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Bangalore, Deve Gowda has just issued a ticket to Nandini Alva, famous
these days as mom-in-law of movie star Vivek Oberoi. Nandini, who has
declared assets worth Rs 80 crore, is a bharatanatyam dancer in her own
right (and no, she didn’t learn it via correspondence). With kajal-lined
eyes, jhan-jhan steps and a pining heart, she is approaching Bangalore
Central. Her husband, the late Jeevaraj Alva, was to 1980s chief
minister Ramakrishna Hegde what D K Shivakumar later became to S M
Krishna: a muscular right hand, of the sort you see in teleshopping ads
for protein products. Voters in Bangalore North are eager to see her
campaign. Nandini’s classical mudras, Deve Gowda’s folk steps, and Vivek
Oberoi’s Mumbai-style dailoguebaazi are sure to provide fusion
entertainment of the sort that drives Bangalore’s cosmopolitan crowd crazy. Talking of dance, Deve Gowda may look like a practitioner of
dollu kunita, but he has never let his kunita become dull. Allva, Alva?
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