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India’s
cricketing legends
Ajay Banerjee
FROM
a list of 16 nominees, the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century was
chosen on July 23 in London. Wisden selected a jury made up of 35
international cricketers, journalists, broadcasters and analysts, who
had each been asked to submit a shortlist of five names, marking one as
their choice of the Indian Cricketer of the Century.
In the spotlight
She puts no bar
on sensible roles
Lakshmi Menon
SHE
has won the National Film Award for Best Actress, made hits out of
small-budget movies and recently, sat for her first portrait with M.F.
Husain in Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities. Yet, ask Tabu, and she
maintains that she is not one to be deliberately breaking the rules of
the game.
Stage presence
He has
hit big time with new musical
Sitesh Debnath
WITH
the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical, Bombay Dreams,
Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman has hit a new high. In a career spanning
less than a decade, he has reached the threshold of being the first
Indian tunesmith to break into big-time Hollywood.
Celluloid chitchat
Humraaz,
Kaante set betting meter ticking
FROM
cricket to cinema, punters have hit big time. The betting meter for the
seasonstarted ticking with Abbas-Mustan’s love triangle Humraaz, when
more then Rs 1 billion was reportedly up for the taking in Mumbai city
alone, depending upon the accuracy of box-office speculations.
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