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Stars take unholy chances on Holi!
Happy Holi
There’s no stopping Bollywood on the occasion of Holi. The bounds of permissibility are cleverly dunked into the pool of colour and revelry that this robust festival makes allowances for. “And what’s more, even if someone does get caught red-handed, he has a ready excuse: bura na maano, holi hai,’’ says the editor of a film monthly.
Twenty-two years after his demise, Bollywood’s original showman’s parties are still a point of reference for the true spirit of what Holi actually allowed. Everyone remembers the pool in the centre where women, including a renowned kathak exponent, were drenched; only to resemble the film-maker’s screen obsession for wet women in white.
The men, including those from the family, were invariably drunk by high noon and hands roamed free.
Once upon a time the other big daddy of cinema also threw a private Holi bash at his suburban bungalow where he insisted that his heroines and starlets arrive. Daddy himself needed no excuses to get intimate ... so bear hugs and tight clinches were as much a part of the itinerary at the Holi bash, as were the bhang and music.
A beauty pageant winner who refused to play footsie with the film-maker on this day was thrown out of his film. Two years later she did make it to one of his movies; but that’s only after she allowed him to put some gulal on her face at another of his Holi bashes.
The current ruling Badshah threw a Holi party at his sea-facing bungalow eight years ago. He was then friends with his namesake with whom he is currently at loggerheads. And this superstar who takes off his shirt whenever opportunity presents itself was all over an actress (also a jewellery designer), oblivious to the others at the party.
What’s more, even if someone gets caught red-handed, he has a ready excuse: bura na maano, holi hai
At the same party there was an actor who had just broken off his engagement with a leading actress. Naturally his single status was very attractive to an ambitious leading lady who lives in South Mumbai; she couldn’t keep her hands off him. Holi, bhang and his ‘solo’ performance was a heady combination she found hard to resist.
“Ironical that they call this festival Holi,’’ says a conservative film-maker. “In Bollywood it actually means a time when unholy acts are put into practice.’’
At another superstar’s bash, an award winning actress found a dozen excuses to hug the slightly inebriated elderly host. Fortunately, their physical intimacy went unnoticed by most because the party played out across his vast lawns, allowing guests to roam freely all over, as they gorged on gujiyas and home-made bhang.
Just like in the movies, Holi in Bollywood is not always about wearing your lust on your sleeve. There are moments of innocent fun as well.
There is a funny story making the rounds from an ethereal beauty’s annual Holi bash. Apparently one year, the actress and her then DJ boyfriend forgot all about the bhang-laced cakes they had stocked in their refrigerator.
Later that evening, some innocent guest and servants in the house relished them and passed out in the hall.
An insider says that for the next 20-odd hours the actress’ hall resembled a dormitory with men, women and servants sleeping alongside. And, what’s more is that one starlet (who has acted in some art-house movies) even accused the heroine’s brother of making a pass at her in his stupor.
However, it later came to light that this starlet is the delusional variety who always imagines that men make passes at her, while the fact of the matter is, that she’s usually bypassed by most heroes in their drunk and sober states.
Three years ago a beautiful ‘90s heroine was dating a boy 15 years her junior. She was applying sun-block and baby oil on herself, all-set to attend a Holi bash at a yesteryear celebrated actress’ shack, when she got into a nasty fight with her young lover.
The boy (who also has aspirations to be in showbiz) got rough with her; and she actually came to the bash wearing black bruises on her breath-taking face. At the bash, she successfully ducked the photographers.
And after she got gulal over her face, the bruises didn’t even show. However, she got ball-ragged when a tall, handsome television actor, who was sitting at the bar, tried to get familiar with her while he mixed her a drink.
To add insult to injury, the actor looked at her young boyfriend and asked, “Arre who’s this with you? Your brother?’’ That did it. The heroine, high on spirits, verbally abused the actor and before he could recover, she and her toy boy drove away.
A character actor and a popular screen villain who constantly makes headlines by peddling news about others even leaked a part of this story to a daily.
On a normal day this story would have had the electronic media going ballistic. However, it died a quick death because it was camouflaged as being in the spirit of the festival.
Today Holi bashes in Bollywood are far and few between. Like the organic colours that people use, even the sentiments of the festival have been toned down.
In fact one film-maker who married his estranged wife recently used to throw some ‘naughty’ parties in his backyard till a few years ago.
The starlets from his movies were the main guests at this event where they were drenched in water thrown from huge hose pipes.
And rumours have it that after the festivity in the building compound was over, the ‘action’ shifted to his fancy row-house. Like it’s said, Holi ke din mauka bhi hai dastoor bhi.
P.S: A poignant touch to the Bollywood Holi fest:
A couple of years ago, a freelance photographer who was shooting at an actress’ Holi bash, noticed the wife of Bollywood’s biggest showman arrive next door to visit her ailing brother-in-law. Says he, “Her white sari didn’t have a single splash of gulal on it.
It is ironical because here she was; the first lady of films, who had hosted some of the most colourful parties in B-town. Today she didn’t have anyone around her to even put a dot of colour on her spotless sari.’’
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