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 Turbanators!
Courtesy Akki & Singh is Kinng,
the humble turban now spells ultimate style. The brighter, the better!
WE all love Akshay Kumar, don’t we? Whether, it’s his comic antics, daring stunts or his ravishing new
avtars. This time too, the Khiladi dons a new look with unmatched gusto. Akshay plays a Sikh in his upcoming movie Singh is
Kinng. And he does look a very Happy Singh with his turban and trimmed beard. And you bet, Akki has triggered off a new trend of turbans that has found acceptance with Sikh boys who had earlier cut their hair to look cool.
STRIKING A POSE: Student leader Dalvir Singh Goldy (left)
and Jasjeet Singh — Photo by Pradeep Tiwari
 King
of Moga
Up, close & personal
with Sonu Sood
POST-Jodha
Akbar life is bright and happening for this budding actor from apna
Punjab. He can boast of some good roles in his kitty with appreciable
performance to back him. The latest one to make news is Singh Is Kinng,
wherein Sonu plays a King in Australia. Excited and anxious to know the
Box Office verdict, Sonu shares his experience in the movie that stars
Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif and Neha Dhupia. “It all happened in a jiffy. I didn’t even get time to think!” says
Sonu.
Little Interview
Entry to
Bazmee’s heart
 THE first thing one notices about Anees Bazmee is his confidence. It oozes out his eyes, his body language and his voice. Here is a man who knows what he wants. His last two films, No Entry and Welcome, were super duper hits. Bazmee is ready to take the
centre-stage once again with his latest action comedy Singh Is King with Akshay Kumar and Katrina
Kaif. Here is the talented director in a candid chat on his latest film which was shot in the Gold Coast, Australia.
New releases
BO ka kinng kaun?
Singh is Kinng
Staring: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey Director: Anees Bazmee
SINGH is Kinng, the most keenly awaited romantic comedy of 2008, revolves around a gang of crooks transformed by a good man and his selfless love for a pretty girl.
Lakhan Singh aka Lucky (Sonu) is the 'king' of the Australian underworld, accompanied by his associates
(Javed, Neha, Manoj, Yashpal, Kamal and Sudhanshu) Far away, in a small village in Punjab, where Lucky was born, there exists someone more notorious than him - Happy Singh
(Akshay).
 Growing Stronger
She is in for a long innings, for Mona Singh does not believe
in 15 minutes of fame
HER father’s melodious voice is a sure enough introduction. Daughter of Channi Singh (lead singer of bhangra band Alaap), Mona Singh is the First Lady of Bhangra. She launched her debut album The Beginning in 2000 and then The Second Chapter in the year 2003. In the city for launch of her third album Stronger, she talks music, inspiration and lot more…
Photo by Manoj Mahajan
All’s
fair in love & war
MTV Splitsvilla’s hunks Vishal and Varun get candid about the show
FUN, sex, sin and betrayal…. MTV’s
Splitsvilla, a bold new romance reality show. That’s what the tagline reads. But those of you who have seen the show would want to know where is the romance! “Well, I could see it everywhere”, says
Vishal, one of the two boys on show and the more sensitive kinds.
Photo by Pradeep
Tiwari
Saturnic Verses
The connotations behind the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year
of the century....
DO you believe that the position of planets defines people’s fate or affects countries? Standing on the crossroads of new and old, we are a generation of people who believe and yet like to disbelieve in the influence of planets and their influence on our destiny.
 Side
lanes
A hundred years ago...
THE postcards from 1908 are smaller than their counterparts today. They used to cost a quarter of an anna and had George Vth’s head embossed in brown. He was a bald, insignificant-looking man with a beard. Our Sardars look far handsomer. On the postcard, the crown hangs over his head. Stamps of larger denominations show the crown placed on his head.
Human
anatomy in its basic form has been stimulating
the artistic mind
Object d’art
Commonplace objects that inspire painters
Art
of
Anatomy
 AKBAR
Padamsee kickstarted in the early 40’s, M.F. Husain and F. N. Souza
fuelled it, and many others still follow it — the trend of painting
bare bodies in new modernist style is here to stay. These have created
controversies, even got lawsuits slapped on them, but portraying human
anatomy in all its sensuality never ceased to fascinate artistic minds.
And, as art lovers we have trained ourselves to revel in the feeling of
universality, their creations bring out in us. Why else would Francis
Newton Souza’s painting of a nude female figure titled Birth would
fetch $ 2, 519, 762, making him one of the highest paid India-born
artist at an auction of modern South Asian art at Christies’s
recently.
Illustration by
Sanjeev Kumar
 An officer &
an artist
 ALMOST 40 years in the service gave Lt Col M. K. Bali more than just memories of the places he served and people he met. It unleashed his creative side, which found an outlet through paint and brush. And now that he is retired and willing to devote his time to art, Bali intends on make an entry in the city artist fraternity. He plans to do this by holding an exhibition with another amateur artist Shikha
Dhayani. — Photos
Himanshu Mahajan
Rising Star
Winner all the way
THE old adage Honhaar birvaan ke hoat hain chikne paat (coming events cast their shadows before) is what comes to mind when one thinks of classical vocalist Kashish
Mittal, whose childhood traits foreshowed the crowning glory he would achieve one day in the realms of art and academics. Only a year back, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal conferred the state honour on Kashish at the Independence Day function in
Ludhiana. The thunderous applause by the mammoth gathering failed to make him feel on the top of the world. Rather, it pushed him to the deeper recesses of his mind as he resolved to achieve more in his chosen stream of music.
Keira wins best stomach award
ENGLISH actress Keira Knightley has been named as the lady with the best stomach. The survey taken by 2000 Britons has put her before her Edge
Of Love co-star
Sienna Miller. Next to The Atonement star was 63-year-old Helen Mirren, following the release of photographs showing the National Treasure actress in a stunning bikini. Mirren was followed by pop-princess Rihanna, whose dance moves seem to have definitely paid off.
Keira has battled various reports that she suffers from an eating disorder, denying the claims and adding that anorexia runs in
her family. —ANI
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