Gul is Urdu for Rose and Gul Panag measures up to the flower's beauty, with her dimpled ever smiling face and vivacious eyes, so it's only appropriate that her Gulistan (Garden or home) be green.
It actually is, or will be soon. The actress who wed airline pilot and former classmate Rishi Attari, on Sunday, March 13, in Panchkula, tweeted earlier this morning:
"Heading out of Bombay to check progress on #greenhome"
Curious, we asked the former Miss India 1999 as to what was green about the house.
"It is off the grid for power, among other things," she responded.
We panicked, with gut wrenching visions of big, noisy gensets spewing carbon monoxide sprawled outside her "green" house. We could almost see Al Gore frothing around his lips in an epileptic fit of rage. This chick is crazy we thought!
It turns out, she is crazy! A lot crazier than we thought. She has a five kilowatt solar power plant installed at her house located outside Mumbai. That is a freaking large solar power plant and she paid a whopping Rs 18 lakhs for it. She will be paying an additional Rs 10 lakh more to have the house certified Green by GRIHA.
Wait! She will pay Rs 10 lakh for certification to what?!
GRIHA: Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment. The thieves folks in the government that certify that your home is green! Raja maybe the biggest amongst the thieves, but the government is full of them!
Heck! We didn't think Gul made that kind of money, considering the artsy films that she acts in, but today is our day for getting it wrong.
Mind you Gul is a fine actress, albeit a bike riding, techno savy, twitter addicted, just married one.
No, she is no run-of-the-mill glamor chick from Bollywood, but she is Gul, and we think she is amorous, though only Attari knows that for sure, so she is Gul-amorous.
Recently Abhay Deol made news by building a green home in Goa. His home will conform to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum standards.
Gul hails from Punjab, her parents live in Noida but she and her new husband Rishi Attari are Mumbai residents.
