01 March,2009 08:08 AM IST | | A Correspondent
On the night that Sooni Taraporevala introduced Little Zizou, Ripon Club smelt like a Parsi wedding, which is to say, the mingling of whiskey and wafers. You saw Gary Lawyer and Cyrus Broacha mingling and a whole lot of waiting later, John Abraham showed up.
The movie's trailer was shown and Taraporevala, amongst other things, said that Boman Irani (who made a no-show because he was shooting abroad) was so likeable in the movie that "every woman over 35 will want to marry him". At the photo ops, John Abraham stood off-centre amongst the film's cast, but the photographers insisted he come to the centre. He politely declined at first, but soon complied. Even though the actor's got a special appearance in the film, looks like he was the main man in the eye of the shutterbugs.u00a0
Not quite quiet
Zarina Mehta, CEO of Bindass used the phrase "quiet activist" for John Abraham as she introduced him. He's supporting a campaign by the channel called Ungli Uthao u2014 urging youngsters to vote u2014 that's pretty apt, seeing that the ones assembled (there was an enthusiastic bunch of them sitting on a podium) came alive when the Dostana star set foot on stage. We wondered if 'quiet activism' was a term too discreet for a stage. That's celebrity land for you, where even loud is
