Final Take

Guess who came calling in Bangalore? Shahrukh Khan took the blessings of the Dalai Lama at Bylakuppe, a Tibetan settlement about 200 km from thecity. The actor is keen that his new film, Ashoka, scheduled for release in October, keepsthe cash registers ringing... Sudha Murthy, wife of Infosys chairman N.R.Narayana Murthy, is a bit worried about Zee TV’s adaptation of her novelDollar Bahu. So she went to the sets of the tele-serial in Mumbai and passed on someadvice: let’s not make the mother-in-law a shrew!... It’s dinner-diplomacyalright. K. Karunakaran invited chief minister A.K. Antonyfor dinner in Delhi. But partymen feel this could be a temporary truce—to cajole theCM to part with the plum post of chairperson of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation tohis (Karunakaran’s) daughter, Padmaja... Staying with Kerala, the pretty VasundaraDas is set to make her debut in a Malayalam film opposite Mohanlal...