Sameera Reddy and Celina Jaitley walk the ramp at the Mumbai Festival.

It’s a great time to be in Mumbai. The Temptress informs us that the Mumbai Festival is on from Jan. 17th to Feb. 2nd. The festival inaugurated by Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Union Minister of State for Tourism, Renuka Choudhury.

The Mumbai Festival committee is made up of some of Mumbai’s most well-known celebrities.

Spearheaded by Mahindra & Mahindra head honcho Anand Mahindra, the committee also has MTV’s Alex Kuruvilla, Ashwini Kakkar of Thomas Cook, Jabbar Patel of the P L Deshpande Academy, former sheriffs of Mumbai Kiran Shantaram and Nana Chudasama; Peter Mukherjea of Star India, ad film maker Prahlad Kakkar, Sanjay Ubale (secretary, special projects, Mumbai Task Force), food expert Rashmi Uday Singh, art connoisseur Sangeeta Jindal, Nikhil Meswani of Reliance Industries, Siddharth Kak of Surabhi Foundation, and a host of others.