Eyecatchers

	METRO TODAY \| DAILY NEWS \| ASTROLOGY \| ARCHIVES \| INDIA TODAY \| HOME

Jan 10, 2000

Cover Story

Nation

Columns

Newsnotes

From the
Editor in Chief

Editorials

Eyecatchers

Books

Voices

Offtrack

Bodyline

Centrestage

Issue Contents

Truelove @ bollywood.com

It only sounds like the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan blockbuster You've Got Mail, but producer A.M. Rathnam assures us that his Sonali Bendre-starrer Dil Hi Dil Mein is not a desi lift. Sure, two people meet and fall in love on the Net but the similarity ends there. "The story was written one-and-a-half years before, then we heard of the Hollywood film," he insists. Ah well, guess it is like the typical Bollywood love triangle -- only this time it's male, female and e-mail.

The gift of the magi
Deeksha Christmas gifts couldn't get better than this. When little Deeksha was found in a garbage dump in Nabha, Punjab, you'd think things couldn't get worse than that. They did. The police shifted her to a Patiala hospital which said they could not correct the cleft palate and hare lip she was born with. She found a home at last with the SOS Children's Village, Rajpura. When Giselle Hurtut, a Frenchwoman who spends about six months a year in India, saw the baby, she contacted doctors in Delhi and on December 24, Dr Minu Bajpai, a paediatric surgeon in the city, willingly performed the operation. "Voila, this is the story," Hurtut exclaims. "Deeksha may have been found in a garbage dump, but for me she's a little princess." Merci mademoiselle.

You Rekha ?

Rekha Did you know Rekha spends 8-10 hours a day beautifying herself, that the AB ties still bind, that Bachchan and the actress' late husband Mukesh Agarwal allegedly abused her physically, that her staff calls her Hitler? Find out in journalist Mohan Deep's book EuRekha! Says Deep, who's also written books on Madhubala and Meena Kumari, and who was refused an interview by Rekha: "I find so many similarities between the three. They all had poor childhoods, absent fathers and desperately craved approval." And no, he's not worried about being sued. EuRekha! has been vetted by two Supreme Court lawyers who've declared it defamation free. Checkmate?

Super Cop

A cop at eight? Tanushree Das recently spent a day at Calcutta's Park Street police station, registered an FIR and even went on an area patrol. The cops were fulfilling her wish to run a police station for a day. "I want to be a policewoman when I grow up," says the kid who's suffering from a terminal ailment, "so that I can arrest all the doctors for sticking needles into me." Talking tough already?

Top

Back| Next