Priyanka Chopra looked resplendent at the 1.5-billion-dollar "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel's $20 million bash on November 20 in Dubai, UAE. Photo Credit: Getty ImagesNovember 22, 2008, (Sawf News) - Priyanka Chopra looked resplendent at the 1.5-billion-dollar "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel's $20 million bash on November 20 in Dubai, UAE.
The 26-year-old Bollywood actress wore a form hugging golden yellow floor length satin dress with a single jeweled shoulder, vertically pleated bodice and bandage torso (quite Herve Leger style!).
Priyanka Chopra at the 1.5-billion-dollar "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel's $20 million bash on November 20 in Dubai, UAE. Photo Credit: Getty ImagesShe accessorized with golden heels, a glittery box clutch, tear drop earrings and a chunky watch in her right hand. Her dark layered cut hair was styled in a side ponytail. She woe smoky eye makeup and light lip color.
Priyanka Chopra looked resplendent at the 1.5-billion-dollar "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel's $20 million bash on November 20 in Dubai, UAE. Photo Credit: Getty ImagesChopra unveiled a spectacular fireworks display, designed and executed by the Grucci's, lighting up 43 km of palm shaped shoreline and illuminating the entire island with more than 100,000 specially-designed pyrotechnic devices.
More than 2,000 world celebrities were invited to the event, organized by Sol Kerzner, the South African billionaire, hotel and gambling tycoon, which began Thursday night and continued into Friday.
Named "party of the decade" by the local press, the event was attended by Hollywood stars Robert de Niro, Charlize Theron, Mischa Barton and Wesley Snipes, singers Kylie Minogue, Lilly Allen and Janet Jackson, Shirley Bassey, and catwalk model Yasmin Le Bon.
Bollywood attendees included Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Mallika Sherawat, Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, Arjun Rampal and Mehr Jessia.
The 1,539-room hotel is made up of two pale rose towers, which are linked by a bridge which houses a $35,000 a night suite that has a long waiting list, according to the management.
"We built something that's quite extraordinary. We've got to tell the world about it," Kerzner told AFP about the lavish hotel.
The hotel opened unofficially on September 24 and has had an occupancy rate of 80 percent, Kerzner said. "We don't know how long it's going to take for the economy around the world to take off again," he added.
The Dubai hotel is inspired by the original Atlantis that Kerzner built in the Bahamas but is not an average 5-star hotel.
It boasts the largest waterpark in the Middle East and a gigantic aquarium in which 65,000 fish, along with an enormous whale shark, swim in 11 million litres of water.
The financial concerns about the crisis on the emirate's economy were put aside on Thursday night for the memorable party in this Muslim, yet very open, emirate, where local dignitaries in traditional white tunics, and women in black cover-all abayas mingled with women in fashionable revealing dresses, while alcohol flowed like water.
Fireworks which were said by organizers to be seven times larger than this year's Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing, lit up the sky along the sea front of Dubai, erupting from every branch of the palm island.
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