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EYECATCHERS
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Master's Son
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| Bhimsen Joshi with Shrinivas
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You could forgive egghead Shrinivas Joshi,
a textiles engineer from IIT Delhi, for wasting his degree. But the 33-year-old
son of the virtuoso Bhimsen Joshi does something better... he sings.
Junior Joshi, also bred in the Kirana tradition, has taken out his first
album Aarambh, a fierce, light-toned rendition of languorous evening ragas
Bihag and Puriya Kalyan. "My father is like a magnet and I am like
a piece of iron, and if I am with him continuously I will get magnetised,"
he says. Given the analogy, looks the engineer in him is still alive...
and singing.
Sen About Each Other
 Doctor-turned-Indipop
Singer-turned-actor Palash Sen, 34, has been sworn to silence about
the undisclosed plot of Filhal in which he is paired with Sushmita
Sen. However, Palash, whose rock band Euphoria is about to release
another album, doesn't see himself as a "typical Hindi film hero"
and only accepted the role because it was a "mature film which didn't
require that kind of dancing". Adulating director Meghna Gulzar invalidates
the cruel contention that Palash, 5ft 7, was incompatible with Sushmita,
5ft 9: "He fitted the role perfectly. And hasn't Sushmita worked
with shorter actors like Salman Khan?" Yes, and that film was a hit.
Smile In Demand
 In
the pulsating race for immortal glamour, the touchline has always been
films. No one ever bothers about a pouting seductress in a cosmetics ad
or even a former 1997 Miss World, contributing that winning pout for the
cause of altruism. Diana Hayden, 28, anxious to be remembered for
other things, has signed Johney Bollywood, an English film directed by
UK-based Amit Gupta about a white boy who falls in love with a Bollywood
heroine. But the model-actor, who spent a year in Drama Studio, London,
doing Chekov and Shakespeare, says that she's "not keen on regular
Hindi commercial films" because "they're not just me".
The fact that she's still considering a role in Pankaj Parasher's remake
of Charlie's Angels is totally besides the point.
Out Of The Ban
 The
notoriously impetuous Nigerian-born footballer Chima Okerie, liberated
from a two-year ban for cuffing a referee when playing for Mohun Bagan,
has got a break-in the form of the little-known, almost-broke Bengal Mumbai
Football Club (BMFC). But the forward may not be returning to the field
just yet-he wants to first complete what he calls "my baby",
a 52-episode current affairs and sports programme for ANT World which
will be aired later this month. Meanwhile BMFC better put its finances
in order... they know what happened to the referee.
Compiled by Anshul Avijit
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