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CALL FROM CELL 6.6
| Is Sooraj Thapar the new Maddy in Jassi…? |
| If anyone has been missing the effeminate Maddy on Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, it's time to rejoice. This week, Sooraj Thapar (in a complete unrecognizable avatar - spiked blond hair, bleached cheeks et al) made his appearance as another fashion designer Charles. Thapar plays a high flying designer who steps into Jassi's new fashion house Karishma and offers to help her out. |
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| It's off with the spaghetti straps and on with the shirts and jackets - although why they can't be casual and wear T-shirts, we'll never understand. This lady means business. We don't mean Mandira Bedi, who looks lovely with or without whatever she wears, but Anjum Chopra. Anjum who? Anjum Chopra, former captain of the Indian cricket team, of course. Women's team, in case you're getting awfully confused. Anjum has replaced those dainty wall flower girls as the Fourth Umpire on Doordarshan's cricket show. Congratulations and celebrations, DD, for being bold enough to forsake girls who knew how to bat beautifully with their eyelashes for a woman who knows what it is to bat out in the middle. Not that Anjum is uneasy on the eye; on the contrary, she's very pleasing. However, the reason she's seated next to Charu Sharma is because she possesses a cricketing brain. |
That's not always enough. Last Friday, to a man, DD's expert panel disagreed with Dravid's decision to bowl first after he won the toss. It was left to Arun Lal, the only one to get a feel of the pitch, to agree with the Indian captain and, as it turned out, they were right. Moral of the story? Don't always believe what you hear.
On the other hand, we would like to see what we are there to see, if you see what we mean. We are there to watch cricket not Jassi or Aamir Khan drinking a Coke "sar uthaake" - with their heads held high. When it's them we want we'll tune into J Jaisi Koi Nahin (a big mistake these days) or one of the movie channels. We want to watch the wickets fall, the runs scored. Is that asking for too much? Apparently. None of the sports channels time their commercial breaks accurately so DD Sports was still snacking on a break when Irfan took Dilshan's wicket. Do you mind? Star News doesn't mind being impolite to likely losers. On Wednesday, after its exit poll on the second round of voting in Bihar indicated thumbs firmly down for Ram Vilas Paswan, the evening anchor went for politician's jugular. Congratulations, you have ruined Laloo's game... you like to play spoiler... you are the dal in the salt (!?)... Some of the rudeness may be lost in translation but say it in a very aggressive, belligerent tone and even "namak" sounds abusive. It's like the news channel is passing judgment on Paswan; no need when the people will pronounce his verdict. NDTV 24X7 interviewed Paswan the same night. While Prannoy Roy also pointed out that the minister was playing spoilsport, he did so in a (polite) manner like he was asking Paswan to please pass him the salt! Onto sweeter subjects, then, and what else but the season of mithai, Diwali. All the news channels are binging on Diwali specials on shopping, crackers and just how many ladoos one company can make (thousands). Aaj Tak had a bizarre take on the festival: it visited a beauty parlour to find out what women want. What some women want is to become "fair" for the festival of lights (just in case it shines too brightly in their faces?). Others want a facelift - we had to watch a woman having Jello scraped off her face. Thanks very much, Aaj Tak. Clearly, the aforementioned women do not want to look like Saloni, the heroine of the latest serial on Zee - Saat Phere. The actress may actually have a complexion that resembles hot chocolate or else the producers have darkened her skin so that she looks the part of a young girl who is discriminated against because, you got it, of the colour of her skin. She will face many trials and tribulations - the going rate for marrying a dark girl is apparently Rs 25 lakh or some such nonsense.The serial is a serious attempt to criticise Indian social norms but it would be helpful if there were a few shades thrown in so that we don't see everybody in terms of black and white. No, not skin colour, but we want characters who are neither one or the other but shades of both.
| Jassi...director quits! www.indiantelevision.com | |||
| Rajan Shahi, the director of Sony's driver show, Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin has
decided to bid goodbye to the show. He will now direct the Sunjoy Wadhwa show on Zee, Saat Phere.
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| Host seat turns hot | |
| He may be the defending champion but his daughter doesn't give him a chance. Why? He is up against Amitabh Bachchan this year. Derek O'Brien (picture below) has been nominated in the Best Host category in the ITA (Indian Television Academy) Awards this year but to win the trophy, like he did last year for Bournvita Quiz Contest, Derek has to beat the Kaun Banega Crorepati host. "I think it's an honour enough to be nominated alongside the big man. Come on, your name is being taken with God! I am more thrilled than last year although I know my chances are zero," Derek tells Metro. The ITA Awards, to be shown this Saturday on STAR Plus, has Shekhar Suman (He Man) and Annu Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (Antakshari) also vying for the Best Host honour. A total of 46 channels will be taking part in the awards this year and there are more than 50 categories. Mona Singh is the favourite to win the Best Actress award in the drama category for Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, while Shivaji Satam is expected to bag the Best Actor trophy for CID. |
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Scheduled to start from 14th November on the 9.30 pm slot, 'Kituu Sabb Jaantii Hai' is Sahara One's latest entertainment promise. It is the story of a prodigious girl Kituu, played by actor Ami Trivedi. Sony's 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin', a tale of an ordinary girl's extraordinary life-script, could well face competition with this account of a girl with intellectual prowess.
The channel however, wishes to remain tight lipped at the moment about the new soap. It is learnt that Sanjay Jumaani, the official soothsayer of the channel, has advised them to keep everything under wraps till the auspicious day of the press conference. The extra alphabets to the title have been added to ensure it becomes a fool proof hit, said an insider.
The cast includes actors Naresh Suri, Shama Deshpande and Amit Verma. The show is being presented by Siddhant Cinevision and is produced by the veteran Manish Goswami. On being asked whether this is going to be yet another Plain Jane show, producer Manish Goswami differs.
He says, "The USP of this soap is the backdrop and the unique character of its protagonist. Kituu is the story of prodigious girl who is far more intelligent than her age. Well that certainly seems like a take off on Roald Dahl's 'Matilda'. Wait and watch!
There was the usual nach-gana routine and thanksgiving speeches — there was also attitude, slip-ups and over-the-top histrionics. Star Plus will telecast the awards ceremony on November 12, at 6 pm. Here's what you may not see in the televised event…. Jeetu's faux pas Angad gets a call Kumud has lost it! Sameer bana angrez |
When Mihir Virani -- scion of the Virani empire in the superhit television soap Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi -- died in a car crash, India wept.
To this day, Amarr Upadhyay -- Mihir for his countless Kyunki fans -- can't believe he was at the centre of such adulation.
"But now Mihir is behind me. I can never go back to playing that character. It was an essential part of my growth as a human being and an actor," says Upadhyay.
Amarr seems more flabbergasted than furious by rumours that he has been angling for a place in the soap that made him a household name.
"I don't know where all this talk of my return to Kyunki... originated. If I had any desire to return, why would I have left the serial in the first place?" he asks.
"I've heard that I'm keen to return, if not as my original character then as Mihir's grandson named Mayank. Who on earth is Mayank? And where did that come from? When I read myself saying I want to play this character, I asked my wife [who follows the serial religiously] who Mayank was. I've never heard that name, so how could I say I'm going to play that character?"
"I think some of our journalists should take to writing serials. Their imagination is more fertile than the soap writers".
"Let me state once and for all that after I left I never wished to be back in Kyunki... That remains unchanged. I'm happy to be back with Ekta Kapoor's Balajee Telefilms to do two serials Kkusum and Kasauti Zindagi Kay. I'm in negotiation with another major production house for a daily soap," he informs.
In-between his efforts to make a movie career and to re-establish himself on television, Amarr did Sahara's daily Saathiya, which failed to take off, lending credence to the belief that TV stars do not get a second chance.
Didn't Parmeet Sethi, Mihir Mishra, Sudhanshu Pande and Shekhar Suman ruin their promising careers on telly in pursuit of a larger canvas?
Amarr's vehement denial of the role that made him so popular replicates the indignant responses of Aneeta Kanwar and Priya Tendulkar. Tyepcast in viewers' minds as Lajjoji in Buniyaad and Rajani in the serial Rajani, the actresses made vain efforts to consolidate their positions on the big screen.
Parmeet Sethi gave up a thriving career on television to pant after Twinkle Khanna in a walk-on role in Mela. Today he is reduced to playing second fiddle to Apoorva Agnihotri in Jassi Jaisi…Koi Nahin.
For now, Amarr Upadhyay too has to be content playing less than the main lead. Will he be second-time lucky?
"I should hope so. It isn't as though I've abandoned my career plans in movies. I just chose wrongly," he says.
He also denies that he acted pricey with movie producers. "I don't know who spread these rumours about me throwing attitude and asking for astronomical sums of money. It was the other way around. Some of my movie producers failed to pay up after agreeing to a certain price."
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