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'''Devyani Chaubal''' (1942 – 13 July 1995) was an Indian journalist and columnist. She is best known for her fortnightly column, "Frankly Speaking" in popular [[Bollywood]] film magazine ''Star and Style'' through the 1960s and 1970s, she also wrote for Eve's Weekly.<ref name=inde/><ref>{{cite web|title=Devyani Choubal: Feisty journalist who 'terrorised' Bollywood|website=[[Dainik Bhaskar#Digital media|Daily Bhaskar]]|url=http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/MAH-MUM-devyani-choubal-feisty-journalist-whom-bollywood-feared-4192498-PHO.html|date=27 February 2013|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref><br />
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She was the first journalist to refer to [[Rajesh Khanna]] as a superstar, in her ''Star & Style'' column.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ayaz|first=Shaikh|title=The Loneliest Superstar Ever|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/the-loneliest-superstar-ever|date=23 June 2012|journal=[[Open (Indian magazine)|OPEN]]|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
She was born into a rich family in Maharashtra; her father was a prosperous [[barrister]] in Mumbai. Chaubal was a film gossip journalist, and among the first in Indian film journalism to have a poison pen and insinuate a lot in her columns. Until her arrival, Indian film journalism had been largely free of accusation and gossip. She wrote in a popular film magazine called ''[[Star and Style]]''.<ref name=inde>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Devyani Chaubal|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|last=Singh|first=Kuldip|date=28 July 1995|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-devyani-chaubal-1593533.html|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref><br />
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She had a lot of credibility and her "gossip" (delivered in a column called "Frankly Speaking") was always researched and had credible sources. {{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} The column was also carried in ''Eve's Weekly''.<br />
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Chaubal was the first writer to use [[Hinglish]] in her English works, with words like "badans" (bodies) and "kachra" (garbage). [[Shobha De]] then began to use Hinglish elements in her novels.<ref name=inde/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sv7Uk0UcdM8C&q=Devyani|title=Pop Culture India!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle|last=Kasbekar|first=Asha|year=2006|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=978-1851096367|page=93|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref><br />
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Later in life she suffered a paralytic stroke in 1985, thereafter she was largely using a wheelchair and later bedridden. However she continued to write her column, almost till her death in 1995, at age 53.<ref name=inde/><br />
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