Oprah's visit to India: Bollywood buzzing with activity
Right from the day when the queen of chat show announced that she would be visiting India, Bollywood was excited. When the inspirational lady landed on Monday, everyone had a gala time, tweeting, partying and meeting Oprah Winfrey.
ON HER maiden visit to India, Oprah Winfrey was not disappointed as she was welcomed by the who’s who of Bollywood in a party that was thrown in her honour by socialite Parmeshwar Godrej at her residence. Apart from that, the chat queen also visited the Bachchans to have a heart to heart with her two-time invitee to her show, Aishwarya Rai Bachachan and also to meet little Beti B. According to the tweets of Amitabh Bachchan, Oprah looked lovely in a sari. People who have seen the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan episode in Oprah would surely understand where Oprah got the talent to drape a sari.
Winfrey was seen driving into the palatial Bachchan bungalow ‘Jalsa’ at around 8 pm. The party at Parmeshwar Godrej's house happened at 11, the same night. The party that was attended by SRK, the Bachchans,
Preity Zinta and Anupam Kher, apart from many others. Oprah herself was quite impressed and had a gala time as can be garnered from her tweets. She tweeted, “Was so great meeting you and all the beautiful Bollywooders. Directors, poets, screenwriters, what a nite!”
The international talk show host is scheduled to shoot for her show ‘next chapter’ and will visit five different cities and attend the Jaipur Literature Festival later this month. Apart from Jaipur and Mumbai, the other places that would be visited by Oprah would be Delhi, Agra and Hrishikesh. She also got permission to shoot at the Taj Mahal with spiritual guru, Deepak Chopra, and Agra would see both the people on January 19.
Many in Bollywood could not contain the excitement of meeting the iconic lady and tweeted about the party. The first one to do so was author Shobhaa De, Sameera Reddy and Jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali. Although Preity Zinta had the time of her life, yet her evening was not perfect, thanks to the press, who thrashed her car. In an attempt to get better pictures, they climbed on her car and scratched it or so the actress tweeted as reported in timesofindia.com.
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