Mumbai Diary: Thursday Dossier

Watching the starsWhile the rest of the world watches them as they gear up for their upcoming Christmas release Anushka Sharma seems to have seen something up above as the actress joins Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif for a media interaction at a Bandra fivestar on Wednesday PicPradeep DhivarHues who of artAstaguru is hosting an online auction this weekend that will feature the works of some of the biggest names in Indian art The highlights include a selfportrait by Amrita SherGil which is part of a series of such paintings that the legendary artist created Other bigname artists include VS Gaitonde and MF Husain whose 1954 painting called Passage of Time will be up for grabsThen theres Bikash Bhattacharjees painting titled Bisarjan and a rare terracotta Buddha sculpture created by Jamini Roy The starting bids must be at least 20000 and can be placed at the online auction houses website This incidentally has been a memorable year for the firm which celebrated its 10th anniversary sale in March this yearA master chef whips up a meal fit for a kingTwentyfive underprivileged children were in for a treat at a city restaurant recently Ben Ungermann runnerup of Masterchef Australia 2017 was in the city recently to launch a food show hes hosting for televisionThe event involved Ungermann and a host of city chefs mdash including Vicky Ratnani mdash pledging to raise 1 lakh meals on behalf of a charitable foundation as part of which these 25 kids were the first few lucky ones All the chefs were divided into four teams and had to pick options from a mystery box before deciding on the dishes they cookedChew on thisAn online food aggregator has released its statistics for the year and they throw up some interesting observationsFor instance the earliest meal on the app was ordered from Coimbatore at 6 am while Delhi was on the other end of the spectrum with an order placed at 437 am Also the lowestpriced order was for Rs 10 and the most expensive one was worth a whopping Rs 38000Akhtars day at the museumDr Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Byculla is hosting a special exhibition at present which had a highprofile visitor dropping in Titled Connecting Threads Textiles in Contemporary Practice the show involves a whole range of documents and images that give a perspective on the subjectAnd Bollywood legend Javed Akhtar soaked in all the information when he paid a visit with Tasneem Zakaria Mehta the museums director and the exhibitions curator and cocurator Puja Vaish explaining the nitty gritties to himThis photographer is keeping mumDid he or did he not That seems to be the question that people are asking of Karnatakabased photographer Vivek Sequeira after he posted a picture on social media with a cryptic caption that read Just finished covering Indias biggestever wedding Later a news outlet posted an interview with the 47yearold who runs an agency called Luxe Captures in which Sequeira reportedly revealed that the wedding he was referring to was that of Isha Ambani and Anand PiramalsHe also reportedly said that when he got the contract in July the name of the client was kept a secret and he had to sign a strict confidentiality agreement He added that his team of 17 members took an astonishing 12 lakh photographs over a fortnight which amounted to 30 TB of hard disks being filled with photos But later Sequeira distanced himself from this interview putting up another social media post that read Hi all my sincere request to all Please dont spread the rumours about the wedding people are talking about sic Has he been given further gag orders now that the festivities are over Its a mystery that needs an answerCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates