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Saturday night saw some of thecitys beautiful people gather at Laila and Farhan Furniturewalas airy earth and gold burnished heritage bungalow opposite Joggers Park for the formers birthday celebrationsCousins Simone Arora Farah Khan Ali and Sussanne Khan her mother Sundari and uncle Akbar Khan along with Kabir and Parveen Bedi Shaina NC and Manish Munot Sunil Alagh Dia Mirza Ameesha Patel Neelam Kothari Anu and Sunny Dewan Nisha JamVwal Anna and Jaiveer Singh were seen enjoying the warm hospitality and DJ Boscos chart busters from the 1900sLaila and Farhan Furniturewala Sussanne Khan and Farah Khan AliI wanted a retro evening with my fathers dance hits said Laila daughter of the late Bollywood star the dashing Feroze Khan Sunil Alagh told jokes jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali caught up with her old pal jewellery designer Neelam Kothari Queenie Singh made a late appearance Sundari Khan held court with a gaggle of admirers and the party showed every sign of greeting next mornings early bird joggers across the roadSimone AroraCelebrating ProtimaThe 18th death anniversary of the late Protima Bedi whose startling midlife transformation from hippy chick to Odissi exponent is the stuff of urban legendwas marked last week with a poignant tribute by her friend theatre veteran Dolly Thakore I cannot leave this paradise called Nrityagram on the outskirts of Bengaluru which holds a piece of my heart and a life spent with the most wonderful generous creative bold daring courageous friend Protima Bedi who the mountains and rain took away on August 18exactly 18 years ago she posted She made her dream of establishing a dance village come true and today her Odissi dancers are the toast of all international dancers and festivalsProtima BediThe anniversary saw performances by all Nrityagram students from across India and was attended by many of the late dancers friends and fansDolly ThakorePawar zipping aroundWe are all for budding entrepreneurs who opt for their own paths instead of joining the family business Yugendra Pawar who schooled between Mumbais Cathedral and Switzerlands Aiglon before completing a business and finance degree in Boston is the son of Srinavas Pawar the founder of the successful Sharayu Group which runs numerous car dealerships in the city He is also the nephew of former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and belongs to the powerful Sharad Pawar clanYugendra PawarThe twentysomething has launched a startup mobile called Ziptown a personal delivery assistant that lets users pick up or drop off anything in Mumbai within 60 minutes Pawar says he selffunded the venture from money he made betting on 3D printing stocks in the NYSE There is nothing like it in the city We have been operational for five months now and people are using it for all sorts of things that I hadnt even anticipated he exults Its convenient and safe and you can track our police verified riders in real time every second right on your cellphoneAnd given its instant success the startup has further expansion plans We have plans to grow Ziptown pan India specially in the metropolitan cities where a time based delivery service is the need of the hour he adds before zipping offNiceThe studio through the White DoorIf we felt a bit like Alice searching for the white rabbit over the weekend it was perhaps because of artist Sunil Padwals extensive directions on getting to his studio in Lower Parel The dapper fortysomethingyearold known for his anguished protagonist set against hyper surfaces of confused metropolis and changing cityscapes had sent a series of texts on how to reach his place of work The idea was to see the studio mdash from all accounts an astonishing space mdash view his recent work and meet a handful of other artists over drinksStanding from left Tanuja Padwal Brinda Miller Prabhakar Kolte Dayanita Singh Arun Jothi a friend Baiju Parthan Vinod Sharma Sitting from left Arzan Khambatta Sudarshan Shetty Sunil PadwalIf you are coming from Lower Parel station east you come down the flyover cross the main traffic light come straight began one message which ended with you need to walk inside the narrow lane you will see a white doorAnd to be honest the Alice syndrome saw us through to the other side of what was an essentially middle class housing society into a cathedral of height and edgy beauty minimal bespoke furniture a brimming altar of a bookshelf gigantic pieces of sculpture and a swathe of Padwals sublime recent works for prestigious assignments across the world like an upcoming art fair in CologneBut man does not live by art alone and so amidst great music and supported by a wellstocked bar were gathered some of the countries best known artists and creators Prabhakar Kolte Baiju Parthan Brinda Miller Vinod Sharma Arzan Khambatta and Arun Jothi along with hosts Sunil and his attractive designermodel wife Tanuja PadwalI often call my artist friends over to the studio says Padwal We really are a small community which discusses each others work and supports each others creativity he says about the gathering while sculptor Khambatta known to be a great mimic narrates amusing anecdotes from his artistic careerAnd then the doorbell rings and in walk Dayanita Singh and Sudarshan Shetty with a few bright young organisers of the Kochi Biennale and the discussion and laughter and viewing goes on till the wee hours of the morningFor such is the artistic lifeFrom the mouths of ADsIt is a truth universally acknowledged that some of the most delicious behind the scenes stories in Bollywood emanate from the units of films Those callow men and women who toil silently in the background their antennas ever ready to pick up on the ebb and flow of realtime Bollywood occurrences And so when this young lass whod worked on a recently released epic tanker featuring one of Bollys musculated super stars in all his bronzed glory was overheard griping sorely about said Bronzed One s curious reluctance to promote his film mdash we lent her our earIt was weird how he remained so aloof during the runup to the films launch she said On the few occasions he chose to speak about his role in its making he focused entirely on himself she said adding the kicker All of us on the unit believe that his recent fall from grace following his public spat with his costar appears to have unhinged him mdash what other explanation can there beOh dearTweet TalkDont you hate it when all you ever wanted was a selfie but life gives you a silver medal instead PVSindhumdash sarcasm_so