Roving Eye 8212; Pune

Spook nooks
The night-spots in the city did their best to spook up the city last weekend for Halloween, which fell on October 31. However, since it also happened to be Ekadashi that day, initial plans underwent hasty revisions. The dry-day gave way to a wet spell as the bashes were pre-poned from Saturday to Friday instead. Skeletons, witches and warlocks roamed the pubs, evoking more laughter than the heebie-jeebies. The crowd dressed to match the event and had a gala time at 10 Downing Street, Totem Pole and Black Cadillac.

At another venue on the same day, the Green Pavilion in Hadapsar hosted another party where many a music-lover came to jive with DJs from Goa 8211; Yuri, Karl and Donabelle. Dancing the night away, the visitors returned home impressed by the lively DJs, especially the bubbly Donabelle, all of 17 years old.

Mallar8217;s message
For all you budding models, Sheetal Mallar, former Femina Look of the Year and Elite finalist, has a few words of wisdom to bestow. Mallar was in the city last week-end for a fashion show. 8220;What it takes to be a model is confidence, personality, height, figure and decent looks,8221; she says. She attributes her success to 8220;going with the flow of whatever is happening8221;.

Mallar would probably like a career in acting but says ruefully, 8220;I can8217;t act. God didn8217;t give me the gift.8221; But he has given her another gift 8211; one of painting. Mallar takes art classes and paints oils on canvas. And helps friend Gautam Kapoor in his textile business. A model artist in the offing?

No turkey this!
The Poona Music Society has been in existence for 52 years and has been promoting Western Classical music, for which it holds concerts or plays to raise funds from time to time. This week it sponsors Hosi Vasunia8217;s rib-tickling comedy, The French Cuckoo, an adaptation of An Absolute Turkey by the 19th century farce master, Georges Feydeau.

It is a witty play about frantic, self-obsessed and unscrupulous people, who pursue their own desires with scant respect for other people8217;s feelings. The relevance of the play exists today as well, exposing social hypocrisy and morality in modern society. The play will be staged at the Nehru Memorial Hall on November 7 at 7 p.m. Vasunia gets a deserving pat on the back for another reason too. He will celebrate 25 years in theatre with this hugely successful period play.

Groom for improvement
Hema Somali is a young grooming expert who could teach you a thing or two about the way you should walk and talk, dress and generally drive yourself in life. Her finishing school in Mira Society is appropriately called the Images Grooming School, the object being to tip the scales in your favour.

Working with the reverse psychology idiom, her introductory leaflet expresses, in very witty terms, the dos and donts of etiquette. For instance, if she says, 8220;Don8217;t knock before you enter a room, no matter whether you are a guest or a visitor, or a member of the family living in the same room,8221; it is obvious it means that basic courtesy requires you to knock before you enter a room. And so on and so forth. A student of Orchids, Mumbai, Somali holds monthly classes that do not exceed batches of 10. Why? Because she likes to give personal attention to her students.