Chandigarh, July 21
Winners of on the spot painting contest organised by Joshi Autozone, as a part of the ongoing Maruti Wagnon R painting contest for schoolchildren, were awarded at a function organised at Tribune Model School, Sector 29, here today.

About 298 students from Tribune Model School had taken part in the contest that was held on July 19. The contestants were required to color a caricature of Wagon R and Mickey Mouse. The participants were divided into three categories, group A for students from Class I to class III; group B from Class III Class to V and group C from Class VI and Class VII.

The winners are Rishab Sharma in Group A category, Akshita Sharma in Group B and Ankush Sharma in group C category. The winners were given a bicycle each in recognition of their talent. Mr Hardeep Brar, Regional Manager, North II, Chandigarh alongwith the Joshi Autozone’s Managing Director Mr Deepak Joshi, gave away the prizes.

Chandigarh, July 21
Bhavna Karir, the Delhi-based owner of Media Ad Link, who allegedly cheated several persons on the pretext of getting them modelling career was today produced in a local court in a case of cheating registered against her in the city. She was arrested by the Delhi police in a separate case of cheating on June 30 and had been lodged in Tihar Jail ever since. She was today brought from Delhi on production warrants by the UT police.

She was produced in the court of UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr C.L. Mohal, in the afternoon. The police pleaded for a three-day custody of Bhavna on the ground that it had to recover incriminating documents in the case and other details of the case. The police said during the investigation, it received 12 more complaints of similar nature against the accused. After hearing the police plea, the CJM remanded her in police custody for one day.

The UT police had registered a case against Bhavna Karir on July 6 acting on the complaint lodged against her by Sandeep Singh, a resident of Sector-36. The police had registered a case under Sections 420 and 120 B of the IPC against Ms Bhavna Karir and Ms Monica, In charge of the local branch of the company.

On July 7, the crime branch of the Chandigarh Police had conducted search at the Sector 35 office of Media Ad Link. The agency had allegedly duped several residents by promising their children a modelling career. Thereafter the UT police had procured production warrants against Bhavna from a local court on July 9.

Chandigarh, July 21
They might have been reading “Love Letters” for the past 11 years now, but time certainly has not robbed them of their enthusiasm. Actor Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel are still excited and bit nervous to enact characters of two love struck persons at Tagore Theatre tomorrow.

“Playing the entire life of a person from the age of eight to 55 only through a set of letters is quite a challenging job,” says Rajit, who looked a little dishevelled after his long flight from Germany. Rajit who was in Germany to shoot for his latest film “Netaji — the Last Hero” is in town to act in the play “Love Letters”.

Accompanying Rajit is bubbly Shernaz, the girl from the famous tele-serial “Khandaan”, who has kept herself away from the small screen so far by keeping herself busy in theatre and now embracing teaching career. Shernaz is equally excited to play her favourite role in the play, “which has not lost its charm because there are too many shades to it,” she says. “The letters are biographical and describe the entire life span of two persons. In the play, though we enact the scenes rather than sitting separately and reading them out as originally intended by the writer of the play A.R. Gurney, we do not make an eye contact, acting instinctively,” she adds.

The first show of “Love Letters” was staged in 1992 and more than 200 shows have been staged all over the world, starring always the twosome Rajit and Shernaz except for one show in which Shernaz could not act. Though both have acted in other productions as well, at least as far as Rajit is concerned, they both admit the characters in “Love Letters” are closest to their heart.

Ask them how time has changed their performance and they both reply at the same time: “When we started the production it was easier for us to portray the younger versions of the characters and difficult to fit into the older ones, but now it is the reverse,” they say as they break into a laughter.

Rajit who has made his mark on the silver screen with films like “Zubeida” and “Zindagi Khubsoorat Hai” will portray another meaningful role in his forthcoming film “Netaji — the Last Hero”. “I like playing historical movies and in this film I will be playing the role of Abid Hassan” says Rajit. However his first film “Suraj Ka Sathwa Ghora”, a Shyam Benegal flick, is still closest to his heart.

Rajit’s return to the small screen is still unclear as he has yet to decide about a project for the small screen. “After keeping away from the small screen for about two and half years, I found something interesting but have not said ‘yes’ yet,” he says. How about making film? “That is a different ball game altogether but I would like to try out when I can raise the money,” he says.

Shernaz is content with her life as a stage performer and teacher. In fact it was her love for the stage that brought her close to Rajit and few other like-minded persons and start their own group, “The Rage”, with their first ever play “Are there tigers in Congo?” in 1992.

“I belong to a family of theatre artistes and this is what I would like to do,” she says. Shernaz has all reasons to be happy for she is currently doing up to 27 shows a month. “The popularity for English theatre has picked up in the recent times though it is still far behind Marathi or Gujarati theatre,” she says.