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Preview Party

JAYA Bachchan's back. To watch momma light up the silver screen after a lapse of a decade-and-a-half, daughter Shweta, hubby Nikhil Nanda and in-laws Rajan and Ritu Nanda, gathered at the preview theatre of a New Delhi hotel for a private screening of Hazar Chaurasi ki Maa, Govind Nihalani's celluloid adaptation of the celebrated Mahashweta Devi novel. Not surprisingly, Jaya enthralled the select audience, including the rather dubious Amar Singh.

Towards a Locust Stand I?

THE God of Small Things didn't exactly need help for an increase in sales. But with author Arundhati Roy being nominated for the celebrated Booker prize, big things might just start looking bigger. Only two authors of Indian origin have won the award: Rushdie and Naipaul. Roy could well become the first Indian to do so.

A Modelling Pitch

CRICKETER Salil Ankola, who's often cribbed about there being no money in sports, is discovering other ways to rake in the moolah. The hunk paceman has been wheedled into modelling by his friend, fashion photographer Harish Daftary. "My wife's been trying to get me to do this, but it's my friends who compelled me," grins Ankola. He has already completed the shooting for one assignment. His portfolio is ready. Is anyone listening?

Back in the Picture

ANITA Kanwar, who had difficulty shaking off the old-woman tag since she played the part of the inimitable Lajoji in Buniyaad, is finally back in the reckoning. The bad luck which consistently seems to have dogged her career post-Buniyaad, despite flashes of superlative performances in movies like Salaam Bombay, seems to have finally taken leave of her. And so she appears in her new avatar—as a detective in the serial Saboot on Star Plus. She has indeed shed off the grey tag. Isn't Saboot evidence enough?

An Islamic Turn

WRITER V.S. Naipaul, who has often been short-listed for the Nobel Prize, informs old-friend Rahul Singh that his latest book is complete and due to be published shortly in both the UK and the US (extracts have been appearing in the New Yorker and the book is also being translated into French, German and Dutch). Titled Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples, it deals with the "dislocating effects of conversions" and comes a decade after his earlier book on Islam Among the Believers. Talk is that Naipaul negotiated a million pounds (almost Rs 6 crore) for the publication of the book, which like all his others is bound to create a stir in the literary world. It was while doing this book that he met his present wife Nadira in Pakistan.

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