Celina Jaitley's New Year bash in London

Bollywood bombshell Celina Jaitley is set to charm the Londoners in a New Year bash on December 31.

The glum mood is slowly waning away among Bollywood folks. While Malaika Arora would be flying to Singapore for a New Year performance at a hotel, Celina will head to usher in 2009 with Britons and Bollywood buffs at City Pavilion in London.

The event, named Celina Jaitley Nite, will also have on-stage performances by singer Javed Ali and rapper Rishi Rich.

However, Celina has made it clear in an interview that before her performance she wants to make sure certain things are in place. The actress says she wants to check the security arrangement and the ‘respectability’ of the event. The paycheck, of course, is of prime importance.

But how does Celina feel to be entertaining a crowd and celebrating the coming of a New Year when the pain of the Mumbai terror attacks has not yet faded away? In fact, many New Year bashes, featuring actresses like Katrina Kaif , have already been cancelled in Mumbai.

Celina says the Mumbai bashes were canceled not because the actresses wanted it but because the hotels scrapped the event. As for the terror attacks, Celina was one of the most forthcoming stars from tinsel town who open-heartedly expressed her sympathy with actor Ashish Choudhary who lost his kin in the attack. Moreover, Celina has already expressed her anger and condemnation over the attacks in an elaborate blog entry she wrote for a website.

So now, even as somber mood prevails in the tinsel town, someone has to keep the show going.