Thirty years after Dev Anand launched Zeenat Aman's meteoric career with the trend-setting Dum Maro Dum in Hare Rama Hare Krishna, the lovely lady inquired of him on behalf of UpperCrust, "Where do you get your energy from Dev Saab?"

The evergreen star, who sat through an interview with her at the Holiday Inn coffee shop drinking only hot water, was as charming and gracious as ever. But he was not revealing the secret of his everlasting youth. At least not all of it. Life itself gave him a high, he said, eyes twinkling, skin glowing, a spring in his step, more young blood coursing through him than in the 18-year-old at the adjacent table.

I don't know what kind of answer I was expecting from Dev Saab, but the man's style, his zest for life, his passion for his work, his indefatigable energy, left me amazed and resolving to be more like him... happy with himself and in love with his work.

If Dev and Zeenat are the Bollywood of the Seventies, there is Shah Rukh Khan and Raveena Tandon to represent Bollywood of the Nineties. And another UpperCrust find: Aryan Khan, SRK's precocious four-year-old, an absolute charmer and a dreamboat of a kid, to show what Bollywood might be in the 21st century.

Yes, UpperCrust is on the Bollywood trail this quarter because Selfridges of London is taking our film industry and our cuisines and dishing them out in an exotic platter to its several hundred thousand patrons in London and Manchester this May. A Selfridges team here on a recce worked this out with us last November, then went back to London taking our inputs, and Taj's master chefs Hemant Oberoi and Ananda Solomon with them.

The icing on the cake, the exotic dessert in this unique promotion, is going to be UpperCrust, India's only food, wine and related lifestyles magazine. It is going to flood London during this month. And our features on Dev and Zeenat, SRK, and Raveena, are a service to UpperCrust subscribers in London and Selfridges' patrons whose 'dils' forever 'mange more' of Bollywood and Bombay food! Bon appetit, and see you at the food hall.

Shah Rukh Khan's eating and drinking habits are exclusive to UpperCrust, Mark Manuel has explained them in the cover story, but let me tell you about Aryan. He is quite a riot. And he should be the real mascot for Pepsi, not (ahem!) his father or Amitabh Bachchan or Sachin Tendulkar. When I asked Aryan how much Pepsi he drank in a day, he replied, concentrating hard and in full earnest: "Five, ten, no 500 glasses, ten million gallons, no, one billion buckets! I sit in the cloud and drink." I think there is a poet lurking in him somewhere. This four-year-old wonder also has in his vocabulary words like fundamentalist. That's who he blames for this disorderly world. I have one word for this kid: Masha-allah!

The Gourmet City this quarter is Bombay. Not Mumbai. We have actually waited for a while to get started on our city that never sleeps, where we can spend nights wining and dining and, well, dancing to the beat of music played by Buddha Bar experts from Paris. But even an entire issue of UpperCrust dedicated to Bombay would not be enough, we will need to do a sequel. That you can look forward to in the next issue.

For now we give you Crawford Market and Chowpatty. Sure, you think you know them, so did we, but think again! And Indian wines and wine-maker families (all based in the city). Plus, Bombay's night life seen through the sparkling green eyes of its most inveterate party animal; its happening restaurants and its value-for-money, honest eateries, all immortalised by Busybee. We re-researched his recommendations and found they continue to remain valid. Busybee may be gone, but he lives forever.

But my favourite story in this issue is the one on the city's original residents, the Kolis, the fisherfolk who live along the vast coastline. I don't think I have met a community of people who have so much to offer in terms of a cuisine and culture, and who are so down-to-earth, hospitable, warm and friendly. Spending time with the oldest fisherfolk family of the Khar-Danda village, I could well imagine their forefathers watching with amusement the islands of Bombay being gifted in dowry to the British prince for marrying the Portuguese princess!

Farzana Contractor