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Starbuzz
A season to wed
Is this is the season for walking down the aisle or what? First we hear of singing sensation Hadiqa Kiyani having another go at marriage followed by the buzz that former model and fashionista Andaleeb Rana has also decided to take the plunge.
And now the latest person to hop on this bandwagon is fashion photographer-publisher-director and now also haute couturier, Arshad Tareen, all set to tie the knot with his cousin in Multan on December 26. The valima, however, will be in Karachi on Dec 29.
Here’s wishing a happy and blissful married life to all those in the showbiz crowd who are either about to or have already tied the knot. — Mickey
Waheed rulesIn the recent Hollywood film Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, actress Leilah Isaac’s character Sabeen remembers Waheed Murad. Frankie Muniz, reprising his role as Agent Cody Banks, discloses to his cosmopolitan band members that he is a secret agent. To this, a Nigerian boy claims to be Spiderman while another girl calls herself Lara Croft. As the actors associate themselves with their favourite comic book characters, Sabeen says: “And I’m Waheed Murad.” This entices all to ask “what?” to which she replies, “Famous Indian actor.”
We all know that Waheed Murad never worked in an Indian film, but appeared in over a 100 Lollywood films from the 1960s to the ‘80s. It would have been better had he been referred to as a Pakistani, but something is better than nothing. — Omair Alavi
Bhatt on MeeraMahesh Bhatt walked in while this writer was interviewing Anupam Kher earlier this month and strangely enough, just when I had asked the latter what he thought of Meera in Zakhm. Mahesh patiently heard Kher before coming up with his own observations as to why his film didn’t make it at the box office.
“It was not that she (Meera) was a box-office failure but that the whole chunk of Muslim population of India that I had been banking would come to see Zakhm because it had a Pakistani heroine never showed up. She embarrassed them. But, to be fair to Meera, she was very good. It was just that she was adopting the technique of Bollywood actors who have already made their mark, instead of displaying her individuality. In order to make it big as an actor, she has to be extraordinary. And, it is very important even in India for actors to be educated and to adapt themselves to any kind of work they get.
“The problem with Meera is that she can’t understand she should only play the protagonist in Indian films. She should aim to be brilliant at that. Instead, she is willing to settle for just two songs and four scenes in an Indian movie, whereas I am trying to convince her not to sell herself short. She should do Shabana Azmi-type roles and stop playing the film heroine in real life. The amount of make-up she does in real life looks odd, especially since there is no trend of heavy make-up in India.”—Shanaz Ramzi
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