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Q & A: SHRIYA SARAN
Southern Spice


At 22, southern siren Shriya Saran has not only played lady love to superstar Rajnikant in his magnum opus Sivaji: The Boss, she is now all set to try her luck in Bollywood again with Awarapan.

Q. What was working with Rajnikant like?

A. He is a demi-god. Often you are disappointed on meeting stars but when I met him my admiration quadrupled.

Q. Did you have language problems?

A. I’m a pucca north Indian doing Telugu and Tamil movies. I know Telugu, but someone has to dub for me.

Q. Your first Bollywood film Shukriya was a dud.

A. After Shukriya I wanted to do good work. Interesting offers came from the south. Now I have some great offers in Bollywood so I’ve moved to Mumbai.

Q. Does that mean it’s goodbye to regional films?

A. We should look at Indian cinema as a whole rather than concentrating on regional differences.

A New Dawn

Call her eye candy or simply Suga Candy, the latest looker doing the rounds of music channels is hot import Rose Dawn. The 19-year-old girl from London is creating quite a stir with Frankfinn Music’s new remix video Kahin pe nigahen and is already well-versed with celebrity lingo. “Item numbers can be classy and naughty and need not be raunchy,” declares Dawn. Interestingly, the Anglo-Indian beauty claims she knows the basics of Kathak, Bharatanatyam, hip-hop, tap dance, ballet and belly dancing. The dawn of a new dance diva, perhaps?
 
RECORD ROW

Bhavik Gandhi, 30, a venture capitalist, took 106 days to row a distance of 6,393 km from Spain to Antigua, becoming the first Asian to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Mumbai and settled in Stockholm, Sweden, Gandhi set a world record when his boat Miss Olive docked at Jabberwock beach on June 14. No mean feat, indeed.

Dance Diva

Daddy dearest may not be nodding in approval, but Esha Deol is all set to take the item number route to success. The 24-year-old will shimmy in a “totally filmy” climax song composed and sung by Shibani Kashyap for Rohit Shetty’s forthcoming film Sunday. While Shetty says he signed the Dhoom babe for her dancing abilities, Deol isn’t worried about being tagged an item girl. “I don’t have a problem doing it because it’s not vulgar and I’m a very confident dancer,” she claims.

-Compiled by Kimi Dangor

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