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Sunday, October 6, 2002
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End
of the road for Salem?
It cannot be ruled out that Abu Salem shifted base to Portugal at the
behest of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). This is a
serious matter as the USA and the UK treat Pakistan as “a very
important ally” in the international coalition’s war against
terrorism. Besides, if this were to prove correct in the times to come
it could also mean that a section of the ISI is still hobnobbing with
the Al Qaida, says Rajeev Sharma
Celluloid chitchat
The new man in
Ash’s life
AISHWARYA Rai has a new man in
her life. And no, it’s not an ardent admirer, but her new bodyguard,
Prabhakar. And the reason is not difficult to guess. At a time when she
is getting rave reviews for her acting and not just good looks, Salman
Khan is going out of the way to play trouble-maker on Ash’s sets. With
her personal life already in a mess, Ash is not taking any chances with
her professional life.
Behind the scenes
The Road less
travelled
EXPERIMENTAL, Ram Gopal Varma
Productions’ Road is the first Indian film to be shot entirely
on the road with a mobile unit. Ram
Gopal Varma has always taken the Road less travelled. And as poet Robert
Frost put it succinctly, ‘I have taken the road less travelled by, and
that has made all the difference.’
Antara
mali’s route to success
Asha Singh
ONE
of the lasting impressions from Rajat Mukherjee’s debut-making Road
is Antara Mali’s electrifying performance — a role that crackles
with pure sensuousness and raw feminine energy and yet, does not
transgress the norms of decency. It
is a role that is in sharp contrast to Antara’s earlier starrer, Company
in which she played a typical sari-clad Maharashtrian girl from the
slums, married to an underworld crook.
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