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Scene and Heard
What's happening at Mumbai's hotels? A peek into the party
circuit and events in the city...
Jazzle Dazzle
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Sonali and Roop Kumar Rathod at the 100 Pipers Legends
Live night at Hilton Towers
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Jazz and Oberoi Towers have always gone together. With the
changeover to Hilton Towers music lovers are happy to note that
the sound synergy still continues. Along with 100 Pipers, it presented
Legends Live, the fourth of a series of jazz nights that kicked
off in New Delhi, moving to Ludhiana and Chandigarh and now from
Mumbai going to Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The night belonged
to the Jonas Hellborg Group from Sweden with legendary bassist Jonas
Hellborg teaming with Mattias Ia Eklundh on guitar and Niclas Campagnol
on drums. The trio enthralled the audience who also appreciated
the smooth Scotch. Appreciative musicians in the house included
Ranjit Barot, Gary Lawyer, Mehnaz, Vasundhara Das, Merlin D'Souza,
Don Saigal and daughter Sonia, both keen jazz exponents in their
own right, and ghazal couple Roop Kumar Rathod and wife Sonali.
Also seen were Anil Chopra and wife Sabina and Consul General of
Germany Hans-Heinrich Freiherr Von Stackelberg. Mumbai is his first
Asian assignment as a diplomat and he seems to enjoy the buzz and
the start of the jazz season in the city.
Launch Pad
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Kareena Kapoor, brand ambassador of Garnier, at Taj
Lands End
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Five-star hotels have always been happy venues for launches
and endorsements. Taj Lands End was the chosen hotel for Garnier India to announce
hazel-eyed filmstar Kareena Kapoor as its brand ambassador. She was chosen for
her distinctive attitude, style and iconic status among the youth of India.
Shown was a new campaign with Kareena endorsing Garnier Nutrisse hair colour.
She sported the frosted brown shade from the True Brown range that included
golden mahogany brown. At ITC Grand Central it was time for Pantech, South Korea's
second largest mobile phone manufacturer, to launch a range of mobile handsets
exclusively for Tata Indicom. Present at the launch was J B Chin, senior VP,
sales & marketing, Pantech, DJ Shin, GM, Pantech India and Dr. Mukund Rajan,
director, Tate Teleservices Ltd. And showing off the new handset was model Cyndy
Khojol. Meanwhile, the spacious banquet venue Blue Sea was the ideal place to
roll in the sleek cars. It was the launch of two new sleek cars from Porsche.
Introduced were the all-new 911 type Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S all-wheel-drive
coupes. Present was Deesch Papke, MD, Porsche, Middle East & Africa and
Ashish Chordia, CEO, Shreyans Motors, Porsche Centre, Mumbai. And the talk was
on driving dynamics that has been unleashed in India.
Sound Check
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Onjolie, Pooja Bhatt and Mummun at the Channel [V] night
at Squeeze
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An extempore performance by Bappi Lahiri was the highlight
of the Channel [V] night at Squeeze. He almost upstaged the earlier performers,
Manasi Scott and Abbey, who were the scheduled singers with their names prominently
mentioned on the red invitation card that came with a pair of red goggles and
red hair glow. Of course, nobody was daring enough to sport that. Host Amar
K Deb of Channel [V] was a happy man indeed at the decent turnout and unexpected
performance. If it's a Channel [V] party, naturally, you can't do without the
many VJs. There was Juhi, Pia, Tina and Purab with DJ Akshay in the mix. Enjoying
the experience was Pooja Bhatt with husband Manish, actors Onjalie and Munmun,
Sanjay Gupta, Rohan Sippy, Sanjay Maroo, Nina Manuel, Luke Kenny, Shibani Kashyap
and Achala Sachdev. DJ Akhtar Fazel of Insomnia sported a T-shirt that read
'Same Same' in the front and on the back 'But Different.' That told the story
of the night.
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