Madhuri's muse
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Madhuri Dixit. Click for bigger pic!
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You might not know it (but by the end of this piece you will), Madhuri Dixit is an excellent singer and painter. And her skill with the brush has naught to do with M F Husain's influence.
A pal of ours was doing the interiors at La Dixit's home and was just getting around to suggesting that she put some paintings on the wall. With her kinda prettifying presence, the walls could do with some pepping up, he suggested.
So Madhuri pulled out some paintings and knocked off the mothballs. And surprise, there were fewer by Husain and more by M Dixit. A gauge of her quality -- the interior decorator hasn't yet raving about the paintings. And, of course, the woman.
Getting it off his chest
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Salman Khan. Click for bigger pic!
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You know how these producers keep pushing their heroines into dropping their clothes? Now, it's the men who are in trouble, in particular Salman Khan.
Ever since he stripped for films like Veergati and Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya, producers ask him to take his clothes off.
Salman gingerly put his foot down recently when, for a shot in a film with Shah Rukh and Kajol, the young director asked him to get into a swimming costume. The actor hesitantly refused, and finally even manage to convince the director to drop the scene altogether.
Now the question people are asking is why he strips for his brother's film and not for other's.
Pop goes Mandakini!
Remember the lady of the generous bosom in Ram Teri Ganga Maili? Mandakini?
The one Raj Kapoor "found" before she became a Dawood Ibrahim acolyte, allegedly marrying his brother Anees, holing up in Karnataka awhile... Yeah, yeah, the same Mandakini.
Now Mandakini's planning to show some throat now, via her new pop album. Her second one, in fact. The first was Dancing City in 1987 with Bappi Lahiri. Apparently, she can sound quite good.
The current effort is being produced by Rajeev Chaubey and the music is provided by two yet unnamed music directors.
When Nana crooned
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Nana Patekar. Click for bigger pic!
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Can you think of the last person to sing a passionate love song? Maybe Nana Patekar? Well, then, he's done it!
It's a maudlin number in N Chandra's upcoming Wajood and it apparently describes the love the character Nana plays for the Madhuri Dixit character in the flick. Makes you cringe.
Of course, this isn't the first time Nana's sung, you know. There was the Love rap number in Krantiveer, the Machchar swatter in Yeshwant. But one was macho, the other angry -- the kind of stuff ma Patekar's boy made his bread and butter from.
Till now.
The hit list
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Gulshan Kumar. Click for bigger pic!
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Hey, what's happening to Bollywood? Look at the line of casualties since last year -- Mukesh Duggal, Guddi Maruti's brother, Gulshan Kumar, Shashilal Nair'sassistant Vikas Shetty....
And now Vijay Sippy Ramesh's brother and G P's younger son. Vijay was the one who recently came up with two flops, Aatish and Hamesha.
While industry insiders claim a depressed Vijay may have done a Manmohan Desai, hopping outta the window, the police would like to know if a man can fall 50 feet away from the spot beneath his 17th floor apartment window, unless a very localised hurricane had come to provide inflight assistance.
So then was he killed? That brings in another factor -- a killer. That's what the cops are seeking now.
Man, if this industry doesn't gives you the creeps sometimes....
Tinnu's travails
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Mamta Kulkarni. Click for bigger pic!
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Mamta Kulkarni is apparently going through troubled times, getting threatened, even having her PA kidnapped -- he was told to pass on an unparliamentary message to the lady herself. Though Mamta's dad is a cop, he's not being consulted yet, for unclear reasons.
Happened beau/pal/good friend Tinnu Verma walked up to the Kulkarni residence at Arshee Complex in Lokhandwala, Andheri, and tinkled the doorbell. Mamta's edgy mother came to the door, insulted Verma in unchase Marathi and finally left him with the a full view of the front door to muse over.
Not being the musing type, however, Verma left in high dudgeon.
Singh's secret shame
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Madhuri Dixit Click for bigger pic!
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Sensitive chap that he is, Chandrachur Singh is feeling very upset with himself these days. But actually it was more of his father's fault... Er, shall we tell you things from the beginning?
Chandrachur's father, Baldev Singh, had got his famous son along to canvass for him during the recent election.
When the film star went to Aligarh colleges to sell his dad, the students wandering outside all flocked to him. Things were a mite different when he entered the classes. He disrupted the schedule and made the more serious students frown.
If he'd been cut from the same cloth as the average Bollywood star he might have breezed out with a 'Ciao' and a whiff of Wrigleys. But he wasn't, and so mulled over it for days. Happens he too was a teacher at one time, and he can quite understand how those in the classroom felt when a vote-seeking horde invaded the classroom.
It may be some consolation for Chandrachur that his father lost.
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