The Indian Express -- Leisure

Monday, December 08 1997

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A blurred satellite picture, arrows pointing in all directions and coloured patterns moving around. Decipher this and you'll know all that there is to know about the weather around the world. But, since the satellite picture is generally fuzzy and the arrows point in directions you didn't know existed, you'll have to take the word of the TV weather vanes, men and women on television who tell you everything you never wanted to know about El Nino or Hurricane Harry.

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If you suffer from the misfortune of being blessed with a child in your home, then you already know the story of a household that allows inane things called cartoons to dominate everything. However, since the launch of TNT & Cartoon Network in October 1995 as a day-long cartoon channel, life in Indian TV households has never been the same for families with young children. Now, everything must be either the way Scooby-doo does it or Uncle Fred (Flintstone)'s way. And we know how chaotic that can be.

An "unholy" row at Mehboob Studios over Shah Rukh film

Bollywood's secular image took a bit of a bashing after a film producer was recently barred from performing a pre-launch puja at Mehboob Studios, on the ground that it was "non-secular" on his part to do so. Producer Yash Johar had booked the Mehboob Studios in Bandra to launch his latest film Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, starring Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan. However, on the day of the mahurat he was barred from performing a puja in the premises of the studio, and was asked to pay a fine if he insisted on going ahead with the ceremony

An "unholy" row at Mehboob Studios over Shah Rukh film

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