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As real as it gets
Three youngsters with a dream to reach stardom have chosen reality shows as their medium.
Or rather, reality shows have chosen them. We chat up this trio from the region
Is there anything left to write on reality shows, I wondered when I was asked to do an interview with this trio from the city and around who have made to various reality shows. What else could I ask them — selection process, melodrama, gharaana, judges and their mock fights, public voting — so much has already been written on it that I feel I can pen down an encyclopedia on it. But a five-minute-chat with 18-year-old Mitika, who has made it to Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, 14-year-old Surbhi Sood from DAV, Mohali, who has been selected for the first round in Boogie Woogie and Sunvinder from Ludhiana, who will sing from Himesh Reshamiya’s gharaana at Sa Re… made me change my mind. The encyclopedia can wait… We have some interesting information to share with you.
Slim look
Right kind of dressing can make you look smart and slim
One thing that women continuously grumble about is the shape of their body. No matter how much we try to avoid it, the moment our eyes goes to that layer of flab, we wish to make it disappear. In our efforts to hide them we reach out for the baggiest clothes. Hide those imperfections by properly planning your wardrobe. And here’s how:
And the winner is...
It’s going to be a battle of chords
as the talented Abhijit Sawant,
Rahul Vaidya and Harshit Saxena
compete one last time in the grand finale of Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar tomorrow.
Neha Walia & Jasmine Singh talk
to the three yodhas on who will be the superstar
Way to go
In Abhijit Sawant, India got its first Indian Idol. And there has been no looking back for him since. He tasted success in playback singing through Ashiq Banaya Apne and his album Junoon was an instant hit too. Now, he is back doing what he loves the most, singing and performing for his audiences.
Sidelanes
Inflationary solutions
I WAS born in 1944 when India was still a large colonial outpost and the preferred hunting ground of the Brits. World War II was in full swing and a megalomaniac called Adolph Hitler was kicking our fragile globe around, trying to conquer and ethnically cleanse every inch of it. Food shortages and famine stalked the people; many lives were lost; there was panic and despair. If a lactating mother did not have enough food, the baby starved.
Wall of shame
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. So, think twice before unleasing your lunatic creativity
Scene1:
Artistic genius Nek Chand, made masterpieces from bits of waste, and some ‘insane genius’ tried to do glorify his art by simply scribbling nonsense on the walls of Phase 3 of Rock Garden. Now how cool is that. And this isn’t it; Phase3 of the Rock Garden is flooded with such familiar ‘creative’ pieces of absurdity.
Stacked away in a wooden box in the museum storeroom are a few invaluable Pahari paintings from Basohli origin
Exquisite Beauty
Krishna, with voluptuous beauties in his usual playful mood, Kali attended by China Devi, Ragi Devi and Tara Devi, captured intricately in Pahari school of painting. These can light up even the dark corner of the storeroom. And we get to see them when Government Museum and Art gallery’s assistant curator Poonam Khanna opens the teak wooden box and lifts the Nepalese cellophane paper to reveal the most priced possession of the museum — collection of Basohli painting.
 
DIVINE ART: A folio featuring Krishna with a gopi from
Geet Gobinda series; and (right) Bhandra Kali from the Devi series |
 Youth Speak
One stop shop
ENTERTAINMENT industry is growing at a great speed and seeking for changes every second. Between all this, multiplexes have changed the scenario of the film industry and the mindset of movie buffs.
Rising Star
Her Journey
TOO young and naïve to grasp the complex discussions that centred around art and literature among her parents and their friends on usual family meetings, Abha Sharma could only be a curious onlooker. But this ignited in her an urge to learn performing arts, if not literature, and prompted her to participate in a theatre workshop by National School of Drama alumnus Anima Naveen at her Welham Convent School, Dehradun. She made her presence felt by playing ‘Rani’ in Raja ka
Faisla.
Photo by Manoj Mahajan
New releases
Sweet Revenge?
Mehbooba
Starring
: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Manisha Koirala
Director
: Afzal Khan
SHRAVAN Dhariwal (Sanjay), a business tycoon, lives in New York. His charm and money gets him any beauty he desires till he meets Varsha (Manisha). Varsha, an Indian girl values self-respect and morality much above money. She rebukes Shravan’s advances and for the first time in his life Shravan wakes up to the fact that women are not commodities.
JLo twins’ fashion debut
Jennifer Lopez’s twins, Max and Emme, made their fashion debut at Stefano Gabbana’s home. The two had been kept away from the limelight since the People magazine expose earlier this year. The babies made their appearance in Portofino, Italy, at the house of the famous other half of designer label Dolce & Gabbana. JLo, who has been known to have a perfect body, seems to have lost all after her pregnancy. —
ANI
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