by NR INDRAN / INT

Mumbai: The Book  “Cutting Chai and Maska Pao” was launched at Kitab Khana by the Chief Guest  Kunal Vijaykar (Actor, Director and Television Personality)

Mumbaiis a jhakkas city with rapchik girls and  pakaoing heat. Baffled? Don’tbe!

Welcome to the world of Mumbaiyya—a deliciously colourful mix of Hindi, Marathi and English thatcomes naturally to all Mumbaikars. Informal and dynamic, free from grammatical stuffiness, Mumbaiyya is more than a language; it’s a culture all its own. It holds the keys to Mumbai, its lanes and bylanes, its dabbawalas and the Page 3 brigade, its Chor Bazaar and its BEST buses. Cutting Chai and Maska Paois what you need to translate the pulsating metropolis that is Mumbai. Study it, laminate it, tuck it into your back pocket—it is your linguistic survival kit.

Digantika Mitra, PriyaSheth and Mithila Mehta graduated in mass communications from KC College, Mumbai, in 2010. They created this book as part of their college project and decided to take it a step further by getting it published. At the crossroads of life, they are making crucial decisions like career choices, while planning their next book.

Kunal is an Indian film actor, director, and television personality who hosts the food show The Foodie on Times Nowand comedy-spoof show The Week That Wasn’t on CNN IBN with Cyrus Broacha.

He studied at St. Mary’s School, Mumbai.

Kunal started out by appearing in various TV commercials and appeared in supporting roles in many Hindi movies, including Duplicate (1998) by Mahesh Bhatt,Paisa Vasool (2004), and Salaam Namaste (2005) with Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta.

He played the role of a journalist in the Hindi film Ghajini (2008) and was seen as Kunal in Little Zizou(2009), a story of the Parsi community.

He is the host of the channel Times Now show titled The Foodie, which features him travelling around the country sampling exotic foods. His weekly satire comedy show The Week The Wasn’t, with comedian Cyrus Broacha on CNN IBN completed three years and 150 episodes in 2009.He does a sketch show with Cyrus Broacha, Cyrusitis, written and directed by Broacha.

Vijaykar debuted as a screenwriter and director in 2009 with Fruit and Nut, a comedy starring Dia Mirza,Cyrus  Broacha, Boman Irani,and Mahesh Manjrekar. Since 2011, he also writes the fortnightly humour column, Funda Mental, in The Week magazine.

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