Welcome to Bollywood

This week has been a Bollywood bonanza for me. When I go out at night to popular restaurants, pubs, clubs, or hotels, most of the time I have no idea who the individual members of the gliterrati are. They all just feel like part of the scenery. However, this week I knew who I was standing next to. In the encounter pictured below we had been dancing at a fun club located in a high end hotel. While standing around trying to figure out where to go next, we noticed this guy walk past us. i didn't realise who he was until the swarm of people pictured here pushed me to the outer edge of the crowd. This is Sanjay Dutt. The last movie I saw him in was Parineeta, which also featured Saif Ali Khan.



attempt #1




























attempt #2

helps to be tall :)



















The other person i ran into was Hrithik Roshan. I was eating ice cream at an outdoor mall and i noticed the NDTV camera crew waiting around. So, I sat near them and ate my ice cream very slowly. a crowd was gathering from the door of the restaurant where he had dinner, down two flights of stairs, along the sidewalk which divided around his car and the all the way out of the compound gate. where i sat was bit apart from the crowd. i wanted to see how his mad dash would happen. when he walked out i realised that it was a publicity stunt. he was wearing a black tanktee and a black trench coat type almost-cape and aviator sunglasses at 1o o'clock at night. he has a new movie coming out called Krrrish in which his supernatural character wears a Matrix-style black outfit. unfortunately, i didnt have a camera on hand to show you guys a pic of the crowd.

In nyc celebrities were not noticed in this way often. in mumbai more people are star struck. i wish you could have seen the crowd's anticipation. people had their camera phones poised to take pics for at least half an hour.