The near-hysterical popularity of Kaun Banega Crorepati , has had Bollywood sweating nervous. Apart from films like Kunwara and Bichoo, in any case box office duds, the worst hit is Refugee which was picking up after a disappointing initial draw. But Kaun Banega Crorepati has reversed the fortunes of this Abhishek Bachchan-Kareena Kapoor starrer. Now with another Abhishek film, Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya ,about to be released, distributors are at their wits end seeing profits dip Mondays to Thursdays as late shows go virtually abegging. Even my families sits down to watch Bachchan try and make ordinary people into crorepatis.
Nobody can match that kind of an appeal.
And two images came to be indelibly linked to her Surf detergent and Kavita Chaudhuri. A decade on, Kavita is still better known as Lalitaji. That, despite the fact she did a hugely popular serial Udaan loosely based on the life of India s first woman supercop, Kiran Bedi. Now the lady is ready to take on the law once again. No, not in real life but on the small screen.