Saturday Saturday

Its going to be a big ticket Saturday this weekend With two events scheduled to take place at two different ends of the city simultaneously both vying to outdo each other in terms of the glamour quotient The first one held in SoBo is The AIB Knockout of Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh which we wrote about a month agoThe event which will be hosted at the NSCI which has been put together by the funny men of All India Bakchod comedians and YouTube stars will follow Comedy Central USArsquos roast format and feature Karan Johar as the host and roast master Some of the other names of roasters doing the rounds are Parineeti Chopra and fellow hack Rajeev MasandHrithik Roshan andVarun DhawanAnd if that wasnrsquot enough for Mumbai Saturday also happens to be the final of the ISL tournament the ultra successful IPLstyle football league The match will take place at the DY Patil stadium and though the finalists are yet to be decided bookies have their bets of a Goa vs Kerala final we hear the closing ceremony is sure to be a spectacleArjun Kapoor andRanveer SinghAnd expected in attendance are a host of Bollywood stars including Abhishek Bachchan Hrithik Roshan Varun Dhawan and Ranbir Kapoor So if you are one of the late ones to wake up and are looking for tickets itrsquos a tough choice to makeNinetynine womenWord comes in that hunky deep sea diving director Homi Adajania has just shot a short film titled lsquoMy Choicersquo featuring 99 independent urban women separately in nine hours for a womenrsquos empowerment initiativeHomi Adajania and Deepika PadukoneldquoItrsquos a pledge Deepika and I had taken for an empowerment initiativerdquo says Adajania referring to who appears to be his favourite star the longlimbed Deepika Padukone the star of two of his three filmsldquoWe wanted to shoot black amp white moving portraits of 99 women from most walks of lifehellip a flower seller singer writer clerk marine biologist veggie vendor actor directorhellippretty much across the spectrumrdquo he says adding ldquoI wanted to film them just being just freewheeling and expressing themselves organically to the spoken word poemrdquo And is Deepika in this 2minute filmldquoDeepika bookends the film and it will have her voice over of a powerful piece thatrsquos been written by Kersi Khambatta Cowriter of Being Cyrus Finding Fanny titled lsquoMy Choicersquordquo he says adding ldquoMaddock Films produced it and Sangita Jindal sponsored us through the generous Jindal Foundation because womenrsquos empowerment is something we all share a common belief inrdquoAnd when we questioned why the filmmaker chose exactly 99 and not a hundred women he laughed ldquoBecause at the last minute God dropped out I guess she was busyrdquo NiceEnchanted valley festivalThis weekend the cityrsquos young and restless will head over to neighbouring Aamby Valley to attend the Enchanted Valley Carnival aka EVCDJ David GuettaThe music fest slated to be held on a deserted airstrip now in its second year seems to have sent out the right vibes with its chilled out reputation Diehard EDM lovers speak of how the festival is Indiarsquos equivalent of Coachella held outside LA every year with the same camping style set upThose who attend have the choice of BYOT bring your own tent or can stay at villas and chalets in the vicinity The music line up is headlined by French sensation and ex no1 DJ David Guetta and has a decent mix of Indian artists like Anish Sood Rishabh Joshi and Dualist Inquiry along with other international musiciansWhatrsquos more insiders are already talking about the festivalrsquos after party which will see the DJ group Usual Suspects Karan Third Eye Vishal Shetty Siddhant Kapoor actress Shraddharsquos brother on the decks Of course Aamby Valleyrsquos creator the one and only Subrata Roy alas will be unable to attend the high jinks though given as he is currently listening to his own version of the Jail House RockSpotlight on The EccentricsldquoItrsquos from the December issue of Elle for an article titled lsquoThe Eccentricsrsquordquo says our friend Indiarsquos leading set and lighting designer the Delhibased Sumant Jayakrishnan about a striking portrait that we chanced upon recently ldquoIt was put together as a concept by Ashdeen Lilaowala a textile and fashion designer based out of Delhi I am wearing my own things stuff I had gotten made for my 40th birthdaySumant Jayakrishnan Image Courtesy ELLE Magazine India PicBikramjit BoseThe hat I picked up on a trip to South Africa the clothes were bright celebratory and very Aladdin some of them were inspired in cut from costumes I had designed for the Tim Supple production of lsquoA Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrsquordquo says the NID alumnus who is also responsible for designing some of the most fabulous destination weddings besides art direction for movies like Deepa Mehtarsquos WaterIncidentally Jayakrishnan is not the only flamboyantly stylish person featured in the article dancer Astad Deboo artists Jiten Thukral and Samir Tagra and Mumbairsquos very own perennial flower power couple gallerist Praveena and finance wiz Jamal Mecklai make the cut tooClassy biopicItrsquos not been announced yet but sources swear that a leading and very handsome Bollywood star is currently in talks to produce and star in a biopic based on the life of one of Indiarsquos greatest industrialists a man as dynamic and visionary as he was elegant and someone on whose life nothing has been done so far on celluloidWhatrsquos more the film is being supported by none other than one of the industrialistrsquos relatives a man richly deserving of his own biopic we think When will the film be announced Pretty soon if sources are to be believed And given the starrsquos trajectory hersquos produced some critically acclaimed films in the past it promises to be a very classy affair