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Full Page 210 mm x 277 mm The Club.indd 1 12/16/2019 2:20:20 PM Full Page 210 mm x 277 mm The Club.indd 1 12/30/2019 4:15:14 PM Chairman - Dinesh Khanna MANAGEMENT President & COO - Tushar Khanna 20 General Manager - Arindam Chakraborty 10 M O C Vice President (New Business & Corporate . NOTE CK Alliance) - Rakesh Gurung O Executive Vice President - Sarina Menezes RST E Dear Member, Executive Chef - Gaurav Madan HUTT S We wish you a very Happy New Year and all the very best for a new decade as we Vice President (Finance) - Hemanshu Joshi welcome 2020! Executive Housekeeper - Kajal Kotak The last quarter of the year was surely exciting and to continue to keep your Executive Publisher - Maneck Davar spirits high this year The Club has a plethora of activities, experiences and Spenta Multimedia NTS opportunities to spend your time of leisure and recreation positively. Sr. Vice President - 13 Bobby Daniel 04 OUR SALON This issue of Life@TheClub focuses on women and a few of our members were COVER STORY Learn to add that perfect M Editorial O C very pleased to share their journeys in their respective professions and discuss Aahana Kumra shares how glow to your beauty from . Anushka Singhal E she considers The Club as her CK how they aspire to lead a balanced life and make time for leisure and recreation. our trained professionals O Design second home RST Thank you to Nityoah Mehta, Aahana Kumra, Dr Divya Chhabra and Hemanti Bharati Khule E Wadhwa for their inputs for this issue of the magazine. 06 HUTT Digital Imaging 14 S 26 ANTARA SPA A look back at the successful Royal Wedding Affair and we are pleased to say Ninad Jadhav BEKAL Relax in our couple suite with Take a break for your own that The Club Banquets is a preferred choice for that special day and all the Marketing rose & milk bath sake and spend some time 32 celebrations. And next on our list is the Rosé Fest to celebrate women on Group Vice-President by the backwaters WELLNEss Geetu Rai 08 Understanding the relation International Women’s Day. The activities are being planned so look out for 9920023908 MY STORY 16 between the conscious and more information that will be revealed shortly. Sachin Desai Nityoah Mehta loves life and TRAVEL the subconscious 9820425612 shares her journey with us Our Chefs are cooking up a storm for you at our restaurants especially with the NT Read about a few of the Gujarat many things to do when 34 Chinese New Year at the Oriental Wok, the Bohri Kitchen gastronomy at the Sanjay Chawda 09 holidaying in Argentina HEALTH ZONE Garden Grill and some world and regional cuisines at the Waterside. 98240 43072 ROSÉ FEST Don’t let your New Year Raising a toast to 18 fitness resolution break by The Antara Spa and Kromakay Salon will help you steal some time from your Published by Spenta Multimedia on womanhood FESTIVE GLOBAL working out at The Club behalf of The Club. We say Happy New Year the routine and relax with all the pampering. The weather is cool and inviting so our O For advertising queries and 10 Chinese way 36 outdoors become an opportunity to celebrate Sankranti, Lohri, Holi, the Anada BANQUETS CSR bookings call: 022 24811044. Spring Festival and even your pet dog is invited to a Doggie Day Out at The Where Weddings are a Royal 20 The Club and Fankind give it Club this quarter. The Club would not be complete without our lively children Also visit www.theclubmumbai.com Affair GOURMET back to society, gift-wrapped The Club Mumbai, and there are lots of activities planned to keep them engaged and happy including International cuisine for a 197 D N Nagar, Andheri (W), great dining experience 38 an Art Festival. Mumbai 400 053 C LITTLE IVY Tel: 022 6611 7777 26 Your convenient children If you are looking at a travel destination that is unexplored and enchanting, look Children’S CORNER store has more! no further as we discover Argentina overseas and the Taj Bekal Spa & Resort in Keep your child engaged in Kerala and tell you all about the magic that unfolds there. Lastly, a little touch of BOARD OF ADVISORS AT THE CLUB 14 meaningful activities 39 OUR TEAM kindness and love was shared by our team members with the underprivileged at Farzana Contractor Kirit Damania 29 Meet our amiable team member and know about her Sneha Sadan, St. Catherine’s Home and through Fankind. Rashmi Uday Singh Anil Harish READING CIRCLE journey so far with The Club Sabira Merchant K. N. Gandhi Encouraging the budding And as we enter this new decade, we look forward to welcoming you with your artist in your child family and friends and to extend our hospitality, making every moment you Meka Rajyalaxmi Rao Sandip Shah 40 Sunil. K. Alagh Subhash K. D. Ghai PHOTO GALLERY spend at The Club relaxing and memorable. 30 Asif Adil Ajit G. Khimji THE ANADA CLUB Udyan Bose Gary Harilela After the successful re- 46 UPCOMING EVENTS K. K. Nohria Sharad Patel launch of Anada, the most Mark those days in your THE MANAGEMENT Ghanshyam Sheth Ben Trivedi awaited Anada Spring Fest is back calendar as Fundays 2 JANUARY-FEBRUARY-MARCH 2020 JANUARY-FEBRUARY-MARCH 2020 3 COVER STORY AS I GREW UP, I TOOK MY PERSONAL MEMBERSHIP AND MADE IMMENSE USE OF THE FACILITIES AT A DEAR HOUSE OF TaLENT - THE CLUB LIKE THAT OF THE ANTARA SPA, THE RESTAURANTS FOR MY MEETINGS, THE Westburry’s AAHANA KUMRA BAR FOR HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIENDS AND ATTENDING ALL THE EVENTS THAT GET ORGANIZED. Tell us about your career and how you decided to get into films and the entertainment world? eet Aahana Kumra, a member I joined Prithvi Theatre initially and since she was 16, in a candid was assisting in workshops, backstage Mchat as she talks about how management and realized this is what The Club is her most favourite place. I want to do. I wasn’t cut out for a Intelligent, cheerful, effervescent and yet day job or a corporate life, in fact, I steeped in values, something that is rare didn’t enjoy it at all. What I wanted in today’s young generation. Known as to do was something creative and stage the girl who acted in the controversial related which I realized was part of my Lipstick Under My Burkha, Aahana personality and self-discovery. Also, if shares with us about her career, how she you enjoy what you do and can make unwinds and what The Club means to money out of it, why not! My parents her… are very supportive of my choice although initially Dad was apprehensive You have been with us as a member since he comes from a hardcore ever since you were 16; what are some How did you evolve as you grew up corporate background. But eventually of your fondest memories of enjoying into an adult? Did you still find he came round too. yourself at The Club? visiting The Club and patronizing I used to love the Bowling Centre and our facilities in tune with what you What are some films or web series that that’s where we used to hang-out the required as a young adult? you have worked in and we should most. I would also swim a lot and learned As a matter of fact, I got more look forward to? Tennis from Santosh. But I remember if involved as I grew up, I took my I acted in Yudh as Ambitabh there was any opportunity of spending personal membership and made Bachchan’s daughter, Lipstick Under my free time, it was always at The Club. immense use of the facilities at The My Burkha and Accidental Prime Club like that of the Antara Spa, Minister. Some of the web series you You have been a sporty and athletic the restaurants for my meetings, the can watch me in are - It Happened person, so how did The Club provide Westburry’s Bar for hanging out in Hong Kong, Ready to Mingle, you with that need? with my friends and attending all Aisha–season 3, Chutyagiri, Rangbaaz, My parents always encouraged me and the events that get organized. Yes, Bombers and Betaal. my sister, Shivani to engage in outdoor one does want to explore the outside The two films I am currently working activities and that’s how we would spend world and other places that friends on are Khudha Hafiz and How to Kill all our time at The Club playing outdoor hang out at but eventually I came Your Husband.