Ash we like it

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai steps across the East-West divide in quest of a new empire. How good is the going for her? Saibal Chatterjee finds out

IN the new millennium, she can win any popularity poll hands down. Her fans, spread across the entire length and breadth of the Indian Diaspora, have a monopoly over cyberspace. Her directors cannot stop singing paeans to her. Ash compared to Audrey Hepburn

He rocked the world with his beats
As John Lennon earns the title of the greatest rock-and-roll icon of all times in a recently conducted survey by Q, a British magazine, Saurabh & Gaurav remember the legend and discover what made the former Beatle beat Elvis Presley and David Bowie to top the list of 100 best music icons.
JOHN was a profoundly gifted person. His genius shone forth brilliantly in everything he did. Musician, lyricist, actor, artist, writer, political and peace activist, he performed all his roles with precision and perfectionism. As the most daring and outspoken of the four Beatles, he defined the sixties — socially, politically as well as musically.

Rolling Stone gathers top honours
LIKE a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan’s scornful, ironic ode to a spoiled woman’s reversal of fortune, has been designated the greatest rock’n’roll song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

Vivek’s new shauq
Randeep Wadehra
WHO can forget the character of Darmyan Singh, the truck cleaner and friend of Sunny Deol, in the superhit movie Ghadar? That role earned Vivek Shauq national recognition, although he was already a familiar figure in the Punjabi as well as Hindi entertainment world.

haute line
Lure of lehengas
Gulneet Kohli
IT was the costume that won Lara Dutta the ‘Best National Costune’ first runner up award at the Miss Universe pageant, 2000. It’s the attire, which our Bollywood queens like to don the most or, for instance some Hollywood actresses also. In almost all the pageants, functions, contests...it’s a clear favourite.