Friday, 22nd July 2005 (4909 views)

Models at The Park banquets in Calcutta this week enacted songs from Vidhu Vinod Chopra's recent hit Parineeta on the runway.

Jewellery designed by Ananya Chatterjee of Anjali Jewellers, accompanied creations by Snehashish Bhattacharya. Models, including actresses June and Swastika Mukherjee, wore elaborate gold necklaces, cummerbunds, earrings, nose-rings and tiklis with traditional Bengali tant and cotton saris, Telegraph India reports.

Later, stones, beads and Rajasthani meenakari accompanied a tribute to Calcutta's nightlife of old, with cocktail saris and glasses of red wine in red, black, green and blue. Bengali richness closed the night in the form of tiklis, large earrings, bangles and other striking accessories, including a white and gold dhakai.

Ananya Chatterjee also created exclusive jewellery for the film Parineeta, set in the 1960s and based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic novel.

Vidya Balan, star of the film, took to the stage to cheer the designers after the show, saying: "It feels really special to see other people perform the songs from my film. And they did it so very beautifully."

 

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