There was Karan Johar with his empty coffee mugs playing rapid-fire rounds with Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra.
While Chopra morphed into the Don girl once more as she swayed to the tunes of Aaj ki Raat, lady-killer Kumar romanced a bevy of beauties on stage with the feet-tapping Signal number.
The occasion was the launch of Microsoft’s new products, Windows Vista and MS Office 2007, at Bandra’s MMRDA Grounds. The software giant added the Bollywood element to throw a dash of glamour to what would have otherwise been a drab evening. But unfortunately, the stars and their high-charged performances failed to redeem.
You have to blame it on the organisers’ lack of imagination. The constantly flashing Vista logo and Microsoft TV commercial didn’t make for a great backdrop for masala chartbusters.
The glamorous hosts, Parmeet Sethi and Malaika Arora Khan, went overboard drawing parallels to the newly launched software with anything and everything on earth. The show also had performances by Urmila Matondkar, Sunidhi Chauhan, isha Sharvani and Nach Baliye 2 winners Tina and Hussain.
Showstopper: Puttar Akshay Kumar’s Punjabi act – he arrived on stage on a truck and singing a bhangra song!
