13 October,2022 06:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
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A child plays with the gong at Global Vipassana Pagoda's meditation dome hall in Gorai.
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Is it really a case of a wardrobe malfunction if the model continues to strut down the runway seamlessly despite a broken heel? While walking for Stoique's debut show as part of Gen Next at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week, Samruddhi Sancheti hit the runway in a summer-ready dress - but one of her shoe heels was missing. Nevertheless, the model strutted on, unfazed. Sancheti's platform sandals didn't look easy to walk in with only half of the heel, but she carried on like a professional, while pretending to keep her right foot afloat to keep her balance. The diarist met the model post-show, and congratulated her on her expert footwork. She simply grinned and said, "Thank you". Sancheti finds a kindred soul in supermodel Gigi Hadid as far as broken shoe predicaments go. Hadid had walked the Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 runway show despite a broken heel, and earlier, for Anna Sui back in 2017 when one of her shoes had gone missing.
On Amitabh Bachchan's 80th birthday, fans who bought tickets to watch the star's latest film Good Bye, at Malad's Infiniti Mall were in for a rude shock. The movie had to be discontinued after the intermission because of technical glitches where pink horizontal lines emerged on the screen. PVR assured a full refund of their tickets as compensation. All shows of the Big B flick were priced at R80 per ticket. Among the fans were Borivali residents Pratik Kedar, his sister Pragati Kedar Fernandez and their mother Kirti Kedar. Pratik (inset) told this diarist, "We are huge fans of Bachchan. Ten-fifteen minutes after the interval, we spotted these pink lines appearing on the screen. The movie continued with this glitch for 15 minutes. When the audience complained, PVR had to halt the show. After 45 minutes, they informed us that all our tickets would be refunded; they also took the UPI scanner and informed us the refund money would reach our accounts in two days." Kedar added that rather than take the refund, the audience requested the staff to fix the glitch. "It was a superb movie; we were sad that we couldn't watch the entire film on his birthday," he rued.
As any reader of Faiz's poems knows, love is an act of revolution. Author Mansi Choksi's book, The Newlyweds (Penguin India) explores a similar line of thought about the perils of love in an India divided along the lines of caste, religion and class. "It is about the real-life stories of three young couples in India whose lives are defined by a single act of rebellion - their choice to be together. I wanted to write a book that dwells in the afterlife of the kind of love stories we consume in pop culture," the author shared. To this end, she will be speaking with Namita Devidayal at Bandra's The Quorum tomorrow. "I'm looking forward to breaking down the forces that shape us and make us who we really are," she revealed.
The city's favourite literature festival, Tata Literature Live's annual edition returns in a hybrid version from November 9 to 13 this year. Festival director Amy Fernandes said that the decision to amalgamate the online edition was to cater to a new virtual audience. "After two years of pandemic-imposed isolation, authors and regular audiences are keen to relive the vibe of a face-to-face interaction". Fernandes revealed that the festival would introduce a number of new sessions including prose and poetry in Gujarati this year and a premiere of French noir. Artistic director Quasar Thakore Padamsee expressed pride on a line-up that includes Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree, Padma Shri awardee Mamang Dai, Paul Morland and Sanjaya Baru, among others. "We are thrilled to be picking up the on-ground baton of this amazing and wonderful festival once again," he said.
