>> At friend and neighbour Arti Surendranth’s birthday celebrations (how come some of the nicest people are Geminis?) on Saturday at Rohit Bal’s spectacular Veda, we met a slice of Mumbai’s beautiful people: the enigmatic Jackie Shroff, an ebullient and slim Juhi Chawla, dynamo duo Tara and Roopak Saluja, Mumbai’s spirited lasses Shaina NC, Anna Singh, Deepa Harris, Akanksha Nanda, Chhaya Momaya and Rita Dodhy, the impeccably mannered Fardeen Khan, big bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwalla, suave gents Niraj Bajaj, Tarun Kataria, and Ashwini Kakkar, old friends like Shekhar and Rashmi Mehta, Pradeep and Papia Guha, Chhitra Gidwani, Tony and Sherry Singh.

Arti Surendranath cutting her birthday cake