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The Most BrutallyHonest Report Card Of 2011

“I’m a giver!” BIPASHA opens up

“I’m priceless!”MALLIKA SHERAWATonce again

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Editor’s Diary 5

My Best Dev Anand Moment 6

Golly, This Is Bolly 8

“I’m A Big Giver!”Bipasha Basu Opens Up 20

Fashion TrackGlamour Gallery With Vidya, Celina 26

Amitabh Bachchan Never Uses His Srivastava SurnameAbhishek Carries On The Legacy 34

Malaika Arora Khan Roots For Pedro Almodavar & Woody Allen 40

Bhushan Kumar In A Billionaire’s Album 42

“Bollywood Is My Bread And Butter!”Mallika Sherawat Is Back 48

3G Is HereDevendra Goel’s Grandson Dev Goel On Debut 52

Box-o� ceThe Most Brutally Honest Report Card Of 2011 56

Hello, Hollywood 64

Letters 68

New Movies 72

People & Events 76

Last Shot 78

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 He walked away from it all just the way he wanted to. For a man so affable, so approachable, nobody ever saw Dev Anand in his civvies. Once, Asrani had purposefully woken up early and marched up to Dev Anand’s hotel room at an

outdoor shoot (in the good old days when you could meet a star without going through a security ring), hoping to catch the actor-director in his night clothes. And Dev had opened the door fully dressed in trademark above-ankle-length trousers with his stylish cravat in place.

Close Dev Anand aide Amit Khanna, now head honcho at Reliance Entertainment, recalls just that stylishly warm celebrity in ‘My Best Dev Anand Moment’.

A man like him would’ve cringed if anybody had seen him lifeless in a coffi n. And nobody did. The fl ashbulbs caught him ecstatically basking in the centre of attention on his last birthday on September 26, 2011. And that’s the last visual he left behind. Just the way he’d have liked it to be.

Hotelier Gulshan Arora in whose hotel Dev Anand celebrated his last birthday for the cameras, recalls that last inexplicable hurrah.

I was all of 18 (which was a very long time ago) and he was a huge star. In all my teenage irreverence, I’d written a cheeky item on him. The editor of a fi lm magazine who doubled as his PRO, had admonished me and sent me to a studio to meet the man himself “who is very angry with

you”. I was charmed and not caned when Dev Anand gave me a warm handshake and said, “Call me Dev.” It was Dev till the end, no Saab, Sir or the dreaded Ji.

It was fi tting that he went away in the West, in a hotel room in London. Karan Johar, whose well-loved

dad Yash Johar was once Dev’s suave Production Controller, recalls just that westernised, youthful Dev in his ‘My Best Dev Anand Moment’.

My own ‘Best Dev Anand Moment’?

I was an over enthusiastic junior at Star & Style, a

popular fortnightly. A well-read feature

in the mag was one where we’d collect a fl ood of questions from

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readers for a star and get the celebrity to answer all the queries. I’d gone to Dev with a long list of readers’ questions and left it with him to answer at leisure.

One Saturday afternoon, I was at a Dadar studio with actor Parikshat Sahni when he got a phone call at the offi ce near the studio gate. He went to answer it and came back perplexed saying, ‘It’s for you.’

Equally intrigued, I picked up the phone and found a very anxious Dev at the other end. He had to leave town on an urgent trip and he was worried I’d miss my deadline. So Dev Anand, star and big-time fi lmmaker, had personally called my offi ce, found it was a holiday (we had a fi ve-day week), called up the Managing Director’s house, got my residence number from the MD, called up my house where my mother had no clue where I was but fortunately remembered that I had gone to meet Parikshat Sahni. Dev had then called up Parikshat’s place, had found out where he was shooting and had traced me to that far-fl ung studio just to tell the rookie reporter that she could come and pick up her answers before he left on his trip!

His passing away brought a genuine twinge to anybody fortunate enough to have met the nicest gentleman the Hindi fi lm industry will ever know. RIP, Dev.

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“IT WAS DEV ANAND’S LAST PARTY”

– Gulshan Arora

September 26, 2011. Dev Anand turned 88, his last birthday. Nobody will ever know why Dev Anand got hit by a wave of nostalgia on this particular birthday and

wanted to go back to the hotel suite he had once occupied for years. It wasn’t something he did with annual regularity.

Gulshan Arora, Vice-President of Sun-n-Sand tells FSJ about that unforgettable Dev Anand moment:

“One day before Dev Anand’s birthday,

“I DIVED FOR HIS FEET AND DEV ANAND SHOT UP FROM HIS CHAIR!”

– Karan Johar

“I was a school kid and my father, who was Dev Anand’s Production Controller for 11 years, took me to a fi lm party. I had been properly briefed that when I was

introduced to some people I was to shake hands with them. My dear Punjabi dad had instructed me that when he’d give me a signal, I had to bend and touch some people’s feet. I was already a bundle of nerves as I obeyed instructions and right through the party I was ducking and touching feet, then coming up and shaking hands, then going under again.

“When we reached Dev Anand, my father signalled me and I dived to touch his feet and Dev Anand, the ever youthful

and westernised Dev Anand was horrifi ed! He shouted at my dad, ‘What are you doing, Yash?’ and he shook hands with me youthfully. That was my fi rst unforgettable Dev Anand moment.

“Another time was recently when he called me up to ACT in his fi lm! I told him that I don’t act at all and even when I do appear in a fi lm it is only as me, as Karan Johar. But you can’t say ‘no’ to Dev Anand. So even if I didn’t act in his fi lm, I think it was for Charge Sheet but I’m not sure, I still went across, met

him, had tea with him and came back. He was just such a kind man, you could never say ‘no’ to him.

“The one thing I’ll never forget is that even if my dad was talking to Dev Anand over the phone, he’d shoot up and stand, he respected him so much. Never mind if Dev Anand couldn’t see him standing on the other end of the phone!”

his son Suniel came to me and said, ‘It’s Baba’s birthday tomorrow and he wants to spend the day in the same suite where he spent so many years of his life.’ I said, he’s welcome and even if anybody else is in Suite No. 226, I’ll have it vacated for Devsaab for old time’s sake.

“He came at about 9 am and I greeted him in his favourite suite with a cake and fl owers. Then he came down for a press conference and the media was there in full strength, about 100 to 150 TV channels and press photographers were all there. We got Devsaab to cut the same cake and before he did that he said, ‘This is my home, I have lived here for years, I have produced movies from here, I have also made so many heroines from here, Zeenat Aman, Tina Munim.’ And then he cut his cake.

“He had lunch, spent the whole day here and left in the evening.

“When his son came to settle the bill the next day, we told him that it was an honour to have had Devsaab at our hotel on his birthday and we made sure that everything, the suite, the press conference, everything was given to him complimentary.

“Thereafter I think he went to London and he never came back after that. That was so very sad.”

My Best Dev Anand Moment

The hero and the hotelier – Dev, Gulshan in 1964

How suite – B’day boy Dev returned to his room on Sept 26, 2011

“Dad would stand respectfully and talk to Dev Anand even over the phone!” – Karan Johar

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Dev at Yash-Hiroo Johar wedding in 1971

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Just Cruise-ingSo yes, Tom Cruise was here for the premiere of his latest fl ick, MI 4. Never mind the talk of hired fans for Cruise doing the rounds, the handsome actor still managed to leave quite a few people with a grin extending from ear to ear. Anil reciprocated the visit by fl ying to LA for the MI release, jetting back on X’mas eve for his own birthday.

Tom’s fan club in Mumbai was led by Anil Kapoor’s younger brother Sanjay who was mighty thrilled that he got to rub shoulders with Tom Cruise at his sibling’s exclusive party for the MI star. “I told Tom that when I saw Top Gun in 1986, I never dreamt that one day I’d be standing next to him and talking to him at the Taj in

Mumbai!” laughed Sanjay Kapoor. It’s not a laughing matter by the way

if you think bro Anil shouldn’t have done that sleaze ball role in Ghost Protocol.

“If an acclaimed actor like Tom Wilkinson (cast as the IMF secretary in the fi lm) who is an Academy Award nominee, can do just one scene where he gets shot at the end of it, surely Anil was much better off,” argued Sanju. “To anyone who criticises the length of Anil’s role in Ghost Protocol, I quote the case of Tom Wilkinson and rest my case. Only Indians are bothered about the length of a role instead of its impact,” Sanju valiantly batted for his brother.

By the way, the release of Sanjay Kapoor’s fi rst production It’s My Life with Harman Baweja and Genelia D’Souza which was put on the backburner when dad Surinder Kapoor passed away suddenly, will be in the theatres early 2012.

Designer WeddingLate fi lm producer Bunty Soorma was there in spirit (and in a photograph) as attractive daughter Priyanka wed Advait Chaturvedi at one of the most lavishly hosted weddings of the season. The Soormas and fi lmland’s popular Moranis form Cineyug, the production banner and the events people behind most glittering star soirees and awards functions. So you can imagine the glitterati that descended on the wedding. Close Soorma relatives, the Roshans were in full attendance as was Morani favourite Shah Rukh Khan. Guests were handed large menu cards to guide them through the orgy of food that awaited them at the Turf Club. The bride and her mom Neelam dazzled in Manish Malhotra designs.

Celebrations had an enhanced energy from the joy generated by the bail granted to Karim Morani on the very same day.

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Hey, Bill Where there’s a Bill, there’s a Ghai. At the inaugural ceremony of Gems American Academy in Dubai, Subhash Ghai was a special invitee and Bill Clinton the Chief Guest. After he spoke on the importance of school education for poor children, Clinton personally congratulated Ghai for his world class multi-media school Whistling Woods International India. The freeze frame was worth a wolf whistle.

Cruise control– Tom with AK, fans

Bat for bro – Sanjay Kapoor

Sharing the border – Mom and bride wear Manish Malhotra

Don-ning the best – SRK with bridal couple, bride’s mum Neelam and bro Karan Soorma

We’re both world-class – Bill Clinton, Subhash Ghai