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	June 5, 2000

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India Today issue dated June 5, 2000 Total Recall
You know Meera Nair won the pen/Amazon.com Best Short Story Prize? Well, it's got withdrawn on a "technicality". Amazon's rules disqualify a writer whose work has appeared in a publication with a 5,000-plus circulation, and nobody at Amazon checked about the Three Penny Review in which -- the US-based writer herself had informed them -- one of her stories has appeared. But hey, "Editors and publishers want to know about my other stories and the novel I am working on," she says. The prize is in the publicity.

Man and Wife
She's not just any director. The woman behind the 46-minute documentary Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj, happens to be the music maestro's wife. But Madhura Jasraj (seen here with hubby) is no fresher in films -- she had earlier made a Pandit Jasraj with wife Madhura documentary on her father, renowned filmmaker V. Shantaram. This one, she points out, was much tougher though. There were the usual husband-wife ego clashes, for instance. "In the initial stages there was no problem," the lady laughs, "but later, he would get upset when cuts were not approved, and had to be re-taken." Men! They never could stand taking orders from their wives!

Big Move
When the ubiquitous Shekhar Suman invited Kundan Shah to his teleshow Movers and Shakers, he got more than just an interview. He landed a part in the Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron director's next film as a lawyer who goofs up, opposite Sunil Shetty who plays a gardener's son. "The chemistry between me, Sunil and Kundan is exciting," he says. "This permutation and combination will probably spring a surprise." And if it does not, well, there's still TV.

Q&A: LOU BEGA

Hey, what does Lou Bega mean?
A. It means "How to love everybody".
Have you made that up or does it really mean that?
A. It definitely does -- in ancient Ugandan -- and I do love everybody.
Including India?
A. India is a very, very, very interesting place. I like being here. Would you write a song on Indian girls now?
A. Well, I've already got the song I've got a girl.
But it doesn't take any Sita-Gita type names.
A. Yeah, but I know Indian names too.
Really? Which one?
A. Smeeta.
What's the one thing you want to do in India before you leave?
A. Find a beautiful Indian girl.

-Natasha Israni

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