The Sex and the City of Bombay movie with Charlotte, Samantha, Miranda, and our protagonist, Kitty from Breach Candy:
Mr. Big: Honey, the wedding is already 200 people!
Kitty: I know, yaar. We’d better invite all my batchmates — less than 500 will just be too embarrassing.

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[The ivory Vivienne Westwood dress is unwrapped. […]

Here’s Maya Auralgasm with her visa marriage fiancé, Benjamin Brewer née Bronfman, who snarls like Hendrix for The Exit (ht: khoof).
Brewer comes from one of Canada’s wealthiest families and is the son of Warner Music Group chief executive officer and chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. [Link]
… The Exit[’s] biggest claim to fame might be having […]

Courtesy of the Love Guru press flacks, Jessica Alba and Krystal Kiran Garib (Bombay Dreams, Lord of the Rings) sway in saris. Alba buys into Shakira’s idea of desi dress (not that I’m complaining) and revives Whitney Houston’s hair net from The Bodyguard. And in another scene, Manu Narayan and Mike Myers lip-sync a duet […]

A couple of months ago, John McCain criticized Barack Obama for saying he’d launch surgical airstrikes against terrorists in Pakistan — when Dubya does so every other week. The GOP line then was that Obama was too aggressive with terrorists.
Yesterday in Israel, Dubya tried to link Obama’s willingness to talk to enemy nations to Neville […]

Check out the title song from the discofabulous Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973), where polka dot shirts and checked dinner jackets merged and threw up an æsthetic. The dancers in minidresses and go-go boots prove Bollywood was every bit as skimpyscandalous back in the day.

One-hit wonder Vijay Arora passed away a year and two months back. […]

Hometown girl Jhumpa Lahiri, Boston University grad, made the cover of this week’s Improper Bostonian (thanks, G). She drew rockstar attendance at her MIT reading. The Boston public library system has over 200 hold requests for her new book. Its 300,000-copy first printing is from four to twelve times the sales of Rushdie’s last book, […]

Author Suketu Mehta (Maximum City) reportedly scripted Mira Nair’s segment in the film anthology New York, I Love You. It’s a response of sorts to Gurinder Chadha’s short film in Paris, Je T’Aime. In Mehta’s story ‘Kosher Vegetarian,’ Irrfan Khan is a Gujarati man who marries a Jewish girl played by Natalie Portman.
Here’s the […]

Neela at Hyphen mag reviews the desi-related flicks at the SFIAAFF. Her picks include this incestuous tease, Kissing Cousins with Samrat Chakrabarty (Loins of Punjab) and Rebecca Hazlewood who sometimes confuses a bikini top with a sari blouse:

The film follows Amir through his daily work as a “relationship termination specialist” - where he basically goes […]

Here’s some auntie-uncle gossip from the campaign trail. My nuclear family, all big Bill Clinton fans, voted for Barack Obama in the California primary because we’re suckers for someone trying to do something innovative and idealistic. And my parents never brought up skin color, which is unusual for their generation.
But most of their auntie-uncle circle […]

The title of a new fetish site, or the real results of the Bangalore Open? Presenting Venus and Serena Williams and Jelena Jankovic (thanks, Dari):

The only reason I’m watching this show is Jon Stewart. Just sayin’. But he’s doing cheesy Jay Leno-style one-liners and exhorting people to vote Dem this election.
Diablo Cody (Juno screenwriter) looks delish with a red starburst on her right cheek. Jon Stewart says she went from exotic dancer to Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, and ‘How do […]

Cambridger and The Office star Vera ‘Mindy’ Chokalingam made the cover of the Improper Bostonian’s Valentine’s issue this week, pithy as always:

Aamir Khan is cementing his rep as the Tom Hanks of Hindi cinema, going after mid-market family movies with solid execution and few surprises. What does it say about Taare Zameen Par (Stars on Earth), a tearjerker about a child with dyslexia, that the best thing about it is the animation? In the opening credits, […]

Chris Sharma, a sales associate in men’s furnishings at Nordstrom in Tysons Corner shows us the proper way to tie a bow tie.