Singer Akriti Kakar’s Birthday is a Musical Affair!
Singer Akriti Kakar who brought in her birthday with lots of fanfare had her friends, colleagues and well wishers from the Music Industry turn up to wish her on Wednesday night at BJN Banquets in the suburbs.
Looking resplendent in an elegant green gown, Akriti was seen attending to her guests personally. Throwing a party on the eve of her birthday, friends and family arrived well before the cake cutting ceremony to usher in her birthday at midnight with lots of noise and festivity! But can music be far behind? The evening was enjoyable with Akriti, Shankar Mahadevan, Anusha, Raman, Shilpa Rao and Shweta Pandit crooning to their songs Johnny Gaddar, lazy lamhe, kholo kholo, Saiyyan Re etc respectively. The highlight of the evening was when Rahat Fateh Ali Khan mesmerized the audience with his rendition and was soon joined by none other than Ustad Sultan Khan and Shankar Mahadevan who all sang ‘Piya Basanti Re.’ It was truly a fusion of the old meeting the new, with such stalwarts singing in tandem with the current crop of singers!
The guests included Loy (of Shankar Ehsaan & Loy), Sudesh Bhosley, Bali Brahmabhatt, Jatin Pandit, Vikas Bhalla and Directors Anubhav Sinha, Manish Sharma and Mohit Hussain. Also seen enjoying were Shweta Bhardwaj, Vipul D. Shah, Meet Brothers, Siddharth Kannan, Harry Anand, Shilpa Rao, Shweta Pandit, Music Directors Sidharth Suhas, Karishma Modi, Raju Shrivastav who cracked up the audience with his jokes just before the cake cutting ceremony and Linda (the actress in Kabul Express)
Television stars were also seen catching up with each other. Varun Badola, Roshni Chopra, Shama Sikander and Kishwar Merchant were enjoying the songs being sung and the delicious cuisine comprising of Indian, Burmese, Italian and Chinese food! The guests were seen enjoying and mingling amongst themselves. Truly a fun filled musical evening!
Akriti Kakar is well known in Industry circles and has a host of songs to her credit. Having sung for films like Kismat Konnection, Welcome, Johnny Gaddar, Namastey London, Dus, Shakalaka Boom Boom, Akriti has carved a niche for herself. Along with which she also performs live shows all across the country!
Well here’s toasting the birthday girl a very eventful and successful year ahead!!! -(SAMPURN)
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