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The party was attended by some political heavyweights including
Sharad Yadav (who had flown in specially from Delhi), Maharashtra
chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Shatrughan Sinha, Raj Babbar,
among others. The film fraternity had representation from film stars
Jackie Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan, and directors Madhur Bhandarkar,
Subhash Ghai and Fahad Samar. The business community saw the presence
of Neeta Ambani, among several others.
It was the television industry which came out in full force: Zee
TV chairman Subhash Chandra, Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea, Star
India COO Sameer Nair, programming head Tarun Katial, Star News
chief Ravina Raj Kohli, Sony Entertainment head Sunil Lulla, creative
director Saurabh Vanzara, director Sanjay Upadhyay, producers Manish
Goswami, Ronnie Screwvala, Vipul D Shah and Sanjeev Sharma, Dheeraj
Kumar, Vinta Nanda, Rekha Nigam, Gajra Kottary, among others.
The TV acting community which turned up in numbers included Yash
Tonk, Ali Asgar, Saakshi Tanwar, Rupali Ganguli, Gurpreet Kohli,
Reeta Bhaduri, Juhi Parmar, Amit Behl, Simone Singh, Urvashi Dholakia,
Aseem Sharma, Shweta Keswani, Kiran Karmakar.
Anuradha, in her remarks, thanked several individuals who have
more than believed in the BAG Films vision and have lent a hand
in its success climb. Among these figured Subhash Chandra, Peter
Mukerjea, Shatrughan Sinha and Kunal Dasgupta.
The celebrations began with a show-reel of BAG Films' achievements,
and was followed by Anuradha and her well-wishers cutting a cake,
shaped like a Number 10, to loud cheers from friends.
The production house is raising funds through an IPO for setting
up captive production and post production facilities and for a media
school on the outskirts of Delhi.
That is for the future. For the nonce even as this piece was being
written, the party was rocking at Land's End. And it looked like
the celebration would not end soon.
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