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To celebrate Aviva’s birthday in style this year, we threw her a surprise birthday bash. Not just any surprise party but a totally BOLLYWOOD Birthday Film Festival! All the buddies came to eat, drink, and behold the many bounties of Bollywood. From Amitabh Bachchan’s hilarious old-man mischief to Aishwarya Rai’s sparkling eyes, Bollywood is the real deal, a veritable bastion of love and magic. To give Aviva a little birthday love and magic we set up a ten by ten tent and draped exotic indian fabrics from three sides, including a door. We filled the tent with a regency style sofa, chaise, mattress, endless pillows and exotic textiles. From the middle of the tent we hung a chandelier. Then we hung an old school map backwards from the wall on the side of the tent without a “wall”, in this way we created a Bollywood film tent! Where throughout the party we showed Bollywood favorites such as, Kyun! Ho Gaya Na . . ., Kuch Naa Kaho, Tere Naam and everyone’s favorite murder mystery GUMNAAM. The party also featured a shrine to Aviva, a grapefruit and gold leaf mountain and garlands of hand-made orange crepe flowers. The cuisine consisted of Basmati rice, spiced dal, pappadum, naan, channa saag, tofu korma and don’t forget . . .apple pie!?! Other important features of throwing a Surprise Bollywood Film Festival Birthday Bash are having Bindis for everybody, bringing the birthday girl a sari straight from India, Indian beer and enough Mango Lassi’s to go around. Now, after watching at least sixteen hours of Bollywood (just two movies, ha! any fan will know that the films are much loooooooonger than Hollywood movies), I feel like Aishwarya Rai is the MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD. And. . . real romance exists only in Hindi! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVIVA! Leave a Reply |
