Honda City
Parizad fell for the sporty and stylish looks of the Honda City.

She’s the girl who lights up the screen with her million- watt smile. Not only is she able to dexterously juggle jobs that involve hosting a male-dominated racing show, to playing compere to some of the best talents showcasing their humour skills on telly, but she’s equally at ease sporting a riding jacket as she is carrying off designer gowns.
She’s none other than Parizad Kolah-Marshall. And yes, she insisted on the double-barrel surname.
She kickstarted her career with a TV show, Speed that was aired on Ten Sports where she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Narain Karthikeyan and Vicky Chandok on the race track. Now, you would know her as the affable compere on Star One’s The Great Indian Laughter Challenge endearing herself to millions of viewers across the country with her twin dimples, where she shares the stage with co-hosts Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Surely, hers has been quite an exciting journey where roughing it out on the race track and shooting in cosy air-conditioned studios have all been part of playing the hosting game.
Television, live shows and films brought popularity and fame and she thought she was ready for her personal car. Not one to rate her success with her car, she wanted one that could be a combination of style and practicality. She opted for the Honda City after carefully surveying the car market and going through various auto magazines. While she did consider the Hyundai Accent at one point, it was the stylish Honda City that she had long admired that won in the end.
The Honda City besides having “great interiors”, has a very responsive engine, “is easy to park” and stands tall as compared to other cars which also “makes for better visibility”. The fact that the Honda City is spacious and has a sporty look and feel to it doubles her driving pleasure, she says.
Being a conscientious car owner, Parizad is very particular about everything in the car. She even makes sure that her insurance, PUC, and ownership papers are intact because having a skirmish with traffic cops for want of documents can get unpleasant and quite distressing. Besides, she personally checks on the tool kit and the spare tyre to ensure that they are in good condition.
Driving down to Pune, where Parizad and her husband have another home, via the Expressway, is fun, she says. Taking breaks in Lonavala to stop and admire the scenic beauty of the little hill-station located barely 90km from Mumbai is something she and her husband do on a regular basis.
However, being a city pigeon and having lived in the island city all her life, she cannot get enough of the most scenic drive that the city offers — the Queen’s Necklace or Marine Drive, as it is called. She loves driving down this stretch and it also happens to be her favourite haunt for long drives or when she’s out with friends.
Parizad sure knows her car. She tells us how she loves her automatic transmission as it “takes away the stress of pressing the clutch pedal and frequently applying the brake” from her hectic life.