Modi comes to town!

Can there be any thing more highpowered than a scenario which has Aamir Khan SRK Sachin Tendulkar Amitabh Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Mukesh and Nita Ambani and Narendra Modi seated a few feet away from each other in the same roomAfter a series of events featuring megastars the Kabaddi league matches ISL the HNY launch Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchanrsquos Diwali party Narendra Modirsquos inauguration of the Reliance Hospital in Girgaon kinda outdid them all It doesnrsquot get bigger than this unless next time you throw in a couple of IT superstars like Bill and Mark and Jeff and SatyaNarendra Modi with Mukesh and Nita Ambani at the inauguration PICPTIBut seriously folks the collective star power on Saturday night when PM Modi inaugurated the revamped 345bed multispecialty tertiary care hospital has rarely been witnessedAishwarya Rai BachchanIncidentally clever readers had picked up the reference to Modirsquos attendance as Chief Guest in our October 15 column in which wersquod written lsquoAnd now word comes in that the hospital will be inaugurated at the end of the month by one who is in the top echelons of the governmentrsquo more or less breaking the storyAamir KhanBut no sooner had the event concluded than the city occupied itself reading the tealeaves Comments went from lsquoDidnrsquot know he knew Poonam Sinha and Aveek Sarkar that wellrsquo to lsquoBut where was Uddhav Thackerayrsquo to lsquoIs Anu Malik angling for a political careerrsquo But as we said before it doesnrsquot get bigger than thisMiss Indias foreverFeast your eyes on this epic pic of Naina Balsaver Ahmad and Nafisa Ali Sodhi Miss India Femina and Miss India Eversquos Weekly in the year 1976 In those days of arch rivalry Femina used to send their Miss India winners to compete in the Miss Universe pageant and Eversquos Weekly would send theirs to the Miss WorldNaina Balsaver and Nafisa AliThese two Delhibased scrumptious ladies met last week at Bina Ramanirsquos dinner for power gals for visiting Jacqueline Lundquist ldquoThe 2 Miss INDIAS of the same year one Femina one Eversquos Weekly together after a few years Now grandma Indiasrdquo quipped Balsaver a Mumbai girl until she married Congressman Akbar Dumpy AhmedIncidentally in 1976 Naina as Femina Miss India had turned down going to the Miss Universe pageant So in what must have been the result of some pretty fraught back room confabulation and much oestrogen expending Nafisa the Eversquos Weekly winner went insteadSoBo savoirfairePoor Renee Zellweger ever since her striking and enigmatic appearance at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards on October in Beverly Hills last week she has become the subject of much viral and media speculationRenee Zellweger at 2010 Berlin Film Festival and Renee Zellweger at the recent ELLE Awards PicsGetty ImagesNo sooner had the first wave of lsquobefore and afterrsquo and lsquospot the differencersquo responses had died down another more pious and therefore more offensive wave of lsquoLeave her alone guys she has a right to her own facersquo swept through the global chatteratiWe havenrsquot checked last but it seemed like last there was a lsquoleave her alone guys but spot the difference while you do itrsquo wave threatening to breakOf course SoBokers will tell you that what Ms Zellweger is experiencing is only a replay of what happened around a year ago in Mumbai when a very pretty bankerrsquos wife became not only prettier but looked completely like someone elseWhile most who realised what had happened were delighted by this wonder the lady in question along with her significant other displayed admirable sophistication by not being offended by the pleasant blank stares she was met with ldquoMeet my wiferdquo the suave gent would say reintroducing her to people theyrsquod known for YonkersForgive us for pointing out but the international furore around Zellweger appears to lack certain savoirfaire in comparison to Mumbai shoshaitys NaWith friends like theseOh dear The pretty lady on whose behalf we had reported that enough unasked worthies on the Mumbai grapevine were mounting an alimony battle by satellite appears to have found herself a far more constructive option It appears that the graceful and wellregarded wife of a leading industrialist has been given the task of playing mediator between the husband and wifeMeanwhile from stories emanating from their circles it appears that this is not the only battle waged by the pretty lady and another more alarming one is brewing one that insiders say is history repeating itselfCruise liner of a screeningItrsquos been one of SoBorsquos most loved institutionswhen leading builders Meena and Suresh Raheja throw open the doors of their hospitability and host a screening of a big commercial hit filmAshish Raheja andMeena RahejaWith whitegloved waiters serving nonstop food and drinks personalised attention by all members of the Raheja family including the dapper Ashish and a SoBo crowd of Alisters these events tick all the boxes as far as RampR goDevieka Bhojwani andArun NandaAnd this Friday when the Rahejas chose to take every screen at the Metro for a red carpet screening of HNY on the day of its commercial release naturally it was a bigticket attendance We spotted KKR head honcho the dashing Sanjay Nayar with his equally celebrated wife Falguni founder of Nykaacom exec director of Mahindra Arun Nanda with wife Neeru our very own sister Devieka Bhojwani soon to return to theatre with the musical Alyque Padamseersquos magnificent Jesus Christ Superstar you heard it here first big bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and design doyenne Kavita Singh amongst many of the assembled movers and shakersWith great popcorn SRKrsquos peerless gritty eightpack abs on display and a Diwali phataka of a film it was just another day in Paradise aka SoBo