the end of the year

a happy new year to everybody. i hope you all had a great party. its been a fabulous way to end the year over the weekend. first a party at flavia’s- a chirstmas party delayed on a terrace at kalina. flavias family friends with their goan suits and dresses jiving away in between their kids along with her ngo activist friends hanging around at the fringes and then burning up the dance floor. i skipped the annual college party at alibaug this year, the reasons being that mukul couldn’t come because he had to leave today for delhi,and tabrez is getting married today. it would have been too much to go there and come back. instead what started out as a small intimate gathering at mukuls apartment overlooking the western express highway became one huge rocker with 24 people finally turning up- the crowd being largely mukuls filmmaker friends and their friends. madhushree looking gorgeous; reena mohan and her adorable husband to be nirmal; setu and kavita; saurabh and namrata; george, surabhi and sanaa; antoine and rachel; three recent graduates from ftii- whose names i don’t remember right now; vinay; ajay and sharda; mukul, ranjit, sonal and me. i think i embarrassed myself completely doing my performer number- when madhu calls me her item boy or her bar dancer boy- i think she may be actually pretty close. god, i enjoy dancing. ‘kajra re’ was expectedly the hit of the party- an dit tore my pants the second time. twice it was played and twice there were people swinging it on the floor. ranjit made some gorgeous drinks- one with red rum and chocolate and another with red rum, white wine and sprite. lovely. we had borrowed the fireworks of the northern suburbs for ourselves from the window at midnight, and in the morning we watched the morning light stream in as we woke up in the new year listening to bach, lata, and bhupinder: dil dhoondta hai phir wahi fursat ke raat din.

a happy new year again to all. and love.