Snapshots from sashthi’s celebrity judging round at CESC The Telegraph True Spirit Puja 2017
TT Bureau
Published 05.10.17, 12:00 AM
14 celebrity judges, 5 routes, 20 pandals — the 15th edition of CESC The Telegraph True Spirit Puja 2017 powered by Patanjali, in association with Senco Gold and Snow Park, with insurance partner New India Assurance, concluded on Sashthi (September 26) after the final evaluation round. Snapshots...
Fabrice Plancon, director of Alliance Francaise, struck quite a pose at Suruchi Sangha. The five-star pandal used bamboo, cane and wood to highlight their theme of unity in diversity.
What happened when Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends co-stars and TSP 2017 judges Swastika Mukherjee and Raima Sen met at The Lalit? Lots of laughter and pictures! If Swastika rocked her traditional look in a classic laal paar sari, Raima slayed the printed turquoise blue sari with a cold shoulder blouse. #FestiveFashion
Swastika Mukherjee and Dev flanked his Cockpit poster at the end of the judging process for TSP. The Tolly star-turned-MP had dropped in to The Lalit Great Eastern to announce the winner of the CESC The Telegraph True Spirit Model Puja award on Sashthi afternoon.
There was no missing clicking a picture with Samaj Sebi Sangha’s longest alpana. Raima Sen stole a moment to get snapped on her way to judge the pandal. “The alpana was brilliant and it made the whole space look so gorgeous,” said the actress.
Samaj Sebi Sangha, whose core theme was about children and their innocence, greeted Raima with tilak and flowers.
“Durga Puja is incomplete without the sound of the dhaak,” Abir Chatterjee explained to US consul-general Craig Hall and his wife Meeryung, before drumming up some Puja feel at Santoshpur Trikon Park Sarbojanin Durgotsab Puja Committee.
We caught Abir reading t2 (what else?!) on his way to Tangra Gholpara Sarbojanin Durgotsab.
Aparajita Rai, additional deputy commissioner of police, south, briefed the panel at The Lalit Great Eastern on the AFICS of judging — access control, fire prevention measures, illumination, CCTV surveillance and sound!
Raima and Abir were happy to see each other at the breakfast table at The Lalit Great Eastern before heading out on different judging routes.
(L-R) Masayuki Taga, consul-general of Japan, Alexey Idamkin, consul-general of Russia, and British deputy high commissioner Bruce Bucknell exchanged pandal-hopping tales.
Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan director Friso Maecker and US consul-general Craig Hall wished each other “Happy Puja” before leaving for their respective judging routes.
Before the serious business of judging started, Abir Chatterjee caught up with fellow-judge and Projapoti Biskut actor Aditya Sengupta at The Lalit Great Eastern.
Swastika Mukherjee struck a pose in front of the wooden dolls at Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra Club.
Bruce Bucknell, British deputy high commissioner, and Swastika clicked a dualfie to mark the end of their judging duties at Nalin Sarkar Street Sarbojanin Durgotsab, the final stop on the North Extension route.
Singer-songwriter Rupam Islam with son Rup at the State Bank Park Sarbojanin Durgotsab pandal.
Japanese consul-general Masayuki Taga learnt about the interiors of the Behala Nutan Dal pandal while being shown around by organisers.
Ishaa just cannot resist sweets and when her favourite kaju barfi was offered to her at Manicktalla Chatlabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja Committee, she had to bite in then and there!
Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay and Ishaa Saha of Projapoti Biskut took a breather at the Lalabagan Nabankur pandal, the last stop on the Howrah-Central route.
Aditya Sengupta and Ishaa Saha took some time out of their busy judging schedule for a quick projapoti-special selfie outside the Lalabagan Nabankur pandal.
German consul-general Michael Feiner enjoyed the ambience at Tridhara Akalbodhan. “I liked the fact that the goddess here is holding plants instead of weapons,” said Feiner, making his Durga Puja debut.
Pictures: Rashbehari Das, Pabitra Das, B. Halder, Arnab Mondal and Shuvo Roychaudhury
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