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Upala KBR (DNA; September 8, 2014)

Asin Thottumkal celebrated Onam yesterday in Cochin after a decade, and she had her parents for company. She is also currently doing up her second penthouse apartment in the city. The actress tells us, “I own two sea-facing, 6BHK, penthouse apartments on a beautiful street on Marine Drive in Cochin, facing the port. One house I had for a long time, now I own two and both are on the same road next to each other. One faces the Rainbow Bridge and the other, the Houseboat Bridge. I am now doing the interior designing of the new apartment that I had bought a couple of years ago. My friends say that the view is so beautiful that I don’t need to go to resorts now,” she laughs.

The actress stopped in Cochin to celebrate Onam after her holiday in Maldives. “I was in Maldives for a break and it was the Onam weekend and as Cochin is just a couple of hours away from Maldives I thought why not make a stopover and celebrate Onam in Cochin? I will be decorating the house with flower carpets and lamps and break my diet for a day and have Onam lunch on a banana leaf with traditional vegetarian dishes. Normally, an Onam lunch comprises 45 dishes including Kerala boiled rice, papadum, sambar, aviyal etc, ending with payasam — the king of desserts as we call it here.