| | Untitled Document | CURRENT ISSUE SEPTEMBER 18, 2006 | | | | EYECATCHERS |  | | | |  Hungary For Roles She's best known for playing the coy behnji-turned-sexpot-starlet in Page 3. Now Tara Sharma has signed a Hungarian film co-produced by boyfriend Roopak Saluja. Early next year, she will start shooting for Britz, a British TV series to be shot in Mumbai. But it's not foreign shores yet for the London School of Economics-alumnus. "I want a mixed bag of performance-oriented roles," she says. Now if only her films-Amavas, The Whisperers and Khosla Ka Ghosla-were actually released. | | | |  PURE GOLD
Shobana is the new golden girl of the World Gold Council. After a hiatus from the film world, actor and dancer Shobana has entered the world of glitter. Named ambassador by the Jewels of India group, Shobana, who won a national award for Mitr-My Friend, will feature in the publicity campaign as well. Hailing as she does from Tamil Nadu, the state that consumes 90 per cent of the yellow metal in India, they couldn't have found anyone better. | | | |  Dream Couple
When cupid struck Tamil heartthrob Surya and dream girl Jyothika, they didn't get to do duet
 s filmi style. The lovers, who met on the sets of Poovellam Kettupar, waited for a nod from Surya's father, actor Sivakumar. Their wedding, expected to be a blockbuster, is slated for September 11. After Ajit-Shalini and Dhanush-Aishwarya, it's clear love triumphs in Tamil cinema. | | | |  HIGH TIDE Suman Mukhopadhyay, the one-Bengali-film-old director has finally got acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh to agree to get his book Hungry Tide made into a film. The multilingual film has a budget of Rs 20 crore and will be shot in the Sundarbans, Kolkata, Phnom Penh and Seattle. Names such as Abhishek Bachchan, Rahul Bose and Zuleika Robinson are being bandied about, although nothing has been decided yet. "The landscape is the central protagonist," says Ghosh. Index
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