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Zee Smile gives viewers one more reason to smile with Kahani Shuru with Love Guru at 8 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. Produced by model and actor Milind Soman, the bi-weekly series is a set of love stories that are played out for 10 or more episodes. The main element in all these is the character of Love Guru played by Manish Paul. The unusual Guru appears in the story in any avatar that the situation demands: sometimes as a cab driver, a waiter, a passer by and provides tips for love. The stories encompass different aspects of love. They are urban youth-based and are both contemporary and absorbing. Raw deal
THIS deal’s hardly worth a steal any more. With bilingual film star R. Madhavan quitting as host of Sony’s Deal Ya No Deal, the game show’s popularity is likely to take a big hit, especially down South. The immediate provocation for Madhavan’s walking out of the show was reportedly the haphazard way the episodes were being canned which completely threw his other commitments out of gear. But insiders say that the channel or the producers are not as much to blame as the star himself. Madhavan has been riding the crest of stardom and has signed a slew of Tamil and Hindi films, including the current Rang De Basanti. One of the many game shows with blockbuster prize monies, Deal Ya No Deal did get a dedicated viewership thanks to Madhavan. But his replacement rumoured to be Mandira Bedi is unlikely to add any value to the show. Which must have the Sony bosses worried sick considering they have sunk a fortune in the show. Don’s the word Though he may have lost out in Nach Baliye, the show seems to have brought a new wave of popularity for Parmeet Sethi. The Don Juan of Jassi is on to pastures new. He now plays DON (Detective Omkar Nath). In the new Star One comedy thriller, he dons three avatars — of a havildar, a pizza boy and a bhaiya from Uttar Pradesh. But more than a TV series, Parmeet is eyeing the big screen. Though his last film Kaal, sank without a trace, Sethi is breaking new ground elsewhere. He hit the international circuit recently with an Israeli film Sof Haolam Smola (Turn Left At The End of The World), directed by Israeli director Avi Nasher. The critically acclaimed film is winning him global laurels. "Hard work finally
pays off," says Parmeet with a smile. Indeed it does. Though what
is surprising is that for a man of his talent he’s had to wait long
— far too long — for the breaks that he’s started getting now. |
