Summer specials
The summer may be drawing to a close in the Indian subcontinent, but hotels continue to announce their summer bonanzas. They can apparently still bring fun for you as they are offering exotic climes across the seas.

The Bollywood fix
I saw my first Hindi movie when I was three years old. Before that, complains Amma, herself an ardent movie-watcher, I would bawl my head off till Amma, crushed under the weight of the disapproving looks being directed at her, would take me off home.

A place of his own
At last, fortune has blessed this tall, rugged actor called Sharad Kapoor, who has walked away with accolades from the hero, Shahrukh Khan, in Josh. But there is no such smug look on his face now that the spotlight is on him. He is still easily accessible. And talks naturally.


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