Spice Miss

Here is more proof of how very little takes you very far. Raakhi Sawant's (left) low neckline and high skirt in her role as a saucy secretary in T-Series' Pardesiya remix have transformed the Marathi girl into tellydom's bombshell. The spicy Ms who stars in Main Hoon Na isn't shying away from the attention: "Now I get offers for lead roles rather than item numbers." And the itsy bitsy number she donned in the video? "I carried off the outfit pretty well." Can we just point out there was hardly anything to carry in the first place?

Bare Inessential

In the days of Mallika Sherawat, there is hope for the over-40 Bollywood sirens. Theatre person Divya Palat, who just paid a bomb to buy the rights for the cult, coming-of-age play The Graduate, is auditioning film actors to play the seductive Mrs Robinson. The play, which will premiere in Mumbai this September and is to be directed by Palat, will have a young male star playing Benjamin Braddock. But don't expect the desi Mrs Robinson to strip for Braddock like Jerry Hall and Kathleen Ross did on London's West End. She will wear a body suit. "It is risqué but there is no nudity," says Palat. "We don't want the theatre to be attacked." Plus, who would pay to watch an ageing Indian actor take her kit off?