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Pain and Ink  "Yeh dard ki antardhwani hai (It
is a cry of pain from within)," says Nivedita Joshi, 28. The
daughter of Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, Nivedita released a book of Hindi poems,
Nange Paon, in Delhi this week. It all began when, as a 15-year-old, she was suffering
from a debilitating back problem. She put pain to paper for 12 years, and though yoga has
now changed her life, the poetry continues. The book launch by daddy's boss Atal Bihari
Vajpayee was accompanied by an exhibition of paintings by a friend that are "inspired
by my poetry". Nivedita and her verse-on-canvas will travel to six cities all the way
up to January 2001. Quite a millennium miss, this. Best
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He's been many decades in the business. He's the
man who made films such as Naya Daur, Nikaah and The Burning Train. Best of all, he's just
won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The highest national honour for cinema has come to
octogenarian film maker B.R. Chopra about a decade after he made his last
film. Now better known as the man behind the mega teleserial Mahabharat, Chopra has
another film up his sleeve. The script is ready and the grapevine says that Amitabh
Bachchan might be roped in. Says Chopra: "Mujhe film banate banate guzar jaana hai (I
want to die making films)." That's what he's lived for anyway. 
Mekhla Muttoo's a busy woman.
The pretty 20-year-old, a student of Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College, juggles her studies
with her modelling. Doing a neat job of it too. Add to the ads she's done so far (Braun
Silk-Epil, LG microwaves) the latest that she's bagged: the Pond's cold cream campaign.
"It's really a big deal," she explains with girlish zeal, then continues,
"Modelling is a crash course in growing up. If you don't get smart you get left
behind." Pretty wise, no?
The rumour mills in Bollywood are working
overtime. The story goes that actress Rani Mukherji has been thrown out
of a Hindi film because she has put on too much weight for Kamal Haasan's film Hey Ram!
Mama Mukherji admits: "You can say that she had to put on a little bit of weight to
look more mature for the film." While Ghulam director Vikram Bhatt -- the man named
as the guilty party -- denies all charges of having dismissed Rani, a Bollywood trade
magazine added to the buzz by reporting that the Khandala girl's "girth is
expanding". The poor lass better not take all this lightly.