Even as bodyguards and security guards barely prevented Bipasha Basu from getting mobbed at a recent store in Gurgaon in Delhi, the store exhausted every single piece of garment in just two hours.
“There were at least two thousand people on that day who had gathered to see Bipasha Basu at a mall in Gurgaon last Saturday (18th September). Since Bipasha had already tweeted about it, word had got out very quickly that she will be shopping at the mall after inaugurating it,” says a source present at the venue.
The actor’s spokesperson also admitted that she had gone to the mall and a large crowd had already gathered there. As her bodyguards and the store’s security wrestled to keep the crowd at bay, Bipasha was asked to have a free run when it came to retail therapy. She was asked to go ahead and shop whatever she felt like buying. Guess what? The crowd followed her and whatever she picked up from the shelves was also picked up by the scores of people following her.
“Everybody said, ‘Jo Bipasha ne liya, wohi kapda humko chahiye’. In the end, the store ran out of garments by three in the afternoon,” the source added.
Her spokesperson confirms the incident too. “At this store launch she shopped to her heart’s content. Before the launch there was an unending queue of enthusiastic consumers outside the store and once the store was inaugurated by 3 pm they were completely sold out by 9 pm,” the spokesperson says.
According to sources, Bipasha picked up a few tops and also interacted with the media, while shopping. “She gave a few interviews as she shopped and in the meanwhile, the crowds were carefully following what she was buying. The entire stock at the store and in the warehouse was over in just a few hours,” the source added.