Mallika Sherawat is in New Jersey! Most guys in the Tri-state area would go crazy with THAT piece of news & am sure my inbox will be clogged with inquiries. LOL. But if I add “Mallika Sherawat won an award”, I will get major feedback mostly saying that my news story was false!! Coz she don’t look like an award winner… or DOES she??!!

WELL…You’d be surprised. In a pleasant way. Recently, Mayor Jerramiah Healy (Team Healy New Jersey) honored the South Asian community in NJ and Mallika was invited and awarded with the “Arts Honoree” for her work in Bollywood. She is working on a film called Hisss with Irfan Khan. How fun right… She strolled in looking her best and displaying her best assets and mind you, shes got a brain that works too.. Very very smart woman, that Mallika, (whose been doing a lot of charity work in Malibu, CA) totally talks with a tinge of sarcasm that people in India usually don’t pick up. If you see her track record, shes been a smart business woman and I dont think we’ve seen her best yet… There is more to come…Im sure of it!

Now to a very very hot piece of news: Along with Mallika, our very own Raju Sethi - AVS Studio Head & President was APTLY bestowed with the “Media Honoree” award! How cool is that!! Mr Sethi had started Asian Variety Show donkeys years ago from his basement and today AVS has a special place in Bollywood and around the world (USA, Canada, Trinidad, Australia etc etc etc)  … Doesnt it sound like the “Steve Jobs Apple” or “Bill Gates” story??? Well, you better believe it is! Actually, its better than that.. Raju has touched millions of NRI hearts with his entertaining show and has earned the title of a successful producer / director of THE most successful South Asian Entertainment Program in NORTH UMREEEKA!

Award Honorees

This is a BIG deal in the politico and the biznezz circles because we had a round of big wigs present at the do: Philathropy Honoree Paul Parmar; Commisioner Raj Mukherji of Jersey City Housing Authority; Congressman Frank Pallone, a senior Democrat in NJ & a founder of the Caucus on India and Indian-Americans; Assemblymen Herb Conaway & Upendra Chivukula!

Ya know, its always pretty cool to see Indians making a name for themselves all over the world BUT when its sooooo close to home, there really that goooey feeling… of a certain sense of achievement… in the air … So much to achieve, so little time…. xoxo

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