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Drumbeat: Ad Buzzaar
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Saturday, May 16, 1998
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Filmdom Inc
The honourable minister for Information & Broadcasting, Sushma Swaraj, was in the unlikely position of becoming the unanimous champion of show business when she declared that the government has decided to grant industry status for the film trade. It is a move that is enlightened, farsighted, and one which will have long-term consequences for a business which employs more than a million individuals in the country today.
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Junoon to romance Delhi with spirit of passion
Pakistan's rock-and-Sufi pop band Junoon is all set to swing the blues away in New Delhi on Monday night. Song writer Salman Ahmad with designer chappals and bass-player Brian O'Connell in a flowing purple kurta look well-ensconced in their hotel room, but the prince-of-wails, lead singer Ali Azmat, is down with fever. No matter though, his band-mates assure that, "the life of the party" will be fighting fit by the time they hit stage.
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Culture of silence and subjugation
During her press conference they asked Zeenat Aman why did she stay so long if she was beaten? Victims of domestic abuse are often asked this. Had she left early in her violent marriage, they would ask why she left so soon! In other words, for victims, `Do you are damned -- don't you are damned'. If anyone asked me these questions 20 years back, I would have had no answers. I was in search of answers myself. Today, I know. I hope, so does Zeenat.
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Only amchi Mumbai
If somebody accosts you tomorrow on the road and asks you to tuck in your shirt, don't be alarmed. Comply. They are Mumbai's new cultural keepers and are prone to stripping people and ransacking their houses for disobedience. They have barred Mumbaiites from kissing in public, they have thrown out chairs shaped like females from Bistro Bar and are all set to prevent Madhuri Dixit from acting in a film to be directed by painter M F Husain.
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