Ash at Pritish Nandy's event

By TNN,

On Thursday evening, Pritish Nandy managed to do what Chetan Bhagat could only term as the ‘IPL of poetry’! 

The multi-talented Pritish got eminent personalities like Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Anupam Kher, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Chetan himself to be present for his literary do. But that was the only joke cracked on IPL, what with Tharoor being present! 

Aishwarya, looking pretty as a picture in a simple beige dress, said that she’s no orator but was glad to be introduced to Pritish’s works. She then read out a few lines from his book. 

Anupam recalled the time when he had first met Pritish in 1983. “By the end of the evening, Pritish told me ‘You’re a nice guy, I don’t like you!” He added that there’s a hidden actor in Pritish just as there’s a hidden poet in him. 

Shashi joked that years back, young college girls wrote verses in the hope of becoming a poet like Pritish. 

When the emcee started to introduce Ash as ‘the most beautiful face of India’, Anupam pointed at himself which made Ash and others burst into laughter. 

Seen in the audience were Anil Dharker, Meghna Gulzar and Ruslaan Mumtaz.