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METROSCAPE
As Lucky As He Gets
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| SINGING STAR: Lucky Ali with Tandon |
There is more to
Mehboob's genes than just comedy or music. Ask son Lucky Ali. In his first
"big banner" feature film break, Kya Main Ab Bhi Tumse Pyar
Karta Hoon, with childhood buddy and director Bobby Khan, blues boy Lucky
Ali gets to play lead, sing, score music, even shake a leg with pretty
co-stars Raveena Tandon and Lisa Ray. But Ali makes an honest confession:
"I can't dance. I have two left feet." The film also marks his
debut as a music composer for Bollywood. The man says he signed the film
"for a lark". For those who don't know, this is not the singer's
first foray into acting . Long before music albums Sunoh and Sifar, and
much before lending voice for Hrithik Roshan in Kaho Na ... Pyaar Hai,
Ali had tried to woo the camera in Shyam Benegal's Trikaal and in the
teleserial Bharat Ek Khoj that was aired back in the 1980s.
For the light-eyed neo-actor, big banners are
a totally new feeling. "Heady," he says, with more films to
look forward to: Sanjay Gupta's Kaante, Aditya Bhattacharya's Rakh and
Dev Anand's Love In Times Square. Says Ali: "When I started dabbling
in music, it was very personal. Now I sometimes feel stuck in the music
business." Must have been the real reason why he didn't say no to
Khan. Does Khan get lucky?
—Himanshi
Dhawan
Screen Play
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| Nambiar (left); a scene from
Vengeance on the Menu |
Even Henrik Ibsen had his failures. When starry-eyed
19-year-old Bejoy Nambiar once went to a Bangalore film director with
a script,what he got to see was The Exit. But that didn't stop him from
laying on the ink. Three years on as a production assistant with Theatre
Club, an amateur theatre group in Bangalore, and reams of foolscap, Nambiar
has finally found his 15 minutes of fame with Trio, a collection of three
short plays staged at Mumbai's Sophia Bhabha Hall last week. Written and
directed by him, Trio is Nambiar's second directorial venture. The first,
The Getaway, which played in Bangalore, was about three ageing desperadoes
who plot to rob a bank. The three plays in Trio, First Class (his favourite),
Vengeance on the Menu (that has autobiographical shades) and She Took
It Rather Well (a tale of betrayal), are full of snappy dialogues and
dramatic twists, covering up for indifferent acting. But Nambiar has not
canned his celluloid dreams yet. He's working on two film scripts and
is planning to do a course in filmmaking in the UK. Just press Play.
—Himanshi
Dhawan
 WINE
AND DINE: At the Delhi launch of Moet-Hennessy champagne
at Taj Mahal hotel, guests were told they could "uncork their own
bottle" and choose the sparkly that frothed their hearts most. Dom
Perignon, Hennessy and Moet & Chandon bubbled into fluted glasses
as model Reema Gill (right) showed up in an ankle-length Suneet Varma
(left) number in green, a bunch of grapes dangling suggestively from one
shoulder. Sweet grapes?
—Shuchi
Sinha
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