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Twins:Neena and Veena Bidasha |
Their parents
wanted them to be doctors. They became belly dancers. But who's complaining?
Voted "America's sexiest twins", 20-something Los Angeles-based
Neena and Veena Bidasha have performed for Ricky Martin, Michael
Jackson, Tom Cruise and Hillary Clinton, and been on Vogue and People.
Hollywood won over, the twins wowed audiences in Delhi recently, and will
soon to release their fitness videos in India. Trills Neena, also a journalism
graduate: "There's nothing erotic about belly dancing. India's ready
for it." Some guts!
A
Sure Shot
 He's
always in the news. And he always makes good copy for those behind it.
At the launch of the India Today Group's 24-hour news channel Aaj Tak,
lens-friendly law minister and chief guest Arun Jaitley was complimented
by India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie. "Mr Jaitley is
a familiar face on TV," he said, "and has probably clocked in
more hours than most anchors. He's so comfortable on-camera that if he
ever wanted another career, many TV companies would be happy to offer
him a job." And our man Mr Jaitley? He blushed, as shutterbugs happily
clicked away.
Queen's
Honour
 It's
a rare royal honour. Yet, all Dhruv Mistry, 43, dean of the Vadodara
Faculty of Fine Arts, now conferred the Commander of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire by the Queen, will say is "I feel good".
The reticent sculptor, whose works adorn public spaces in the UK, imbibed
all that "I couldn't have back home" during his 15-year stay
there. "The British strive to excel," he says. So did he.
His
Nine Lives
Shivaji Ganesan
did it in his heyday in the 1960s Tamil film Navratri. Now it's darling-of-the-day
Ajith Kumar's turn to don nine different guises in the May release
Citizen. One of the get-ups has an uncanny resemblance to the 60-year-old
that Kamal Haasan played to perfection in Shankar's Hindustani (Indian
in Tamil), but the others are... well ... no giving it away yet. For now,
the chocolate-faced actor is giving six hours of his time every day to
Mumbai make-up artist Anil Pemigirikar. With nine lives in the film, little
wonder it's his "pet project".
Compiled
by Methil Renuka
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