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	June 12, 2000

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I'LL BE THERE
Tired of having second and third-rung artistes coming to India? Mad that top-of-the-line guys like Sting and Ricky Martin are a rarity? Cheer up. Multiple-Grammy-award-winning rocker Alanis Alanis Morissette

Morissette, the Jagged Little Pill girl, is scheduled to perform in India on June 28, 29 and July 2. Details are being finalised, but Delhi -- initially part of her schedule -- might just get unlucky. A source in Wizcraft, event managers for the tour, says "she might go to Mumbai and Bangalore", but refuses further comment. It's happening. That's good enough for us.

Day Job
He's famed for his dedication. So when Anil Kapoor was asked to play a chief minister in Shankar's film Nayak, he decided his Anil Kapoor imagination wasn't good enough -- he needed some real-life role models for the part. The story is about a journalist who gets a shot at being a CM for one day because the real guy challenges him to try his hand at the job if he thinks it's so easy. "I admire Chandrababu Naidu's work," says the actor. "He sure will be one of the inspirations. The others are Vilasrao Deshmukh and Digvijay Singh." We might have enjoyed his take on Rabri Devi though.

Family Planning
These days, you don't wait for modelling assignments to dry up. You simply plan another career while the going's good on the ramp. Following the example of wife Mehr Jessia Rampal, who's Mehr Jessia with husband Arjun Rampal gone from catwalking to choreographing with ease, model Arjun Rampal has three films coming out in the coming months: after endless delays, Ashok Mehta's Moksh in September; Shantanu Sheorey's Jadh in December; and Rajiv Rai's Pyaar, Ishq aur Mohabbat next June. Rampal says he's "anxious and nervous". Well, there's always a pretty shoulder to cry on.

A Why For A Why
After the Amitabh Bachchan-Pooja Bedi fracas, it's Pahlaj Nihalani versus Shekhar Suman. Nihalani, head of The Association of Motion Pictures and tv Programme Producers, is irked by potshots taken at film stars by Suman in Movers and Shakers on Sony TV and Sajid Khan in Ikke pe Ikka (Zee) and Sajid No. 1 (Star). On complaints from certain filmwallahs, he's even written to the channels in protest. "For actors, image matters a lot. Why are these people chipping away at that image?" he fumes, adding, "Since Shekhar is an actor himself, he shouldn't poke fun at members of the industry." Actually, he pokes fun at everybody, but Suman gives a disappointingly I-wash-my-hands-of-the-affair response: "I don't do anything. Someone else writes the script and I just mouth the words. Why is he getting so upset?" Why indeed.

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