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Lola Kutty and Onam celebrations

She is one chilled-out girl on the tube who serves a generous slice of humour and coconut water to her celebrity guests on show. Can that get any cooler? With a fan following in Bahrain and the U.K. alike, Lola Kutty is the desi diva responsible for perking the TRP. Her immaculate English comes into the picture for a moment when she says "give me a second" as she steps out of the studio and proceeds to talk about Onam festivities in her heavily Malayalam accented English.

"I just returned from Kerala. I celebrated Onam yearly (early) with my parents. I want leave to go to Kerala for the festival but Channel [V] is not giving me leave," she says, promising to albeit look smashing in her Kanchivaram best for the event. Rare phenomenon

One thing Lola is going to miss for Onam she says is the cuisine from God's Own Country. "Kerala food is a rare pheno-menon in Mumbai. I live with my uncle and aunty and they have a Maharashtrian cook. Unfortunately I will be missing the traditional cuisine," she says. Meanwhile, Lola will greet her guest with banana chips and coconut water on Lola TV but on the anvil is more Lola Kutty.

"Next I will be working from the roads. The channel people say they `haeve' no money to record me in a studio. The show will be titled `Lolling with Lola' where I will be interviewing celebrities on the road only," she says.

A veejay celebrity, one can look forward to a traffic-stopping jig from her on the street alike. Basking in her laurels so far, she received rave reviews for the recent and first edition of `Chronicle of Lola - the VJ, the Woman and the Wisecrack,' the goddess of coconut gyan, quirky fashion and wacky one-liners says, "the response to the Lola notebook was overwhelming. When people say Lola please autograph, I feel like Aishwarya Rai," she sums up.

SYEDA FARIDA

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