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A deluge of hits this monsoon...
This monsoon it has been raining hits in Bollywood. With films like "Chalte Chalte", "Andaaz", Bhoot" and "Khwahish" doing well, nobody is complaining at the end of the first half of 2003. Of course it's another story with Sooraj Barjatya, Honey Ir ani and Anil Sharma. ZIYA US SALAM gives us the latest... .
Down Memory Lane

Unveiling the burqa-seller of Delhi
THE BURQA-seller of Meena Bazar sits in his shop in the vicinity of the Jama Masjid in Delhi fanning away the afternoon blues. Yet his shop is the cynosure of all eyes in the evening when groups of young women arrive to bargain for burqas. Like ...
Lifestyle

Stay cool, it's getting hot
THIS TIME Indian Fashion week will conclude with a deluge thanks to the chief sponsor Lakme unveiling its `Color Drench' and `Color Spray', the twin interpretations of its fashion statement Watercolors for summer 2003. To impart shape to the ...
Arts & Crafts


Art for a cause! Whose?
Francois Gautier is here with his latest works. This time, he focuses on Kashmiri Pandits. Will the show at India Habitat Centre help in resolving the age-old issue? Or will it reopen old wounds? GAYATRI SINHA speaks to the French artis t whose heart bleeds for Pandits but whose eyes overlook a lot else... .
Personality

Jyoti shines anew
SHE IS Rani Mukherjee's cousin, Jyoti Mukharjee. She is dusky and attractive. She is the second lead in "Maa Santoshi Maa", Ashish Filmcraft's devotional film now showing across the country. She plays an idiosyncratic girl in the film who refuses ...
Cinema

Euphoria, the right prescription
PERHAPS SOME of your richest and most satisfying experiences have been with people to whom you just talk, talk and talk. As you speak, previously untapped springs of ideas and emotions begin to flow, you hear yourself saying things you never ...


No trap in this Jaal for cinemagoers
MANY, MANY summers ago F.C. Mehra managed to weave intrigue and deception into "Jaal". The Eagle Films guys laughed all the way to the bank even as Mandakini and Rekha got a fresh lease of life in the industry with "Jaal". Nurture no such hopes ...
Music

Music to the listeners' ears...
HE THINKS of music as a medium to express love, grief, and pain, to be connected with the soul, to communicate and to signify life in totality. Basant Singh of the recently released album "Kutchi Koo" has been a traveller throughout his life. ...
Eating Out

Chilling out with chillies
It's not just the weather that was hot when Marriott WelcomHotel in South Delhi hosted a Red Hot Chilly food festival with specialities from Andhra Pradesh this past week. SUMITRA SENAPATY relates the cool experience of eating fire... .

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