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Kamiya Jani catches bombshell Bipasha Basu in a salon, chatting about curls and Saif! Read on:

"Mad o Wat?" That's what I told myself when I thought I saw Bipasha getting her hair washed at Sapna Bhavnani's salon, Mad o Wat. I was not sure if it was really she until Sapna called out her name.

Sporting a short denim skirt with a green tee, she looked like a girl next door yet dazzling. Although I have never been her great fan, but you know how it is when a celeb is sitting right next to you! Yes, I was watching all her moves.

A stylist massaging her hair, she looking upwards and a puppy in her lap, Bipasha looked a bit conscious.

Just when I thought I should talk to her, she posed a question to me, "Is your hair naturally curly?" I replied, "Yes" (Like, I'm a celeb and not she). Never mind, I got a reason to strike a conversation. She mentioned she liked curly hair and wanted Sapna to curl her hair for some shoot. Whoa… I couldn't feel better.

I figured that she was at the salon to colour her hair black and get some smart fringes. Unfortunately, once it was all done, the production house called up Sapna to make it brown, the way it was, for some remaining portions of the shoot. Now, Bips was fuming.

Throughout my appointment at Mad o Wat, I kept my ears open for any kind of gossip, but could not uncover anything juicy. The only interesting thing I heard was, "During our shoot, Saif often wonders how I blow dry my hair so soon."Aah…then I gathered it’s the movie Race, she has been shooting for.

Just when she was leaving, I called her out to ask if I could click her picture. She smiled, "What are you going to do of my picture? Why don’t you also come and let Sapna click the picture.” I scuttled and stood next to her. (Say Cheeeezzzz!)

I got back to my hot seat and allowed Sapna to chop my hair. Bipasha, then, tapped my shoulder and said, "B'bye. Take care." Sweet!

Link: http://www.buzz18.com/citizen-paparazzi/bipssaif-and-a-great-hair-day/19961 

In the middle of some extremely important work, I could not stop myself from writing this post. It is all because of this song, 'Labon ko', which has been distracting me since last night. I don't know its by which artist, which movie, which actors, absolutely nothing but I have heard it for atleast 33 times since morning. I have fallen in love with this song. It's BEAUTIFUL and this is an understatement. I don know how long will this love last coz generally my love is quite short lived:P

I wanna type out the lyrics. Check it out!

Labon ko labon pe sajaao
kya ho tum mujhe abb bataao - 2

Tod do khud ko tum, baahon mein meri
baahon mein, baahon mein meri baahon mein - 3

Tere ehsaason mein, bheege lamhaaton mein, mujhko dooba tishnagi si hai
Teri adaayon se dilkash khataao se, in lamho mein zindagi si hai
Haya ko jara bhool jaao, meri hi tarah pesh aao
kho bhi do khud ko tum, raaton mein meri, raaton mein, meri raaton mein - 3

Labon ko labon pe sajaao
Kya ho tum mujhe abb bataao

Tere jasbaaton mein, mehaki si saanso mein, ye jo mehek sandili si hai
Dil ki panaaho mein, bikhari si aaho mein sone ki khwaaish jagi si hai
Chehare se chehara chupaao, sine ki dhadkan sunaao
Dekh lo khud ko tum, aankhon mein meri, aankhon mein, meri aankhon mein, meri aankhon mein - (I love this part!!)

Labon ko labon pe sajaao
Kya ho tum mujhe abb bataao 

Let me know if you like this song too! We can share some CD's ;)

In a tell-all interivew, the model-turned-actress insists Dhol is her best

Kamiya Jani, buzz18

An item song is like a double-edged sword. A single number can catapult any relatively unknown face into the limelight. Yet for those who have tasted this fame know that it all comes at a price. Indeed being tagged as an 'item girl' is not the best for any up and coming actress. And every single 'item girl' – right from Sameera Reddy to Koena Mitra – has struggled to break away from the stereotype. Payal Rohatgi whose biggest claim to fame is possibly her item song in Corporate, talks about her latest film dhol and her future plans.

What women want? That’s a difficult one. Men would surely agree with this. But this group of women from Chembur just wanted to have a blast on the one day they call their own, writes Kamiya Mohan Jani.

Nor a bright afternoon lunch nor a late night dinner, this bunch of women decided to catch up with their friends for some evening snacks and have a blast. Taking an off from their daily chores a group of women decided to celebrate Women’s Day at a renowned club in Chembur.

“Like our birthday or our anniversary, even this day is really special for us and we are celebrating it just that way. We feel it’s our birthday,” says Manju Madan.

Women and their television sets are best friends; this is a known fact to everybody. Hence, Meena Lamba, one of the friends, had arranged games, wherein slogans of advertisements were shown and the women had to guess the product. Similarly, she had written all the characters name of a particular TV serial, and they had to guess the name of the soap in which these characters acted. “I thought this game would be different and my friends would really enjoy it,” informed Lamba.

Many working women had taken a day off from their routine life to enjoy this special day. Like Nisha Vazirani, a resident of Navjeevan Society, Chembur, who is working with Films Division Ltd, left her work aside to gift a day to herself and her friends. “I have been excited about this day since a long time and have been discussing it with my colleagues. We must definitely dedicate at least a day to ourselves every year,” exclaims Nisha. The women also got a cake and relished it to the core.

When questioned whether that was their ideal way of celebrating women’s day or they would have preferred celebrating it with their husbands, opinions differed. While some felt that they could always celebrate with their spouses, having a blast with their friends was unusual and fun. Meena Jethwani, a resident of Luv-Kush Apartment, Sindhi Society, says, “An ideal women’s day would be celebrating it with your friends in the evening and going out for dinner with your husband.”

Some banks in the area celebrated this day by greeting their female clients with roses. “I felt so nice when I was presented a lovely rose and I was pampered with Mehendi on my hands. It felt great to be a Woman. It was very thoughtful of my bank staff to do this.”

Well as we left the women continued to rock the party till evening.

 Distance makes relations grow stronger. However pleasant as it may sound it is not always true. But, the Sindhi Punjabi Community of Mumbai have worked towards making this factually correct by bringing their people on one ground, discovers Kamiya Mohan Jani

The Sindhi Punjabi community is scattered all over Mumbai in six different units. After every two years, sometimes three years, the committee members arrange a get together of all Sindhi Punjabi brethren. “This year it has been the youth’s responsibility to organise the event in a different style and the people have really enjoyed it,” avers Anil Punjabi, a committee member. The core committee comprises of six people who have also helped the Panchayat grow technologically by registering most of the Sindhi Punjabi families on computer in a very systematic way.

The event too was a big hit and people were kept amused with dance, drama, mimicry, laughter challenge and many more. Children found pleasure in the Disneyland with moonwalkers, balloon shooting, tattoos, nail painting, and lots of other fun. “This is also a platform for prospective matrimony. After every event we arrange this function, 10-15 weddings have been finalized without dowry,” informs Amarnani. He added that in this way, people get to know each other in a better way and this will help their community reach the acme. They even gave prizes to all the participants and the merit holders to boost their confidence.

Link: http://www.chemburghatkoparplus.com/fullStory.asp?articleID=CGP4ART2252006

Shri Sudanshuji Maharaj also graced the occasion whereas the event was entirely sponsored by the people within the community. Approximately 2,000 people were invited. People outside the community were not allowed and the event was watched over by the police. The event went on till late evening and was followed by dinner.

 By Kamiya Mohan Jani

Pijush Chawdhary, a resident of Laxmi colony, Mahul road, leaves his house and expects to reach his workplace on time, but this he says happens once in a blue moon, due to the poor frequency of buses. Frustrated by this situation he says, “I have just missed bus no. 351, now I don’t know when the next bus will come and how crowded it’s going to be.” According to him, the buses have no fixed timings and the condition is even worse during the rainy season.

The three buses coming from B.A.R.C to Mumbai Central, Navy Nagar and Santracruz depot are 351, 6 Ltd and, 356 ltd respectively and the residents near Maroli Church stop have been facing an acute problem of overcrowded buses and poor frequency.

When contacted, Meena Dabholkar, BEST PRO, said, “This is due to the digging of roads in that area. Otherwise, the frequency is okay.” However residents are not willing to buy the theory. “I do not agree with this. The bus frequency here has always been bad here. We are sick of it,” says Rajesh Rathod, resident of Galiya Kot. Although the residents have complained about it but all that they have got from the administrations is the empty assurance.

The Assistant General Manager of traffic, Vinayak Amdekar admits that the frequency is poor but reasons that slum rehabilitation project in nearby Vasi Naka and Gadkari is the cause of this problem. “A lot of people have moved in here because of the project,” he says.

However, the number of buses will be increased from March 1 and the expected frequency would be about 12-15 minutes.
Local corporator Rajendra Mahulkar states that if people give it to him in writing that they have been facing problems due to poor frequency of buses he would meet the chairman of BEST. “It would be better if the people send me a letter mentioning about their problems,” said Mahulkar.

Commuters are now left with two options, wait till March 1 to see the results or prepare a complaint sheet and send it to the corporator.

Link: http://www.chemburghatkoparplus.com/fullStory.asp?articleID=CGP5ART2192006