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EYECATCHERS
The
Jaws of Acting
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| Kumar in All the Best |
You'd be wrong if you thought marriage would
have tamed this actor who has in the past leaped off a building and stood
facilely on a high-flying plane. But stunt junkie Akshay Kumar has
added to his portfolio of exploits. Shooting a song sequence inside an
oceanarium for Gaurang Mehta's All the Best in Cape Town, South Africa,
the Khiladi star swam with half a dozen, mean 7-ft sharks. "It was
scary ... but then it's force of habit for me now," he says. Er,
need wife Twinkle's response.
Plans of a Singer
 Kamal
Haasan's Abhay, the one with the fleshy promos, has not yet been
released so you wouldn't know what upcoming singer Nandini Srikar sounded
like. But there's another way. Los Angeles-based music composer Mahmood
Khan's new album Panah has the 32-year-old Pune-based artist singing love
songs decked with a bounty of synthetic sounds. A thin, peppy voice which,
unlike others, does not appear a caricature of Lata Mangeshkar. More playback
offers are coming fast but Srikar, a compulsive non-planner, says she
will take "one day at a time". She shouldn't... she's not Lata.
Sisterly Concern
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| HOME RUN: Naghma (left); Jyothika |
Who cares about a surly, out-of-form cricketer?
Or a middle-aged actor partial to electric yellow shirts? Not Naghma.
After aborted friendships with Saurav Ganguly and earlier, Sarat Kumar,
the chubby actress is now planning a film-packed life-she is in Citizen
with Ajit Kumar, and later in a home production with sister Jyothika (also
a Mumbai-rejected Chennai success). Jyothika, who dotes on her elder sister,
says shooting will begin soon. Nothing like a comeback to be back in the
news.
Dubbed
a Hit
 Aarati
Agrawal, 17, is one in 700. When director Joy Augustine, famous for
his mawkish Tere Mere Sapne, needed an unseen face for his new film Pagalpan,
he screened hundreds of aspirants and on seeing Agrawal, concluded that
"innocence is hard to find". The US-born Agrawal plays a Catholic
girl who is brought up by five brothers and later, as the plot inevitably
thickens, falls in love with a Hindu boy (debutant Karan Nath). "Mumbai
was tough, a culture shock," admits Agrawal who knows little Hindi.
"But I'm driven. I want to be a star". She could be... as long
as her New Jersey drawl continues to be dubbed.
Compiled by Anshul Avijit
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