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Photos: SATISH JAISWAL settes, or even tickets to Jan- that lifelong dream into a real- click away and be a winner! asheen. And if you think that’s ity, courtesy Indiatimes. So (With contributions from Jyoti Sharma A RIDE WITH a lot, here’s more. Other mou- what are you waiting for? Just and Jaydeep Ghosh) th-watering prizes include two Kinetic Velocity bikes, Prov- ogue vouchers, and hold your FARDEEN! breath, a ride with Fardeen on a bike.... so you can convert exy bikes, sexier women and Bollywood’s most eligible ba- Schelor. Can it get any better than that? With the slick promos of Feroz Khan’s Janasheen (starring Fardeen Khan and Celina Jaitley) Rohit Singh, Meyhar Bhasin & Ramneek ALL SMILES: Mariam and Shweta garnering a lot of appreciation, the producer/director is on the ninth heaven. What’s more, backing his film is the strategic tie-up with India- A time to ROCK... times, the country’s premiere portal which has an enviable track record as arely has Delhi rocked on, there were peo- far as movie promotions go both on- rocked so hard ple celebrating little occa- line and in various other properties. R as it did on sions too. Model-cum- Besides creating an exclusive mi- Wednesday night when dancer Shweta Bhardwaj crosite on the film (http://jana- the badshah of Mumbai got cheers for her birth- sheen.indiatimes.com) which boasts DJs flew down to play at day from Vikram Haryani of hot stills, wallpapers, movie syn- one of hippest clubs of while Rohit Singh and his the city.A former Times wife Varsha popped the Music artist, DJ Aqeel, is champagne too. Other the first DJ to do the mu- schmoozers caught chill- sic for a number in Vashu ing out were model Bhagnani’s forthcoming turned actor Sachin movie, Out of Control. Khurana, Dippin Bhatia Though this is not his and Gagan Myne. Gyrat- first brush with Bolly- ing on the floor were in- wood, for, Aqeel is the son- dustrialist Aneesh in-law of one of the stal- Channa and his wife Di- warts of the industry,San- vya and Shivkaran jay Khan. Singh with hordes of Needless to say,Delhiites DJs Rummy Sharma & Aqueel other party-hoppers. just loved Aqueel’s popular white opsis and other trivia on the film, the filmi mixes. The jugalban- polo Tee and the portal is running extensive online di session of Aqeel and Ru- glamorous Femi- and print contests woven around Ja- mmy was another thrilling na Miss India nasheen and its story. Look out for session for the movers and Nikita Anand the interviews with the cast and crew shakers. As people made wrapped in a on http://movies.indiatimes.com as their way through the cr- beige stole. Vin- well as live internet chats on owd towards the bar to get a doo, more http://chat.indiatimes.com, where refill, one spotted many known as the fa- you can pitch your googlies directly glamorous faces of Delhi. mous Dara at your favourite stars, Fardeen and Swaying to the rhythm of Singh’s son Celina you can’t get any more per- the night were many ramp- added a dash of sonal than that! scorchers like the elegant Bollywood glitz So if your’e dying to get a dekko of Meyhar Bhasin, the sultry to the night. Natasha Sobraty and Sohra Tanda the film, just log on to the site and Ayesha Prem in a ribbed As the night take part and you could be the lucky one to win free music CDs and cas-

you can see every strained nerve while Kelucharan Mahopatra performs, the same intensity is lacking in some of ART: FRAMED! his own disciples,’’ says Singh about her favourite pieces in the exhibition. through the photographs to find one where he looks very good. Then I had two similar frames of Vilayat Ali Khan but we chose the one where he has stress on his fingers while playing sitar. The intensity of emotions of the performer comes through in such a photo. In the same way,

Shobha Deepak Singh t’s a labour of love. After spending 20 years clicking the frame-by-frame histo- I ry of India’s performing arts, it is now time for Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra’s Shobha Deepak Singh to show the works of breathtaking beauty to the world. Shobha, with active participation from Ebrahim Alkazi, has mounted the exhibi- tion of her pictures at the Triveni Kala Kendra. The response, needless to say,is stu- pendous. The great maestros of Indian mu- sic, dance and theatre come alive as they reach the zenith of their per- formance, perspiration shining on their forehead, nerves strained as they give their best. It is this moment that Singh cap- tures in her lens and the people can relive them through her pic- tures. ‘‘I have more than 2,00,000 neg- atives of pictures of artists per- forming. Through this exhibi- tion, we have tried to present dance and music of India. As

we did not want to mix up arts, we have not showed much of theatre this time. It may be part of another exhibition,’’ says the avid photographer. Famous theatre personality Alkazi, who has been the force behind the exhibition, says, ‘‘Singh is a very talented photog- rapher.She captures not only the spirit of the performer but his whole temperament and distils the creative scene into pictures. She has done a colossal amount of work and we had to sift and sift, following certain themes and ideas to reach these pic- tures.’’ The exhibition, which will be open till November 26, shows such performers like Zakir Hus- sain, Vilayat Ali Khan, Madhavi Mudgal, Uma Sharma, Mallika Sarabhai, Kishori Amonkar, Amjad Ali Khan, Daksha Seth, Ravi Shankar, Kelucharan Ma- hopatra and Aditi Mangaldas, among others in their element. ‘‘There are certain people, who are not easy to click like Bir- ju Maharaj. But we sifted

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