Stars show they care

Busy stars like Salman Khan have walked the ramp to promote Revathy?s Phir Milenge alongwith AIDS-affected kids,

Mumbai’s starry brigade has a habit of springing surprises. Occasionally, they are pleasant ones. Contrary to popular belief, some of them have a social conscience and quietly do their bit for charity. On September 11, a slew of PYTs from Bollywood, including Sonali Bendre, Gauri Karnik, Riya Sen and Diana Hayden put their best feet forward for a Cancer Patient Aid Association fashion show co-ordinated by Shaina N.C. Sur girl Gauri confesses that she’s earlier walked the ramp for an anti-tobacco fashion show and is always “going to be available for such shows. Celebrities owe it to the society to help make things better and the more quietly it’s done, the better it is.”

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Says Sonali, who cut short a much-longed-for vacation with husband Goldie Behl to do the show: “It’s a privilege to be even considered for a show like this.” For Riya Sen, fund-raising fashion shows “are a way of oganising funds for cancer/AIDS victims. We all live for ourselves but when we do something unselfish, we feel complete.”

Busy stars like Salman Khan have also walked the ramp to promote former co-star-director Revathy’s Phir Milenge with brother Arbaaz, Kamal Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Manish Malhotra and AIDS-affected children in Mumbai in late August. Says

Khan: “Every individual who has achieved a certain status in life should give back to society and you don’t need to shout from roof-tops about it. The clothes that we wore at the show were auctioned and the proceeds went to AIDS patients.”

Cut back to September in Mumbai, where designer, photographer Hemant Trivedi organised a fashion show where women achievers like Hema Malini, Malaika Arora Khan, Aditi Govitrikar, Amrita Arora, Renuka Shahane and Rhea Pillai walked the ramp. The proceeds went to Cancer Patient Aid Association.

And, the best part is that like always, this time too none of the stars charged a penny.