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December 2010 Vol 1 Issue 25

MAN OF THE YEARRajnikant

Most Powerful WomenIN SHOWBIZ TODAY

“WE WANTED HELEN AUNTY AND DADDY TO HAVE CHILDREN!” –

SALMAN KHAN

PRESTIGIOUS PANEL DRAWS UP POWER LIST WITH A PUNCH

BHATTS LAUNCHA NEW Mallika Sherawat FOR

MURDER 2

“ON SCREEN IF I LOOK LIKE THIS, THEY WILL HATE IT. A HERO HAS TO LOOK LIKE A

HERO. OUTSIDE IT IS OKAY!”

“ON SCREEN IF I LOOK LIKE THIS, THEY WILL HATE IT. A HERO HAS TO LOOK LIKE A

HERO. OUTSIDE IT IS OKAY!”

THE DEMI-GOD IN HIS DEN – EXCLUSIVE!

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Editor & PublisherBharathi S Pradhan(editorial@thefilmstreetjournal.com)

Manager, Editorial DeptLucy Lewis

AssistantFarhana Khan

Special CorrespondentsChandrika BhattacharyaPooja SharmaJyothi Venkatesh

DesignersM Ajeesh KumarMegha Murkar

ColumnistsKhalid Mohamed Adelaide Travasso Vajir Singh Ashok Khanna

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Editor’s Diary 6

Cover Story“I Am 61 Years Old. Bahut Ho Gaya!”MAN OF THE YEARRajnikant exclusive 16

Cover pics: Bharathi S Pradhan, Yogen Shah

Love, Living Together & Lovely Lasses Imran Khan in Male Box 22

“We Wanted Helen Aunty And Daddy To Have Children!”Salman Khan in Heart-To-Heart 26

Celebrity Choice 28What does Kareena love to watch on DVD?

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New Murder heroine

Phir Satte Pe SattaGuzaarish review

Rajnikant Legend Award for Dharam-Hema

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Dressing Up SRKLook into Shah Rukh’s personal wardrobe 30

Single AbodeTusshar Kapoor’s wow bungalow 34

Quiz Time 38

Hello Hollywood 40

Soorajnamaskar!Khalid Mohamed celebrates the joys of Sooraj Barjatya’s cinema 44

Letters 48

Krishna Shah To Film Indira Gandhi Story 49

“I Concede: Action Replayy has been rejected by the audiences”Frank speak with Akshay Kumar 50

New Movies 54

Diwali, Eid, X’mas Release

Does it really make a difference? 60

People & Events 64

Women’s Section 69

The 10 Most Powerful Women In Showbiz Today 70

Power Woman – Ashvini Yardi 72

Money Talk – Gul Panag 74

Saluting Sindhutai 76

Women In The News 77

Last Shot 78

Anne Hathaway

Harry Potter

Bharathi S PradhanEditor, The Film Street JournalDiaryEditor’s

Om Ganeshaya Namah!Sunday, Nov 14, 2010

After Om Shanti Om, it was Ganesha for Farah Khan.

She sported exquisitely carved Ganesha earrings on the now-famous train from Mumbai to Lonavla when she released the

music of her new film Tees Maar Khan. “As we near release date, we start remembering all the gods,” wisecracked Farah who went from compartment to compartment looking after all her guests (mainly from the media).

What she did with her other close friends (not from the media) went largely unreported. A day before the well-publicised train ride, Farah gathered her gang around her and flew down in a chopper to Shirdi to seek Sai Baba’s blessings before she started promoting her film in the media.

“How come Farah has let out

her story that it’s all about a train robbery?” wondered a journalist. Answer: Because Farah is very clever. The train robbery is only a part of her film. The story has a different track too, with Akshaye Khanna playing a prominent part in it along with Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. That’s why Khanna was kept out of the train ride to deflect attention from the main story, ha, ha.

Hand it to Farah. The meticulous organizer had ordered plenty of water, coffee, tea and cartons of snacks for the train ride, topped with a lavish lunch at Duke’s Resort in Khandala (which I had to skip and motor down to Mumbai on my own to catch an important flight). But Farah made sure that Akshay was dressed like a tapori and so were all her male assistants. Obviously, the songs of Tees Maar Khan accompanied us all the way to Lonavla along with Akshay Kumar and Katrina who went from bogey to bogey talking to everyone.

Also on the train was Ronnie Screwvala of UTV who has partnered Farah and Akshay on Tees Maar Khan. Ronnie is the moneybags behind Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish too. “It is Sanjay Bhansali’s most aesthetic film to date,” promised Ronnie who hesitated for just a tad second before answering me that he hadn’t liked Saawariya. “Everybody is entitled to self-indulgence once in his life,” he shrugged. At someone else’s expense,

Ronnie? He had no answer to that as he quickly looked for the exit!

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Exclusive with RajnikantMonday, Nov 15, 2010

A big ‘thank you’ to Shatrughan Sinha who personally had a word with India’s biggest star today. The gates of No 18, Poes

Garden in Chennai were thus opened to me to facilitate Rajnikant’s one and only exclusive interview in recent times.

After Shatru’s request to Rajni to please speak to me as the official biographer of Sinha’s incredible life story, text messages went back and forth between Latha Rajnikant and me for two months before the meeting was finally fixed. I not only kept my fingers and toes crossed and kept mum until the interview happened, I even glibly lied to everybody on Farah Khan’s train that I had to catch a flight to Delhi – the opposite direction to where I was actually headed!

Latha’s planning worked well and it was like old times again meeting a relaxed ‘God’ called Rajnikant in his

personal den. As Rajni said a day later, it didn’t seem like a 15-year gap between all our earlier meetings and this one. Thank you, Shatru, Latha and Rajni. You made my month.

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Bhansali’s Exquisite, Expensive PaintingThursday, Nov 18, 2010

On Saturday morning (Nov 20, 2010), Hindustan Times quoted me on Guzaarish but alas, it was only a half

quote.After watching it at Film City on Thursday, my first reaction

to Guzaarish was: I liked the film.What worked for me: Does it really matter where it came

from? Whether it is Nolan’s The Prestige or Whose Life Is It Anyway? or The Sea Inside, Sanjay had stirred it well to make it intoxicating. When you step into the ethereal world of Ethan Mascarenhas and Sophiya, you wander leisurely through a rumbling old-quaint mansion that’s more European than Goan, savouring each lively moment of the dying quadriplegic’s human drama. And you connect with the fringe characters too, especially Devyani (Shernaz Patel), the friend-cum-lawyer.

The two hours seven minutes speed by as you move with Ethan and Sophiya, watch them voyeur-like in the curiously lit room, relive glimpses of his magical past with him, debate within yourself whether he is right or the court is, and exhale when the two finally articulate their unspoken chemistry.

A dying man’s tale told without slumping

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In the line of duty, I went from Famous in South Mumbai (for the

press screening of Shah Rukh Bola Khubsoorat Hai Tu) to Film City in the far-flung suburb of Goregaon (to watch Guzaarish), two totally different worlds and vastly varying budgets with one common thread: both filmmakers march to a beat of their own.

Shah Rukh Bola… draws a gritty tale of fan worship and a real-world romantic triangle where Lali’s life changes as fast as the traffic signal where she sells flowers. All it requires is one stray compliment from Shah Rukh Khan who tells Lali (played by Pond’s cream model Pritika Chawla) that she’s pretty before his car speeds away. He’s gone but she’s smitten. And the film, rooted in the grime and crime world of dance bars, pot-bellied cops and petty underworld figures, meanders through the backlanes of a Mumbai suburb even as SRK dalliances with Lali strictly in her fantasies.

It isn’t entirely a new thought as Guddi which introduced Jaya Bhaduri way back in the 70s had the same plot: schoolgirl Guddi is so besotted with matinee idol Dharmendra that her fiancé (Samit Bhanja) can’t reach out to her until the stardust has fallen from her eyes. It was a superb, fine piece of cinema told by master storyteller Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Years later, Ram Gopal Varma fed off the same basic thought when he filmed Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon where ambition, not romance, fuels the acolyte. But Ramu couldn’t

pull it off with Antara Mali (where’s Jaya and where’s Antara, please).

Theatre person Makrand Deshpande who has written and directed Shah Rukh Bola.. falls smack between Hrishida and Ramu as his film is neither as successful as Guddi nor as complete a write-off as Main Madhuri Dixit… Shah Rukh Bola is an interesting, off-beat attempt, best

viewed as film festival fare.

What’s common between Guddi and Shah Rukh Bola…: Dharmendra and Shah Rukh Khan, the superstars around whom each film revolved, happily participated in its making.

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Shah Rukh Bola Khubsoorat Hai TuThursday, Nov 17, 2010

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