No power knows love like the heart knows love
How does this happen? Why does this happen? When will all those know-alls tell us why all this happens when a man and a woman fall in love? Why does the heart beat faster than any machine in the world when two lovers meet?

Have money will burn,
Kargil, cyclone can wait
It is new year’s day, they say. People all over have forgotten one of the most disastrous calamities of the millennium -- the cyclone in Orissa which has proved the power of the fury of the elements and the angry decision of the power above (my God).

Bappi Lahiri to compose for Hollywood film
Music director Bappi Lahiri is to compose music for an Hollywood film Will To Live in India. The title song of the movie will be rendered by Asha Bhosle at Sahara Recording Studio on November 26.

STICKLER FOR HOMEWORK
If dedication and homework go to make a great actor, Sayaji Shinde sure is one. The man who caught the eye of the movie connoisseur with the powerpacked performance as Bachchu Yadav in E Niwas’s Shool.

Talking Business

A CASE OF TOO MANY PRINTS?
Exhibitors of Hum Saath Saath Hain, who released the film with much anticipation and excitement last week, are anxiously watching the second week’s collections.

JAYA BACHCHAN

Jaya is aback, Jaya Hey!
I don’t know how young or how old I was those days but I remember it was a time when an actress called Jaya Bhaduri came in from the Film And Television Institute of India and knocked me and my entire generation out.

Tribunal allows bank to proceed against Bachchan

The Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) has allowed the government-owned Canara Bank to proceed against Amitabh Bachchan and wife Jaya, who had guaranteed the repayment of a Rs 10 crore loan taken by AB Corp Ltd.

It’s curtains on Calcutta IFFI’99

The Cal fest was not without its fair share of controversy: delegate passes were issued to those with little to do with films. Which leaves us wondering: whom was the film festival really meant for?