“Baat Bann Gayi” star cast promote their film in NOIDA

The cast of Jaypeeco India Pvt Ltd and Vibhu Agarwal's “Baat Bann Gayi”, directed by Shuja Ali promoted the film in Spice Mall, Noida . Versatile actor, well known as “Bad Man” Gulshan Grover with Ali Fazal (of Fukrey and Fast and Furious fame), Anisa and Amrita Raichand were there along with presenter Vibhu Agarwal and producers Sayed Asif Jah and Megha Agarwal to promote their upcoming Hindi Film “Baat Bann Gayi”

“Baat Bann Gayi” is a romantic comedy enriched with the classical plot of ‘duals’, which depicts the comedy of errors when look alike of characters encounter each other. Unexpected, hilarious situations arise because of mistaken identity.  Kabir (Ali Fazal) is deeply in love with Rachna (Anisa). After a lot of hiccups he is successful in impressing Rachna’s brother Laxmi Nivas (Gulshan Grover) with his antics. The real twist in the tale comes when Kabir’s look alike Rasiya Bihari (Ali Fazal), who works for a land mafia Carlos Rehbar Pasha (Razzak Khan), also gives his heart away to Rachna. And Rachna and her family mistakes him for Kabir. Kabir, on the other hand is confused as people are mistaking him for Rasiya..

An other twist comes when Rasiya bumps into Debu (Gulshan Grover), a dance teacher who is not straight and he exactly looks like Laxmi Nivas. Wild mishaps begin because of mistaken identity. The comedy of doubles becomes the comedy of double trouble. Whole lot of trouble and confusions turn the flow of the narrative into a hilarious, thrilling roller coaster ride full of madness, surprises, and stomach aching humorous situations.

All the actors were seemed excited about the film and happy to work with bollywood’s one of the most versatile actor Gulshan Grover. The film is all set to release on October 11,2013

Vidya BalanKapoor launches Ranka Jewellers' glittering new showroom in Mumbai

After creating a golden place for themselves in Pune, the brand of Ranka Jewellers is now set to dazzle Thane. Their grand new showroom here was recently inaugurated by Superstar Vidya Balan Kapoor. On this ocassion, along with the who's who of Thane were present Pukhraj Ranka, Fatehchand Ranka, Omprakash Ranka, Dr. Ramesh Ranka, Anil Ranka, Tejpal Ranka, Vastupal Ranka, Shailesh Ranka, Shreyas Ranka,the Ranka Family and their employees.

Known to bequite choosy about her work, Vidya Balan Kapoor became the brand ambassador for Ranka Jewellers two years ago. At the inauguration, she openly expressed howeven she was a 'fan' of their superb designs and trustworthy craftsmanship. She also shared that though her contract with Ranka Jewellers had reached completion, she has been delighted to be their brand ambassador and proud to bea part of that tradition. She therefore gladly agreed to continue to represent Ranka Jewellers as the face of their brand. This compliment by such an intelligent actor as Vidya Balan Kapoor speaks volumes about the credibility ofRanka Jewellers indeed.

The 7 stores of Ranka Jewellers in Pune represent a tradition of 134 years. Gulabchand Ranka laid its golden foundation 134 years ago that has today flourished into Ranka Jewellers, a brand known for purity and beautiful designs in Pune as well as Pimpri Chinchwad. From a small beginning of 20 sq.ft., it has today grown to an astounding 1,25,000 sq.ft. of showroom space. They were also the first to takethe bold decision of not using other metal for making their jewellery, thereby preserving its purity.

In 1977, the credit for starting Pune's first air conditioned showroom goes to Ranka Jewellers as well. They also successfully opened a 2000 sq.ft. jewellery storeon Laxmi Road, an area once known for its textile market only. The Laxmi road showroom received such a tremendous response that they started rapid store expansion for their customers.

This happy celebration will continue till 9th October 2013, when the Pune-Satara Road showroom (8000 Sq. Ft.) in 2 floors will be inaugurated to give spectacular shopping experience for the people in and around Katraj, Bibwewadi, Padmavati & Sahakarnagar area on the occasion of Lalita Panchami.

The first to introduce gold hallmarked jewellery in Pune, Ranka Jewellers also continues tolead in variety. Having artisans and craftsmen from all over the country, RankaJewllers are the leaders in creating a wide variety of designs. Not just with gold, they also rank first with the variety of silver jewellery in Maharashtra.Designer diamond jewellery here dazzles the beholder.

Considering theincreasing rate of gold, Ranka Jewellers has also introduced a designercollection for their lady customers. Jewellery with photo and certification canbe obtained only here. Due to this, the trust that they have with the customersis truly transparent.

Today, AnilRanka, Tejpal Ranka, Vastupal Ranka, Shailesh Ranka, Shreyas Ranka, the seventhgeneration in this tradition is taking this majestic brand ahead with greatdignity and pride. This young generation is successfully getting exclusivecontemporary designs for their customers. This has made the traditional RankaJewellers trendy as well. Ranka Jewellers is now set to bring this tradition,craftsmanship and glamour to Thane.

‘Breitling Emergency II’ gets ‘Watch of the Year’ award at the 4th Watch World Awards

The most respected publication in the field of horology, Watch World, from the Chitralekha Group hosted the fourth edition of Watch World Awards at the Westin Hotel, Gurgaon.

The marquee event of the horology echelon which brought niche’ watch brands and watch makers together saw a glittering attendance by celebrities who were awe-struck at the grandiose of the biggest event of the watch world calendar. Moderated by Chitralekha's President and Publisher, Mitrajit Bhattacharya, the jury comprised Master watchmaker with five decades of experience in watchmaking - Antoine Simonin; along with Priyadarshini Rao, Harbhajan Singh, Ravi Shastri, Ayaz Memon, Neeraj Pandey, Shripad Nadkarni and Sharda Agarwal. The acclaimed jury awarded leading watches across eleven categories in the Product Awards section and six categories in the Marketing & Merchandising Awards category.

The award categories in the Product Awards section included Best Complicated Watch, Best Jewellery Watch, Best Sports Watch, Best Fashion Watch, Watch with Best Design, Watch with Highest Utility, Watch with Innovative Material, Watch with Artistic Excellence, Best Limited Edition Watch, Best Concept Watch awards amongst others; while the Marketing & Merchandising Awards included Best campaigns in print, TV, outdoor, Best boutique, Best Event, and Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

The event which saw attendance by eclectic timekeeping brands like Cartier, Bulgari, Zenith, Hublot, Graham, Ulysee Nardin, Breitling, Corum, Parmigiani, Seiko, Swarovski, Titan, Antonio Bernini, Rotary, and many others and  saw some hectic competition amongst the eclectic brands with Breitling coming out the winner and bagging the commendable ‘Watch of the Year’ award.

Commenting on the occasion Mitrajit Bhattacharya said, “We are very elated at the success of this fourth edition and this success reiterates the growing popularity and acceptance of the property. This is a testament of the timeless love affair of man with one of the greatest engineering feats of all time – the art of watch-making. By bringing together iconic brands from the world of horology we endeavour to celebrate the institution of technological innovativeness and bespoke workmanship of our master creators”.

The winners in the Product category included ZENITH Christophe Colomb "Hurricane" which won the award for the ‘Complicated Watch of the Year’. While the HUBLOT LaFerrari  won the ‘Sports Watch of the Year’ award, BULGARI Octo & CARTIER Tank MC Skeleton Palladium was adjudged the ‘Watch with Best Design’. PARMIGIANI Ovale Pantographe won the ‘Best Concept Watch of the Year’ award and CARTIER Rotonde Panther Granulation was adjudged the ‘Best Limited Edition Watch of the Year’.

The jury presented the ‘Jewellery Watch of the Year’ award to ULYSSE NARDIN Royal Ruby Tourbillon  and the ‘Watch with Most Innovative Material’ was awarded to HUBLOT Red’n’Black Skeleton Tourbillon , the ‘Watch with Highest Utility’ award was presented to BREITLING Emergency II & GRAHAM Chronofighter Oversize GMT India , and ULYSSE NARDIN Carnival of Venice Minute Repeater bagged the ‘Watch with Artistic Excellence’ award.

Late Mr. Rolf W Schnyder, CEO of Ulysse Nardin was posthumously honoured with a special award for his contribution to the watch industry. His wife and President of the Board of Ulysse Nardin, Chai Schnyder accepted the award on his behalf.

Jury member Antoine Simonin commented “Watch World Awards is steadily becoming one amongst the most respected and followed awards in the field of Horology across the world. Being associated with the awards for the fourth time in a row is a great honour for me and I am privileged to be one amongst the esteemed jury panel. I have seen a greater awareness being generated amongst the audience through the awards and looking at the quality of nominations this year, I am quite sure that this will augur well for the horology eco-sphere of the country.”

While the Product category saw stiff competition; the Marketing category saw SEIKO & Kolkata Knight Riders bagging the ‘Best Marketing Campaign in Print’ award with Tagged by TITAN picking up the award for ‘Best Marketing Campaign on Television’. While ‘The Best Marketing Campaign in Outdoor’ was won by ULYSSE NARDIN for their initiative at Hyderabad Airport, HUBLOT Avenues-Prestige, Kuwait picked the 'Best Boutique’ award, SEIKO & Kolkata Knight Riders was awarded the ‘Best Organised Event’’ award and Tagged by TITAN was adjudicated as the ‘Best Integrated Marketing Campaign’.

The event was attended by the crème-de-la-crème of the social circuitry, wherein socialites included Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu, Aditi Rao Hydari, Jimmy Shergill, amongst other page-three celebrities, industrialists and industry leaders like Rinku Madan – Luxury Consultant, Food and Lifestyle, Adhiraj Singh – CEO & MD Equisports, Sarubh Khanijo – owner Kylin premier chain of restaurants, Nishant Chandra – owner/partner Carpet Cellar The definite show in Horology commenced with a cocktail which featured an awe-inspiring exhibition of the nominated brands which was followed by the awards ceremony interspersed by a high-octane performance by Natalie Di Luccio, the multilingual singer from Toronto, Canada.

In line with creating an unforgettable experience, a la the previous three editions of Watch World Awards, the event brought in oodles of glitz, glamour and razzmatazz intermingled with a liberal dosage of eclectic watch-making innovations, which made the evening an unforgettable experience for the participants.

Zingy Awards to facilitate Indian interior designers and architects

In a major initiative to provide a distinct recognition to the interior designers and architects of India, Zingy Homes is organizing an online award event to facilitate the interior designers and architects who have been working behind the scenes incessantly and creating beautiful spaces for us to live and work in. The awards will be announced online by the end of October.

Zingy Awards is intended to provide the interior designers and architects with a platform to help them gain visibility in the mainstream. The awards will be adjudged for the following categories – Best Commercial Architect, Best Commercial Interior Designer, Best Residential Architect, and Best Residential Interior Designer. Both firms and individuals can apply before October 5th 2013 to participate in the contest. The applicants may submit more than one project and apply for multiple categories. The jury panel features award winning professionals with years of experience in design and architecture. They are Karsten Gori and Uffe Leth from Denmark, David Hotson from US and Royston Wilson from Australia. Apart from a stellar jury that comprises award winning architects, the unique feature of this online awards program is the public voting module which means that each entry will also be ranked by the number of votes it receives from the general public. The judging parameters are design excellence and suitability to challenge, creativity and originality, functionality, problem solving ability, sustainability, aesthetic appeal and last but not the least-execution and finish quality.

Interior designers and architects have always influenced the way a community lives. They have worked hard all their life to materialize the dreams of various homeowners and businessmen. Yet, there has been neither reward nor recognition for their earnest endeavors. The painter who painted that masterpiece and the designer who weaved that fabulous wedding trousseau is known to the general public, then why do these folks who design beautiful spaces for us to live and breathe in remain faceless?

Zingy Awards are oriented towards encouragement in the field of art and architecture. As the founders say, the idea is to have the general public recognize their work just as easily as they recognize a Manish Malhotra or a Hussain. With the public voting feature, Zingy Awards is being billed as a platform that would bring lakhs of homeowners in direct touch with the participating architects and designers. The community feels that these awards will act as a catalyst and motivate more professionals to bring in new innovation and out-of-the-box approach which in turn will bring them more visibility and popularity. The project listings will remain on the site even after the awards program is over.

To sum up, for an architect or interior designer, participation in the Zingy Awards might help gain competitive edge over several others in the row. With their names pinned on the wall of fame, they would be easily approachable to customers across the country. Also, it would uncover better options for various homeowners when it comes to finding the best professionals for home remodeling and renovation.

Rabih Mroue's 'The Pixelated Revolution' at Dharamshala International Film Festival

Rabih Mroué’s multipart project The Pixelated Revolution, 2012, explores the role of social media, texting and mobile phone cameras in informing and mobilizing people during the current Syrian revolution. Mroué investigates this newly emerged form of ‘immediate documentary’ produced by persons directly involved in regions of active and acute violence due to a shortage of professional journalists. Mroué juxtaposes the immediacy of shocking, live footage downloaded off the internet originating from cell phones held by citizen journalists often being shot at and killed themselves, or in the artist’s words “filming their own death”, with succinct quotes about the ‘rules’ of pure film loosely based on Dogma 95, the cinematographic manifesto of Danish filmmakers Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Mroué thereby draws parallels to the advice and precise instructions regarding the taking of photographs and their dissemination via the medium of Facebook and other virtual communication tools for protesters.

Mroué examines various aspects of this new form of photographic documentation asking whether mobile phones of Syrian protesters become an extension of their bodies or whether the familiar look of the phone display or camera lens may convey a false sense of immunity. Mroué further considers in what manner we can envisage the photographic traces broadcast by Syrians in the vast, ever changing universe of the Internet, framed by incomplete downloads, pixelated images, and ruptured modes of communication. In addition, the artist calls into question his own as well as the viewer’s ‘outside’ position, making and viewing art in studios and institutions rather than joining protesters on the streets, stating “One of the things we always say is that art needs distance, and that art needs a kind of peace. But at the same time, with the revolution in Tunisia, or the revolution in Egypt, or the violence in Syria, when are we allowed to talk about it? How long do we have to wait before we can make a work? I think there are no limits, no defined times.”

Rashi Rochwani Created Sensation with her designs for PRISHA Label at IIJW 2013

From a collection of yellow and white gold, to glittering diamonds and gemstones studded ornaments, the collection presented by Rashi Rochwani for the “Prisha” label created a sensation at the India International Jewellery Week 2013.

The kundan and polki sets were a feast for the eyes as the pieces adorned the graceful models, who glided down the catwalk.  The “Prisha” collection created by Rashi Rochwani was a perfect blend of style, design and traditional touches that were reflected in the various pieces.

The collection called “High on Life” was a great line of fusion contemporary pieces, which were a timeless offering to the global connoisseurs who value the beauty and grandeur of great style and design. Incorporating the latest trends in jewellery fashion, the designer combined the beauty of shimmering gold with diamonds, coloured stones and polkis to showcase jewellery inspired by the art forms of Art Deco, Victorian, nature and New Age designs.

Opening the show with a gorgeous flat diamond necklace with a sunflower pendant and earrings, the excitement continued with a round necklace with giant ruby as the centre of attraction. Rows of floral and ripples of diamonds for wide neckpieces, the leaf shaped earrings, the diamond balis with tiny jhumkhis and the micro linear diamond collar were amazing creations.

The diamond knotted design necklace with ruby ends and the clever blend of gold/rubies/diamonds/emeralds for a Raani Haar with stunning pendant, showed the design direction that fashion will take.

The quartet of necklaces with polkis, rubies, and pearls created into chokers and neck pieces gave a variety of designs in this mix of gems. Circling the neck was a stylish off-centre bow and flowering sprays of blossoms that were innovation personified.

Adding glamour to the show was TV actor, Madhura Naik modelling a gorgeous gold kundan necklace with an eye catching pearl pendant and pear shaped earrings.

To match the vibrant beauty of the jewellery the ethnic and fusion creations were by designer Rajdeep Rawat.

Taking the ramp at the end of the show to acknowledge the appreciative audience applause were Rashi Rochwani and Shyam Rochwani.

For an innovative look in jewellery that will turn into conversation pieces the “Prisha” Collection by Rashi Rochwani will offer the best options.  

Laxmi Jewellery’s Versatile Collection Created Magic on Ramp at IIJW 2013

Creators of the most amazing Jadtar, polki diamond, kundan and gold jewellery, Laxmi Jewellery Export Pvt. Ltd. launched in 1978 by Bharat Mehta, Vipul Mehta, Divyesh Mehta and Sagar Mehta, presented its versatile collection called “Crafting Masterpieces” at the India International Jewellery Week 2013. Kundan has been a specialty of Laxmi Jewellery with 22K gold that weighs from 50 grams to heavy bridal sets. 

For the vilandi collection of uncut diamonds it was the opulence and classic beauty of the ornaments that was dazzling.

A wide spread antique gold necklace opened the show matched with shimmering Jhumkas and kada. The Jhoomers adorned the heads of the graceful models and the shoulder dusters, necklaces; bangles were encrusted with rubies and emeralds to give a traditional touch.

Firm moulded necklaces, draped chokers with emerald and ruby drops edging them, beaded Raani Haars with precious gems, chandeliers with tantalising swaying pearl centres, three-in-one strands of carved gold beads and pearls for Raani Haars; revealed a marked vintage feel.

When it comes to exports in diamond jewellery, the designs followed the latest trends in traditional and contemporary styling and created couture bridal jewellery which the brand is renowned for.

In this section it was the curved scalloped fully encrusted neckpiece and the two tiered jhumkas that caught the eye of the viewers. Chandbalis  with heart shaped neckpieces, round collars centred with emeralds and rows of diamonds fused together flared out from a dramatic choker. The final entries included six large emeralds nestling amongst diamonds, while a choker-cum-necklace shimmered with glitzy earrings.

To match the festive and bridal mood of the jewellery the ethnic wear was by Shyamal and Bhumika. The show ended with Umang Mehta and Heta Mehta as they walked down the ramp to loud applause from the very appreciative audience.

The Laxmi Jewellery Export Pvt. Ltd. vintage and contemporary bridal jewellery had all the right festive design directions, which will stand the test of time for decades to come.