Celeb actress Pooja Batra and film-maker Joe Rajan jointly celebrate B’day with showbiz celeb-friends ! - Chaitanya  Padukone

The recent joint Birthday-party  celebration of  eminent film producer-director Joe Rajan and celeb model- actress Pooja Batra hosted by popular political leader (MLA) Pratap Sarnaik-jee at the exotic venue Cafe Holiday-Versova turned out to be a memorable glam-glitz affair. . It was more of a  cheerful reunion of   showbiz industry friends who attended . Looking slim and trim in a tantalizing designer outfit, B’day-Girl Pooja Batra proved to be the scene-stealer even as her suave actor husband Nawab Shah fondly posed with her for the paparazzi. With her charismatic rejuvenated  aura, fitness-icon Pooja seems all set to  return to showbiz.

Speaking to the media Pooja said, “After the corona pandemic, it’s now back to normal, with this 2022 festive Diwali season. Since both Joe’s birthday and my birthday coincides on the same day( Oct 27^th), we decided to celebrate our special day together.  I myself have come back to India after 20 years and am looking forward to getting some solid exciting work out here.” enthused exuberant Pooja.

 An impressive turn-out of a galaxy of  well-wisher showbiz celebs including Jeetendra, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Akbar Khan, Raai Laxmi,  Sonnalli Seygall, Ali Asgar, Javed Jaffrey, Naved Jaffrey, Rajesh Khattar, Remo D’Souza, Shawar Ali, director duo Abbas-Mustan, acclaimed film-maker Madhur Bhandarkar and many more.

The vivacious ‘Virasat’ girl ( former beauty-queen) Pooja Batra was appreciated by audiences and viewers in her intense, smart intelligence agency screen-character in this 2021 Hindi movie ‘Squad’ where the macho hero is Rinzing Denzongpa ( iconic  veteran actor Danny Denzongpa’s son) .

 Meanwhile dynamic, multi-faceted Joe Rajan (of  Harvey World Destinations) informs me that his next directorial release Marathi movie ‘Kolhapur Diaries; remake of  super-hit  Malayalam crime-thriller movie ‘Angamaly Diaries’,  which will be presented by Avadhoot Gupte, should releasing early next year. It may be recalled that in the past, Joe Rajan had also directed movie ‘Luv U Soniyo’ which marked the debut of Tanuj Virwani ( Rati Agnihotri’s son) opposite beauty-queen actress Neha Hinge.

( The writer Chaitanya Padukone  is an eminent award-winning senior film journalist-columnist-author of best-seller memoirs book R D BurMania)