Cure from Cancer is Lisa’s Right says a shocked Dilip Mehta

Dilip Mehta is in Toronto preparing for the Gala premiere of his directorial debut Cooking With Stella at the Toronto Film Festival. Among others the film stars Lisa Ray as a diplomat’s wife. Lisa has been a favorite of Dilip’s sister Deepa Mehta. And now she’s endeared herself to Dilip Mehta as well.
Dilip is shocked but very hopeful of Lisa’s recovery. “It came as a jolt to all her friends and fans. Lisa has a huge fan following in Canada. There’s a pall of gloom here. But I know she’ll fight it out. It’s a rare cancer. But it’s combatable. And Lisa will do it. She has spirit. The cure is Lisa’s birthright. No one can deprive her of it.”
What Dilip admires the most is the manner in which Lisa confronted her illness. “Lisa looked the illness in the face and has taken it on. She has shared her crisis with the world and is now ready to battle it out. Nothing can keep it down. Lisa is an effervescent person. She carries happiness and hope wherever she goes.”
Lately Lisa has been traveling a lot. “She shot in Delhi with us. Then she was in Kerala traveling with her father, not because she wanted to travel the destinations of her liking in a final kind of way, but because she wanted to see the world. She’s a free spirit. She recently lost her mother after an illness. And she needed to rejuvenate her spirit.”
Dilip says Lisa never allowed her illness to dampen her spirit while shooting. “While we shot Cooking With Stella there was just that hint that her body was acting up. But you know how it is. You get a cough and you hope it won’t be anything worse and it will go away. Lisa shot the film without letting her health problem show up.”
Ends Dilip, “I’ve no doubt she’ll fight out this crisis in her life. She has gained so much positivity and goodwill all across the world.”

Imran in love with Shenaz Treasurywala!

Everyone is so tightlipped about the cast of Aamir Khan Productions Delhi Belly that it becomes hard to say whether they’re making a film or designing the blueprint for the national defense.

We all know that the film’s leading man is Aamir’s nephew Imran Khan. Beyond that everyone is silent on the cast, including Imran himself.

When asked about the cast he chuckled, “Sorry I’m not at liberty to talk about the rest of the cast, besides myself.”

Ask him if it’s Lisa Ray who was to earlier play the female lead when Ranbir Kapoor was to play the lead.

“No it isn’t Lisa Ray. Beyond that you won’t get anything out of me,” Imran laughs.

The cloak of secrecy further deepened recently when veejay-turned-part-time-actress Shenaz Treasurywala was mysteriously quoted as saying, “…It’s a fantastic production. And my costar…there is not a single young lady in India who doesn’t believe he’s the most adorable thing around.”

The “fantastic production”, as it turns out, is none other than Delhi Belly. And the “the most adorable thing around” is Imran Khan.

Shenaz, who made her screen debut opposite Shahid Kapoor in Ken Ghosh’s Ishq Vishq, also did a walk-on part in Kunal Kohli’s Hum Tum.