On A Date with Minissha Lamba : Bollywood News

The beautiful and the innocent have no enemy but time. I disagree. Minissha Lamba decided the time. You have to see me walk. So be at the Grand Hyatt at 2 pm, said the gorgeous lady who was to be a Show Stopper at yesterdays Lakme India Fashion Week. Day One of the biggest fashion spectacle which celebrated its tenth year, Show # 2 of designer Archana Kocchar saw Minissha open the show in the most stunning red gown that had a dramatic ghagra splashed with a profusion of roses which were lit with neon lights, and there she walked as if she had never walked before, there she looked all rosy presenting you with that era of innocence which set the mood for a glamorous evening just waiting round the corner on the terrace of Del Italia in Juhu. As I always say - The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet, but when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all around. But before I met the luscious Lamba at the LFW, I had something else planned for the lady a couple of days back. Flashback please.

Travelling by a luxury sedan for a date with someone special sets a tone of class and sophistication. I mean, it was my fifth date in the last five months, with the two of my last dates at the Indigo Cafe. Really felt like a brand ambassador. For that, I couldve travelled in one anyway. But my busy, hot and humid schedule dampened my spirits. Not that Mini was to come in a one big fat stretched Limo. Hang on...she couldve though. Shes more than just an ambassador. Anyway, let me introduce you to my date of the day - I love to call her Mini, for the world outside, she is Minissha Lamba. Its been a strange trip for her it seems. Coming from a highly intellectual background, she might have expected to lead an academic life. Instead, much to her bewilderment and horror, she was seized upon by Bollywood and thrust into the limelight as the latest teen sex symbol. I hate to use this word sex symbol, so not symbolic for me. But if there is another way to describe this sexy blandly urbane lady, please feel free to post your comments below.

At precisely 3 pm from the Film City, I send her a text message: Hi Mini, Ive left Film City and will reach Indigo by 4. That fine with you lovey dovey?

The alert from the other end came in a second:

Just to be safe, lets make it 4:30 pm. Running a bit late on my current appointment

I love to get the convo going and thus sent her another beep:

Make sure you have time to relax busy girl. Cool it down at Indigo

Pat comes the reply:

Exactly...coffee to get me going for the next half of the day.

4: 30 pm and my car headed towards Indigo. Almost a hundred meters away till I read something on my mobile - Message from Minissha Lamba, which read:

Will be delayed by fifteen mins baba...just got done.

Punctuality is what describes me. But when at 4.46, I reached the destination Indigo, Mini calls me: Where are you?

I reply: Just parking the car, see you in a second. What about you?

Mini: I am inside the cafe. Look whos late

My mind couldnt think of anything better than the cult cliched dialogue from the 80s - Yeh sun ne se pehle main mar kyun nahin gaya.