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 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 ?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?