Roving Eye

Anuradha Mahindra sans husband Anand, Neerja Shah of Elle, Sathya Saran of Femina, Harsh Goenka, Julio Rebeiro and wife, Prahlad Kakkar with hat and without wife, Chaya and Nirmal Momaya of Fashion Bistro, Khalid and Rukaya Ansari, Rahul Bose, model Nina Manuel with beau Nikhil Chib, Bipasha Basu, Milind Soman, make-up artiste Cory Walia, designer James Ferreira, Ravi Shastri and wife Ritu, Dilip Vengsarkar, ad man Rahul daCunha, Farid Currim, Dolly Thakore, Vimla Patil, Atul Tandon, Alyque Padmasee with wife Sharon Prabhakar, Parvesh Sippy, Preeti Jhangiani, acelensman Atul Kasbekar and wife Vandana, Vandana Malik of TV18, Sangita Khatiwada, Ashok Advani, Kamal Morarka and his wife, Bakul Patel, Suresh and Devika Bhojwani, Bacchi Karkaria, Dilip De sans Shobha, Charles and Monica Correa, Rajan and Nina Kilachand, Nana Chudasama, Shaina NC and husband Manish, Karan Grover, Nirmal and Meera Jhaveri and Aroon Purie. Phew! Try saying all those names in one breath.

Any other action? Evian unveiled seven fabulous pictures of their models.Hosts Suveen Sahib of Evian and Khalid Ansari of Mid-Day pulled out all stops to make the evening a brilliant success.

Rashmi Uday Singh looking resplendent in white. And keeping her company was Sakala Debrass in a micro white mini and flaming orange jacket.

Watch out

Yes, yes, you must think that we have too much time on our hands but really that is not the case. Can we help it if foreign watch companies are just ticking away on India. Now you know that the Swatch group also owns the brands Omega, Calvin Klein andLongines. Just in case it slipped your mind, recently Longines signed up Aishwarya Rai as their ambassadress. Well Ravi Thakran, Swatch group manager of South Asia, says that now they are on the look out for an ambassadress for Swatch in India.

To be launched later this year, the group is in the process of talking to Meghana Reddy. Hey! We aren’t talking through our hats. At the Tissot conference Thakran confirmed to Chatterati that they were considering the ex-veejay as their representative. Watch this space for details on the deal.Well, we also hear that the company is looking for an ambassadress for Omega. Manpreet Brar is just a spokesperson, she does not wear the `A’ tag. Now we have a suggestion to make: why not keep it all in the family and make Samira Reddy, Meg’s little sister, the ambassadress. She already works for Omega in their marketing department which means, the lovely lass — seen in the ghastly new Pankaj Udhas video — already knows the business.

Extra oomph!

By the way, thisone is purely for the anorexic Barbies spotted around town. It’s not sexy to starve and then display bony shoulders in strappy tops. For a start, everyone looks cut from the same cloth and more to the point it is simply not sexy. Two of city’s hottest models prove that putting on weight actually works wonders. Spotted at Geoffrey’s on Friday were Sheetal Malhar and Anupama Verma. The reed-slim Sheetal has actually put on a few pounds on her spare frame and now she looks great. Still willowy, she has filled out in all the right places and no longer looks ready to snap. Anupama too has put on a little weight — a must for a Hindi film heroine — but you cannot see a single inch of flab. Instead, her legs look longer than long and her hair has an added sheen. She is a great advertisement for getting better with age. Did you know she is thirtysomething? Anupama puts most PYTs to shame.

And finally…

YOU may have seen Alisha Chinai all over the idiot box trying to promote her new song `Vah vah’ but inreality she has been away in Jaipur. With Milind Soman. No, the two of them are not having a hot and steamy affair. Just an onscreen one with her Made in India man. She is shooting the second video from her Dil Ki Rani album. Directed by Sanjay F Gupta — the same chap who shot Sonu Nigam’s new video as well as Jalwa — we are certain that Milind will look simply scrumptious. We are more concerned about Madam Alisha. What is going through her mind? First she has run through an entire gamut of directors — Rajesh Jhaveri (her ex-husband), Ken Ghosh, Kunal Kohli and Sonia Sippy etc etc — and now she is resorting to her lucky mascot, Milind. Did she think she looked too young next to Dino Morea? Or has she no faith left in herself? Most people are actually saying good things about this album. Even detractors are forced to say that the lady can sing. So why does she fret so much over her videos?