City gal making it in Bollywood

SHE'S YOUNG. And pretty too. More. She seems to have the right attitude, too, to make her presence felt on the silver screen. City gal Diya Mirza is slowly making her mark in Bollywood what with the shooting of her first film `Om Jai Jagdish' -- directed by Anupam Kher -- in progress. These days, she's seen on music channels prancing for songs sung and set to tune by evergreen Asha Bhonsle.

Diya has also bagged an interesting project to be directed by Pankaj Parashar. Touted as a romantic mystery thriller, she is paired opposite muscle man Salman Khan. Another former beauty queen Sushmita Sen is the other heroine. Meanwhile, once in Mumbai, the entry into gossip columns is pretty obvious. But so far, our lady has been plucky enough to shoo away those seeking to `link' her. So far, so good.

`AMCHI' MUMBAI gals continue to rule the roost in Telugu chitra prapancham even as a number of starry-eyed gurlz from down south to up north try to take a pot shot at success. In the deluge of girls a sure bet has been Anjala Jhaveri. `Preminchukundam Raa' with Venkatesh, `Samarasimha Reddy' with Balakrishna and `Chudalani Vundi' with Chiranjeevi -- all the three were block- busters.

But her career graph took a nosedive with Nagarjuna-starrer `Raavoyi Chandamama'. More recently, Balayya's `Balevadivi Basu' not doing well at the B-O came as a dampener to this gutsy heroine. Undaunted, Anjala is now testing her luck again and is working in a film being produced by Aishwarya Movies with Srikanth in the lead and in yet another production of Bhargava Arts opposite Balakrishna.

PSSST. INVADERS from space?! These ghoulish characters got themselves parked inside a star hotel on Tuesday and were letting in invitees to a dealers' conference only if a password was uttered. The meet was a promo for a new watch to be unleashed in the market - Titan Steel.

Only those in the know of the password were allowed in while the others had to turn back. Secrecy was thus maintained maybe not to let in super-snoopers. And, pray what was the password? `Steel'! In retrospect, a little work to the gray cells would have got an entry, perhaps?

HERE IS a chance to earn a cool 50 K. All you gotta do is to look out for this numberless blue scooter and call up the cops. But be sure it's driven by this snub-nosed, well-built youngman who usually sports long hair. By any chance if you happen to catch this man with the scooter, you are lucky, since he is the most wanted criminal in Hyderabad nowadays.

This elusive criminal, who snatched chains from over two dozen women, obviously is having a field day while the Blue Colts, Rakshaks, Peters, Mobiles and detective staff are going nuts. He's as slippery as an eel and would put even Houdini to shame. The moment he's noticed an alarm is raised. Lo, our `Spiderman' would simply vanish into thin air.

The police top brass, which has been making strenuous efforts to improve its image by reducing the response time, is understandably feeling jittery. Here is to you. Presenting Raja Goud, who is strongly suspected of being the chain-snatcher.

Of course, he has a buddy in arms, Yadagiri aka Srinivas Reddy. Both of them were arrested in 1994 after they allegedly snatched chains from 36 women. Look out for these chaps! If you succeed in alerting the police you can coolly pocket the promised 50 K. Any takers?

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