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Dad Amitabh Bachchan became an Angry Young Man
for his on-screen outbursts. Can't say the same for son Abhishek though.
Junior B has been accused of "roughing up" a Delhi-based press
photographer and "smashing" his camera when he tried to take
pictures during the shooting of Goldie Behl's Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai at
Raisina Hill in the capital last week. Photographers who had been "invited"
to the shoot say they were "assaulted" by the film's crew, including
the producer's sister Tanya Behl, later arrested and released on bail.
But junior B? He "just got into his car and drove away". Says
Mustafa Quraishi, one of the two lensmen who lodged an fir: "They
hit me and I thought I'd be finished." What say, Angry Young B?
Track Dreams
 If
Britney Spears could do it, why can't I?" asks 13-year-old Neha
Nagpal, Class VII student of the Jain International School in Bangalore.
Why not? Nagpal's just cut a 10-song English pop album titled If I Could
Dream with London's Fat Music (FM) Studios, a two-year-old music company
"promoting young talent". The 5'6'' lass is dreaming big, settling
for nothing less than English pop ("no Indipop for me") and
stardom matching Madonna's. Says Johnny Casanova of FM which is pitching
for "major labels" for her: "Neha's very confident and
involved for her age. She's set for platinum." Now that's confidence!
Open To More
 Somebody
stop him! There's no such thing as "slow down" in
Dev Anand's vocabulary. Barely had he released his film Censor two
weeks ago (which for the record is no box- office dynamite) than the unstoppable
Anand is exploding on the scene with his next: Love in Times Square set
in America (but it's an "Indian love story") starring blues
singer Lucky Ali, who is also scoring the music. Dev Saab, or the "evergreen
hero" he's come to be known as, is 78 this year, and has been in
the industry 52 years now. Box-office no-shows are hardly a deterrent.
What's important is that the show must go on: "Filmmaking is my life."
Slow down? Don't even mention it.
Her Second Calling
 She
stopped running around trees (more often than not with actor-in-white
Jeetendra) and playing "subdued, gharelu (homely) roles" to
take a shot at politics. But seems like it's not time yet to call Rajya
Sabha member Jayaprada a "former Bollywood actor". After
four years, the lady, at one time regarded as Sridevi's closest rival,
has signed up to play the "proactive wife" of the home minister
(fellow MP Shatrughan Sinha) in Osho Raja's forthcoming Bharat Bhagya
Vidhata. In the film, which is set in Kashmir, she even gets to reform
a terrorist (played by Chandrachur Singh). At least she gets to do what
she couldn't in Parliament.
Compiled by Methil Renuka
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