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Considering he’s already relived his prison days once while writing Prisoner FF8282’s Prison Diary, Lord Jeffrey Archer isn’t keen on doing it again. Archer’s account of his 22 days at Belmarsh, one of Britain’s highest-security prisons, is to be adapted into a play called Hell by British actor-turned-dramatist James Rayment. Archer has blessed the script that will show the world how he got strip-searched on entering the jail and his encounter with drug dealers. But he’s declined the producers’ request to play himself. Actor Andrew Macbean, 47, will play Archer in the play which premieres at the Edinburgh Festival. Here’s hoping the jailhouse diary rocks.
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| Neha Dubey |
Like mom, like daughter. Actress Lilette Dubey can now wallow in daughter Neha’s successes. Ms Dubey Jr is all set to play Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, to be directed by Phil Cameron and staged at London’s famed West End from July. The play itself will be given an Asian flavour, and Neha fits in perfectly. She sure has moved on from the two-bit roles that she played for films like Monsoon Wedding (where her crowning glory was a remixed dance number) to ‘alternative’ films, like Sau Jhoot Ek Sach, where she plays a hunchback, and Anjan Dutta’s Bow Barracks Forever. And she, like everyone else, is only interested in meaningful roles now. So what’s new?
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| Rashid Khan |
Ustad Rashid Khan isn’t one of those who turn up their noses at music churned out of Bollywood. In fact the classical singer is all set to make a debut. Khan has rendered a song for Subhash Ghai’s soon-to-be-released flick Kisna. And this, after he refused to lend his voice to Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat. Well, there’s always a first time.
