Mumbai, Jan. 10 -- Every now and then this column has reported on the phenomenon of Mumbai's erstwhile models getting together in a bid to reconnect and relive their halcyon days. Mumbai's former models are a stellar lot who ruled the roost before Bollywood and its stars usurped them, as clothes horse and the purveyors of consumer goods. Mostly in their late forties and fifties, they are wives, mothers, entrepreneurs and professionals, and live across the globe, but don't miss an opportunity to meet when the occasion arises. Unsurprisingly, they make stunning pictures together - a confederation of stellar cheek bones and perfect smiles as it were. Well, this Tuesday saw the mother of all such reunions, when one of the largest contingents of former models met at the home of the lady, who'd started it all: Shanti Chopra, who, along with her daughter Sangeeta Chopra, had managed one of the most successful enterprises in the eighties, organising shows in India and abroad and launching many a modelling careers in the process. "It started as a stray comment by Bryan Tellis at Queenie's birthday lunch. I was coming to town from Geneva and we thought of getting the usual suspects together," says Arpana Sharma Mojaria, adding, "Shanti, on her part, had been telling Sangeeta that she missed us and it would be great to meet her 'girls'. She was mother, mentor, guide, financial advisor (there were no agents in those days) and an emotional advisor to us all. The icing on the cake was when Sangeeta spoke a bit about each and every one of us. It brought back all the connections, the history, the emotions. There were some tears and three decades just vanished." Mumbai's erstwhile models at the reunion....