SocietyPages: Paramount Pictures threw a Diwali party at Manhattan’s Pierre Hotel, celebrating the festival of lights in the swanky Cotillion Ballroom under the haze of a cough-inducing smoke machine; BinduBansinath was there to report
When the ballroom finally opened, its mirrored walls and ornate chandeliers were obscured by purplish smoke. Someone turned on strobe lights, and I was comforted to see such an elegant space transformed into a New Jersey sweet 16. Soon everyone began tearing up the dance floor to “Jalebi Baby,” and one event coordinator remarked that the event was “putting Diwali on the map” despite the fact that the festival is over 2,500 years old.
Elsewhere, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos mingled. “Tell me your name again?” a wide-eyed Ripa asked me when we shook hands, perhaps incorrectly mistaking me for another brown person. Before I could clarify, Ripa pivoted, admiring the lehenga of a woman nearby: “Oh, you look like the bride on top of theLater that evening, Gabriela Hearst gave her absolute all on the dance floor when no one else was bold enough to traipse it.
Sean informed me he was in charge of the evening’s DJ set list, so I had high hopes. And as a figure of nostalgia himself, he did not disappoint, interspersing ’90s and aughts Bollywood classics such as “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom” with throwbacks including “Murder She Wrote” and Lumidee’s “Never Leave You.” While I’m usually skeptical of mash-ups, I was particularly impressed by one of “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai” and Cardi B’s “I Like It.
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