Of Tiger, his 'bro' and KJO

When we had gone to Ayesha and Jackies prerelease screening of their cub Tigers Heropanti at the Yash Raj studios we had no idea that it would be the megablockbuster it became We recall the positive buzz in the wellappointed celebrated auditorium crammed to the rafters with film industry legendsAnd bumping into our old Danny Denzongpa easily one of the most graceful and refined of Bollywood denizens Tiger looks SO much like you wed said to Denzongpa at which he smiledKaran JoharHes best friends with my son Rinzing hed said Theyre almost like brothers And to be sure the next day through the press coverage we saw that it had been Rinzing whod driven his bestiebro to this most crucial screening of his debut filmDanny Denzongpa andRinzing DenzogpaTheyve known each other since Tiger was born said Tigermom Ayesha Shroff when we called her up to ask what the truth was on the rumours that Tiger had been signed by Karan Johar for a dream project based on Amish Tripathis The Immortals of Meluha whose rights hed acquired a few years agoTiger Shroff andAyesha ShroffWed been the ones to first speculate if Tiger would reprise the role of Lord Shiva in the book which tells the story of a Tibetan immigrant named Shiva The role he was born to play wed writtenRegarding KJO Tiger met him and they had a lovely meeting very casual and they just chattered but no film signed as of now So there you have it from the tigress mouth And being admirers of not only Lord Shiva but also young Tiger we have our fingers crossedYummy Mummies and their sonsShes a pillar of Bangalore society and with her luxuriant mane gregarious personality and penchant for fashion Leena Singh is very much the Page 3 paparazzi delightArjun Sajnani Leena Singh andTanvir SinghSo recently when we saw her young actorson the handsome Tanvirs excellent ad on TV in which the sensitivelooking young man invites viewers to Find your World for ebayin we couldnt help thinking that good looks run in the familyJust do it GutthiWord comes in that one of our favourite actors Sunil Grover of Gutthi fame wants very much to return to CNWKSunil GroverI met him on a flight recently and he admitted he was miserable and wanted to get back to CNWK said our source But he wanted to get back with his dignity intact I told him just do it Dont think so muchStorm in a champagne fluteThere are few highsociety anecdotes that are so deliciously wicked that they stand the test of time by becoming part of urban folkloreThe case of the two Lalits and their Rs 1crore Diwali gambling debt the incident involving a leading artist who took his canvas back from one of his favourite muses on the pretext of improving it and then proceeded to fake amnesia when it was time to return it and of course the case of the apathetic golfers at SoBos toniest club who continued their game after one of their teammates suffered a heart attack and died alone in the ambulance on the way to hospital who can forget theseThese are the modernday mythologies of Mumbai and serve to remind us all how the rich famous and powerful really are very different from us all The next story we are going to narrate falls into this categoryA celebrated SoBo hostess threw one of her soirees this weekend at home Many pillars of Mumbai society were present and it was all going pleasantly But as it sometimes happens on these evenings a lady fell Someone wellknown to all present and one a tad portly and depending which side youre on perhaps slightly inebriatedHeres where the real action begins along with the crashbang ouch that followed the unfortunate lady whod fallen noticed a popular society figure clap her hands in delight and cheer while she took her tumble This was an affront that hurt the fallen woman the fallee more than her bruisesAs soon as she had recovered what dignity she had left it is said that in a big booming voice she turned viciously on the alleged laugher the laughee and revealed some unfortunate details about the poor womans marital situation which had ended in tragedy Everyone knows that your husband was seeing XXX before he died she screamed adding a lot more spice to the revelation than we have the stomach to recount hereStunned the guests slunk away and the party folded up in tatters Early next morning the alleged laughee called the hostess and threatened to take her to court for her embarrassment The fallee meanwhile realised shed gone too far for even Mumbai society and tried to make excuses for her outburst by saying how hurt shed felt at being laughed at when I could have died because of a blood clot problemThere the storm in a champagne flute swirled with the urbanjungle grapevine tomtomming rage and outrage at regular intervals between the two camps Now the laughee has returned from a spa weekend and declared that life is too short and that shed like to forgive and forget The fallee is meanwhile telling people this Gandhigiri is just a ruse to win sympathy And so it goes and so it goeshellip