Bollywood congratulates Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi on birth of baby girl: Lara Dutta gave birth to a baby girl on Friday and within minutes of the announcement Lara and hubby Mahesh Bhupathi were inundated with congratulatory messages from friends and colleagues from the film industry.
Here’s how Bollywood has been wishing the proud parents Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi. Abhishek Bachchan: @Maheshbhupathi @DuttaLara CONGRATULATIONS guys. Lots and lots of love.
Bipasha Basu: Congratulations to Lara n Mahesh fr hving a baby girl!Wow!
Neil Nitin Mukesh: Congratulations to my dear @Maheshbhupathi and darling Lara on the arrival of the princess !! GOD BLESS U ALL :)
Neha Dhupia: Congratulations to the lovely couple @Maheshbhupathi and @DuttaLara on the arrival of their little princess! Lots of happiness , always.
Vinay Pathak: Many congratulations @DuttaLara and @Maheshbhupathi on their first born! It's a girl! :-) cheers!!!
Sophie Choudry: Super news! Congratulations @Maheshbhupathi and @DuttaLara on the arrival of ur lil princess! Big Hug & God bless!
Rahul Bose: Huge congratrulations to lara dutta and @maheshbhupathi, the proud parents of a baby girl! To top that, mahesh won his match today!
Ken Ghosh: Congrats Mahesh and Lara! Its a girl!
Dabboo Ratnani: Congratulations @DuttaLara @Maheshbhupathi! Love to the lil baby girl!
Lara Dutta-Mahesh Bhupathi's honeymoon postponed!: After their church wedding in Goa on Saturday, Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi are presently in Dubai, not for their honeymoon but for tennis.
Honeymoon can wait for the newly-weds. For they have flown to Dubai where Mahesh will play in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
“Happy to be with my husband at the Dubai Open! Perfect weather!” Lara tweeted after their arrival in Dubai.
Honeymoon may have been delayed, but the hubby-wife duo is certainly making the most of their time together. They tried out some Thai food in Dubai. “Best Thai food in the World in my opinion...place called Mango Tree in Dubai.!!” Mahesh tweeted.
Pics - Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi sangeet ceremony: The media was kept away from the sangeet ceremony of Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi on Friday evening, but the couple was seen enjoying a romantic moment.
The ceremony was held at Club Fresh on the Candolim beach in North Goa. Lara reportedly wore a marigold-coloured lehenga designed by Manav Gangwani, while Mahesh looked dashing in a 'chikankari' kurta. A lot of people were seen dancing to Bollywood and Hollywood numbers.
DJ Whosane set the music ball rolling while group Lucent Dossier from Los Angeles performed aerial acts on the occasion.
Lara and Mahesh already tied the knot in a civil ceremony earlier this week. They will now have a church wedding on Saturday in Goa.
Lara Dutt and Mahesh Bhupati wedding at Goa’s beach?: A walk on the Sinquerim beach may be what Bollywood heart-throb Lara Dutta and tennis pro Mahesh Bhupathi look forward to after their wedding here Saturday. But that may not be possible because the beach itself has practically disappeared thanks to a grounded cargo vessel.
However, the celebrity wedding at the Taj holiday village resort has provided Goa’s environmental activists an opportunity to once again bring up the issue of the massive beach erosion caused by the grounding of M.V. River Princess on the nearby Candolim beach in 2000.
Successive state governments have failed to salvage and tow the vessel, which, like a huge mythical ogre, has virtually gobbled up a sizeable section of one of the most prized stretches of sand in Goa, from Baga beach to Sinquerim. The beach stretch has the biggest concentration of resorts and night clubs anywhere in Goa and sees lakhs of tourists soaking up the sun and the nightlife during the October-March season.
According to Fermino Fernandes, convernor of the River Princess Hatao Manch (RPHM), which has been leading the agitation to remove the beached vessel, the Lara-Mahesh wedding might just be the best time to highlight the issue of beach erosion, which is assuming serious proportions in Goa, whose economy significantly feasts on beach tourism.
‘We will use the Lara Dutta (and Mahesh Bhupathi) wedding to get the attention of the country to the River Princess issue,’ Fermino told IANS.
Fermino also said that he would lobby with the national media representatives, who are in Goa to cover the wedding to take note of the issue of beach erosion too.
‘We will try our best to get the national media to focus on the River Princess. They only have to swing their cameras a little bit from the wedding venue to the boat, which is there for more than 10 years only because the government does not care,’ he said.
Several entertainment television crews are camped outside the resort since Friday morning, when both Lara and Mahesh arrived for the ceremony.
Sylvester D’Costa, who lets out rooms to tourists in the slightly upscale Candolim-Sinquerim beach belt, said the issue had not caught the attention of the central government and the star wedding might be a great inflection point.
‘For nearly 11 years now, the government has completely failed to drag the River Princess away. She has gobbled up the beach. Our livelihood has been affected by the erosion. Without beaches how can we have beach tourism. This is the best chance now,’ D’Costa (45) said.
According to data compiled by the state government and the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), a central government marine science agency, the phenomenon of beach erosion is grimly staring at seven beaches in Goa, with Sinquerim, being the most affected.
‘In all, 21 stretches which are spread over a length of 11.22 km (coastal area) have been affected,’ says the state’s Water Resources minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues. The 21 stretches include famous beaches like Sinquerium, Coco beach, Tiracol beach, Candolim beach in North Goa and Betalbatim beach, Arosim beach in South Goa.
A recent statement by the NIO says that more than 1.1 sq km of the beach in the vicinity of the River Princess has already eroded because of the change in sand pattern effected due to the presence of the large ship for a long period of time.
The M.V. River Princess, which was anchored at the nearby Mormugao Port, was swept away in a storm in 2000 and grounded on the beach. It was being operated at the time by a firm owned by mining magnate and a state legislator Anil Salgaonkar.
Lara Dutta & Mahesh Bhupathi got married today!: Bollywood actress Lara Dutta and tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi got married today in a civil ceremony. They are now headed for a Christian wedding in Goa.
The two got hitched at Mahesh’s Bandra house where a marriage registrar was reportedly called to legalize the marriage.
Before the wedding, Mahesh tweeted: “Anyway the civil ceremony is in an hour so I got to get ready.” After the wedding, he tweeted the above pic and wrote: “Mr. And Mrs. Bhupathi folks... :)”
From what we hear, the registered marriage was a very private affair with only close family members of Lara and Mahesh in attendance.
Now, Lara and Mahesh will head to Goa for a Christian wedding on Feb 19 at Sunset Venue, Taj Aguada. On Feb 18, there will be a sangeeth ceremony at a beach resort.
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