No "M"-pathy
He loves them. He cannot stop raving about them. He promotes them in style. But something inevitably goes wrong with Subhash Ghai and his heroines. They hate him with as much passion as they loved him. The Showman's fall-out with his heroines including Meenakshi Seshadri, Madhuri Dikshit, Manisha Koirala and now, Mahima Choudhary is dramatic.
-- When John Hughes came up with that Home Alone idea nearly a decade ago it was fresh, spontaneous and quite a delight. Not today. Macaulay Culkin is now 16 and to be married and too old for the part, but that's not the reason behind the failure. Alex D Linz of One Fine Day fame is cute enough. But old wine in new bottles gets sour and the situations contrived.
Show Buzz
Still single? -- Just announce the wedding and then have the marriage rites later, seems to be Bollywood's new matrimonial code. Sohail Khan eloped with Seema Sachdev the day Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya was released but the marriage took place only this week. Since the girl is a Punjabi, they first had an Arya Samaj wedding and later in the evening there was a nikaah.
Marathi meet from April 24
Noted Urdu poet and Dyanpeeth awardee Sardar Ali Jafri will inaugurate the three-day 71st All India Marathi Literary Conference to be held at Parli-Vaijnath from April 24. Noted Bengali writer Mahashweta Devi, who is also a recipient of the Dyanpeeth Award, will be chief guest at the concluding ceremony of the conference.
World within a world: A quest
Ad-film maker Vikas Mohan set out looking for a tiny hamlet in the Kulu valley, and returned with an astounding film about a republic within a republic. Mohan's venture, In Search Of Malana, captures the lifestyle of the Malana community. It took him four years and as many as nine trips to this picturesque village community to befriend the few thousand inhabitants and convince them about the film.
Just two much
Shah Rukh Khan may be playing a double role in the soon-to-be-released Duplicate, but he has many more personalities. What is better than two Shah Rukh Khans? "Three, of course!" claims Khan himself. Unfortunately, that contention remains untested in the movie Duplicate, where Khan plays a double role -- of the good guy fighting his evil doppelganger.
