in a wizened old man. “My uncle” she introduced, “he will exorcize the ghost from the house.”
‘Excellent, said Mrs A, let’s get him started right away.’
‘...For only Rs 40,000’ continued the maid.
“In that case I will pass,” said Mrs A. “I think I quite like living with ‘Woh’,” narrated the OTSHF.
Woh! we said.
“Yes, Woh, whoa and woe,” cackled the OTSHF, tinkling her little bell for more hot water.
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