VASUNDHARA DAS
Kamal Haasan's new find

Meet Vasundhara Das, the girl whom Kamal Haasan had one look at and signed, to play the lead in his magnum opus, Hey! Ram. So impressed was AR Rahman with her looks and voice that he persuaded Mani Ratnam to cast her in his film Alay Payudhe.

Liveaction -- Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare

Another Govinda comic caper
Call it the force of habit, if you like. Director Harmesh Malhotra is working with his lucky Dulhe Raja mascot, Govinda again, this time in not one but two forthcoming movies. SCREEN visits the sets of the first of them, Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare at Kamalistan Studio, Mumbai...

Ask Anupam
Anupam Kher on Acting
He is a craze today, a man who is wanted but a man who doesn’t want everything he is offered. Today, Manoj Bajpai. the favourite, who almost saw no future for himself once is sitting on a throne of his own making.

Short Takes

Shaadi dot com
The latest member to join the dot com brigade is none other than the gentle Gujju Hansal Mehta. We certainly aren’t referring to Mehta’s portal or penchant for the net here, what we are talking about is the title of his latest venture.

Box Office

Kaho Na... steady at 90
The box-office has had yet another dull and drab week, business-wise. Even the Sanjay Dutt-Manisha Koirala starrer, Kauff, had a lack-lustre opening last week, despite the bumper publicity and media hype.

Ali's Notes

Dev - the treasure
Midnight. Pune. I am driving to a hotel in an autorickshaw being driven by a man who is in his seventies. He sees a picture of Dev Anand on the cover of one of the magazines I am carrying. He starts talking about Dev till we reach the hotel.

Editorial

Just what the doctor ordered
The dawn of 2000 has opened several entertainment avenues. The synergy that is developing between the knowledge based industry, as the minister has described the IT sector, and the entertainment industry is likely to open new vistas

Rushes

Raj Joshi, AVA chief
The Association of Voice Artistes, a registered body, elected Raj Joshi as its president at its recent elections. Leela Ghosh and Surendra Bhatia are the vice presidents, Pradeep Bhide is general secretary, Shivraj Suvarna and Trilok Kapoor are joint secretaries and Rajesh Jolly is treasurer.

Opinion

Sensation wth the moviecam
He belongs to a family of cinematographers. With his outstanding work in Subhash Ghai’s Taal and Rakesh Roshan’s Kaho Na... Pyar Hai Kabir Lal has really and truly come into his own.

Moviedom celebrates budget windfall

The collective mood in the film industry appears upbeat thanks to the budget proposals announced by finance minister Yashwant Sinha on February 29 for 2000-2001. With good reasons, too, for almost all its long-standing demands have been met.