YAHOO MALE
The original rockstar

Shammi Kapoor was India’s Rock and Roll king. From Tumsa Nahin Dekha to his last film Rockstar, he remained the only one of his kind, writes Devinder Bir Kaur

Yaahooo!, when Shammi Kapoor screamed the lungful cry in Junglee, mountains echoed his yell signifying freedom from his suffocating household where laughter and love were forbidden. Junglee was probably Shammi Kapoor’s most successful film, at least the most typical of him. After languishing in heroine-dominated B-grade films like Jeevan Jyoti, Laila Majnu, Miss Coca Cola, Shama Parwana, Rail Ka Dibba, Tangewali, Mem Sahib etc, Shammi Kapoor decided to go in for a total change of image.

He was his own special effect
Shammi Kapoor’s spontaneity in his dance moves and songs needed no post-production touches. Vandana Shukla recounts some memorable songs of the first playboy of the Hindi cinema
THE first playboy of Hindi cinema that Shammi Kapoor was had no role models to follow. So, he broke the mould of boring propriety of his contemporaries. He never followed the lines drawn for the camera, his cameramen had to be as swift as him to follow wherever his body led him, and it seemed to rebel against all the normal gravitational rules.

A clean-up pilgrimage
Every year, after the Manimahesh pilgrimage, there is a trail of litter left behind by devotees. The Mountain Cleaners, a group of volunteers, has taken up the mission to get rid of this waste, writes Vishal Gulati
BEFORE the pilgrimage for Manimahesh starts, anti-waste campaigners have headed for Manimahesh Lake at 13,500 feet, which on clear days affords splendid views of Lord Shiva’s mythical abode, Mount Kailash. The campaign is led by British national Jodie Underhill, known as the ‘garbage girl’ of the mountains, with the motto: "Help us to keep Shiva’s home clean like ours is."

Go for the natural look
It is the healthy body that is coming into vogue. There is no need to conceal the so-called irregularities in your figure, says Homai Sagar
INDIAN women wanting to be in the forefront of fashion need not worry anymore about having imperfect bodies. Reason for this comforting message? The whole fashion world is changing by undergoing a shift from the so-called thin anorexic look to rather more voluptuous figures.