The Indian Express -- Leisure

Friday, August 8 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

She's got the look

Aishwarya Rai is used to being the darling of the masses. After the Miss World crown she literally had the world at her feet. And when she got the same treatment from Bollywood, she accepted it as her due. Not for Ash the derision Sushmita Sen faced after Dastak failed.

Love conquers, chupke, chupke

It's a particularly dark and rainy morning in Mumbai. And floor No One at Mehboob studio reflects the weather outside. The lighting is dim, the set lacks extravagance and the accompanying hype and hysteria are missing. It's as if the director has enforced a code of calm. With Hrishikesh Mukherjee, director par extraordinaire, as the man in charge, that would come as no surprise.

Has the storyline really changed?

Samaj Ko Badal Dalo

Vijay Bhatt's usually strident martial melodrama made with the informal help of the IPTA, mounted an IPTA-style attack on social conventions in the context of the Independence movement's promise of liberation.

Show Buzz -- Special appearance

Freedom years: film in 1947