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Eyecatchers
Fun, Fearless
Female
 You
wouldn't look at this picture and ask, "Who's that girl?" Malaika
Arora - special - appearance movie star, music video girl, model and
veejay - is well past that stage. So when Cosmopolitan was looking
for an Indian face for their first ever desi cover, they zeroed
in on hers. It's for the magazine's fourth anniversary issue, and Arora
makes a fitting successor to the likes of Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer
and Laetitia Casta who've been there before. Says lensman Farrokh Chothia
who did the shoot for Cosmo: "Malaika is absolutely fabulous
to work with. She's gorgeous and an absolute pro." She's also a typical
Cosmo girl: a fun, fearless female.
Brother
Act
 Goodness
... it runs in the family. Two years after his brother Steve got involved
with the Calcutta children's home Udayan, fellow-nice-guy Mark Waugh
is sponsoring a little girl from its sister institution, Nivedita Bhawan.
Nine-year-old Aloka Nayak hasn't seen her famous benefactor, but she knows
him from a photograph of the Australian cricket team that the high commissioner
presented to the home. "She keeps asking if Mark will also come visiting,
like Steve," says Mary D'Rozario of Nivedita Bhawan. Will he?
On Her
Side
 Nina
Memon was a toddler when she lost her parents, legendary singer Geeta
Dutt and filmmaker-actor Guru Dutt. But though she doesn't remember dad,
and memories of mum are "misty", the world can't forget. It
makes things easier as she approaches music companies these days with
her debut pop album. The 38-year-old, by the way, "didn't want to
do the usual thing: make a demo, then do as the company says. I wanted
to give them a finished product". Lady, you've got goodwill and guts
on your side.
You Who?
 Name:
Riya Sen. Claim to fame: Suchitra Sen's granddaughter; Moon Moon
Sen's daughter; 19 years, a music video and some modelling assignments
old. When Sen recently found a horse beaten, abused and left to die near
Juhu beach, she shot off a letter to Mumbai Mayor Hareshwar Patil requesting
him to stop joy rides on the beach. "I wish more celebrities would
lend their name to worthy causes," she says. Hey, kind gesture but
"celebrity"? Meaning who? One animal rights group even sent
out a letter saying "Death of overworked, dehydrated animal angers
film star". Film star? Meaning who?
Compiled
by Anna M.M. Vetticad
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