The great comic acter Paresh Rawal who teaches the Indian Film Industry with his role in "Hera Pheri", a real remarkable comedy. Hence the smart "Director" knows also knows the flavor of the public who watches the movie for having great fun will love to pay for this movie.
Mr. Menon is clearly trying to intrigue the readers by creating a hype about Rekha eating a live octopus, in order to sell his film. Whom is he kidding anyway? Does he really think that rediff readers are so naive that they won't even for a minute wonder, in this modern world of cinematograpy and camera tricks, what was the need of Rekha performing such an act, for God's sake!! She was not doing a live show, so why the director could not have used a dummy octopus (made of sugar) or a dummy Rekha! No rocket-science here!
