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Tie And Bye
It's been a long wait. Just as Tamil superstar Khushboo was getting alarmed at fiance and film director Sunder C.'s seeming reluctance to tie the knot, just when he told the press that they were breaking up, the two have done the deed. After 22 years in the business (she began as a child star in Hindi films) and a temple in her name in Tamil Nadu, her greatest desire now is to "give birth to half a dozen kids". But such things take up time you know, so she's reportedly quitting films. "Leaving my maika (parent's home)," she calls it. More like "breaking a million hearts".

AB and Baby
Remember Kal Aaj aur Kal with three generations of Kapoors -- Prithviraj, Raj and Randhir? Now look out for a double dose of the Bachchans in Beta No. 1, producer Vashu Bhagnani's forthcoming film. The director is yet to be finalised but, says the man who's made blockbusters such as Coolie No. 1 and Biwi No. 1, "I had registered the title three years ago, and I have got the beta No. 1 of the industry Abhishek Bachchan with father Amitabh as the bonus." Ahem. Don't we know another young man who has already earned that title?

Big-screen boy
Ad campaigns just happened. So did Kora Kagaz, the Star Plus soap that has made ex-cricketer Salil Ankola a big-time small-screen star. Now, he's gearing up for his film debut in Mahesh "Vaastav" Manjrekar's Kurukshetra. "I had been refusing quite a few industry offers but what Mahesh Manjrekar had in mind was very appealing," says Ankola. It's a typical cop story, he adds, a film in which Sanjay Dutt is the senior, while he's the junior, a good guy with a lighter hue. Shades of Main Khiladi Tu Anari? Or should we ask, shades of a hit?

Fan fare
She's not one to shy away from sensitive issues. The Fire and Earth girl Nandita Das is now playing an HIV-positive person in Ek Alag Mausam. "The good thing about this film," she says, "is that it looks at the subject from within. There's no us-and-them kind of thing here." The lady's on to a good thing. The film, directed by K.P. Sasi, is scripted by playwright Mahesh Dattani. And in case her fans are wondering, all that lovely long hair that she sheared for Water has not grown back. Not that it matters -- a lot of Ek Alag Mausam has already been shot, and for the rest she'll be wearing a wig. Still doesn't matter -- both ways she looks good.

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