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EYECATCHERS
Name And Number
 She
changed her name from Anita to Natasha because Ekta Kapoor, of
Balaji Films, told her that numerologically it would do her career good.
As Tanu in Ekta's TV yarn Kabhii Sauten Kabhii Saheli, and now as flavour-of-the-day
and Ekta's kid brother Tusshar's love interest in Balaji's forthcoming
feature film Koi Aap Jaisa, Natasha, 19, seems to have made a start. She
also has Nuvvu Nvnu, a Telugu film releasing next month. But she won't
spare you those unpardonable clichés: "I've always wanted
to act. It's a dream come true for me." Hope her faith in numerology
helps.
For The Hack Of It
 People
call him a new age wonder kid, but for Ankit Fadia, 16, there are
things to do. A Class XI student of Delhi Public School, Fadia has a visiting
card, a website and his first book, The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking,
is being published by Macmillan. He wrote all 624 pages of it-"hacking
truths and what they don't teach in manuals"-in 15 days, during his
summer holidays in 1999. Macmillan, who got experts to ratify the book,
is sure it will be a bestseller, with a pre-publication order for 4,000
copies. Fadia's regret? When Chip Magazine approached him to be systems
administrator and found him "too young" for it.
Strip Tease
If Demi Moore could do it in Strip Tease, why
can't Raveena Tandon in Aks and Manisha Koirala in
Abhay? In the sultry Yeh raat cabaret song in Rakesh Mehra's Aks, Tandon,
a club dancer in the film, sequentially tears off and tosses her coat,
rips open her shirt and sways in a flaming red bustier. While Moore may
have inspired Bollywood's boldest heroines to get under the skin of their
characters, Koirala also reportedly strips to her lacy lingerie in Kamal
Haasan's Abhay, in which Haasan himself does a full monty. Says Tandon,
on her titillating number: "It was shot in an unconventional way.
I didn't feel uncomfortable at all." If Demi was good, Tandon is
more.
Up Town Girl
 If
K. C. Bokadia could make a superstar of Madhuri Dixit in Tezaab, maybe
he can pull off the same for Ashima Bhalla. A small-town girl from
Chandigarh who landed in Mumbai over a year ago to pursue modelling and
a degree in computers, Bhalla, 18, dumped both like a ton of bricks when
Bokadia asked her to play the lead in his 50th film, Pyar Zindagi Hai.
Good for her. She has also bagged Arjun Sabloak's Hrithik Roshan-Esha
Deol starrer Na Tum Jaano Na Hum. Says Bhalla, "I am so busy, there's
just no time." She's got a godfather. Now, all she needs is a fairytale.
— Compiled by Methil Renuka
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