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CURRENT ISSUE JULY 12, 2004| eyecatchers | |||
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Get Set, Go Mo She is 4 ft 10 inches tall, of Indian origin and has a fan following that includes Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson. Gymnast Mohini Bhardwaj, 25, of Russian-Indian parentage is within a shot of a place on the US Olympic squad. Egged on by Anderson who, moved by the story of the veteran going up against the younger girls on the block, chipped in with funding. Glam Pam bonded with Bhardwaj's vegetarianism and turned up at the first round of trials waving a placard saying "Go Mo". | |||
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Character Call Kerala soft-porn princess Shakila declared she'd had enough with massage-parlour roles and moved to Telugu, Kannada and Tamil films for "important character roles". Her new film, the hit Monalisa, sees her playing a college principal. Way to go, you'd say. But wait. One scene has her in a mini with a thread lose, which a student pulls, leaving her with no skirt. Her legs gave a super character performance. | |||
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Little Big Feats Little wonders don't cease. After a sold-out show last year, Manasi Kirloskar (right), 11, daughter of Toyota's Kirloskars, is the youngest among 10 Indian artists to show abroad to raise funds for an institute for underprivileged children. Meanwhile, K. Sathyanarayan, 9, mentioned in the Limca Book of Records 2003 as the youngest Indian to pass 4th grade keyboard exam at Trinity College, London, released his third album of Carnatic music on the keyboard. | |||
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| Vanishing Act
Being a girl-next-door doesn't always pay. Ask Road star Antara Mali, whose career hit a speedbreaker with the deglamorised portrayal of a star-on-the-make in Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon. The reality-role victim is now back to sizzling scenes in the Ram Gopal Varma production Gayab, and the Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Naach. Her sultry act in Gayab, where she plays the love interest to an invisible man, is already creating a buzz. "It is not often that you get to act in a fantasy film," says the actor. She laughs off her hot scenes, saying "those are just candid moments the invisible hero catches the heroine in". Yup, the role asked for it. -Compiled by Kanika Gahlaut | |||
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