At the Honorary Consul reception

Rajiv Arora

On Sunday I had a couple of meetings in the afternoon and hosted a dinner for Mr Rajiv Arora, Member, Central Board of Film Certification, who was in Kolkata for a Board meeting. Mr Arora is an active Congressman from Rajasthan and also a key person for various cultural films and literary events.

Mr Arora, in fact, is also the founder member of Jaipur Virasat Foundation which later gave birth to the much-talked about Jaipur Literary Festival with which he is actively involved at present.

It was on on Sunday morning that I decided to host a dinner in the evening. Thanks to my friends from the Tollywood, the dinner meeting was a great success. 

It was attended by Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Arindam Sil, Suuchanndra, Anandi Ghosh, Rupa Ganguly, Ananya Chatterjee, Sangeeta Datta and others.

Everyone enjoyed the gathering and the evening ended in an impromptu song by the guests. Barun Mukherjee, the famous cinematographer who has done films like Chakra, Baghban, Baabul, Gehrayee and others and also impressed everyone with his voice for singing old Hindi film songs, joined in. He is currently in Kolkata shooting for Suman Ghosh's new film based on the theft of Nobel Prize.

Monday evening I missed the musical performance at the ITC as I attended the reception of Swiss Ambassador in India, His Excellency Mr Philippe Welli, at The Oberoi Grand.

At the reception, Mr Umesh Chowdhury was appointed the new Honorary Consul of Switzerland in Kolkata.

He took charge from his father Mr J P Chowdhury who really did a lot of justice to the post he held.

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