<img title="Kangana Ranaut" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/Kangana-Ranaut-a.jpg" alt="Kangana Ranaut" /> Kangana Ranaut
<img style="float: left;" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/dec/Malavika-op.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="57" />Always nice catching up with Kangana Ranaut, whose sensitive observations and well-chosen syntax never cease to delight. We spoke to the actress yesterday, who was back from a workshop in Atlanta for Hansal Mehta&rsquo;s upcoming Simran and attending to mundane tasks at her well-appointed apartment in Khar.
&ldquo;The onslaught of the monsoons resulted in me having to repair the roof of my terrace,&rdquo; she said about the area, containing among other things, a compact pool. We mentioned a photograph of hers at the airport we&rsquo;d chanced upon a few months ago, at the height of a particularly challenging period for her, in which she&rsquo;d resembled a Lara Croft clone, all sinew, swag and spiked heels.
&ldquo;Fashion is a way of manifesting outside, how you feel inside,&rdquo; she said thoughtfully. &ldquo;I guess at that moment, I needed to project a feeling of wearing armour. Fashion is an ever-changing kaleidoscope; a form of art,&rdquo; she said. So, carrying forward the analogy of clothes being a kind of three-dimensional walking Rorschach test, we asked our soft-spoken friend what she&rsquo;d worn that morning.
&ldquo;This morning I felt dreamy, so I wore a billowy blue chiffon dress,&rdquo; she laughed. We suppose a certain pesky former colleague can breathe easy for a while.
Calling Putin, dialling Li Guests who attended the recent birthday celebrations of KK Modi in Taipei, Taiwan, have not stopped raving about the grand scale of the arrange-ments. From a 20-hour non-stop food and beverage facility, to guests been regaled by a top Pakistani female singer, said to be a great favourite with Indian industrialists, who is rumoured to charge R40 lakh for an evening&rsquo;s performance.
<img title="Vladimir Putin and Lalit Modi" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/Vladimir-Putin.jpg" alt="Vladimir Putin and Lalit Modi" />Vladimir Putin and Lalit Modi
But of course every thing paled in comparison to the patriarch&rsquo;s flamboyant son Lalit Modi. &ldquo;He was in top form,&rdquo; purred a leggy socialite about London&rsquo;s best-known exile. &ldquo;He would hold court every evening in his suite and it&rsquo;s there that we got to know of his high-flying connections,&rdquo; she said, adding &ldquo;Lalit is in daily touch with Vladmir Putin and China&rsquo;s Li Keqiang&rdquo;.
<img title="Li Keqiang and Arun Jaitley" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/Li-Keqiang.jpg" alt="Li Keqiang and Arun Jaitley" /> Li Keqiang and Arun Jaitley
&ldquo;What&rsquo;s more, he seems to be on speed dial with his namesake on Raisina Hill as well as with his chief aide Amit Shah,&rdquo; said the diva with not a little awe in her voice. Really, what about his ongoing war of words with FinMin Arun Jaitley, we enquired confused. &ldquo;Oh that,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;What I gathered is that it had the blessings of higher ups.&rdquo; Tucking this away as some highly intriguing insight in to realpolitik, we enquired what the famous exile was up to besides internat-ional statesmanship.
&ldquo;What I gathered is that the top leadership in China has requested him to create a property for Chinese football on the scale of India&rsquo;s hugely successful IPL,&rdquo; she said, adding, &ldquo;secondly, he appears to be passionate about taking the scientific approach developed by Portugal&rsquo;s Champalimaud Found-ation across the world. Apparently, they have created a treatment for cancer that&rsquo;s under $1,200,&rdquo; she said. A mega football league for China, speed dialling Putin and international medical evnagelism? &ndash; welcome to exile Lalit Modi style.
AD Singh spoofs himself Friends of serial restaurateur AD Singh were ROFL at a recently-shot clip of a speech made by Mumbai&rsquo;s second finest export to Delhi (after Piyush Goyal, that is) in which he&rsquo;d set himself up (mostly unintent-ionally) in a hilarious spoof.
<img title="AD Singh" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/AD-Singh.jpg" alt="AD Singh" /> AD Singh
Filmed as an acceptance speech for winning Restaurateur of the Year this weekend, it had Singh, the subject of many of his BFF, actor Rahul Bose&rsquo;s best caricatures, at his hammy best, rolling his eyeballs, sighing audibly in an attempt to be funny.
&ldquo;I could not make it to the actual ceremony,&rdquo; explained Singh, &ldquo;So I sent in a taped version, which they played on the occasion this weekend and which many people liked so much that they uploaded it on YouTube.&rdquo; Er, hang on to your day job is what we said about the restaurateur&rsquo;s nascent acting talent. &ldquo;That bad?&rdquo; he said nervously.
Well let&rsquo;s just say Amitabh Bachchan and SRK have no reason to worry, we replied. Now we&rsquo;re eagerly waiting to see Rahul Bose&rsquo;s version of AD attempting to act.
With reverence and joy Ganpati at actor Nana Patekar&rsquo;s home is a splendorous affair, as seen from this picture taken on Rushi Panch-ami, the day after Ganesh Chaturthi. From all accounts, the thes-pian&rsquo;s murti is simple, traditional and made by the same idol maker in Girgaum that he has been going to for decades.
<img title="Ganpati at Nana Patekar&rsquo;s home" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/Ganpati-a.jpg" alt="Ganpati at Nana Patekar&rsquo;s home" /> Ganpati at Nana Patekar&rsquo;s home
What also differentiates his from other, more showy celebrations, is that Patekar himself attends to the rituals &ldquo;He painstakingly arranges each flower, one by one, around the idol; an activity that takes up most of the day,&rdquo; says an insider adding, &ldquo;And then, he repeats this over the next 10 days.&rdquo;
<img title="(From left) Kunal Vijaykar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rahul Ranade, Rajdutt &amp; Nana Patekar" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/sep/Mahesh-Manjrekar.jpg" alt="(From left) Kunal Vijaykar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rahul Ranade, Rajdutt &amp; Nana Patekar" /> (From left) Kunal Vijaykar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rahul Ranade, Rajdutt &amp; Nana Patekar
And given that Patekar maintains an easy, open house for friends and well wishers, the likes of director Mahesh Manjrekar, musician Rahul Ranade and Patekar&rsquo;s guru and veteran director Rajdutt, along with funny man Kunal Vijayakar had all dropped in this weekend to share in his joy.
Delhi&rsquo;s savvy, Mumbai&rsquo;s money It might just be one of the biggest art collaborations between Delhi and Mumbai. Collectors and art aficionados this week in both cities were intrigued to receive a save the date missive from India Art Fair&rsquo;s dynamic inceptor Neha Kirpal and Mumbai&rsquo;s art maven Manish Maker, of the famous real estate clan.
Sent by SMS, the message invited them this Sept-ember for the launch of a &lsquo;new global partnership, which celeb-rates a historic moment for Indian art.&rsquo; &ldquo;Everyone in the art world knows how the organisers of the India Art Fair, have been scouting for investors,&rdquo; says an insider, adding &ldquo;Maker might just be the person who makes the venture sustainable.&rdquo; Delhi savvy and Mumbai money? Nice!

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