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December 11, 2005

Bollywood woes...

Bollywood is jinxed...Amitabh Bachchan is laid up with abdominal surgery which has all his fans (and advertisers) extremely worried, John Abraham is out with typhoid and now Saif Khan got arrested for knocking over a teenage boy while driving. Fortunately, the boy did not suffer too many injuries and Saif tested negative on the alcohol breath analyzer test - nobody wants a repeat of the Salman Khan scenario from a few years back!

Incidentally, have you ever been on a Bollywood set?? I highly recommend that everyone should see a film shooting at least once - it will immediately disabuse of the notions that films are all about glamour and that actors have it easy. Its really, really hard work, and the makeup, sweltering lights and endless costume changes are not easy either. Was watching Sushmita Sen shoot a dance sequence yesterday...I got exhausted just sitting on a chair and watching. She must have been dead at the end of it.

2006, btw, is definitely going to be Sushmita's year to rock! Despite being a phenomenal actress, the lady has had a penchant for peppering her career with some mediocre stuff amidst flashes of brilliance. But starting with Chingari, she has some terrific projects going which are simply going to blow the competition right out of the water. Go girl!!!!!!

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