Roving Eye 8212; Chandigarh

In consequence, the zone under his charge witnessed more encounters last year than any other area of Mumbai. His team has gunned down nearly 60 gangsters over the past 30 months.

He has slugged it out with several notorious hoodlums such as Dawood, Chhota Rajan, Arun Gawli and Amar Naik.

On his transfer to the Crime Branch, a national newspaper quoted a Mumbai police officer as saying: 8220;Singh can now be a source of inspiration to the newly-trained officers, who have received commando training8221;.

Another top-level police officer said: 8220;No other officer in the City can do the job like Param Singh can. He is an expert in dhoom dhadam8221;.

Kya kahoon? Mood nahi hai
This was the favourite line in Maine Pyar Kiya as the young lovers tried out their wooing skills. But when Bhagyashree repeated this at the end of the interaction with the city8217;s press corps, it virtually concluded the atmosphere at the Press Club on Monday night. The Club had organised an informal chat session with the cast of Ravindra Peepat8217;s forthcoming serial Na Jayiyo Pardes, the shooting for which is going on at a brisk pace in and around the city. So there were the coy little girl of Maine Pyar Kiya, who has grown up to be the real life mother of two, along with Pankaj Berry, Vishal Close-up8217; Singh, Abhinav Nanhe8217; Chaturvedi, Salim Khan and the serial8217;s executive producer Anil Mahajan whom the crew consider as the prodding force. But the press persons somehow lived up to that line and acted so funnily that both the actors and the press provided the dullest moments. Yes, there were a few interesting queries, like from young Siddharth who wanted to know why Berry preferred to doonly villain roles.

8220;No, I just want to be an actor, not a villain or a hero.8221; To which Siddharth pointed out, 8220;But you look better when you are in a villainous role.8221; Berry gave a full-throated laughter as the answer. With eight films on floor and as many serials on air, Berry indeed can afford that laughter. But another one wanted to know whether acting on small screen was not a climbdown for the actors. 8220;The film market is so down and clumsy that everyone is rushing to the various channels so that they are in touch with viewers. As far as acting is concerned, it is just a matter of satisfaction and the size of the screen does not matter at all.8221; Another question for Berry came from Payal Chaudhary Manchanda, an actress with Neelam Man Singh8217;s The Company8217; who had done their first play Heer Ranjha with Berry. So did you find any difference in acting on stage and on screen?

8220;No, if at all there is a difference, it is only in voice modulation. Yes, while performing on stage you are in direct contact with your viewers.8221; Berry, a product of the PU Department of Indian Theatre, was of the opinion that Chandigarh has become more talented8217; as he found a lot of bright youngsters on Peepat8217;s set. Of course there are Rimpy Gill and Sachin Sharma who have just passed out from the department among the actors and Avnish, who finished his course last year, is one of the art directors. But then repetitive style of asking questions seemed to have a sudden negative impact both on the actors and on the audience. The club secretary had just finished a query to Bhagyashree in English regarding her fading away after a stupendous debut and she gave a valid answer to it. But not even a minute did pass by and there was the same question from another one, this time in Hindi. And she repeated the answer in Hindi.

But then there was someone who set a code for the actors, for she ruled that they would answer in that particular language in which the question was asked. Come on, grow up, folks. What if they insist that they would answer only in their mother-tongue? You would have had to rush to the various Bhasha Poshinis. So it was natural that they just began fiddling with the microphone, passing it to each other and appeared fidgety for they had a hectic schedule the previous day and a night-long shooting spree was awaiting them. But then the saving grace for them came form Abhinav and Berry. Berry enacted a few scenes from the popular serial Umeed, on demand from two better-halves8217; better, because they were more sophisticated than their patidevs8217;, and from his forthcoming film Yudh Kaal in which he is in the role of a Tamilian villain. Abhinav had the audience in ripples as he narrated a poem , witty and rustic rolled into one. So, next time when you are faced with members of the glamour industry, be a bitmore refined. Or else they will just say Mood nahi8217; and shun the entire Sector 27 area for fear of bumping into the city8217;s Fourth Estate.