TELE
BUZZ
 Girl friend no.
5
If you thought that the creative heads at Chahat Aur Nafrat, the popular
love-hate melodrama on Zee, couldn’t serve any more bouncers after changing
Sharad Kapoor into Salil Ankola. Think again! For they have just introduced
a fifth woman in the hero’s life. After wooing, dating, jilting and
divorcing Channa Ruparel, Navni Parihar, Pallavi Joshi and Arundhati,
Sharad-turned-Salil is now chasing Vaidehi. “That will make the story
more interesting,” claims director Saurabh. How far the gimmicks work,
remain to be seen.
Star kids on
Videocon Flashback
Here’s a treat for all ye couch potatoes. Star kids viz. Sanjana Kapoor,
Meghana Gulzar, Ekta Kapoor, Boy Mukerji, Naser, Naaved are all set to descend
on the small-screen and drive you down memory lane. Recounting anecdotes
about their star parents and flashbacking to their films. Does sound sumptuous,
doesn’t it? Well, Channel (V) brings this new avtaar of Videocon Flashback
for 13 weeks from Sunday, April 30 at 1 pm. Though we relished Jaaved’s
scintillating wit, magical mimickry and nuggets of information, week after
week, on the show, the change in flavour will only make Videocon Flashback
more savoury, right?
 Star wars
Tanaz Currim will be hosting a brand new film-based show titled, The Battle
Of Bollywood. With interesting footage from films, edited and woven together
carefully to achieve an hilarious impact, it will pit heroes like Bachchan
against Anil Kapoor and they will compete in innovative rounds. The Get Up
round will feature different get ups of the stars , in the Physical Fitness
round the contestants will display their fighting, horse riding or any other
physical skills. In the Boogie Woogie round, footage of dances of the
participants will be shown. In all, it’s a show in a lighter vein aimed
at tickling the viewer’s funny bone. Wednesday evenings at 8.00, catch
the re-mixed fun on Sony.
Music Asia brings
Music In Making
When the pretty heroine floats across the screen and the dashing hero serenades
her, mesmerised by the sheer magic of the song, we marvel at the creation.
Music Asia now brings an in-depth look at the goings-on behind-the-scene
that constitute the creation. Focussing on the unreleased Hindi film number
or a music video, Music In Making will zoom in on directors, singers,
choreographers, lyricists and artistes involved in the making of the song.
For the musical data and details tune into Music Asia every Thursday at 9.00
pm. The show opened with an interesting insight into the making of the Duplicate
song.
 Hard-hitting
performance
On the sets of Chahat Aur Nafrat, Arundhati had to slap Salil Ankola hard
across the face. The debonair cricketer-turned-actor was rather wary of the
entire proceedings. Arundhati, had, in a similar shot for Daraar, served
a stinging one on Harsh Chhaya’s pink cheeks. Harsh just rubbed his
cheek vigorously and forgot the episode. Looks as if Salil heard of
Arundhati’s hard-hitting performance for he kept shying away from shooting
the scene. Fortunately for Salil, he ducked well in time, and escaped unhurt
after the shot. That’s more than he did on the cricket
pitch.
Tele-film on
women’s emancipation
Ye Kaisa Sambandh, a bold and gripping tele-film based on women’s
emancipation will be premiered on DD-1 at 3.00 pm on April 26. Produced and
directed by Anurag Shivpuri, this one-hour film stars Rushali, Satyen Kappu,
and Kunal Singh.
 Another dubbed serial
on Sony
Mad About You is a romantic comedy of a young, urban newly wed couple who
try their best to sidestep mounting hurdles in the path of love. This Columbia
Tristar International series, dubbed in Hindi is on air every Sunday evening
at 10.30. Mad About You holds a mirror to married life, taking a peek at
a world behind closed doors. Starring Paul Raiser and Helen Hunt, the serial
is bound to appeal to foreign-serial buffs.
First Kannada
mega mythological
Based on the life and preachings of Sri Raghvendra Swamy, a 104-episode serial
is being aired on Udaya TV on Sunday morning at 8.30. Produced by Surya Tej
Creations in Kannada and dubbed in three more South Indian languages, it
highlights three generations of Sri Raghavendra Swamy. The serial is being
directed by Udaya Bhasker of Jai Veer Hanuman aired on Sony. The title role
will be played by Bharat Bhagavatar, who inspite of acting in as many as
38 Kannada films hasn’t really found a foothold in the industry. Bharat
has accepted vegetarianism and has also turned a teetotalar since he signed
the saintly role. Hope, Bharat’s efforts will be crowned with
success.
 Pardon,
Laila
We ran into lovely Laila Rouass, of the Close-Up Close Encounters of Channel
(V) fame on the sets of UTV’s Style for BBC. And were we confounded
by her heavily accented conversation? Well, we confess we could hardly follow
what she was talking about, all we could do is gape at the pretty damsel.
Not that we least minded, but for the fact that we were commissioned to interview
her. We found the said communication gap a trifle disconcerting. We strained
our ears in vain to catch her fly-by quotes. Alas! with little success. Agreed
you are a product of mixed parentage - with a Goan mom and Moroccan pop and
that you were brought up in the Queen’s country, but now that you are
here in Bharat mahan could you please tone down your accent for us desis
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