Filmmaker B. Subhash of Disco Dancer fame has passed on his dancing shoes to daughter Shweta, literally. The 31-year-old is now ready with her debut venture Jhoom—Dance With Me Again, written by her younger sibling Malvieka. “If there is anything I have learnt from my father, it is to make a music-oriented film,” explains Shweta. And Bappi Lahiri, who composed jewels like Jimmy Jimmy for Subhash Senior, is back in action with son Bappa. Time to disco, we say.ps?
SKIN DEEP Many a TV star with Bollywood dreams has used the sari-to-sizzle ploy. Now telly actor Amrapalli Gupta, who plays a demure bahu in Teen Bahuraniyaan, will be seen showing some skin in a remix video for an album, Chatni Mix. “It was shot before I debuted in this serial,” says the 23-year-old who is hoping Bollywood will notice her new avatar. “I would love to do glamorous roles though I don’t believe in exposing just like that,” she states. Is that the bare truth?
Prime Time Man
Here’s an American actor of Indian origin who is fast becoming a star on US TV. Mumbai-born Sunkrish Bala, formerly Balasubramaniam, will be seen on ABC’s Notes from the Underbelly, a sitcom on parenting. The 22-year-old actor from San Jose who has made fleeting appearances on Grey’s Anatomy, Will & Grace and Huff will play one of the lead roles. If Om Puri-starrer American Blend gave him a taste of fame, his ABC appearance is bound to catapult him to prime-time success.
Kiss and Tell
While Shilpa Shetty is still fending brickbats for her peck-a-thon with Richard Gere, former beauty queen Sayali Bhagat is all set to take the lip-lock road to fame. Bhagat makes her debut in The Train and will kiss none other than serial smoocher Emraan Hashmi. “We play a couple with a beautiful past. The kiss was required to establish that,” she says. Saying the kiss wasn’t uncomfortable, Bhagat jests she took up the role opposite Hashmi to make her friends jealous. Another kiss miss for the Bollywood stable?
SHE SAYS: “Hashmi is a charmer and a prankster.”
HE SAYS: “I fear the moment my wife will see the film.”
DISCO FEVER
SKIN DEEP
Prime Time Man
Kiss and Tell
