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Sept 27, 1999 |
Family Friend
  "I
have a spider's web of Bhatts around me," laughs Aly Khan. You bet.
He's playing Pooja Bhatt's lover in the just-launched TV serial
Dhund, and Soni Razdan's husband in a one-act play called The Lover,
running in Mumbai now. For those who don't know, Soni is Mahesh Bhatt's
wife (read Pooja's stepmom) and Aly is Pooja's ex-boyfriend. "Now all I
need to do is a film with dad," he quips. Wonder what the role will be.
Operation Cover-up
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Story of Their Lives
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Who
wants Milind Soman in a costume drama? Not his female fans. The
bod with the bod is playing Salim in the serial Noorjahan on DD1. "I don't
think viewers will have a problem," insists Soman. "I didn't think much
of Milind's acting," adds director Imtiaz Khan candidly, but "he's a good
learner". A humble chap too. Top model though he is, he still checks all
tuff, oops, tough Urdu pronunciations with Khan. Starry tantrums? No. Model
behaviour? Yes.
After
one year it's called a cotton wedding anniversary. And after 100 years?
Ksheerasagars Lakshman and Lakshmibai of Athani -- 160 km
from Hubli in Karnataka -- wouldn't know. But the 102-year-old barber and
his 101-year-old wife crossed that milestone recently. Any regrets? "When
we attend other people's weddings we always wonder what ours was like,"
says hubby. "We were too small to remember." Lakshmibai hastens to add:
"We married off our three daughters only after they turned 18." When Lakshman
tied the knot with her, he was two, she was half his age. Cradle snatcher!
"In
theatre there is only one camera angle and the audience is fixed," says
Sujit Saraf. "In a movie, you can zoom in the audience, turn them upside
down, etc. That took time to understand." Saraf and other members of Naatak
-- a theatre group in the US -- recently premiered their film Bugaboo,
on Indian professionals in Silicon Valley. It helps that most of them are
Indian professionals in Silicon Valley. "We really weren't acting," adds
Saraf, the film's director and an ex-NASA employee who has just returned
to India. "We were merely being ourselves." It helps.