New Delhi, January 1: Bollywood Calling
On New Year’s Eve, we saw Soha Ali Khan partying away at Olive Bar and Kitchen. Earlier this week, she had told us she would spend the last day 2004 in Delhi, without revealing where she was headed. Yes, she did let us in that when in the city, she likes going over to Shalom Lounge in GK-I, Olive Bar and Kitchen and Bricks. ‘‘And of course, being home’’.

In town for the release of her film Dil Mange More, Khan admitted that she was excited, and a wee bit nervous too. ‘‘I am really looking forward to the release of my film,’’ she said. ‘‘I would consider myself lucky if I am able to achieve even half of what my mother has.’’ In Dil Mange More, Khan plays the role of a girl who aspires to be an air hostess opposite Shahid Kapoor. ‘‘I really enjoyed working with him, but I did not like the way media handled the Shahid-Kareena issue,’’ she says. Khan’s forthcoming releases include David Dhawan’s Shadi No.1 and Ritesh Shetty’s Gustakh Dil. And she will also be seen in Rituparna Ghosh’s Antar Mahal, due to hit theatres next month. Says Khan, ‘‘The challenges are far more (in Bengali films) than Bollywood.’’

Khan Khazana
The Khans were the cynosure of all eyes as actor Saif Ali Khan with Italian girlfriend Rosa and sisters Soha and Saba partied on New year’s Eve at Olive Bar and Kitchen. And while most of the Delhi glitterati chose to spend New Year’s Eve in places like Goa, Mumbai and Shimla, we did spot designer Suneet Varma, Harmeet Bajaj, Madhu Jain, actress Konkana Sen, models Nikita Anand and Monikangana Dutta and Chetan Seth of Habanos Cigar. The theme of the party was Club Carnivale, and the place was done up with lanterns and a canopy of lights added to the dazzle of the Moorish Fable on the Olive terrace. Olive is donating part of the profit earned to adman Prahalad Kakkar’s NGO, Reef Watch, which is involved in relief work for tsunami victims in the Andamans.