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August 23, 1999

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World Class

As compliments go, this one's pretty neat. Sunidhi Chauhan, 15, has been selected to sing not one, not two, but three songs in hotshot filmmaker Ramgopal Varma's Mast. "She has an amazingly versatile voice," says music director Sandeep Chowtha. "She is international material." Sort of fits in with the Class X student's modest ambitions, "to become an international singer ... like ... Michael Jackson." Adds her doting dad: "No one in the family has musical talents. At best we're good listeners." There's plenty to listen to now.

Working Mom
She's refreshed and raring to go. After a two-year break from work, Sridevi is acting in a Hindi film to be directed by Telugu filmmaker Krishna Vamsi, the man who made the hugely successful Nagarjuna-Tabu starrer Ninne Pelladatha. Sri and hubby Boney Kapoor are the producers, but here's the better news: she's open to other offers. "Just because she decided to take it easy for a couple of years after having a baby doesn't mean that she left the industry," says Boney, shrugging off all talk of the hiatus affecting her career. Besides, if there ever was a sexy mama, it is Sri, it is Sri, it is Sri.

He's Bad
Govinda and Karisma Kapoor Roll over Gulshan Grover. The good guys are coming. In N. Chandra's Shikari, slated for release early next year, Govinda plays the bad guy. The star who usually aims at the funny bone explains hastily: "It's not absolutely negative because there is a justification in the end. It doesn't glorify killing or give a wrong message to the audience." And though he's not planning on making it a habit ("maybe I'll do another villain role next year"), hear this: in Shikari, Govinda kills five people including heroine Karisma Kapoor. Tut tut, bad boy.

Horse Power
He stands a mere 5 ft tall. But no question of who's the boss when Aditya Ahuja, 13, is in the saddle. A schoolkid from Mumbai, Ahuja is just back in India after winning the international Children's Show Jumping Grand Prix at Herford in Germany, with participants from 27 countries. Was he surprised at winning? "Naah," he says, "the horse knew me very well and knew I wanted to win and that's what counted." They call that horse sense, don't they?

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