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EYECATCHERS
Bigger Picture
 Little
chance you would have caught her smouldering face in the Kama Sutra ad.
But no sweat. Now you'll see more of Malavika Singh. The former
KS girl is taking her sexy, sultry image to the big screen in All The
Best, a "comic thriller" starring Amitabh Bachchan. The film,
based on a Gujarati play, Andhalo Pato (blind man's buff), is about a
bank hold-up. Singh plays a leggy employee who has the entire bank swooning.
A role she's pleased to play. "Why break the sexy image?" she
purrs. "It's not the real me but I don't want to fight it either."
She has nothing to hide now.
When It Rains
 Susheela
Raman had the music press in Britain confounded at first. Not just
because the UK-based Raman, with origins in Tamil Nadu, has been nominated
to Britain's prestigious Mercury Music awards for her solo album Salt
Rain. But because the album's ambient, polyglot numbers were a bit of
a surprise. Inspired by celebrated 17th century south Indian composer
Thyagaraja, Raman has included classical Carnatic ragas in Salt Rain,
which also has English songs. "The press was surprised at how easily
classical Indian influences blend with western pop," gloats Raman.
"It is the album's biggest achievement." Purists may differ,
but for Raman, recognition-after 12 years-came only after returning to
her roots.
Not Curtains
 There
are silver, golden and platinum jubilees. But what do you call a film
that has run for 300 untiring weeks? Yash Chopra's 1995 grosser Dilwale
Dulhania Le Jayenge, starring Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan,
took the unprecedented turn in last Friday's matinee show at the Maratha
Mandir theatre in Mumbai. The film had already outrun Sholay's record
of 265 weeks earlier this year. Chopra, who made a special appearance
at the theatre on the landmark day, has no plans yet to pull out the film.
In fact, he has just released a new print. What's more, to ensure it ran
housefull in the title-clinching week, the distributors doled out free
cassettes with the tickets. Who said only new releases deserved hard-selling?
 Q&A
NAVJOT SIDHU
The India vs Sri Lanka series threw up not just poor
cricket for the Indians but a new dialect for the sport called Sidhuism.
The man behind the metaphors, former opener Navjot Sidhu, tells us more:
Q. Does the term Sidhuism flatter you?
A.
Yes. It's original. Like me.
Q. What's your favourite line?
A.
A laugh is worth a thousand groans.
Q. You made that up.
A. Yes.
Originality to me should flow like a river.
Q. Ever considered writing poetry?
A.
No.
Q. What's easier—opening for India or
inventing new Sidhuisms?
A. In
life, nothing is easy.
— Compiled
by Methil Renuka
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