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Exhibition: Month-long exclusive ornament making exhibition at Westin

Singer Mehrin and others watching Aadi's Amman
Rashid's exclusive ornament making exhibition at Westin
Dhaka.

Entertainment Desk

As the brand's global signatory treat offered to the guests for a refreshing transition, the Westin Dhaka organised a month long ornament making exhibition by artist Amman Rashid.

The exhibition was inaugurated at Level-1 of the Lobby of the Westin Dhaka on July 1 where singers Mehreen and Shahed, Director of Communications of the Westin Dhaka Mahbubur Rahman, among others were present on the occasion. Cool Exposure managed the event. Westin has decided to initiate the programme to uphold the indigenous trend of Bangladeshi ornament and Aadi's Amman Rashid was the kingpin of the event.

Guests at the hotel through out July are welcome to see Aadi's exclusive artworks by Amman where each item is a specimen one from Sunday to Thursday between 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Apart from enjoying the artist live work, guests could be able to pursue the artist to give him any particular order of the ornament. The ornaments will be put on display for sale at a stall that would remain open only for that time period.

Amman's artworks are unique in the sense that each item is different from others. The ornament means for the delight of all age brackets for daily attiring, made of different types of thread, dry seed, dry fruits, shells, snails, mud or left-over natural materials.

Considered as a Westin ritual, all unwinds programmes include interactive activity on food or beverage demonstration, cultural, educational or game show.

Usually the activity is free of charge to the guests. Non-border guests are also welcome to the event.

The exhibition will end on July 31.

TV Watch: Onno Boshonto on ATN Bangla tonight

Richi Solaiman and Dilara Zaman in Onno
Boshonto

Entertainment Desk

Onno Boshonto, a 16-episode new drama serial, started from May 17 on ATN Bangla.

Taukir Ahmed, Richi Solaiman, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Dilara Zaman, Shahidul Alam Sacchu, Shamim Zaman, Sharmin Shila, Saleh Ahmed, Dr Inamul Haque, AKM Hasan, Jhuna Chowdhury, among others, are main performers of the serial.

The drama serial based on three separate stories. But there is a connection among the stories.

Among the mess members, Maznu is senior to others. He is a service holder. He did not get married. Mamun is searching job after completion of study. He has an affair with Nitu. Ranju and Abir are studying. Manager of the mess takes loans from them, but did not return them. His main duty is to look after the maidservant of the mess.

Father of Nitu is practicing herbal medicine and wants to open a chamber in his house.

He has a conflict with his wife in this regard. His son-in-law is jobless. He lost huge amount of money in the name of opening of various projects. Ant cultivation was one of them. This is the story of Onno Boshonto.

The serial is aired at 8:00pm on ATN Bangla every Saturday.

Bollywood: Bipasha to rebuild home to suit her 'energy’

Bipasha Basu

Entertainment Desk

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu, who will be seen romancing newcomer Ranbir Kapoor in "Bachna Aye Haseeno", wants to reconstruct her house here to suit her energy.

Wouldn't it make more sense to buy new land and build an entirely new place rather than break down a beautiful place?

"No no!" she says. "I love the space that I live in and wouldn't want to leave it for anything in the world. I agree there's nothing wrong with my home as it is. But when it was being constructed, I couldn't give it the time and attention I should have. "I missed the specifications that I had in mind, but never got around to implementing. I need to modify my space to suit my energy," Bipasha said.

The actress will take a break after completing her current films. "I'm taking quite some time off to build my home just the way I would want it to be. It would be my birthday gift to myself." Bipasha plans to travel to remote corners of the world to get the right colour and quality of wood, tiles, furnishing, upholstery and other accessories for the house. "While I'm travelling, my parents, who live a stone's throw away from me, will supervise the construction." In fact, the actress will move in with her parents down the road while her home gets re-constructed.

The re-construction of Bipasha's dream house begins right after the monsoons.

"I know it's going to be tough to get down to doing something so drastic in my life. But I'm forever adventurous. And I've set a deadline - Jan 7 - my birthday for all the construction guys, designers and decorators to finish and move out of my 'Taj Mahal'. I've to set a deadline, otherwise it could go on forever." Interestingly, Bipasha's building Muktangan on Sarojini Road in Khar has a history of demolition and reconstruction.

It used to be the location of Rakhee Gulzar's bungalow. When she sold it and moved out to just two buildings away, she had only one pre-condition - the high rise would continue to be called Muktangan.

Hollywood: Pregnant Jolie’s star treatment at French clinic

Angelina Jolie

France, Reuters

She arrived by helicopter and has a whole floor of the hospital to herself. Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie's stay in a French clinic where she is due to give birth to twins will be no ordinary one.

The 33-year-old movie star has been at the Lenval hospital in the southern French city of Nice since Sunday, sources there say, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the secrecy surrounding the famous patient. According to eye witnesses, partner Brad Pitt, with whom Jolie has one child, has been visiting from the couple's temporary home in a 17th century villa not far away.

It appears he is also taking care of the couple's other four children - three of them adopted and the fourth, Shiloh, their biological daughter born in Namibia in 2006.

After months of speculation surrounding her pregnancy, Jolie finally confirmed she was expecting twins in an interview at the Cannes film festival in May. The due date has not been announced.

Jolie will be in the care of doctor Michel Sussman, and has a corner room looking out on to the Mediterranean Sea.

Pitt, 44, also has a room on the fifth floor of the building, which has been sealed off for their family and entourage and secured by bodyguards.

Hollywood a-Listers

Sussman is expected to give a press conference about his famous patient later on Wednesday, as the world's media seeks fresh news about "Brangelina", arguably Hollwood's most famous couple. Paparazzi from across the globe descended on the Provence village of Correns, near Miraval, last month when news of the couple's arrival leaked out.