Diva dazzle
Classic meets contemporary chic. That's the confluence yesteryear heroine Zeenat Aman brings to a gem of a show in the city.
To get a feel of vintage when the ruling flavours are more froth and fizz can translate an experience into a keepsake Kodak moment for an album than into just a passing post for YouTube or Facebook.That best describes the date with the 'original' diva of Hindi cinema, who defied the stereotype of a heroine to fashion her own definition: Zeenat Aman.

Lord of  harmony
With the lyrics, invariably poetic and deep in meaning the contribution of a lyricist is supreme while the composer singer too has his share in popularising the ghazal," says the sober, serene and sophisticated ghazal maestro, Padamshri Pankaj Udhas. Established in humility and uprightness the ghazal maestro comes from a family of affluent landlords of Rajkot, child prodigy Pankaj was initiated into music by his father who used to play Dilruba. As ordained Pankaj was influenced by the gayaki style of Begum Akhtar and Ustad Mehdi Hasan. Even though the content of ghazals were too complex to be in his conceptual grasp, but he always attempted to imbibe the melody and composition, blissfully ignorant of his passion to become his calling later.

Frame by frame
Web portals help discover talent, they provide a platform to youngsters to exhibit their creativity, they also have a wider reach, as they are very accessible and this is all we have been told about web portals till now. And what we didn't know is, "Web portals are now being used by corporate houses as a commercial strategy. For a single advertisement, they usually get more than 200 different ideas as entries, which otherwise isn't feasible," says Shagun Jasuja, who won the commendation award at the London film festival for the Nokia commercial, Connecting V2. It was one of the 600 ad videos that were uploaded on Mofilm.com last month for ten different advertisements. Shagun's 60-second ad is a live ad that shows students sitting far from each other in a classroom. Then a boy enters the class who connects the student by making them hold a single piece of cloth. The winning point was, "The aerial view of that cloth made the word Nokia complete," informs Shagun.

The French connection
Fusing food with music, Jasleen and Louis would be performing in the city.
Pluck some notes from the countryside, fuse them well on the guitar chords and serve them fresh with French wine. Sounds delectable and musical. Interested…try the platter, whipped up by singer Jasleen and guest performer Louis at Purple Rice-35 on a Sunday night. Street performer sounds intriguingly interesting. And Louis definitely turns out to be one. 

More than words
Poet Sukhwinder Singh draws inspiration to write from the simple pleasures of life
"Yahi kahunga unn se.. is not simply the title of his maiden poetry book but also the journey of thought sharing on myriad themes of life, for the launch of which poet Sukhvinder Singh urf Chhote Sarkar has come all the way from Bhubaneswar to Chandigarh, his home town. The reason for this senior executive's venture is obviously emotion oriented as Sukhvinder maintains that let the panoramic ambiance and poetry lovers of the city beautiful be a witness to my growth as a poet of conscience.

Luck by chance
In an exciting opportunity, 94.3 My FM brings a challenging Laakhon Ki Chori for the FM listeners. Through this activity My FM is giving listeners a chance to steal away Lakhs of Rupees, by inviting participants to open the code of a safe loaded with money.

Clay craft
Portrait clay modeling expert Gurpreet Singh Dhuri held a clay modeling workshop for students of Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) at its center in Sector 33.

Picks & piques
Great expectations: Teeny results
This week's biggie—Kurbaan was conceived by Karan Johar, scripted by Rensil D'Silva with dialogues by Anuraag Kashyap and Niranjan Iyengar. There's a lot of ambition riding on those names alone and expectations from the public as well as the critics have been pretty high too. The rags have also been going overboard about the passionate onscreen exchanges between Kareena and Saif, the lead stars of the film. But the film itself fails to live up to it all. Rensil's script is typically wishy-washy, the characters change personalities as though they suffered from multiple personality disorder and the dialogues are so pithy and vacuous and delivered without finesse, that you can only laugh at what transpires on screen. Even though the film is supposed to be a serious thriller about terrorism!

Raffish royalty
His couture line reverberates with the vibrancy of his state. Scion to the throne of Jodhpur, Raghavendra Rathore carries his royalty effortlessly. Be it is his designs that are inspired by the princely colours and textures of the desert land, or his demeanor, Rathore is a definite blue blood.A classic aficionado to the core, this couturier likes to dress up men. In city, on a professional as well as a personal visit, Rathore refers to city guys as 'the real men'. "Chandigarh is a very important market for me. My clientele here demands classic designs. Women have plenty of options so I have come to further explore market for menswear."

Novel notes
In the city to promote his book Zero Percentile, author Neeraj Chhibba talks about life beyond IIT…
Two different worlds exist on the either side of the IIT gate. Inside the India's premium institute, life's tough, competition's immense, pressure to perform chokes, all that Chetan Bhagat told us through 5 Point Someone. Life outside the IIT isn't better either and Chetan didn't tell us about this because he didn't get to see the other world. And someone who did is author Neeraj Chhibba, in the city on Saturday to promote his book, Zero Percentile. Not that the once IIT aspirant scored zero in the IIT entrance but as Neeraj says, "If you aren't able to get through IIT even by a point margin, it nullifies every effort and any score is as good or as bad as zero percentile."