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ER...it’s Kher

Recently Anupam and Kirron Kher were specially invited for guest appearance in the top-rated medical serial ER. The two play Parminder Nagra’s parents — a role all too familiar for Anupam who played Nagra’s father in Bend It Like Beckham.

Produced by Michael Crichton, author of the blockbuster Jurassic Park, the hit show revolves around doctors and nurses in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. Such has been Kher’s performance that he’s become the top draw for the series.

Much like Om Puri, Anupam Kher seems to be the flavour for Asia-oriented films and serials. Apart from a cameo in Gurinder Chadha’s forthcoming Bride and Prejudice, he has done a BBC series Spooks as also an Indo-American telefilm Second Generation.

Man power

K. Street Pali Hill…Men with a past
K. Street Pali Hill…Men with a past

It’s male time folks. After a long wait comes a serial that revolves around male protagonist. Ironically it comes from Balaji — the production house that edged out men from important roles in soaps in the first place.

K. Street Pali Hill on Star Plus is the story of three ambitious men determined to make it big together. Life is hunky-dory till they start refurnishing their palatial mansion and open the outhouse that has remained locked for decades.

The outhouse unfolds the dark past that the friends believe they had long buried. Once the doors are opened, life for the three changes forever and for the worse. The show thas seasoned actors like Rittu Raj, Aly Khan, Vikram Kapadia and Iravati Harshe .

Tina on film trip

Till now you’ve known her as Shruti of Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki and for her cameos in Khichdi, Mansha, Kahani Terri Merri, Hip Hip Hurray, Sshh... Koi Hai, and Dollar Bahu. Now meet Tina Parekh as Sandhya in the forthcoming film, Satya Bol.

Unlike other moony younger generation TV stars who go ga-ga over their Bollywood debuts, Tina looks calm and unperturbed. "I expect a lot from the film. I play an honest cop’s wife in this thriller."

Though she has no plans of quitting television she’s definitely cutting back on work. "I am not signing any new shows. The focus is now on films," says Tina.

But isn’t this a deglamourised debut playing a cop’s wife? "Not at all. I think I’ve handled it as sensitively as Raveena did in Shool and Gracy in Gangajal," says Tina, whose favourite stars are Tabu and Kajol and not the two she is comparing herself with.

— NF

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