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Man of the masses
Chiranjeevi has done it all. Twenty-five years in the industry and the megastar is still raring to go. RADHIKA RAJAMANI catches up with him
Personality

The real Shruti
HER IDOLS in today's filmdom are Kajol, Tabu and Rani Mukherji. But till the bright lights of tinsel town beckon her, she is happy with her small screen presence as Shruti in "Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii" on STAR Plus. In fact, she adds that she is ...
Music

Sounds of the World
From African rhythms to Mexican melodies --- the concert by the French flutists had the Hyderabadis responding with cheers


Chords & Notes
MUSIC DIRECTOR Devisri Prasad has been consistent at least in his style. The high point of the tape his own rendition of Naa Manasu... he's full of verve and carries the exuberance through the song. Sagar and Sumangaly sing Evaro ...
Cuisine

Fruit full time
Make your dessert time sweet with sugarmelon treat
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Entertainment

When rivals unite
HERE IS a film made by director Mohana Gandhi, whosepolitical awareness and sense gets reflected in his work. This theme is a fine combination of fact and fiction. Fiction, which one hopes will be a reality, like unity between the chief ...
Factional fare
THE FILM opens as a tension ridden crime drama involving two factionalists, Ravindra (Suresh) and his arch rival Gowri Sankar ( Satyaprakash). Ravindra wants to wipe out Sankar and his younger brother . He succeeds in framing Sankar in a murder ...
Of the unfaithfuls
IS IT Hawas Part II? Or is it Unfaithful faithfully coming back to box office? Whatever, Murder is as close to a carbon copy as a film can get. Frame to frame, sequence to sequence, it does a Hawas. We have Mallika ...
Nothing special
THERE IS nothing `khaas' about this Kasi, which is supposed to be a re-launch vehicle of J.D. Chakravarthy, who was in hibernation for quite some time, for reasons best known to him. Agreed there is a dearth of stories and the makers have to dig ...
Poetry on celluloid
THOSE EYES... they were meant to convey the joy of midnight. Those eyes... those eternal enemies of dawn in mysterious collusion with dusk. But then real life is to be lived between dusk and dawn. What happens elsewhere is mundane. Day was meant ...
Jack is back
NANCY MEYERS, who helmed the hilarious What Women Want, returns with another heart-warming romantic comedy. Though stuffed with all the Nancy Meyer regulars, including chauvinistic male, smart, accomplished sexy woman and acerbic witty ...
Return of the king
LORD ARAGORN has taken a break from ruling Middle Earth and talking Elvish to move to the Wild West to talk Native American. He is now Frank T. Hopkins, a half Indian cowboy (his Indian name is Blue Boy) and rides a little mustang pony, Hidalgo. ...
Repeat success?
PALANIYAPPAN'S DEBUT film, Parthiban Kanavu with Srikanth in the lead was a huge success (it is being remade in Telugu) and now he is into his second movie, Chadurangam for producer S.S. Dorairaj's Mass Movie Makers, a company that ...
Campus call
MALAYALAM CINEMA too is dominated by campus love stories these days. Director Mohan's just completed movie titled Campus revolves around three friends and college mates. Rajeev Menon, a moneyed man and his two friends, Najeeb and ...
Epic role
MODERNISING AN epic character and weaving a story around it is nothing new to our filmmakers. Director M.S. Ramesh has launched Valmiki with Sivarajkumar playing main role. The film was recently launched in Bangalore, amidst lot of fan ...
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