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Riding the Waves

Call it a patriotic streak but TV channels, especially news ones, are suddenly developing a love for the national language. The latest to do so is the Bangalore-based BPL group which plans to launch a news and current affairs channel in Hindi. Helping Rajeev Chandrashekhar in the venture is former BBC consultant Anurag Chaturvedi, and Anil Sinha, formerly of Jansatta, Mumbai. NDTV, meanwhile, has its hands full. Besides negotiating with Star TV for a business channel, the Roys are also keen to start what could be India's answer to Discovery: a green channel with all the news on environment from this part of the world.

Chopras Act II?

Bollywood nets another Miss India. Femina Miss India runner-up Priyanka Chopra makes her debut in a tragic love story which is to be shot simultaneously in Hindi and English. Chopra plays damsel in distress rescued from evil tantrics by Rahul Dev, who plays the lead role. The film will be shot in 50 days, 40 of which will be spent in Shimla and other parts of Himachal Pradesh and the remaining 10 in Canada and the US.

From the Babe to the Baby

Controversy comes easy to the Bedis. The latest is Pooja Bedi trying to justify why Star scrapped her interview with Amitabh Bachchan. The Big B (who she calls Big Baby in her letter to him), she says, was "grumpy, defensive, relatively inarticulate and possessed virtually no joie de vivre" during the interview. Bedi claims Bachchan called up a channel biggie and insisted the interview not go on air. But Sameer Nair, head of programming for Star Plus, dismisses it as "fertile imagination at work". He says, "The interview was bad and this was a business decision." Indeed some of Bedi's questions were bizarre. Like why Bachchan's hair was black and beard white. The star's response was: "Because I dye my hair." Reparteed Bedi: "So what, you ran out of hair dye for your beard?" Former Femina editor Vimla Patil is on Bedi's side. Says she: "He shouldn't take life so seriously that you can't ask him one or two funny questions." Funny or inane?

Sui Generis?

ROHINI Khosla's bagged this one. Handbags designed by her will be selling at the very upmarket Anna Sui stores in the US. The one-time consultant to Christie's in India met Sui by chance in the Pink City, where the US-based designer had come for a holiday. Sui liked what Khosla had and a deal was struck. The bags will be on sale from next month onwards and will retail under Khosla's own label.

Danger Defied

His clients, well-wishers and Lara Dutta can rejoice. Mumbai-based fashion designer Hemant Trivedi, who slipped into coma after a road accident is now said to be out of it. Dhiren Shah, owner of the fashion store Sheetal whose design team Trivedi heads, was quoted in a Mumbai paper as saying: "It's a miracle. He is already identifying people. But he is a little tired and doesn't want too many visitors." We understand.

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