Entrepreneur Madhukar Kumar with Designer Nera Nath

Entrepreneur Madhukar Kumar and Designer Nera Nath hosted a JAZZ Brunch on Jan 10,2009 at Orange Hara Restro Bar in a musical way. ‘Lyra’, a JAZZ band entertained the guest with their harmonious performance. This brunch was followed by delicious food along with the variety of cocktails.

Samant Chauhan, Charu Parashar with her husband Anupam Parashar, Sculptor Simona Bocchi plus models like Binita and Daria were seen enjoying the music.

Models Binita, Daria with Enterpreneur Madhukar

Hostess Neera Nath, who has done the interiors of the place, was seen enjoying the jazz music. Orange Hara Restro Bar has been recently revamped to the Young & Urban People especially to those with a creative bend of mind and a taste for ethnic lifestyle such as musicians, artists and designers. The menu includes varieties of kebabs, curries and rotis.

Giesle Monteiro unveiled Movil mobiles at New Delhi on December 22,2009.

Bling telecom, a Private Limited Company today rolled out its new brand Movil  in the market and introduced an array of designer phones in the mid and high end segment for GSM and CDMA technologies. The Occasion was flagged off with the unveiling of Mobiles by Mr.Rajiv Khanna, Chairman of Movil Mobiles and Brazilian Beauty Giselle Monteiro.

Designer phones:

Movil’s array of designer phones launched included the rough and tough water resistant MA1 with toughened body power packed with features such as: Battery life of 1000mAh, superb Camera, MP3 and Mp4, flash card slot and dual card standby. The other models launched were V1c, a low end multi-media CDMA device with MP3 player, MT1, a dual SIM phone with 3 mega pixel camera, 3D motion sensor, and MP3/MP4 player as well as MCI, a multi media device with dedicated music keys.

Brand ambassador of Movil phones, Giselle stated Mr.Khanna, “Giselle personifies our brand perfectly. She is young and stylist with universal appeal.” Talking about the features of the Movil Phones, she added, “Some of these phones are water-proof and shock-proof apart from the fact these are affordable also.”

Sunil Sethi, a personality from FDCI flashed some lights on Movil features,” For me this is a great phone with fashion colors like green with 16 hrs. of talk-time. I love this phone as I have to communicate more and more in my profession.”

The entire range of Movil mobiles comes in trendy colors for the youth in addition to 3.5 mm jack for the music lovers even for the entry level phones. The price range of Movil Mobiles starts from Rs. 2000/- to 10,000/- onwards. A direct retail model for the distribution of mobile phones will be adopted with a target of 1.5 million phones by the financial year 2010.

The company will launch a separate brand “BLING” for the growing CDMA open market.

Wills Lifestyle partners with the critically celebrated Indian actress to tweet live from the venue on India’s grandest fashion celebration.

New Delhi, October 16, 2009: Wills Lifestyle.

ITC’s fashion brand, has today announced that indian actress Gul Panag will be the Twitter Face at the coming WIFW SS’10, India’s foremost fashion and trade event.

Wills Lifestyle has initiated this association with the critically celebrated actress to explore the platform of new age media to engage with the clientele of WIFW in an interesting fashion. For the very first time in the world, a celebrity will tweet directly from the event venue on the on-goings of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week.

Gul Panag will be present at the venue on all five action-packed days to review the shows and tweet on the daily dose of fashion week news. She will connect with her followers (more than 20000) and share her views on the ramp shows, upload pictures of the event and respond to tweets. All Tweeters can now follow Gul Panag’s page and get live updates from the event itself! They also stand to win invites to the event by following her updates only.

It is an effort taken towards connection with their clientele and followers of the fashion week. Recognizing the growing popularity of Twitter in India and especially of Gul Panag on this platform, Wills Lifestyle decided to take on board Gul Panag as the Twitter Face to cover the event for this medium.

Speaking on this association, Actress Gul Panag said,”I promise to bring to my fans and followers regular updates from the venue and to give them a glimpse of the fashion’s grandest celebration, and I am proud to be associated with Wills Lifestyle in this exceptional way, WIFW SS’10. Watch-out for my tweets as you stand to win a chance to get invited to the event.”

Atul Chand of Lifestyle Retailing Business Divison, replied, “This season we are delighted to associate with Gul Panag to be the Twitter face of WIFW SS’10. Gul Panag is a regular on twitter and enjoys a lot of support and fan following on the website. Through this involvement we will be able to reach out to a large fan following on Twitter and create excitement around WIFW.”

“If you look around at other clubs, people just come from anywhere and everywhere. They have opened their doors for everyone. The problem with female partying gangs feel uncomfortable and not at all safe. But with this constraint, I want every women who comes here to feel safe.”,Rampal said at a press conference.

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“I love women and I want all of them to feel safe in my lap (restaurant).”, Rampal jokingly said.

This lounge is located at Samrat with an area of 17,000 sq feet and inspired from Victorian era. The interior compliments the era with use of gold, silver and beige sofas. Swarovski crystallized chandelier adds an extra charm to the interiors of the lounge.

New Delhi, Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri, Hrithik Roshan with wife Suzanne and Karan Johar are reported present in the launch. Rohit Bal, J.J. Valaya, Reena Dhaka and Tarun Tahilyani followed the tradition to a part of this launch.

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Gorgeous Shilpa can be seen at the launch of Shilpa’s Gourmet Creations at Tiffinbites, St Paul, London.

Shilpa was known as “Shilpa Poppadom” by Big Bother house and Jade Goody. The winner of Big Brother, Shilpa has launched ready made gourmet meals for UK market. Shetty acquired 33% stake in V8 Gourmet Group. This has become possible by the help of  Raj Kundra. She said, “I feel proud to be associated with the V8 Group. They have carved a niche for themselves in the Indian food industry in the last 13 years, and spell consistency, quality and authentic Indian food. I know that our partnership will grow and envisage a great future with a whole new line of products and restaurants all over Europe, Dubai and Jordan.”

Shilpa has been a spicy girl in Bollywood. UK people will get an opportunity to taste the spicy meal prepared by Shilpa. This is available after “Shilpa’s Gourmet Creations” with the help of master chef Andy Verma. This would offer these residents to taste an Indian flavor like low fat chutneys, pickles and spices. Apart from this, V8 Gourmet will also offer lamb, fish, chicken and vegetable dishes.

Talking about Poppadoms inclusion in this range, Shilpa humorously replied, “Poppadoms do show we have a sense of humour, we intend on giving them out for free. I do hope they are not called Shilpa’s Poppadoms.”

As per Arjun Verma, managing director of V8 Gourmet Group, “In January 2009, we acquired the business of Gourmet Restaurant Group which comprises of Tiffinbites, The Bombay Bicycle Club Kitchens and Vama. This provides the group with an excellent platform towards its growth aspirations and gives V8 a clear lead in the Indian food sector.

“Shilpa shares a genuine passion for fine Indian cuisine and is a perfect ambassador for V8 whilst Raj brings a wealth of international business expertise which will help us to achieve our ambitious growth plans in the UK and overseas.”