★ Sallu’s Ganpati changes abode + Mental Title ?!

Vickey Lalwani |Aug 22, 2013

With Galaxy under renovation, the actor will celebrate the festival at his Panvel farmhouse.

Salman Khan's Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations will have a bigger and better venue this year. The actor has hosted Lord Ganesha at his Bandra home for the past eleven years but this year the ceremonies will take place at the Khan family's Panvel farmhouse.

The reason for the change of plans is the ongoing renovations at the actor's Galaxy Apartments pad. The family was earlier considering hosting the pooja at their new residence at Pacific Heights but on Monday they decided that Panvel will be a better choice.

A source close to the family said, "The new house is a rented place and the farmhouse is far more spacious and comfortable, so they decided on it" When contacted, Salim Khan said, "Yes, we are thinking of organising the Ganpati celebration at Panvel. Galaxy of course is ruled out because we are renovating the place."

Salman's sisters Alvira and Arpita plan to reach the farmhouse three days before the festival begins on September 9 to oversee preparations including food and decor.

This is the 12th year that the elephant-headed God is visiting the Khan residence and the tradition was started at the insistence of Arpita, the youngest of the siblings.

The Khans will also do the visarjan at Panvel, close to their farmhouse.

Non-vegetarian food and alcohol is banned in the days ahead of the festival. Instead, Salman's mother turns out delicacies like modak, puri, aloo bhaji and chana usal.

Meanwhile...

Mental may soon get a new moniker

Salman's next film Mental may release as Jai Ho instead.

But the change will not be an easy one as the producer of the film, Sohail Khan, needs no objection letters, from Ramesh Taurani, Nikhil Advani and Madhur Bhandarkar, as the three had registered the same title a couple of years ago.

At the time of going to press, we learnt that Nikhil has already cleared the decks for Sohail while Ramesh will deliberate on the issue after getting back from his Bangkok holiday.

"Nobody has called me for the title yet. I will come back and check on this," Ramesh told us.

Bhandarkar, who parted with the title Gutka for Karan Johar some months back, too is yet to issue the letter.

Mirror has it that Sohail is also toying with the idea of naming the film Aazad.

Mumbai Mirror