Q1. Congress leader Salman Khursheed appears in the film Soch as...
a. The hero's father.
b. A chief guest at a film awards function.
c. An honest politician, killed by the villain.

Q 2. During Ganeshotsav in Gujarat, idols of Chief Minister Narendra Modi will also be immersed because...
a. Ganesha idols are fixed onto the Modi idols.
b. The idolmakers deify him.
c. Some people symbolically wish to drown him.

Q 3. Actor Aishwarya Rai recently became the brand ambassador for...
a. Miss World Inc.
b. WAA-Weight Watchers Anonymous.
c. Sahara India Parivar.

Answers:1(b). 2(a), 3(c)

PREITY ZINTA
"I'm a Brat in Kundan Shah's Film"
She's back on the big screen after a year's hiatus, with Dil Hai Tumhaara (DTH), in which she co-stars with Mahima Chaudhary, Rekha, Jimmy Shergill and Arjun Rampal. The bubbly actor on the movie, her only release this year.

Q. What is the storyline of DTH?
A. It's a story of love and familial ties, of a mother, played by Rekha, and her two daughters, Mahima and I. Mahima plays the quiet, gentle, elder sister. She is the peacemaker of the house, whereas I am a brat who shares a great bond with her sister and will do anything to keep her mother happy.

Q. Your role sounds similar to the breezy characters you've played before ...
A. Shalu is not simple, sweet and bubbly like a lot of my other characters. Her madness is loud in order to attract attention to herself. She is a compulsive liar. She wants to do things right, but always ends up doing them wrong. She has fears which come from deep-rooted insecurities and the excess baggage from her childhood.

Q. Was it easy to work with Kundan Shah the second time round?
A. He would yell at me all the time and then get away with it by offering me a box of chocolates on the sets. So now if I am a pound heavier, you know who to blame! But he is a great director to work with. He knows his mind. And he'll always be very special. Kya Kehna was the first film I signed and working with him was a breeze. What really stands out about him is that he is attempting to give the audience wholesome, clean and different cinema. DTH is a fun film that people will want to watch.

-Sandeep Unnithan

REEL REPLAY
Humour in Uniform

BUMBLER: Deol in Chor Machaye Shor

Bobby Deol may have elicited quite a few laughs playing the crook-turned-bumbling policeman in David Dhawan's Chor Machaye Shor but Mumbai's spit and polish Police Commissioner M.N. Singh isn't laughing. Singh recently fired off a missive to various film associations and producers asking them to take the police more seriously and to stop depicting them on screen as sloppy bumpkins. While he has praised the makers of Sarfarosh, Encounter-The Killing and Mission Kashmir, he says he's contemplating starting classes for filmmakers so that they get to understand the seriousness of a policeman's job.

But Bollywood isn't falling in line as yet. "Who is he to decide?'' asks producer Mukesh Bhatt, who says Singh is taking on the job of the Film Certification Board. Save the stray black sheep, Bollywood also has cinematic lore to back it-good policeman Shashi Kapoor gunning down bad brother Amitabh Bachchan in Deewar.

-Sandeep Unnithan

MUSIC REVIEW

DANCE MASTI ... AGAIN (Sony Music; Rs 60)

In the 1980s we had cover versions of film songs sung by Anuradha Paudwal. Then it was remixes with jhankar beats. Now there's Instant Karma's third album Dance Masti ... Again, a mix of ballads and fast songs.

"We are constantly trying to reinvent ourselves," says Ehsaan Noorani, of the group he makes up with Loy Mendonsa and Farhad Wadia. Mendonsa calls the album a "dance revival project", not a remix. The tracks are interesting-the trio keeps the melody intact and introduces interludes. So you have O meri soni, Khaike paan Banaraswala and Pardesia interspersed with English lyrics. Singers Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shaan and Shankar Mahadevan have added their own twists, call it musical interpretation or improvisation.

-S. Sahaya Ranjit