Mumbai taken over by fashion and faces

The past and the ongoing week in Mumbai were dominated by faces and fashions. Faces of models wearing make ups and strange attires specially designed by celebrity designers at the Lakme fashion week. Catwalks on the ramp, as directed by renowned choreographers, and gossips in midnight parties after the show have stolen headlines, lead picture positions and space in party columns on front (and back) pages of newspapers and prime time positions in TV news.Media is full of it.
Amidst all this, there was an incident involving two similar faces who look alike a third one. And the third one is (or should it be ''was'') a celebrity, giving some value to at least one of the two similar faces. The second similar face suddenly entered as an intruder in the whole story to steal the identity of the first one, who himself posed as the third one. Stop! I know it is bit complicated and difficult to understand. Let me not complicate the story further and confuse the readers.
To put it simply, Mumbaikar witnessed an interesting episode, a real one and not in any of those ''k'' soap operas. Rakesh Khanna, who look alike celebrated Bollywood star ''chocolate'' hero Rajesh Khanna, is known in the industry as the latter''s regular dummy since he acted as Rajesh''s duplicate in I.S.Johar''s film some years back. Suddenly, some film personalities found Rakesh begging at a road corner in Juhu area. He claimed that to beg due to his bad days. Filmwallas generously helped him and a TV channel found his story worth telecasting in its news bulletin.
But, that triggered off the problem. The real Rakesh Khanna hearing the news that his name is stolen by someone looking like him, rushed to the police. Police brought the beggar, claiming to be Rakesh Khanna, to the police station and the enquiry began. Finally an old time actress who worked with Rakesh was called to identify who was real Rakesh. But beggar added to even her confusion by speaking dialogues of the film in which she acted with Rakesh. Finally, there was one point on which she made "dooddh doodh aur pani ka pani".
Once again coming back to faces, this time of politicians, it becomes a story of faces and masks. The entire last week was full of mask worn faces or masks behind the faces or something like that in the political world of the state. In essence it was all confusing. The issue was, of course, related to pre poll alliance between the two ruling partners in the state, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress. Will it be or will not. This dilly dallying game is on in the state for quite some time. And, the voters are sure that its further episodes will continue further till the poll is announced.
The Simla convention of Congress party triggered off the discussion of alliance of secularist parties. Lot of statements were issued from both sides in Mumbai. Finally Nationalist Congress party leader, Sharad Pawar, after his arrival from abroad, addressed a press conference and clarified that the leadership issue will be settled only as all the alliance partners decide. So, the current episode of the soap opera "Oh Secularists, Let us join hands" is over, with the prospect of resuming the next episode any time.
When the leaders are busy playing their usual "ballgame" of politics, Mumbaikar are bit worried over the problem of water shortage. The lakes supplying water to the metro have till now received scanty rain and the pace at which lakes are reaching to the overflowing marks is not satisfactory. August is one month in which many a times the catchments areas receive lot of rainfall and the lakes start overflowing. Mumbaikars are waiting for the next month for that to happen, as they no elections or no elections and any party may come to power, the civic problems they have to face remain unsolved. That is the real face of Mumbai. The lavish fashion parades are only exhibiting Mumbai''s made up face akin to a mask.