Journalism of Courage
Drama and glamour
Guests at the Turf Club,Pune were treated to an evening of high-street fashion and theatre after the McDowell Signature Premier Indian St Ledger (Grade 1) race on Saturday,September 29. Entertaining short one-act performances by Aditya Rawal and Darshan Jariwala got the audiences rolling with laughter. Rawal’s hilarious performance was based on a short story in which a character named Shobit Pate goes to US Consulate for VISA application while Jariwala’s narrative focused on the difficulties a character has while he desperately tries to get a passport from the government offices. Bombay Talkies,written and directed by Vikram Kapadia,was another play staged at the event by Red Box Productions. The event got it’s touch of glamour as models Alisya Raut,Chahat Sabhaji,Tasneem Jamal,Sandhya Lakhanpal and Soni Kaur walked the ramp to showcase designer Swapnil Shinde’s vibrant new collection that was an amalgamation of chic,bold,pretty and petite ensembles. Shinde’s collection featured the true blue Mumbai street fashion with colourful flowy skirts,sober gowns in hues of ash grey and yellow as well as metallic hot pants teamed with well-fitted shirts accessorised with ‘dubbas’ or ‘a mamu’s lathi’ that add oodles of oomph to the ‘Aamchi Mumbai’ look. In the Spot Light,owned by Capt. Jamshed Appoo,trained by S Padmanabhan and ridden by Jockey David Allan won the race.
Dance for a cause
Visitors at Pheonix Marketcity,Nagar Road,gathered around as a flash mob performance broke out on the ground floor of the mall on Sunday,September 30. The flash mob was an initiative by Breast Friends Pune and Womens Cancer Initiative,(Tata Memorial) as a part of the Surviving Breast Cancer’ campaign. Boys and girls,young and old put on pink T-shirts with the logo of the campaign and engaged in a choreographed performance to inspiring and upbeat songs like Aashaye,Allah Ke Bande,Badal Pe Pav Hai and Do not Give up. The main objective of this dance was to create awareness about breast cancer and the upcoming first ever Breast Cancer Survivors Conference coming up on October 6 and 7 in Pune and to develop confidence amongst the women who are affected by the disease.
