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Cosmetic
showing at Cannes
The latest edition of
the world’s most glamorous film festival, as always, attracted a
battery of Bollywood biggies, but on the French Riviera Indian cinema
was still miles away from being "the greatest love story ever
told"
Saibal Chatterjee
IT’S
that time of the year again. The 64th Cannes Film Festival has been on
and a significant segment of the Mumbai movie industry had turned its
attention to the south of France. Every May, when the world’s
glitziest and most prestigious film festival unfolds over a period of
12 glamour-packed days, Bollywood denizens, both mainstream and
not-so-mainstream, pack their bags with the best designer outfits and
head to the salubrious climes of the French Riviera to hold the Indian
flag aloft.
Red
carpet role call
CANNES
opens the doors to global fame. So, it is easy to understand why
Bollywood stars and wannabes make a beeline for the red carpet. These
personalities and the celebrity-obsessed media that feeds off them
love going into overdrive when all eyes in India are fixated on the
Riviera. It is no different this year. ‘Red carpet’ has become a
buzzword and every Mumbai actress who is anybody, even Minissha Lamba,
wants to be seen on the Boulevard de la Croisette.
 Mobile
signals killing
honeybees
SIGNALS
emanating from mobile phones may be partly blamed for the mysterious
deaths of honeybees worldwide, a new study has claimed, although many
experts seem unconvinced by the findings. In the first experiment of
its kind, Swiss researchers placed mobile phones in beehives under
controlled conditions and carefully monitored the reaction of the
worker bees.
Viva
Valencia
The birthplace of
Paella and home to the legendary Holy Chalice, this beautiful Spanish
city needs no more reasons to woo visitors, feels Tanushree
Podder
HORCHATA,
a delectable drink dating back to its Islamic era, between the 8th and
13th century, made its beginning here. It is also the home of
beautiful Lladro porcelain. A cauldron of cultural blends, Valencia
has experienced footfalls of the Romans, the Byzantines as well as the
Moorish kings. Little surprise then that the city has umpteen
influences on its art, culture and cuisine.
Stage
act
Television actor Manav Gohil,
who made a name for himself with shows like Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii,
Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Sarkar, Remix and Kkusum, has
entered theatre in a bid to reinvent himself
FOR
small screen star Manav Gohil, "Theatre has always been something
that I have wanted to do. As an actor, if I only do what is available
to me on TV and not grow, then my career will be finished very
soon." Manav, who also did
Darmesh Darshan’s movie Bhanwra, which has not been released
yet, says, "For me, to learn and reinvent myself is very
important and theatre is something I have always regarded as the
paramount school for acting.
‘Awards do not make
sense to me’
Says Salman Khan, who is
back with his latest film Ready, in conversation with Jyothi
Venkatesh
You have been working in
the remakes of hit South Indian films. Is it a strategic move?
It is sheer coincidence
that my three films Wanted, Ready and Bodyguard have
been remakes of South Indian hit films. I did not consciously plan any
strategy. It is just that when you remake a Hollywood film, the whole
world has already seen it but when you set out with a remake of a
South Indian hit, only the South Indians have been able to see them.
It is now the reverse.
Penelope
not
afraid of ageing
UNLIKE
other Hollywood actresses, she goes with the notion ‘change is
good’ and feels that this conviction she imbibes just because she is
a European! Perhaps that is why Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz, 37, has
not resorted to any artificial add-ons to make her skin wrinkle-free!
Cruz said that she did not share the Hollywood obsession with eternal
youth because she is Spanish.
SOCIETY
Maverick
of the skies
Air Cdre Mehar Singh was an
ace pilot. But for his innovative bombing with Dakotas followed by the
landing of the first one at a strip in Poonch, that tract of India
would have been lost to Pakistan. He also landed the first Dakota at
Leh on an unprepared surface, writes Lieut-Gen
Baljit Singh (retd)
ONCE
the history of any war is diligently imbibed, certain actions and
deeds of individuals get imprinted so firmly in memory that they
resurface time and again, with the least provocation. So it was that
the mere mention of a school child’s last name, a few days ago,
brought to mind in a flash her late uncle, the indomitable Air Cdre
Mehar Singh, D.S.O., M.V.C.
From
fame to notoriety
Major-Gen Pushpendra Singh (retd)
SOON
after the British defeated the Sikhs at Sobraon, Capt Sir James
Abbott, KCB, an officer of the Bengal Artillery, was appointed the
first Deputy Commissioner of Hazara district bordering the Pakhtun
lands. He was immediately faced with lawless gangs of soldiers of the
Sikh Army, who harried the British and ravaged the land to make a
living.
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