Planet M opens an outlet in Hyderabad. MPM Mall, Abids. Seems Suniel Shetty and Celina Jaitley are inauguarating it today, right now. Suniel seems to have become Hyderabad’s resident celebrity ever since he launched Mischief here…..he keeps popping up on Page 3, Hyd Times wearing the same leather jacket ( so it seems) and the same macho-bereft-of-smile look, kind of like a constipated St Bernard. Image building must be such a pain, poor fellow.

The scary thing is – the press release said “(Planet M) will have a selection of choicest titles that goes with the Hyderabadi taste…” Now, now, that means:- (a) More remix albums. (b) More DJ Dhinchuck-DJ Ram Narayan-type albums (c) More Aguilera-Vengaboyz-Spears-Keating kind of stuff. That does not sound too good.

Music World is going through this massive refurbishment program – the other day I saw one of the salesguys going through the shelves taking out all those ancient 550 Rs albums ( bands like Nazareth, Kansas, America, Judas Priest…) and packing them off. Lots of new stock coming, or so they say. They have even started a buy-and-exchange offer, where I can buy a cd and exchange it for something else if I don’t like it. Loads of interesting possibilities, heh heh.

Sangeet Saagar has a sale going on too, buy one and get one free, out of a selection of about 50 cds. Three Vangelis albums available – is what Chandru told me. He got two Jefferson Airplane albums for 250 each. So lunch today at Paradise, with the mandatory trip to SS.