Every time the pessimists, the forces working against Akshay Kumar, talk about the beginning of the end of Akshay Kumar, the optimist, the positive force in me (which is growing stronger, thanks be to God), I, think of my friend Kulbhushan Gupta’s Vidroh.\

When Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at point blank range by Nathuram Godse, 13-year-old Mohini Mathur was just 20 feet away from the scene of crime.

He switches media like a playboy changing cars. One night he’s on stage doing Evita, hitting the highest note on the musical scale with a pro’s proficiency.

Aisa Kyon? - third song picturisedzb
Choreographer Habiba Rehman has picturised the third song for Kailash Art International’s Aisa Kyon? on lead pair Rajesh, Radhika and a number of dancers at Film City on December 29 and 30.

Reformed Chi chi

Apna Govinda is sticking by his millennial resolution. The incorrigible late-comer had vowed that he would mend his ways and that punctuality would be his buzzword. And what do you know, he’s really living upto his word.

Box Office

Kaho Naa... holds on
The distributors have their backs to the wall. Only Rakesh Roshan’s Kaho Na... Pyaar Hai has been doing roaring business, improving on its collections wherever it has been released. But the other big films have turned out low performers.

Ali's Notes

The giant against the boys
There is something within me that tells me loud and clear that Amitabh Bachchan this year is working on some of the best films of his career. They are the films that are going to bring him back in a big way and are going to prove to all generations that he cannot be given up as a great actor,

They’re reduced to the irrelevant at other times, unsought, rotting in the cans. But for once, documentary, short and animation films held centrestage in Mumbai last week, bringing the screens alive.

Rushes

Pran turns 80
Veteran actor Pran who gave the image of the bad man in Hindi films a new respectability in more than 350 films in a span of half a century and then changed over to playing the good man will turn 80 on February 3. He is still active in films, and last shot for Dosh.