Sonam-Shobhaa De war of words, a thing of the past?

It was a fundraising event by Tata Medical Centre and Taj Group of Hotels celebrating 100 glorious years of Indian Cinema. It was perhaps in that celebratory spirit that Sonam Kapoor and Shobhaa De who have in the past  been engaged in a Twitter  war of sorts were seen bonding at Hotel Taj Mahal Palace on Saturday evening.

The young actor was seen chatting animatedly for quite long with the fiery columnist with whom she had picked up cudgels after the writer had penned not so glowing tributes about Sonam's film I Hate Luv Storys in 2010.

Not just that, the two even walked past the stretching corridors of the plush hotel at a leisurely pace, chit-chatting about small, mundane things. Sonam was heard talking about taking a holiday soon. However in the same breath she was heard complaining about the fight schedules to Bangkok to which Ms. De seemed to agree. At one point we even heard Sonam being addressed as "Darling" by De.


Now why should Sonam and Shobhaa De bonding be of such interest? If we jog our memory a bit we recall that the two were involved in a verbal slinging match after Punit Malhotra directed and Karan Johar produced I Hate Storys had released in 2010.  

De in scathing review of I Hate Luv Storys had shred Punit Malhotra's directorial debut to pieces by calling it "I Hate Dumb Storys." In the same piece De had called Sonam "a lassie who lacks oomph."

The film's director had tweeted, saying, "Shobhaa De was a fossil who's getting no action and going through menopause." Sonam had promptly re-tweeted Punit's Tweet.        

Before this in 2008, De had blogged about Kapoor's sex appeal or rather the lack of it, saying she "just doesn't cut it in the sex appeal stakes". Sonam had responded by calling her "a 60-something porn writer".

Sonam's father Anil Kapoor was mighty upset that his daughter was engaged in an ugly war or words with the mighty columnist who in another column had indirectly referred to Sonam as lacking good upbringing.

After being reprimanded by her father Sonam had tendered an apology to De on Twitter. She had Tweeted, "Mrs De I owe you an apology for getting personal. I'm ashamed for my momentary lapse in judgement. And apologetic.. Every writer and journalist and audience are entitled to their opinion and I respect that."

Earlier this year after watching Anand L Rai's film Ranjhannaa De had tweeted, "Sonam can act, saala! Watch her steal the show in an otherwise confused, mixed up and illogical movie called Raanjhanaa."

Looks like the war of words between De and Sonam is now a thing of the past after the chit-chat they indulged on Saturday.