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| Chatterjee, Bapat, and Malik try to woo Sandali
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Bored of Bollywood's love triangles? Try a quaternion
for a change. Two films releasing this month have three guys chasing one
woman. The first, Pyaar Ishq Mohabbat, directed by Rajiv Rai, has action
star Sunil Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani and model-turned-debutant-actor Arjun
Rampal all trying to woo the same girl Kirti Reddy.
But coming before that is Tum Bin, video wiz
Anubhav Sinha's first foray into full-length films. Tum Bin stars four
models: ramp hunk Priyanshu Chatterjee, one-time Pepsi girl Sandali Sinha,
Himanshu Malik and Rakesh Bapat. In Delhi for a marathon round of interviews,
Anubhav refused to say more than that "it's a story of love and dilemmas,
the choices we make and why". Chatterjee is a little less reticent.
Are all three in love with Sandali? "At different points in the film,"
he murmurs. Gosh, we're just relieved at the change.
-Anna M.M. Vetticad
Singular Status
 What
do BJP leader Tapan Sikdar, CPI(M) bigwig Biman Bose and Trinamool Congress'
Mamata Banerjee have in common? Apart from an active dislike for each
other, all three are honorary members of Mukta Bihanga (Free Bird), a
singles club that opened in Kolkata with 50 members last week. Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee is also being enrolled this week. Founded by seven
unmarried siblings, the club intends to "protect" single people
from embarrassing situations. The birds also intend to press the state
government for a Bachelor Nagar, a Bachelor's Day on July 1 (birth anniversary
of former bachelor chief minister Bidhan Chandra Roy), and a ministry
of bachelor affairs. But how will the moral police react to a host of
singletons communing regularly? "We'll sign a bond saying we're only
friends," swears a member. A promise the VIPs will be most happy
to keep.
-Labonita
Ghosh
Ad Maker
Remember Ericsson mobile phone's witty "One
Black Coffee Please" and Fevicol's "Pakde Rehna, Chodna Nahin"
commercials some time ago? If you do, credit them to Mumbai-based ad filmmaker
Prasoon Pandey, listed as one among the Top 100 advertising film directors
in the latest issue of Advertising Age, a premier international advertising
publication. The magazine says of creative guys like Pandey that "these
are directors that everyone wants to work with when the time comes for
turning great brand ideas into great award-winning TV ads". A former
Lintas hand who went solo seven years ago, Pandey has won international
acclaim before, with Cannes Lions, Clio's, and several Asia Ad-Pacific
Awards, but "there's nothing to beat" this one-Pandey is "the
only Indian" to figure in the mag (besides perhaps The Cell director
Tarsem Singh). What's next? Says Pandey, at the moment holidaying in London,
"I've been dying to make a feature film but am looking for an interesting
story. I am open to ideas." The offer's still open.
-Natasha
Israni
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