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| KABIR'S BIRTHDAY, JANUARY 16, 2006 | |
Kabir's birthday motto: "Let's make the journey together!" Kabir turned 60 on Monday, January 16, 2006 |
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 EXCLUSIVE PICTURE KABIR AT HIS BIRTHDAY BASH IN BOMBAY, IT TOOK PLACE A DAY EARLIER, ON JANUARY 15, 2006 |
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| Andrea Verschuur's exclusive
report from Bombay: Kabir's big birthday bash today (Sunday, January 15) caused a a traffic jam in the north Mumbai suburb of Bandra, as his many guests arrived at the trendy restaurant Seijo & The Soulfood. Security guards, autorickshaw drivers, private chauffeurs and the just curious saw the more than 150 partygoers, including Kabir's family, actors and the Bollywood "filmi" set alight from their limousines to join the fray. Among the many guests were Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, Jackie Shroff, Natasha and Fardeen Khan, Gayatri Iyer and Kunal Ganjawala, Lara Dutta, Soni Razdan and Mahesh Bhatt, Alyque Padamsee, Kim Sharma, Milind Soman, Ajitabh and Ramona Bachchan, Zafar Hai, Gerson Da Cunha, Farah Ali Khan, Zarine Khan, Farhan Furniturewala, Zeba and Rajesh Kohli, Kelly Dorji, Anna Singh and Jaiveer, Dolly Thakore, and Biddu (of the Biddu Orchestra). Kabir, dressed in a snow-white pathani, took centre stage in more than one way, as the Indian winter sun (33 degrees Celsius in the shade) shone down on him through the restaurant's transparent roof. The party was hosted by Kabir's daughter Pooja and his son Adam, who decorated the eatery with many rare private snapshots of the Bedi clan, stage pictures, posters and movie stills, illustrating the often turbulent life journey of India's first international screen star. Kabir's elder brother Ranga travelled from Bangalore, and Adam arrived holding hands with his girlfriend Nisha Harale. Both Adam, in a white kurta with blue embroidery, and his mother Ixchel were wearing outfits by designer Nisha Merchant that perfectly matched their striking blue eyes. A beaming Ixchel, who lives on the US West coast but has been staying in India in recent weeks, told kabir-bedi.com that Adam and Nisha got engaged over Christmas. Holding hands with her future daughter-in-law Nisha, she told us the engagement will be officially announced shortly. Nisha proudly showed off her engagement ring. The mood was upbeat and cheerful as the guests enjoyed the pictures of toddler Kabir with his proud parents, Kabir the schoolboy, the college athlete (already the tallest of his class), the Buddhist child monk, and of Kabir as Othello and Kabir as the Corsaro Nero. There was a large picture of Kabir's parents and a wall full of snaps illustrating his three marriages. "Did you know Kabir could do that?" said one of Pooja's banners, strung under a large set of photographs from days gone by, which showed a sparsely clad Kabir at a yoga workout. With her trademark giggle, Pooja was the perfect host for the guests, whom she described as "just a few of Daddy's closest friends." We also ran into Gayatri Iyer, back in her home town Bombay from her months-long London stay to perform in The Far Pavilions. She was accompanied by her husband, the popular singer Kunal Ganjawala. Preity Zinta and her boyfriend Ness Wadia, both in white, arrived when the party was already in full swing. Ness' mother Maureen Wadia was also sighted. Fardeen Khan, in a half-open, sand colour safari shirt and white trousers, visited the party with his wife Natasha (nee Madhwani), the daughter of actress Mumtaz. The newlyweds had just returned from their honeymoon and were on the way to see relatives in Uganda. However, Fardeen said: "But we had to come here, our family has known Kabir Bedi since ages!" Also among the guests was Kabir's old friend Mahesh Bhatt, together with his wife Soni Razdan, who co-stars with Kabir in Take 3 Girls. According to Kabir, the movie is likely to be released later this year. For some months, Mahesh Bhatt has been planning a new film about Parveen Babi, with the working title "Woh Lamhe.For Those Who Loved and Lost". It will be directed by Mohit Suri, and Shaad Randhava will play the young Kabir Bedi, who was Parveen's lover from the mid to late seventies. Nimisha, a friend of Kabir's late wife Protima, took time out between two major exhibitions in East and West of her abstract work to visit the party. Nimisha designed Protima's first poster as an Odissi dancer. Actor Milind Soman arrived at the party straight from the Bombay Marathon, where he ran a sponsored half-marathon for charity, setting a personal record of just under two hours. Milind had been training for the event with daily 25-kilometre runs along the city's famous waterfront known as the Queen's Necklace, and was full of energy at Kabir's party. He even performed a little dance as the five-tier birthday cake was cut up! One of the guests called out: "Are you getting married again? It looks like a wedding cake!" But Pooja retorted on her father's behalf: "He's married to a beautiful life!" Kim Sharma, who plays Noorjahan's daughter Laadli Begum in Kabir's film Taj Mahal, turned up in jeans and a white top, the very opposite to the spoiled brat that is her character in the movie. Kabir's grandchildren Aaliya and Omar were playing around among the guests at first, but the room soon filled up completely and the party continued way longer than planned, as a good knees-up always should. Afterwards, Fardeen Khan, his wife, and many other guests went to the Sundowner Party in Bombay's Sea Rock Hotel, with a view of the Arabian Sea - at sunset. report & copyright: Andrea Verschuur, Bombay |
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