better venue this year. The actor has hosted Lord Ganesha at his
Bandra home for the past eleven years but this year the ceremonies
will take place at the Khan family's Panvel farmhouse.
The reason for the change of plans is the ongoing renovations at the
actor's Galaxy Apartments pad. The family was earlier considering
hosting the pooja at their new residence at Pacific Heights but on
Monday they decided that Panvel will be a better choice.
A source close to the family said, "The new house is a rented place
and the farmhouse is far more spacious and comfortable, so they
decided on it" When contacted, Salim Khan said, "Yes, we are thinking
of organising the Ganpati celebration at Panvel. Galaxy of course is
ruled out because we are renovating the place."
Salman's sisters Alvira and Arpita plan to reach the farmhouse three
days before the festival begins on September 9 to oversee preparations
including food and decor.This is the 12th year that the
elephant-headed God is visiting the Khan residence and the tradition
was started at the insistence of Arpita, the youngest of the siblings.
The Khans will also do the visarjan at Panvel, close to their
farmhouse. Non-vegetarian food and alcohol is banned in the days ahead
of the festival. Instead, Salman's mother turns out delicacies like
modak, puri, aloo bhaji and chana usal.
Meanwhile... Mental may soon get a new moniker Salman's next film
Mental may release as Jai Ho instead. But the change will not be an
easy one as the producer of the film, Sohail Khan, needs no objection
letters, from Ramesh Taurani, Nikhil Advani and Madhur Bhandarkar, as
the three had registered the same title a couple of years ago.
At the time of going to press, we learnt that Nikhil has already
cleared the decks for Sohail while Ramesh will deliberate on the issue
after getting back from his Bangkok holiday. "Nobody has called me for
the title yet. I will come back and check on this," Ramesh told us.
Bhandarkar, who parted with the title Gutka for Karan Johar some
months back, too is yet to issue the letter.TOI has it that Sohail is
also toying with the idea of naming the film Aazad.
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