Wild Life

She towers over him. But that has not stopped Angad Paul from seeing eye to eye with her. After a 10-year-long courtship, Angad, the youngest son of steel magnate Lord Swraj Paul, married girlfriend, media lawyer Michelle Bonn. The venue was the London Zoo and the ceremony followed both Hindu and Jewish rituals-the bride is Jewish-and was attended by 300 guests. There was Sarah Brown, wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown along with her son John, Indian businessmen Subrata Roy, K.K. Birla and Lalit Suri, as well as haute Bollywood couple Arjun Rampal and Mehr Jessia. Angad's one-time best friend Guy Ritchie (who directed two movies he produced) did not attend. Neither did Mrs Ritchie-she was too busy lip-syncing, perhaps.

Salaam India

So what if Mira Nair's Vanity Fair flopped in the US? India might just get to see Reese Witherspoon at the international film festival of Goa in November-end where Vanity Fair is expected to be the opening film. The Legally Blonde actor will be sunning herself on the beaches of Goa, but don't expect to see her in a swimsuit. Goa isn't exactly the Croisette and Witherspoon says she has cellulite.

Sachin, Dil Se

Sachin Tendulkar seems to be making the most of his time off. Ace auteur Mani Ratnam will be directing Tendulkar in a public service message. The straight bat will be making a pitch for the physically challenged and the film will have him saying, "Thank you for installing ramps in your buildings to support the physically challenged." Sachin will be following the footsteps of teammate Anil Kumble who shot for a similar ad with Ratnam's sometime cinematographer-turned-director Rajiv Menon. Now if only the little master could overcome his own fitness problems.

Male Order

He's better known as actor Amrita Arora's boy toy. But now designer Ranna Gill has elevated Upen Patel to the status of muse. The UK import is the face of Gill's first men's collection, as well as the clotheshorse for three other designers: Vikram Phadnis, Wendell Rodricks and Narendra Kumar. That's not all. He'll be getting down and dirty in the new Kama Sutra condom campaign, shot by Prabuddha Das Gupta. So how does it feel to be the new male Pooja Bedi? "It's a buzz, and I'm loving it," says Patel. Clothes to condom, not too much of a stretch, is it?

-Compiled by Kanika Gahlaut

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