August 2, 1999

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Go Mumbai: Hair Salon

It's Mumbai's trendiest hair salon. Juice (slang for funky, happening) was started by the born-bred-and-trained-in-England brother-sister team of Osh (short for Ashok) and Adhuna Bhabani. In its first year itself Juice has carved out a customer list that other salons would kill for: 800 clients, among them Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Dino Morea, Preity Zinta and Mehr Jessia. Juice is serious about the head and does not entertain even an upper lip. Instead, clients get an in-depth hair consultation, advice on hair products and a personalised hair-cut. The setting is techno-funk, the atmosphere friendly and the service top-notch. Even its charges are a cut above the rest -- at Rs 1,000, after an appointment that takes three to four weeks of advance booking.

Malhar

It's called the wet, wet youth festival. But Malhar, the inter-collegiate cultural festival organised by the students of St Xavier's College, elicits a lot of heat and dust. To be held on August 14 and 15, the festival this year will revolve around cinematic themes. What has made Malhar a crowd-puller is the intense rivalry between the north (the rural lot) and the south (the urban lot) Mumbai colleges. The result: loads of creativity, lots of fun.