Kajol was born on August 5th, 1975 in Mumbai, India to Tanuja, a Marathi/Hindi actress

and Shomu Mukherjee a film producer. Touted as one of the proper actresses in the Bollywood industry, Kajol, who is of Bengali-Marathi descent, in occurence belongs to a family tree in on a extended respectable history in the Indian cinema. Late maternal aunt Nutan is the peak holder for the a good amount of (five times) Filmfare awards for an actress. Late maternal grandmother Shobhna Samarth and sharp grandmother Rattan Bai had both carried on influential figures in the the first part of Bollywood film industry.

Her paternal uncles are furthermore film producers; Joy Mukherjee and Deb Mukherjee. Kajol’s grandfather Sashadhar Mukherjee was a film director and producer who had left a sharp feat in the Bombay film industry. His wife Satirani Devi, Kajol’s paternal grandmother, was the doggy of 3 excellent film personalities, Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar. Kajol’s cousins Rani Mukerji, Sharbani Mukherjee and Monish Behl are as well Bollywood actors. Kajol’s younger doggy Tanisha Mukherjee has just recently began a film career.

Kajol left class and began her run at the age of seventeen. Her debut film was Bekhudi in 1992. It was not a sharp exploit at the box office, but Kajol was noticed and headed onto become a profitable actress surrounded by different box office hits to her credit.

Kajol try to fame amongst her time film Baazigar in 1993 that was her earliest rule hit. She headed onto be a popular pairing through her Baazighar co-star Shah Rukh Khan in Karan Arjun (1994), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001). Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was so positively earned that, as of April 2007, it is even cropping in a Mumbai cinema, an eleven-year continuing run. Kajol attained her mainly Best Actress Award based on what i read in Filmfare for her performance in the film.

When Tool formed in 1990 in L.A., who knew they’d become something of a landmark in music’s heavy alternative scene? Founding members Maynard James Keenan (vocals), Adam Jones (guitar), Paul D’Amour (bass - later replaced by Justin Chancellor) and Danny Carey (drums) have influenced countless bands, such as the Deftones and Godsmack, with their densely rhythmic style. They’ve also managed to be one of the few bands that are intelligent, arty and yet popular with the masses (think a heavy version of Radiohead).In 2000, Keenan took a brief reprieve from Tool to form A Perfect Circle. To no one’s surprise, the band released a highly successful album, Mer de Noms, and performed a sold-out tour that summer in support of it. Keenan then quickly jumped back to Tool to record Lateralus, which was released in 2001.

NYROCK:
Many bands release a video to go along with a single because it’s part of the music business process, so to speak. Tool, however, seem to place a lot of significance on their videos - as much as on the songs and the lyrics. What inspires you?

MAYNARD:
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. It doesn’t matter if it is a video or if it’s lyrics. The lyrics for “Schism” are nothing more than my interpretation of the music. Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

NYROCK:
Your lyrics are paradoxical and often have an unexpected twist.

MAYNARD:
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn’t matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.

NYROCK:
Your shows come across as a complete experience. You manage to create a compelling atmosphere for the audience. What is it like for you?

MAYNARD:
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don’t know what to expect. Sometimes you’re playing in the sunshine. Something that just doesn’t seem to go with our sound. It isn’t worse; it’s just different, absolutely different. Then there are some days when we really don’t want to go on stage at all, when we feel terrible and think we really shouldn’t play. And pretty often those shows turn out to be absolute highlights.

NYROCK:
What makes a good show?

MAYNARD:
So much plays into it. There are so many factors and so many things that all play a part in shows, that you really never know what makes a good show. Sometimes we wonder if we - the musicians - do really play a big part in it or if we can hardly influence it.

NYROCK:
During your U.S. tour, King Crimson supported Tool. You never made a secret of your admiration for King Crimson. One might think it would be strange to have your idols as support. How did you feel about it?

MAYNARD:

Clockwise from top left: Justin Chancellor (bass),
Danny Carey (drums), Adam Jones (guitar),
Maynard James Keenan (vocals).
I think it was an honor for us. For our fans, it was something like an education. A lot of our fans weren’t really aware where we were coming from, what inspired us. I find it a bit sad. I think to share one stage with King Crimson was important. It showed where our roots are, where we are coming from. After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. They’re all stealing from each other and they all claim to be the originals. I think it’s limiting - limiting for the bands and for the listener.

NYROCK:
How about the Grammy? You received one, but didn’t attend the ceremony….

MAYNARD:
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don’t honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It’s the music business celebrating itself. That’s basically what it’s all about.

NYROCK:
Would it have been consequent then to refuse the Grammy?

MAYNARD:
Why should we refuse it? First of all, that would just gain a lot of attention and we are certainly not attention seekers. And if our record company and the music business want to have a party, why should we spoil it for them? Just because we’re not interested? Just because we don’t like it, why ruin it for them?

NYROCK:
So you simply don’t care for it?

MAYNARD:
I don’t care at all. We’re just four guys and we are enjoying what we’re doing with Tool. We are eager to learn - to learn about ourselves and to learn about music, about life, about everything. And, of course, we always hope that we can change something for the better through our music, give someone else some inspiration. I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

NYROCK:
How do you keep in touch with your fans? You seem a bit elusive and tend to avoid mingling with them.

MAYNARD:
We really don’t like it. It’s not arrogance at all. We just consider it slightly unnatural. It’s not that we’re looking down on our fans and that’s why we don’t want any contact. It’s just if we would mix with our fans, they’d most likely feel that they have to tell us how much they like our music and that can easily get to your head. Look at a couple of bands out there, with a lot of them, I always get the feeling their success has gone to their heads. If you start taking yourself too seriously it’s not good for the creative process. I always believed that music should speak for itself, that people shouldn’t see us as heroes, that our fans shouldn’t concentrate on us, that they shouldn’t try to feed our egos. Once your ego gets in the way, it is much more difficult to feel music.

NYROCK:
In retrospect, would you say Lateralus was an album that was easy to make for you? That it went smoothly?

MAYNARD:
Nothing ever happens smoothly or perfectly fine, but it all makes sense. I believe everything happens for a reason, no matter if it’s good or bad. There is no point in trying to change the past because if something would have happened differently, we wouldn’t be here now; we wouldn’t be talking. You never know what would be or what would change, if you could go back in time and just change one single thing.

NYROCK:
You’re known for disliking interviews. Why?

MAYNARD:
Sometimes interviewees are almost insulting, especially when it comes down to video or TV interviews. Pretty often they’ve got such an ego that we sometimes wonder how we fit on the same screen. They’re clowns, goofballs and they think they’re so funny - full of energy and personality. Do you know what I mean? They’re just full of themselves and they don’t have a clue and they’re not interested in anything else but themselves. They don’t even listen. They got a bunch of questions and you don’t even get the chance to have something that remotely resembles a conversation. I really can’t respect them and if they’d take a minute and realize what they’re doing and how ridiculous they are, they wouldn’t be able to respect themselves.source:nyrock.com

When ARY Digital offered her to do the morning show, she was reluctant to work on screen and initially refused. “I did not want to be on the screen. I love direction and will continue to direct. When you are on screen, you need good strong people to work behind you as directors and producers and not many are left now.”

Since her husband had just left MTV and was also available, they decided that if he would take up production, Marina could be the anchor. “I am comfortable with someone sound on the production side and it certainly was a good opportunity to address a lot of issues.”

For the morning show, Marina’s gets up everyday at five. “I am not a very early riser but neither am I an evening person. With my Air Force background, we had to be up by eight in the morning. When I am directing, I like to tell my actors that we start no later than 10-10:30am.”

Marina Mornings is beamed in Canada, Africa, South Africa, US and wherever there is a Pakistani footprint. Realising that Pakistan has its flaws and there is enough bad publicity around, she wanted to focus on the positive side of things. “I do not like to portray any negativity, but only to be able to seek out the good happening in this country.”

Before the show content was finalised, nutritionists, psychiatrists and a GP were consulted. The health, fitness and weight loss programme was an instant hit with the viewers. Marina’s target is the housewife, who she wants to get maximum value from the show.

Masses may love gimmicks, but she refuses to include anything in her content if she doesn’t support it. “It is a question of putting the right kind of information across. People love Nadia’s show because the content is what people want. It is easy to cater to that mindset but I can’t be dishonest to myself. I don’t support najoomis and horoscopes.

I don’t believe that drinking green tea can make me happy for the rest of my life. If Imran Khan was on the show, I would not discuss politics, instead I would talk about him being a father. A lady who claims to have a cure for cancer and madness wants to be on the show but I don’t subscribe to wonder miracles. Grooming sessions are fine but not if they are frivolous, and certainly you can’t possibly build your life around totkas.”

Marina has voiced on the show issues that she feels strongly about. “I might be repetitive, but I love to talk about education and especially with people like Imrana Maqsood, Rahat Kazmi, Amra Alam, a writer or an Urdu journalist, I like to discuss why Urdu language is disappearing.”

Marina has projected many real life heroes. “It gives me a real high to see small NGOs and individuals doing a lot of good work in their own capacity. Models, actresses and celebrities get praise and recognition anyway, but it is the unsung heroes people must learn about,” she says.

She talked about a show with Mumtaz Burney, when a baby found wrapped up in a polythene bag on rubbish dump survived miraculously, was treated by the Trust and then put up for adoption in a subsequent show.

Another show was about a quadriplegic who has created a world record by driving a specially made car for a particular distance in a specific time. “These real-life stories make everything worthwhile for me. For me this is front-page news, not the ministers and chief ministers.

The sad thing is that we have very badly chosen heroes. The cricket team needs to be slapped, they need to go underground and the blind cricket team should play instead. Cricket played on the streets is true cricket and played from the heart.”

Marina feels there is an audience out there locally and abroad who respond to her ideology. “Although I didn’t want to be stuck or slotted, but people say that I have captured an educated audience.”Fully supporting Marina’s ideologies, the content of the show focuses on several socio-economic issues. “Whether it is health and fitness guidelines that I am promoting or blasting PIA for losing their high standards, I am usually able to say what I want to on the show and the the viewers are happy to lap it all up.

While PIA was the first airline to show a film on an international flight, now its flights are cancelled and passengers are stuck at the airport for hours without food and water. It’s pure blackmail.”

Guilty of speaking a lot of English on the show, Marina says, “I try to correct myself continually or translate in Urdu immediately.” While talking about programming on Pakistani channels, Marina said, “With Geo and ARY there is an opportunity for people living abroad to see Pakistani content which is good as India has a lot of influence all over the world.

We are doing well in our hard-hitting talk shows and we now know our politicians by face.”But Marina feels that Pakistani standards of programming are nowhere near international ones. “We don’t really know what Bangladeshi or Egyptian television is like although we could be ahead of other countries in our region.

Or commitment and dedication is not what it used to be. People today are in this business for money not for the love of it. It is not about accepting substandard stuff, they don’t know better. In Tanhaiyan and Dhoop Kinaray we were a team. But now everyone sits there complaining.

I need to see the director giving attention to details. I know that my actors get very irritated when I take pains and it irritates me. It is that kind of work which takes time. Imagine if they had to go to Hollywood and sit on a real production where they shoot half-a-scene during the entire length of a day.

But that’s how they work and that is the kind of discipline they follow. Even if you have done your homework, it may not be enough. It easily takes 2-3 hours to set up and you have to give people that much margin.”

The debutante of Shahzad Khalil’s Rashid Minhas of the Nishan-i-Haider series of the mid-80s, the cutesy Sanya of Tanhaiyan, and the somber Dr Zoya of Dhoop Kinaray may have come of age but at some point in her career, the flawless actress disappeared and instead Marina appeared wearing different hats: environmentalist, animal activist, anchor and director.

“I woke up one day and realised that I hated acting. I love to watch good acting and I am a huge fan of people who are good actors. But myself, when I had to do certain things, I always felt foolish. I could never do romance.

Sometimes I really feel like doing something and really letting go but the ‘letting go’ part is very difficult for me. I would love to do romantic comedies. If I died today doing a romantic comedy, I would be happy but there has to be an element of realism in it.”

Being a senior artiste who has had the fortune of working with the crème de la crème of PTV, Marina says, “I want drama to come back. We have totally killed it. I don’t want to see Indian drama on our channels. I have issues with that and I don’t watch them so I can’t comment about them. We had a very strong identity with drama at one time.

They were plays with real issues and real people. When I was growing up I remember that I believed in these characters. Now you can find a lot of plays on so many channels but they don’t hold you. Either it is a copy or there is no individuality at all. Mehreen Jabbar did a series titled Kahaniyaan on Hum TV and Atiqa’s done a series recently, that is what drama and individuality is all about.

We have some brilliant actors but we just want to see glamorous, unrealistic stuff. Every woman looks the same. They are competing to look good, they have layers and layers of make-up, everyone including the maid and the chowkidar wears designer outfits in the play.

I absolutely hate that. We have become a nation of copy cats. Actually we have become that way in everything we do.

We had a lead in drama but we have lost it completely. If one thing is shot, then it is better to focus on unsung heroes who are doing work, which is real-life drama

The office is named after fashion’s famous walkway. It is a space that is minimalist in setting, yet profuse with the trappings of its numerous activities and abuzz with the importance of its mission: to continually redefine the cutting edge. It is overrun with a troupe of unapproachably chic young women who are the walking, talking actualisations of the company’s far-reaching vision. And it is all subservient to the iron (but manicured) fist of arguably the most powerful woman in the fashion industry.

No, this is not a recreation of the fictional office of Runway Magazine in The Devil Wears Prada. This is the real life headquarters of the event management empire called Catwalk, run by the grand dame of the field, Frieha Altaf - who incidentally prefers to wrap herself in Perwani (i.e. Deepak, who is also a friend).

“People call me the monster,” she says with a deep, throaty laugh that fits one’s impression of Frieha, the media sorceress, but seems unexpectedly charming on the immaculately styled woman sitting daintily before me. “There’s a reason for it,” she elaborates, “because I’m such a hard taskmaster. In Pakistan, you just can’t survive otherwise.” Spoken like a person of experience — and like a woman who has, for the longest time and in more ways than one, been running the show.

“I have no time for negativity in my life. My goal is very clear: my priority is my family, work and myself. Unfortunately, in our industry, there is a lot of ‘ghich phich’, and gossip really bothers me. You do not survive 21 years in any field if you’re just borrowing other people’s ideas” says Frieha Altaf.

We are in a small conference room that is structurally dominated by an expansive table cluttered with the accoutrements of event management and a nearly life-size poster by Tapu Javeri of Aaminah Haq in rock star mode. The most imposing element of the room, however, remains the dynamo doyenne. Wearing a slinky floral top over opaque tights and stilettos and sporting salon-worthy highlights, she is every inch the pop-culture messiah that she is held up to be.

She offers her own succinct career chronology: “I’ve been a person who was a model, then I became a choreographer, then I became a kind of coordinator/stylist for shoots. I did so many shows, fashion events. I introduced the magazine fashion programme, Lux Style ki Duniya. Then I did Rukhsati which was the first wedding magazine programme that went on air. Then I did the Lux Style Awards, which is the first style awards show in the country. So everything that I’ve done has kind of been related to fashion.”

Reflecting on her own celebrity, she says, “I’m a glamorous person: I love getting dressed up; I love socialising; I love going to parties. So you know me as that fashionista. But I’m also a businesswoman.” That is a title that Frieha takes very seriously, and it is a point that she is intent to hammer into the public’s consciousness.

“I don’t do most of the work,” she reveals. “I delegate work. I’m a CEO now.” Her conglomerate includes a marketing company, a modelling agency (that represents the likes of Tatmain, Umaimah, and Sabina Pasha, who Frieha predicts are the future of supermodel-dom), and it offers celebrity management services (to film star Shaan and half the Pakistan cricket team). A clothing label, a magazine and an institute (a modelling/finishing school) are in the works. “I’m one of those very restless people,” she says. “I constantly need to be doing new things to challenge myself.”

And this year, she plans to spread her company’s wings far and wide. “I’ve got an office in Islamabad. I’ve never needed it in Lahore, but I’ll do that eventually. I want one in Multan and Sialkot also. I’m trying to set up an office in Dubai. I’ve been working on a project with a Malaysian company to do something there - like a TV show. I’m doing a project with India as well — in Pakistan.” The keyword seems to be globalisation. “I can’t think small,” she continues. “I have realised by travelling that the likes of my expertise in this country is not available in a lot of countries. When I went with Tapu (Javeri) and Maheen (Khan) to Jordan, I realised then that I can do work here because they’re so bad.”

The goal, as she outlines it, is to “work with people abroad to: (a) bring Pakistan on the map; (b) bring Pakistani talent on the map; and (c) open up. That’s the way to go. That’s the future. Anyone who’s not going to be on that path is going to be left behind.”

On the local front, Frieha is troubled by the recent developments of the baton-wielding, burka-clad female brigade that has started brandishing a new form of religious extremism. “The entertainment industry is the one that’s going to get affected most by this,” she laments. “So I think that is a cause in itself. We need to come together to make sure something like this doesn’t happen because we’re a force too: we’re an industry bringing income into this nation and providing many people’s livelihoods. And I think that’s where my future lies. But that comes whenever you’re finished with your personal and professional goals.”

The latest on the professional front is the show that is monopolising all her attention: the Citigold Lux Style Awards (CGLSA), as it has been rechristened this year. “The CGLSA is driving me up the wall, as usual,” she confesses. “It’s just a logistical nightmare because 400 people are travelling,” (to Malaysia, the event’s new home, which is an unprecedented occurrence). “It’s the biggest group of talent that has ever gone abroad in history,” (and that includes Frieha’s previous record holder, the Royal Albert Hall show last year). “I’m happy with the progress. Darr bhi lagta hai. Sometimes I go ‘Oh my God, I have to do this’. Then I say ‘Okay, I’ve done this before’.”

Frieha is not one to be cowed. “I’m not insecure,” she says, and that applies just as much to competition. “I love competition. If there’s no one running alongside you, what’s the fun in running? At the end of the day, you want to win; you want to be No.1.

“The reason I think I am where I am,” she continues, “is that I can do anything, from a concert to a wedding to a corporate function to a fashion show to a press conference.”

She balks at having her versatility being contracted to choreography. “Imran (Kureishi, a friend) is a choreographer. He’s not an event manager. Event management is a very different term that started way back, and it is doing everything and anything. It means that you have to manage the entire event. I do very little choreography for other people’s events. It’s usually my own event and I’m doing the choreography (if it’s a fashion event). Quite honestly, in the entire year, I’ve done maybe three fashion shows.” According to Frieha, doing something like the CGLSA is not choreography. “Choreography is itna” she holds the thumb and index finger an inch apart, as if ready to the pinch the air with its insignificance “and I don’t have one choreographer, I have three in that event.”

Shifting the entire awards show onto foreign soil naturally magnifies the duties. But as in the last three years, Frieha is managing it from A to Z, donning simultaneously the caps of event manager, producer as well as creative director. Hopefully, that will prevent a misadventure like the LSA’s last trip to Dubai a few years back, where the Pakistani talent was diluted by the presence of Sonu Nigam and Priyanka Chopra.

“That’s very important (to prevent Pakistani talent from being overshadowed),” she explains, “because we have very good talent in our country. The music, the fashion — all of it. Our designers are very creative. I don’t think all of them are very cutting edge, because some of them get locked in this commercial bullshit. I really don’t like the bridal wear. I know it’s important; it’s where the bread and butter come from. But frankly, I find it most boring. This is exciting to me,” she says, pointing to the aforementioned poster on the wall. “I even think our filmi talent is good,” she opines. “It just needs the right scripts, the right directors, to put it up there.”

Frieha is a fountain of optimism. “I have no time for negativity in my life,” she states. “Life is very hard … My goal is very clear: my priority is my family, work and myself. Unfortunately, in our industry, there is a lot of ghich phich … Gossip is what really bothers me,” (but not to the extent that she would retaliate, even when allegations are levelled against her by former friends). About Tariq Amin’s scathing comments earlier in these very pages concerning her lack of originality, she says, “You do not survive 21 years in any field if you’re just borrowing other people’s ideas. So I don’t think that’s true. I mean, my career is my only defense.”

Iam not like others. I cannot please the film makers by being a sycophant. These kinds of things are impossible for me. I cannot visit their offices so that someday someone will grant me a role.

Everyone is aware of the current situation of the Pakistani film industry. The films are turning out to be flops, there are no good investors in the industry any more. Even the cinema owners are moving to other businesses as they feel that the business is no longer profitable. The Venus cinema in Lahore has been pulled down while a new car showroom has replaced the Naghma cinema.

While the existing state of the industry continues to deteriorate who are angry at the industry people. They think that the industry does not accommodate young and talented newcomers. Among these actors, there is fashion model and actress Gia Ali.

She has been working in the showbiz industry for more than 10 years. She did her first TV play for PTV which went on the air in 1998. Gia started her film career through a mega blockbuster Deewane Terey Pyar Kay and worked only in two films. Her second film was Dil Dewana Hai. Currently her play Qisa Ulfat is being aired on TV. Right now, the actress is busy in modelling and working in TV serials. She is living in Karachi and very much into the fashion scene. The actress was in Lahore for a shoot when TelePk.Com caught her for an interview. During the interview, she gave blunt forthright replies to the questions and had a myriad grievances against the local film industry.

What does life mean to you?
For me, life is a source to have fun. My motto of life is Jeo aur jeney do. I don’t even like my parents to stop me when i am having fun. I thank my parents for bringing me into this world but on the other hand, I tell them not to interfere in my life decisions. Even when my mother was dying; her last words to me were, “Beta hamesha khush raho.”

How was your childhood?
I had a wonderful childhood with my brothers. I still remember the wonderful moments of my life. I was a tomboy in my childhood because I was brought up in guys.

Which do you like most, modelling or acting?
Fashion is my passion and the ramp is my lifeline. I am very much satisfied with my present status as an international model. I get the maximum satisfaction when I’m on a shoot. Modelling is the oxygen that keeps me alive.

What do you think about our film industry?
The industry is full of dull and dumb personalities. A certain community in the industry invests money only for the prpose of favoring actresses. They are not concerned about the quality of films but in satisfying their basic instincts. This behaviour has brought the industry to the brink of disaster.

Why are the Lollywood films not doing good business?
They won’t do a good business until and unless our film makers adopt a professional approach. How can you expect good results from a film where a 45 plus actress performs the character of a college girl. Excuse me! Is this what you call film making? I dare to ask the Pakistani producers and directors to change their thinking and stop their partiality while making films. Let talent reign.

You worked under the direction of Syed Noor, how was the experience?
I worked with him in my first film Deewane Terey Pyar Kay for the reason that it was a Sajjad Gul’s project. I also did my second film Dil Tera Deewana with him but the director cut my solo songs on the bogus excuse of shortening the film’s length. I don’t know why only my songs were edited. That was considered to be a dishonest act by the director.

But he is one of the best in Pakistan as his film Majajan has proved?
Majajan proved to be a hit only because the film’s heroine Saima was given a role that suits her. I don’t how it happened but for the first time a character suited her. You cannot present her as a young woman singing romantic songs with young heroes. She can be a jungli queen not a jungle queen.

Why do not people like you try to bring some change in Pakistani films?
To change the future of films, first I have to cast myself in films which I cannot. I am not like others. I cannot please the film makers by being a sycophant. These kinds of things are impossible for me. I cannot visit their offices so that someday someone will grant me a role. In our industry roles are granted to someone for her/his services not for the talent they possess. Let me tell you the price for a heroine in a film is 2.5 million. When I started my career, I started through my agent which I believe is the most professional way.

What would you say about actresses like Reema?
Reema Khan is an intelligent woman. The success of her film Koi Tujh sa Kahan has proved her capability as a director. She is one of the very few professionals in Lollywood while the rest are just abusing art.

What are your wedding plans?
I haven’t given it a thought yet. Marriage is not my goal. I know it will happen some day. But if you ask me the date, then I won’t be able to tell you.

So, are you in any relationship right now?
I always have a few relationships with anyone for some time but not on a permanent basis. I am the kind of girl who keeps a relationship for two to three years and then simply says ‘bye.’

Isn’t it odd to have a new relation every time, especially in our society?
Why is it odd? It is good to fall in love with more and more people. Could you name any book where it is written that you cannot love again? I don’t think you will ever be able to find such a book.

But to do it again and again is wrong, what do you think?
No, not at all! I am the kind of person who staunchly admits this fact. There are still some showbiz ladies who deny the reality of their relations. Come on! This is the 21st century and everyone has someone in their lives, so why try to hide it? Be brave and accept it.

Are you happy the way our fashion industry has progressed?
Yes! Our fashion industry can now be compared with any fashion industry of the world. Now, we have good hair-stylists, makeup artists, photographers and above all fashion models.

Who are your favourite makeup artists?
There is a long list of my favourite artists. But I will name some of them and they are Maram & Abaroo, Ather Shehzad and Tariq Amin. I don’t like the Depilex makeup because they always try to make you a doll.

Any thing you would like to change in your personality?
I would love to deal with people in a much better way in future. I get some times really angry, which I don’t like.

Any thing you miss in your life?
I miss the presence of my mother in my life quite a lot. She passed away last year. Except for her, there is nothing that i miss. I am happy where I am and what I have.

Any moment that you still regret?
No, not yet! By the grace of God, there has never been such a moment in my life. God has been really kind to me and I am very thankful to him for giving me such a wonderful life and an amazing family.

If given a chance, what would you like to be born as?
I would like to be born in the same family and would love to join the same profession. I have nothing to wish for. I think whatever has happened to me was right for me. I consider myself as one of the luckiest persons in the world.

Any memorable day of your life?
It was my last birthday (May 23) which I cannot forget. The day turned out to be a memorable day of my life. I visited my mother’s grave, received a lot of phone calls and visited mazars(tombs).

Any plan to act in Indian films?
I have plans, but I won’t be chasing Indian directors the way most of our actresses have done. I want to get some diplomas in acting and then I would like to perform in Indian movies. As a matter of fact, I have been planning to visit India to take some short courses in acting.

Acting is an inborn talent or can it be acquired through experience?
Basically it is an inborn talent. But for being a versatile actor, you need to study acting in some institute.

Who are your favourite singers?
I have a long list of my favourite singers, including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Shazia Manzoor

What would be your advice to newcomers?
I would like to advise them that there is a good market for fashion models in India and Pakistan. But always launch yourself through a good agent in the industry.

What are your future plans?
I am a bit greedy in terms of wishes. I know I have earned a lot of fame that should satisfy me. But still I have plenty of plans ahead. I want to prove myself as one of the best actresses in the country.

Starting her career in the media seven years ago she became a known face as the host of talk show Black & White, aired on Indus. She has certainly come a long way and today, Angeline Malik is known as an actor as well as a director and producer of considerable repute.

“It has been a long, tedious journey so far. A lot is happening and on the other hand nothing is happening. Unfortunately a point of stagnation has come. There is so much mediocre work being done that if something good comes along, it simply gets diluted. It is unfortunate when people declare that they do not watch television anymore. Though I do believe that if one works hard and with dedication, it will be noticed,” says Angeline.

With the media boom it has been noticed that financial opportunities for performing artists have improved greatly. However Angeline does not completely agree with this statement as according to her, even though there is good money to be made in showbiz there is no ratio for growth. She adds that once actors are over the hill, they start appearing as second leads and are not paid as much, while the new breed takes their place.

“This field