>> And by all accounts, two men stole the show at Sunday night’s charity fundraiser for amfAR, the foundation for AIDS research: Cyrus Poonawalla, whose company, the Serum Institute, was the event’s main support (and who sponsored the two top billed tables of Rs 25 lakh each, besides loaning Sharon Stone his private jet for her Indian travels, amongst other things) and Abhishek Bachchan, whose ardent and endearing solicitations to the audience to bid higher in the charity auction, won him many admirers. “Both Sharon and Abhishek walked the last mile to raise the earnings for the NGO,” says our source. “At one point, Abhishek even sat on someone’s lap and threatened he wouldn’t get up until they had raised their bid,” a move, she says, that had the desired effect!