The much talked about annual ‘Iftar party’ that ‘Baba Siddique’ is known to host every year, was held on July 21st this year at Taj Lands End Bandra. Though men from all walks seemed to be invited, the highlight of the evening was when the two superstars Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan shared the feast under the same roof. Though SRK arrived forty-five minutes later than Sallu, the shutterbugs went crazy trying to capture their best shots of the two actors.
When inside the venue, we heard that the two apparently refused to acknowledge each others presence initially. But then much to the shock of onlookers, they finally gave each other an awkward hug when Baba brought them together for a picture. (For those who lag behind on Bolly gossip, the two stars seldom attend the same event where the other is present and haven’t communicated since 2008.)
Baba and his son Zeeshan played the perfect host to all the invitees and personally made sure everyone was looked after well.
Though it was a ”woman free event”, we at Bandra Buzz did manage to catch a few moments with some of the well known Bandra faces who attended it, Moin Motiwala (AK Motiwala), Asif Zakaria, Stephen Noronha, Asif Bamla, to name a few.
Also spotted were Suraj Pancholi at his first social gathering after his release along with his father Aditya, Mahesh Manjrekar, director Madhur Bhandarkar, Boney Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor, who had made their way to our suburb to attend the ‘Iftar’.
Some of the fun moments were when Chunky Pandey kept posing for cameras even after they had stopped clicking him (joking) and tele actor Jay Bhanushal who got his bit of fame, tailing SRK around for a while.
The selected invited press was in quite a frenzy as they demanded to know from Baba, how he had made the two rival Khans bury the hatchet for the evening. To this, Baba humbly replied ”It is Allah who has done this today, I did nothing.”
Towards the end of the evening, when everything had settled down and the other scribes have dispersed off, we got a chance to catch up with Baba for a few minutes. He seemed relaxed and happy with the way the evening had come to pass.
When we asked him what he felt about this years’ ‘Iftar’, he playfully replied, ”Oh it was just a reunion of all the Bandra Boys!!”
