Preity Zinta has
barely been around, but already she's moved beyond the bare-it-all brigade. In Andhera,
the pretty girl who got noticed in Dil Se is playing an unglamorous CBI officer
out to catch a psychotic child killer. "She doesn't act," says director Tanuja
Chandra. What?! "She doesn't act, she's so real that you just can't look away from
her." Adds Preity: "I don't want to end up playing just bimbos." She's
serious.
It's Me!
From one watchdog role to another. Having
played out the part of India's chief election commissioner, T.N. Seshan's now a magazine
editor. In a Tamil film, that is. It's called Udaya, and it's being directed by Azhagam
Perumal who has earlier worked with Mani Ratnam. Says producer V. Natarajan: "The
character is tailor-made for Seshan, tough and unyielding to pressure and money."
It's easy. He's just being himself.
Cat Fight
"You
could call it the war of the babes," says Nina Pillai. Babe No. 1: Anuradha Mahindra,
editor of Verve magazine and wife of auto tycoon Anand Mahindra. Babe No. 2: Pillai, savvy
socialite and widow of biscuit baron Rajan Pillai. The first shot was fired by Verve, in
which Pillai was described as "absolutely kitsch" along with "Chinese
bhelpuri and Saigal's remixes". The fuming femme fatale fired back through her
newspaper column, writing of an Alice-band wearing fashion pundit with a "blood
drained face" usually clad in an "unshapely, red jacket".Was Pillai
alluding to Mahindra? Says Pillai: "If you put two and two together and don't get
your multiplication wrong you have the answer in my column". Though Mahindra was
unreachable for comment, it's clearly a case of Kitsch, Kitsch, Hota Hai.
Old Boys' Club
We all wish the Indian cricket team well. So do
Kapil's Devils. The 1983 World Cup winning squad (but for Sunny and Kirti Azad) got
together in Mumbai last week for a documentary meant as a morale booster for the Indian
team in next year's World Cup. "I certainly wish them the best of luck," says
Madan Lal, "but when you're the first to do it, it's different." Bollywood
cinematographer Samir Arya who made the film obviously agrees: "These men, some are
bald, some a little plump, some others with wrinkles, but they are the kings." Now
let's find them some heirs.
Preity Zinta has
barely been around, but already she's moved beyond the bare-it-all brigade. In Andhera,
the pretty girl who got noticed in Dil Se is playing an unglamorous CBI officer
out to catch a psychotic child killer. "She doesn't act," says director Tanuja
Chandra. What?! "She doesn't act, she's so real that you just can't look away from
her." Adds Preity: "I don't want to end up playing just bimbos." She's
serious.
From one watchdog role to another. Having
played out the part of India's chief election commissioner, T.N. Seshan's now a magazine
editor. In a Tamil film, that is. It's called Udaya, and it's being directed by Azhagam
Perumal who has earlier worked with Mani Ratnam. Says producer V. Natarajan: "The
character is tailor-made for Seshan, tough and unyielding to pressure and money."
It's easy. He's just being himself. 
"You
could call it the war of the babes," says Nina Pillai. Babe No. 1: Anuradha Mahindra,
editor of Verve magazine and wife of auto tycoon Anand Mahindra. Babe No. 2: Pillai, savvy
socialite and widow of biscuit baron Rajan Pillai. The first shot was fired by Verve, in
which Pillai was described as "absolutely kitsch" along with "Chinese
bhelpuri and Saigal's remixes". The fuming femme fatale fired back through her
newspaper column, writing of an Alice-band wearing fashion pundit with a "blood
drained face" usually clad in an "unshapely, red jacket".Was Pillai
alluding to Mahindra? Says Pillai: "If you put two and two together and don't get
your multiplication wrong you have the answer in my column". Though Mahindra was
unreachable for comment, it's clearly a case of Kitsch, Kitsch, Hota Hai. 
We all wish the Indian cricket team well. So do
Kapil's Devils. The 1983 World Cup winning squad (but for Sunny and Kirti Azad) got
together in Mumbai last week for a documentary meant as a morale booster for the Indian
team in next year's World Cup. "I certainly wish them the best of luck," says
Madan Lal, "but when you're the first to do it, it's different." Bollywood
cinematographer Samir Arya who made the film obviously agrees: "These men, some are
bald, some a little plump, some others with wrinkles, but they are the kings." Now
let's find them some heirs.
