Dangal in New York

Kiran Rao and Aamir KhanFiruza and the children saw Dangal with Aamir last evening in Mumbai and sent me a text urging me to see it in New York says the Mumbaibased neuro psychiatrist Rajesh Parikh who along with his doctor wife the renowned gynaecologist and IVF expert Firuza Parikh is a close friend of the RaoKhan couple Parikh is currently in New York and had caught the first day first show of the much awaited Bollywood release at NYCs famous AMC theater at 42nd street yesterdayDr Rajesh and Dr Firuza ParikhThe theatre was packed and the movie was punctuated by shared laughter at its humour and silent sobs during its heightened emotional sequences says Parikh something of an avid film buff himselfOnly someone with Kiran Rao and Aamir Khans intensity and integrity could have made it The acting direction and dialogues are flawless It is the finest Hindi film I have seen in a long time And it should be Indias proud entry at the Oscars he says signing off with I was tempted to sit through its second screening but it was sold out Certainly plan on seeing it again soon Measurements for an Oscar suit and ball gown anyoneQueenie the morning afterIt was a fabulous night and my feet still ache said Queenie Singh on the morning of her birthday yesterday about the celebratory party the previous evening held at a midcity fivestar Whats best was that both my beautiful kids were in town and with me she said of her progenyQueenie with Tiara and RajveerRajveer is studying at ISME and my daughter Tiara is at Sarah Lawrence in New York said the feisty highprofile jeweller and socialite who was seen in a body snugging red Herve Leger for the occasion All my old friends were there mdash old and new mdash it was beautifulNext gen take overSilently and surely Gen Next is getting into position to assume its leadership role in the future Following in the success of his famous mother Anita Dongre her son Yash is also making moves The lad who we have known from his school days in Mumbai had left to study abroad and had returned to Mumbai as the business head of his mothers fast expanding fashion empireAnita Dongre with son YashNow word comes in that he is all set to head the project of their two soon to be launched stores in NYCs Fifth Avenue and SoHo districts Not only that Yash will be a speaker at the 7th Annual UNIC Young Changemakers Conclave an initiative supported by the United Nations set to take place in Delhi next month where other notable speakers include Omar Abdullah Piyush Pandey Prasoon Joshi and Varun Gandhi NiceHe saw redIt is often said that social media mdash especially Twitter mdash is a deadly serious platform which should be approached only by those in full command of their faculties and then some but clearly actor Rishi Kapoor who has taken to the microblogging site likehellip erhellip a Bombay Duck to water does not heed such counselRishiacircu00c2u0080u00c2u0088KapoorAnd this Wednesday night when some of the most asinine comments followed the announcement of Kapoors newly born grand nephew Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi the inheritor of an exquisite gene pool and pedigree the actor was at his tired and emotional bestA lot of people are going to be blocked if any more arguments happen just shut the f up one tweet read And his ire and irascibility rose with every subsequent tweet or peg in the following hours Why are people so bothered what the parents want to name their child pleaseSaif Aliacircu00c2u0080u00c2u0088Khan and Kareena KapoorMind your business its got nothing to do with you Parents wish he fumed And reacting to one of the meanest cuts of all What a downfall from Prithvi Raj Kapoor to Taimur Ali your ancestors soul must be weeping today Shame on you people Kapoor had clearly had enough You mind your fing business what my ancestors must be feeling Apna kaam karo he tweeted Grand uncles day outWaxing eloquentFor some reason the fact that Madame Tussauds is opening its first branch in India in Delhi appears to us as the very end of the end That visitors to the Indian capital might include a visit to this grotesque symbol of vulgarity on the same day as they take in the Red Fort the Qutub Minar or Lodhi Gardens is the final proof of the imminent apocalypse or Kalyug that we are facingA wax figure of former UKacircu00c2u0080u00c2u0088PMacircu00c2u0080u00c2u0088David Cameron at Madame Tussauds PICAFPThe museum begun by a somewhat endearing old French woman but subsequently turned in to a multidollar entertainment industry by wily corporations whose claim to fame is of making some very waxy personalities look even waxier will be launched midnext year at Connaught Places Regal CinemaDonald TrumpWhen there is palpable proof of great handicrafts and contemporary art in India just crying out for support the fact we import this pimple on the face of civilisation that purports to bestow some sort of faux celebrity on a pretty motely crew has just made us want to drown in our first cup of masala tea this morning Yes and the Tussauds Mothership is preparing an effigy of The Donald even as we speak to be launched on 20 January Typical