REPLAY 2008 Old wine, new bottle Everyone wants it. It doesn’t matter who you are — an individual, a community or even a corporate. Noun no bar! It’s the era of makeovers. Swayed, suddenly and steadily, by the transformation fever are tricity restaurants. The renovated bar of Chandigarh Golf Club

Bon Appetit
Dum maaro dum!
Heavy terracotta vessels, lids sealed with dough, containing Awadhi delights cooked in the dum pukht style…. Mmmm… manna from heaven, and enough to take care of any New Year resolutions one might have had about counting calories.

Grill ’n’ chill
Looks like the hotel industry have found out a new destination — Panchkula and here comes its very own fat-free eating joint, Fire ‘n’ Grill-6. The place offers an interesting menu.

Class apart
And if you thought Panchkula wanted another good eating joint, here is one. A European-style hotel, New Hotel Western Court. The hotel offers world- class cuisines, which will be served at 7-West Restro Bar.

Bollywood's beefcake
He set pulse racing with his suave and charismatic approach as Prem in Maine Pyar Kiya. Two decades and more than 70 films later, Salman Khan, who turns 43 Saturday, is still among Bollywood's most sought after stars and hottest bachelors.

A toast to Big B
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has been invited by the Tehran Film Festival to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. However, the actor is not sure he would be able to attend the event.

Mozart of Masses
For a few delightful scores from the likes of A R Rahman and troika Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, there was nothing much the Bollywood music industry had to cheer about during 2008.

Dark secrets
Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi, who has stayed away from doing boy-next-door kind of roles, maintains that he would rather portray dark characters than do roles where he would be required to dance around trees.

Happy go lucky With debutant Asin hogging all the limelight opposite Aamir Khan in Ghajini, the other lead character Jiah Khan says she is happy with her role in the film and hold no grudges against anyone. "As far as I am concerned I am very happy with my character in the film," the actor said when asked about the media reports that she was upset by not getting enough attention despite playing an important role in the film.