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Friday, April 24, 1998
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Fulfilling last wishes, celebrity style
To help make someone's wish come true celebrities will meet for an expensive charity dinner at Turf Club on Wednesday. The event organised by the Indian chapter of Make-a-Wish Foundation will also mark the international make-a-wish day. The plan was unveiled at a press conference attended by some of the leading lights of entertainment world on Wednesday.
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1958: Year that was
This was a year of marriages in Bollywood. Nargis and Sunil Dutt tied the knot on March 11 and Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendall got married on July 2, 1958. On the flip side, the founder of Kohinoor Studio's Dwarkadas N Sampat passed away. Character artiste Yakub also died in the same year. Bimal Roy had his first commercial success this year with Madhumati.
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Did you know?
Hrishikesh Mukherjee started his career with New Theatres, in 1945, as a laboratory assistant. He graduated in Science, with a distinction, from Calcutta University. He then moved on to edit Tathapi (Bengali), his first independent assignment as editor, in 1947-48. In 1951, Mukherjee came to Bombay with his mentor, the late Bimal Roy. He edited all of Roy's films till Madhumati.
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Show Buzz
In and out -- Our Jaggu dada is really confusing us, yaar. First he denied that he'd ever offered Madhuri Dixit a role in Raju Raja Ram -- so, we believed him. His charms always work, you know. Then someone said Salman Khan -- who had been signed -- was walking out since he had committed his dates to Hum Saath Saath Hain.
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