Blue Elephant of course!

Kylie and SRK add glamour to the gala
Shefali R. Sethi

Shah Rukh Khan jived to his hit number Maahi ve and pop kitten Kylie Minogue regaled the crème de la crème with a half-hour act at the Bollywood Night, setting the tone for Vanisha Mittal’s wedding to Amit Bhatia at the gardens of St Cloud, Paris.

“The Bollywood brigade were great but the showstealer was Minogue,” said Amit Rai from Rai University. Nattily dressed in a short black dress, Minogue enthralled the rich and famous with her sizzling moves. “This is the first time that Minogue has performed on such an occasion and we were taken by surprise,” he said.

Sporting the same red and black chikankari shervani that he had worn in Kal Ho Naa Ho, Khan played the part of Vanisha’s brother Aditya while Juhi Chawla (who came minus husband Jai Mehta) did a good job as Aditya’s wife Megha. The hit pair of the season, Rani Mukerji and Saif Ali Khan gave a sneak preview of how married life would be: as Amit and Vanisha they performed on the songs from their hit, Hum Tum. “The script revolved around how Amit and Vanisha meet, fall in love and how life after marriage is, all brought out through singing and dancing in Bollywood style,” said Rai.

Steel magnate Laxmi Mittal’s daughter Vanisha dazzled in a lehnga designed by Delhi fashion designer Suneet Varma while the billionaire father of the bride was dressed in a blue embroidered jacket.

Guests savoured a lavish spread of various cuisine from some of the best restaurants in the world. “Besides the authentic Indian cuisine, the spread of Thai food from Blue Elephant, Fulham, London, was simply sumptuous. It couldn’t get better than this,” said Rai. If you don’t savour it here, where would you? After all it’s the grand Mittal wedding!