What’s shading your eyes? Tinsel Town inspires
city’s eye-candy like never before!
Shades of Style
Anybody who wants to make it to Page 3, read on. There is one basic rule to make it to the glossy sheets. Clubbing, partying, or hosting a charity event — sport designer shades. (Replicas too do the trick at time!) And god forbid, if you commit the fashion sin and are spotted without them, then be prepared to be dethroned from the celeb spot soon. Now, how we arrived at this rule is, one, courtesy Madhur Bhandekar’s Page 3, and two, our dedicated flipping (for professional and personal interests) of filmi magazines, local supplements and more.

Bold & Beautiful
The heat is on. The sun’s already snorting and puffing,
gearing up to shoot fireballs left and right. Time for us to think about eye and skin protection, right? Of course yes, and especially when ‘protection’ comes laced in sheer style, who’ll mind? So get going and turn up the heat by indulging in some stunning eyewear available in town. We turn on the flashlights on the framed sunnies that city’s fash-pack’s flaunting, in favour of the classic aviators.

Love them or hate them, but it is difficult to ignore this new breed of Page 3 journos
Fodder for Gossip
Dig this. You actually spend 70 per cent of your tele-viewing hours criticising
them, 80 per cent of your reading sessions hurling venomous curses at them and yup , 90 per cent of your verbal brainstorming sessions, cooking up apt abuses for them. And yet, you spend 100 per cent of your waking hours – breathing, eating and living with ‘them’. For, brickbats or bouquets, there’s no way they let you turn your backs to them.

• Gaga over gloss
  A peek-a-boo at the frivolous affairs that launched many TV programmes and spawned thousands of print media stories.
  

Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Spiritual Voyage
Pay homage at the Golden Temple, listen to melodiously soothing bhajans, read up about
spiritual gurus, learn meditation, or interact
with other spiritual seekers. Enrich yourself with all this and more in the comfort of your home by
logging on to www.spirtualtube.com. Launched last week by a city-based IT company, Technology Guru, the portal promises to quench the spiritual thirst of millions.                                                               Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

A peep into tales of the past...
The Entertainment Box
This is not a story that’ll excite younglings accustomed to the multiplex culture. But broach the subject of bioscope to gen-past, and they immediately travel back in time. Dreamy look and passion-laced voice, some even begun to hum Rail gadi rail gadi, a song picturised on Ashok Kumar who played a bioscopewala in Ashirwad. This role even got him a national award or for that matter Mumtaz’s unforgettable performance in the song Aiye main bioscopewali (Dushman).

A mobile may be just another gadget, but in right hands, it’s a medium of expression
Cells of Creativity
Not so long ago, three French performers opened their
act at the Tagore Theatre with words that still ring
in my mind — “Please switch off your mobiles. Maybe someday, people will make music with their mobiles, but today, enjoy our music without the distraction this gadget might cause.”

Nirmal Pandey’s take on films, theatre, music & visual art...
Artfully connected
He can do magic, literally. This ‘evil’ Senapati Bhujang of Raajkumar Aaryyan casts his spell the moment the telephonic connection begins, steering the conversation flawlessly through topics like films, to poetry to painting to the country’s socio-political scenario. Our first impression is that Nirmal Pandey loves to have his fingers in many pies. Well, not really. “It’s all connected actually. As a theatre artiste, I developed visual aesthetics, which culminated into taking up painting. The same way, I started writing poetry and singing, too.” It may read like bragging, but he balances out the statement with logic. “Many actors are good singers but when one aspect of his or her personality gets focused, others take a back seat.”

Clay Craft
We see them on display at almost every expo. But, looking at artisans creating terra-cotta artifacts is a different experience altogether. The venue is Kalagram and the ongoing workshop has brought with it specialties from four different corners of the country — Bhuj, Azamgarh, Bastar and Pukhran. This is the third workshop on terra-cotta pottery and the final creative pieces will be a part of a gallery, which will soon be added to Kalagram.
                         Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Creative Zone
War of words
As a lawyer, Sukhcharan Kaur Bhatia, has seen enough misery in life. But now, she has chosen a different tool to fight it — verse. She writes poetry on relationships, generates awareness on female foeticide, and speaks against the practice of dowry.
                                                         Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Youth Speak
Is it really cricket?
Gone are the days of traditional cricket. Indian Premier League (IPL) is the new name for the game. Cricket, once known only for test and one-day matches, come in the Twenty20 version. I feel IPL is good thing because these days who has the time to watch a test cricket or a day-long match?

High on life
New mum Jennifer Lopez is set to co-produce and star in a reality show, showcasing her personal life as a singer, actress and motherhood. Lopez will produce, co-create and star in the docu-series, on how she adjusts her career with motherhood, including launching a new fragrance.

• From Rap to films

New releases
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• Sirf
• The Jane Austen Book Club
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