{"id":2696,"date":"2016-06-20T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T04:50:41","slug":"baba-siddique-iftar-party-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes at Baba Siddique\u2019s Iftar Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B<\/span>aba Siddique\u2019s annual\u00a0<\/p>iftar<\/span><\/a> party is the Bollywood equivalent of barging into your <\/span>Muslim friends\u2019<\/span><\/a> home to gorge on unlimited biryani once a year on Eid, and then ignoring him for the rest. \u00a0<\/span>\n\nThis year, the event, which jostles with <\/span>AB\u2019s Holi party<\/span><\/a> for the title of Douchebag Social Event of the Year, lacked the one PR twist that everyone and their grandmother keeps their eyes peeled for: the annual Khan-Khan hugathon between <\/span>SRK<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Sallu<\/span><\/a>. For those who don\u2019t know it, every year the Khan-Khan bhai-bhai saga plays out like a <\/span>KJo<\/span><\/a> drama, assuring everyone watching that all is indeed well in the Khan Caliphate we call Bollywood. Before your gossip sense starts tingling, and the filmy fanatic within you prepares for the apocalypse that is a Clash of the Khans, araam your areolas. Shah Rukh missed it because he was off shooting in America.<\/span>\n\nEven without the SRK twist, Sallu on his own is enough of a show-stopper. Adding Sallu to the guestlist of any party, <\/span>hunting<\/span><\/a>, iftar, or otherwise, guarantees it will be a hit, even if Sallu runs off leaving his driver to finish his last drink midway through a bash. This party was a little different for Sallu however, because he was haunted by the <\/span>ghosts of girlfriends past<\/span><\/a>. Katrina Kaif and Jacqueline Fernandez hovered around all night ensuring his current flame Iulia took notice of her impending fate. You\u2019ve got to hand it to Sallu though for keeping his reserve at a party with two of his exes and his current paramour. But those women know better than to bring the drama because Sallu is actually <\/span>Thanos<\/span><\/a> in disguise; chutki mein career khatam. Remember Vivek Oberoi? That\u2019s okay, no one does.<\/span>\n\nOther than Sallu, the party mainly saw stars who are rapidly approaching their \u201ccast by\u201d date posing for shutterbugs, like Suniel Shetty, who is \u00a0no longer shooting bad guys while flying through the air wearing a mundu, and Tusshar Kapoor, who\u2019s probably still recovering from the speech impediment multiple installments of <\/span>Golmaal<\/span><\/i><\/a> have given him. Riteish Deshmukh was there too, and he chose to mostly pose for pictures with millionhair man Anil Kapoor because everyone at the party had a collective case of temporary amnesia and remembered him as that guy from that movie they love but couldn\u2019t quite remember his name. <\/span>\n\nThe party also had a slew of <\/span>B-team<\/span><\/a> actors, producers, singers, and television celebs, hoping they could get a pitch in sideways between bites of kebabs. Unfortunately for them, and thanks to copious cocaine use, the hippocampi of Bollywood\u2019s movers and shakers is past the point of repair. Any conversation that ends with, \u201cConcept accha hai, call my secretary,\u201d at such parties probably means, \u201cThe disco sugar\u2019s making me anxious, so I\u2019m telling you what you want to hear so you leave me alone.\u201d<\/span>\n\nBollywood\u2019s new crop of flashy fuckboi\u2019s led by <\/span>Ranveer Singh<\/span><\/a> were conspicuous in their absence because an iftar meal is the bullet to their diet\u2019s black buck (last Bhai dig, I promise). Maybe they had their own kiddie version of the iftar party, separate from the adult iftar party, devoid of all the politics and backstabbing fuckery that is Bollywood. <\/span>\n\nLast (and also the least) in the name-dropping order was Bollywood\u2019s renaissance man \u2013 actor, producer, DJ, and Bhai\u2019s partner in on-screen exhibitionism, <\/span>Bobby Deol<\/span><\/a>. Though his comeback game is on point with <\/span>Race 3<\/span><\/i>, Bobby\u2019s been out of the loop far too long to be any fun at parties. In Bobbyland, \u201cDuniya Haseenon Ka Mela\u201d ranks higher than \u201cBaby Ko Bass Pasand Hai\u201d or whatever earfuck of a song Bollywood\u2019s band of hacky producers can conjure up. His repeated requests for the DJ to play the <\/span>Gupt <\/span><\/i>theme song while diners tucked into gulab jamun probably proved to be his undoing, ending in his premature ejection from the party, which is why there\u2019s just one picture of the man, looking less than happy. Or maybe it\u2019s gastric distress brought on by one kebab too many, which resulted in some \u201cyahan wahan dhuaan dhuaan\u201d which everyone thought was uncle Shatrughan. <\/span>\n\nHopefully next year Baba Siddique lets Bollywood bond over biryani in a subtler, more private setting, without making such a huge fuss about it, which means it \u00a0won\u2019t trend on Google and struggling trend jockeys (writers) everywhere won\u2019t be saddled with the task of waxing eloquent about the proceedings, so that they can pursue more fruitful tasks such as procrastinating or attending an iftar themselves.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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