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Eyecatchers
Pretty
Young Miss
The countdown hasbegun. At the Miss World pageant - in its 50th year -
in London on November 30, Femina Miss India-World Priyanka Chopra
will be the youngest among 104 contestants. The lanky 18-year-old, in
London already, has dad Ashok beaming: "The more people around her,
the more confident she will be." Mom Madhu, who gave up her medical
practice for eight months to support her daughter's training, is modest:
"She's no conventional beauty, but a regular teenager." Let
the judges decide now.
Commercial
Break
 It
has taken her seven years. But Sonali Kulkarni, 26, better known
for her offbeat takes in films like Daayra, Doghi and Jahan Tum Le Chalo,
is turning herself around. So what if she played Hrithik Roshan's mother
in Mission Kashmir? It's vaulted her into big-banner league. Nods the
dusky actor, whose next is Farhan Akhtar's Dil Chahta Hai and Ram Gopal
Verma's Pyar Tu Ne Kya Kiya with Urmila Matondkar and Fardeen Khan: "I
am glad my work will now have a much wider audience." Anything for
mass appeal.
Indo-US
Relations
 Fairytales
are made of these. When Daniel Lee Chase, a US Diplomatic Security
Service agent accompanying Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, spotted
Monessa Dias in the lobby of Mumbai's The Oberoi during President
Bill Clinton's March visit to India, cupid struck. What unfolded for Dias,
a hotel guest-relations executive, was six months of transcontinental
wooing. It brought Chase to Mumbai two more times. "When you fall
in love, distances don't count," grins Chase, who wed Dias a fortnight
ago. The honeymoon, it seems, isn't over yet.
Her
Style
 It's
CNN's answer to regional programming. Two new shows, Style South Asia
and CNN indiadotcom, on its South Asia channel, will beam the latest on
fashion, lifestyle and technology in the subcontinent. Mallika Sarabhai,
anchor for Style South Asia, calls it "breaking down political barriers
to explore a common heritage across Asia". The articulate hostess
cannot help adding, "We hope to become zany trendsetters.'' From
one trendsetter to another.
Compiled
by Methil Renuka
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