Desperate!
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Pratibha Sinha. Click for bigger pic!
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Pratibha Sinha, daughter of sixties star Mala Sinha, had a promising debut in Ek Tha Raja. But the dearth of roles thereafter is showing. On her.
That she is trying to keep up with the times, vigorously heaving an ample bosom in Military Raaj, she has dared and bared more in her next film, Zanjeer.
"What's wrong in showing what I have when I have the vital statistics that are all real? We have so many artistes who do not have a decent bustline and keep padding themselves," she says. Is that a nasty crack, a case of if-you-have-it-flaunt-it, or both?
But Pratibha is still short of roles. And when she recently slunk seductively up to a film journalist, clad in a pair of shorts that admirably lived up to their name and a filmy shirt that showed a cleavage that only the Grand Canyon or the Rift Valley could hope to compete with. The journalist naturally lost his wits and hurriedly arose but Pratibha gave him a sultry look, held his hand limply and introduced herself.
The man may have seen through her. Maybe that's why he's still suffers from arrhythmia when he thinks of her.
Akki's back... In pain
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Akshay Kumar. Click for bigger pic!
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Another actor having medical trouble, though on the ventral side, is Akshay Kumar. His back is acting up again.
The trouble began when he lifted a wrestler called Undertaker during Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi. A daunting task, considering the Undertaker bent the scales at 350 pounds, but made worse by the fact that there were three retakes.
And during the last try, Akshay's back quietly gave up the unequal battle. Akki went to Canada to have his spine strung up in line again and came back apparently fit to take on a few more undertakers.
But his back is apparently in a dicey condition. For he was doing the twist at a stage show recently when the vertebrae went out of sync again. The shooting pains convinced the hero that he had a slipped disc and he was moved to hospital.
Only problem, it was a maternity hospital. The doc checked the man diligently and assured him he had nothing to worry about, he wasn't pregnant.
A classic failure
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Manisha Koirala and Nana Patekar in Agnisakshi. Click for bigger pic!
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Shockwaves are rippling through Bollywood after Yugpurush, the latest blockbuster with a tried 'n' tested team went bust.
The movie had the Agnisakshi combination: Nana Patekar, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koiralaand director Partho Ghosh. But despite the powerful team, the film fumbled, allegedly due to a subject that was ''too off-beat, slow and minus the necessary commercial trappings''.
Nana, the man once shortlisted to buttress Amitabh's second chance of a comeback, has not delivered this time. Used and fond as the public is of him as a firebrand who never pulls his punches, the sober, subdued character in Yugpurush appears to them as being out of character.
The heroine plays a minister's mistress, while even Jackie shows negative shades.
Now it's really a mystery why the industry is shocked. A film that falls outside the narrow acceptability range of the Bollywood box office couldn't have expected better, wot?
No work and all play...
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Kamal Sadanah. Click for bigger pic!
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His professional life may parallel that of the refrigerator salesman in Antarctica, but on the personal front Kamal Sadanah's having a ball.
After some early trouble in miss management, the hunk attached himself first to Pooja Bhatt, then to Raveena Tandon, both of whom, when they were in vogue, used to whisk him off the sets from beneath the director's nose. No work and lotsa play apparently made Kamal a hot potato.
The next one to fall for him was Ritu Shivpuri who allegedly nudged out Raveena to earn his wandering affections. Now, leaving the stars in their varying courses, Kamal has currently settled down -- for the moment at least -- with one Lisa, a hair-stylist by profession.
Meanwhile, Ritu, never one to weep and wail, has got herself engaged to Madhav, a struggling southern actor.
No work and all play may not pay, but it sure is fun, Kamal knows.
Salman straightens out
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Salman Khan. Click for bigger pic!
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Sanjay Dutt, you may have read here, decided in the wee hours following Valentine's Day that he ought to get married, and soon. So he dragged a pandit out of bed and got himself legally declared the spouse of Rhea Pillai.
Now Salman Khan too, after a long and overexciting personal life, decided to be rid of his bachelor status.
Putting aside his earlier views on the matter, the Khan is bringing girlfriend Somy Ali to all functions he attends. In the past Salman never used to bring his off-screen companion of the moment to any filmi function. But then you know what happened to Sangeeta Bijlani.
On the career front too, Salman is very excited about the upcoming Dus, rejuvenated after Ramesh Sippy took up the job the late Mukul Anand had left incomplete. And then he has Rajshri Productions's Hum Saath Saath Hain, where he is cast opposite Karisma Kapoor and Sonali Bendre.
Salman has had one niggling setback -- he suddenly disappeared from Jackie Shroff's home production, Raju Raja Ram. Jackie claims Salman had to be replaced since he had no dates to spare; Salman protests he wasn't even told what dates were wanted of him.
He's the second star to quit the film, the first being Madhuri Dixit.
Of Sippys, Motis and Siddiquis
Was Ramesh Sippy the target of this crack we don't know. But writer Jaaved Siddiqui has been heard badmouthing them in clean but punny language.
He and actor Javed Khan were at Mahesh Bhatt's office, bitching about the innumerable members in the Sippy clan.
That's when Siddiqui came up with this one: "Apne desh mein sippy bahut hain, magar moti koi nahin hain."
Ramesh Sippy may be livid but the Sagars -- Ramanand and kin -- shouldn't mind. For there is a Moti Sagar in that family.
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