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EYECATCHERS
Serious Siren
 Indipop
crooner Anaida's itsy-bitsy costumes might just get skimpier. The
singer has said yes to a role in a Hollywood film. It's all she will say
yet, but shooting for the film will commence in America come March 2002.
How did it happen? Anaida had approached the producers with a proposal
to sing in the film, but got snapped up as an actor instead. "I am
so excited," coos the 27-year-old singer who has given Indian pop
some forgettable, self-indulgent numbers like Piya Bina and Anaida recently.
"I've had an overdose of glamour. I want to do something serious
now." Indian cinema and pop can wait.
Up and Down
 His
last song Lift Karade made him soar the charts. But Adnan Sami's
popularity might take a beating with this one. The Indore police have
charged Sami with duping the organisers of a garment fair held in April.
According to Geeta Bhavan Trust, the organisers, and the police, Sami
was to perform at the fair but "never showed up". They claim
Sami was paid, through Magnasound, "an advance of Rs 2.45 lakh by
draft and Rs 7.45 lakh by cash". Magnasound denies its role, claiming
Sami was not paid in full and that's why he didn't honour his part of
the deal. The jury is out on this one.
As Luck Would Have It
 He's
the new prince of pop. It was a chance encounter with blues singer Lucky
Ali that got Mohammed Asif Ali, the 29-year-old son of Mohammed
Abdul Ali, the Prince of Arcot, a chance to score music for the singer's
next album. The nouveau-popular royal is also composing music with Ali
for Dev Anand's Love in Times Square. And then he has his own pop album.
Working out of his studio at Amir Mahal in Chennai's raucous Royapettah
suburb, he says, "Music is my passion and now profession." He's
lucky he met Lucky.
Play It Again
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| Scene from I'm Not Bajrao |
Standing ovations,
full houses and a record 125 shows later, Rahul da Cunha's I'm Not Bajirao
has completed its sixth year in the theatre circuit. Adapted from Herb
Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport, the play has many firsts. Not only is it
the first multilingual play, in which two ageing men, Boman Irani and
Sudhir Joshi, watch the world pass by on a park bench, but it has
retained the same cast all through. Says da Cunha: "We might even
cross 150 shows. This is the Sholay of all plays." He might want
to correct that now. Yash Chopra's 1995 hit Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
broke Sholay's record months ago.
— Compiled
by Methil Renuka
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