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QATAR TRIBUNE 

Publication 

Monday 

April 1, 

2013 

Dance by 

chance 

COVER STORY 

PG 02

Monday, April 1, 2013 

Dance is the hidden 

language of the soul 

Students train at one of Pierre Brakhia’s dance classes. 

Pierre Brakhia 

LEZIMA GOMES 

DOHAPIERRE Brakhia’s affair with 

dance began years ago when 

as a young child he watched 

his parents dance to the 

beats of the waltz. In fact, 

dancing was a family activity. “My entire 

family was very fond of dancing. Every 

month we would have a get-together 

with just the family and a few friends. 

That however, would number up to a 

good crowd of a hundred or so and we 

would dance various dances from Latin 

to Ballroom.” 

Not surprising then, that his initiation 

began early, around the time he 

was ten. “When I was still young, my 

dad started teaching me the first steps of 

Tango, Rumba, Argentinian Waltz and 

Cha Cha,” he says. 

Not surprising again, that he teaches 

dance. Born in Lebanon, a country that 

had been a melting pot of Western and 

Middle Eastern sensibilities, he came to 

Qatar after the 2006 Lebanon war began 

and has been here since. 

Though he took the baby steps in 

dancing with the help of his father, the 

latter did not want his son to take up 

dancing as a profession. It was in 1992, 

that the civil war in his country had 

ended, and young Pierre who had just 

finished schooling took dance courses at 

a time when there were just a handful of 

dance schools in Lebanon. 

Pierre recollects, “My father was 

adamant that I should not take up dancing 

as a profession and that I should 

complete my university degree. In 1994, 

my father expired, and I almost gave up 

dancing and concentrated on getting my 

degree in Business Management.” 

But clearly his fate lay elsewhere. 

“Once I started working, I took up dancing 

again. I would practice for a good 

eight to ten hours everyday. After a few 

months I began teaching.” 

A Class A dancer, the highest level in 

the field, Pierre joined hands with others 

to form Dancesport Federation in Lebanon. 

Dancesport, which denotes competitive 

ballroom dancing, as against social 

or exhibition dancing, incorporates 

dances that are performed at amateur 

and professional levels throughout the 

world. Ten international style ballroom 

dances include five Standard and five 

Latin – as defined by the World Dance 

Council (WDC), which has world wide 

membership of all countries taking part 

in ballroom competitions. 

Licenced dancer by the Lebanese 

Dance Federation, Pierre says “ I am 

a trained professional dancer in ten 

dances, five Latin dances which include 

Samba, Cha Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble 

and Jive and five ballroom dances that 

include Viennese Waltz, Quick Step, 

English Waltz, Tango and Slow Foxtrot.” 

“Dancesport has the highest techniques 

and criteria. It has a very high 

standard in dance and since the difficulty 

level is high people stay away from it. 

But I have been able to train ten of the 

best dance instructors in Lebanon.” 

Pointing out that being a licensed


My father would keep 

a book on my head 

and make me walk 

for an hour to keep 

my posture straight 

and this is what I did 

with my students who 

went onto become 

champions of Lebanon, 

says Pierre Brakhia 

who has been 

teaching dance in 

Qatar since 2006 

Pierre with a student. 

teacher does not involve just practical 

dancing, but also written exams, he 

stresses that it is important to have a 

license in order to teach dance. “One 

cannot just teach others out of love for 

dancing or as a hobby but one needs 

to be qualified to conduct such dance 

classes. It is big responsibility. If you are 

not qualified, you can end up seriously 

damaging the students’ body, their 

back or their knee. You need to 

be able to teach people how to 

enjoy and, at the same time, protect 

themselves.” 

Dancing involves various techniques 

such as lead and follow, synchronization 

with movement, timing and 

rhythm and style and posture 

among others. Pierre tries to 

incorporate these techniques 

while teaching 

his students. 

“My father 

would keep 

a book on 

my head and 

make me walk for an hour to 

keep my posture straight and this is what 

I did with my students who went onto 

become champions of Lebanon. They are 

the best,” he says. 

Interestingly, he says he was never 

really interested in taking up dancing as 

a profession but his teachers and various 

other events in life, prodded him to take 

it up more seriously. “I started seriously 

teaching only in the year 2000,” he says. 

Today apart from his day job, he 

devotedly contributes his evenings to 

dance, practising as well as teaching. 

Pierre is proud of what he does. “People 

who join my class can dance like professionals 

in three months. One will learn 

at least 25 steps, but you need to practice 

in order to master the art of dancing.” he 

further adds. 

When asked what is the biggest challenge 

he faces while teaching he says 

“When people come to the class they 

come with the mindset that they will be 

able to dance but it sometimes becomes 

difficult to do a certain move, and they 

give up. Lifting their spirit and convincing 

them that it is possible to do the 

movement or to be able to dance, that is 

the challenge,” he says. 

Pierre has been organising the International 

Tango Latino festival in Qatar 

for the last couple of years. This year 

was the first time when he organised the 

International Salsa Latino festival. He 

says “I am so passionate about my dancing 

that the money that I spend is irrelevant. 

All I want is that my students and 

those as passionate as me about dancing 

should learn and enjoy.” 

For those who consider themselves 

as having two left feet he holds out hope 

saying, “One needs to try. Unless you try 

you will not be able to dance. You have 

to take it up as a challenge and do it. One 

has to keep trying in order to be able to 

dance.” 

Pierre conducts regular classes at: 

Sheraton on, Saturday 7 pm-8.30 

pm, Sunday and Tuesday 8.30 pm-10 

pm, Wednesday 7 pm-10 pm, Thursday 

5 pm-7.30 pm. 

Doha Rugby Club on Monday from 

7 pm-12 pm 

Doha Golf Club on Friday from 

4.30 pm-6 pm.)


Jeremy Piven moves from 

Ari to Harry in PBS series 

APJEREMY Piven’s new TV series is 

set in decorous England, not the 

hedonistic Hollywood of Entourage. 

The time is the early 1900s, 

when booming London would have 

struck the very 21st-century Ari Gold as a 

mind-numbing bust. 

And, most notably, Mr Selfridge, starring 

Piven as the real-life American entrepreneur 

whose mission was to transform 

and conquer British retailing, is airing not 

on the frisky, few-holds-barred HBO home 

of Entourage, but on restrained PBS. 

Don’t get the wrong idea, cautions Piven, 

who earned three Emmys for his portrayal 

of power player Ari. The eight-part series 

debuting with a two-hour episode Sunday 

has its hero’s brash, lusty passion - for business 

- at its core. 

“Yes, it’s a period piece. But the term 

`period’ has to be used loosely, because it’s 

also funny and it has energy and it moves,” 

Piven said. Lovers of standard British 

costume dramas (Downton Abbey fans, you 

know who you are) shouldn’t be put off, he 

added. 

“This will, I think, satisfy those people 

who want to see the way it was at the turn of 

the century ... but then you also get all the 

energy and the sexiness and the humour,” 

he said. 

Mr Selfridge, based on the nonfiction 

book Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge 

by Lindy Woodhead, details Harry Gordon 

Selfridge’s quest to bring brassy American 

salesmanship to the hidebound world of 

British shops with his enduring Selfridges 

& Co. 

The series co-stars Zoe Tapper as Ellen 

Love, a fictional character drafted as an 

amalgam of Selfridge’s assorted extramarital 

romances, and Frances O’Connor as his 

loyal but tested wife, Rose. 

Selfridge, who had honed his retailing 

strategies and marketing skills at Chicago’s 

famed Marshall Field, built an Oxford 

Street shopping palace that introduced 

such concepts as elaborate window displays 

and cosmetics counters, and services ranging 

from restaurants to beauty salons to a 

concierge. 

His bravura and extravagance in creating 

Selfridges was boundless, as was his optimism. 

Some in the British press sneered: 

“A crusade has been started to force on 

London superfluous luxuries such as those 

overstocked across the Atlantic,” warned the 

British Weekly, according to Woodhead’s 

history. 

The contrast between the US and the UK 

was part of the project’s draw for him, Piven 

said. 

“Our culture and the American dream 

is butting heads directly with the British 

culture and the realistic take they have on 

life,” he said. “They believe it’s tough out 

there - very few make it and you probably 

won’t. We’re all, `You can do it! You can do 

anything!’” 

Piven found himself fascinated by 

Selfridge’s history, and added some personal 

memories. Raised in a Chicago suburb, 

he was exposed to the retail magic Selfridge 

first developed there. 

The “amazing” display windows at 

Marshall Field were something that “I grew 

up taking for granted. ... My mom would 

tell me how she would go there as a child 

and she was taken care of and made to feel 

special,” a hallmark of Selfridge’s approach, 

he said. 

While the words “Ari” and “shark” seem 

made for each other, Selfridge is portrayed 

as compulsively charming. 

“I don’t think he can help himself. He 

loved life and he devoured it, and valued 

people and relationships ... and he treated 

everyone equally, from the guy that worked 

in shipping to his right-hand man,” Piven 

said. “Ari was the antithesis, and ruled with 

an iron fist and was incredibly reactive.” 

“And, my God, they’re both so fun to 

play. For very different reasons but equally 

satisfying,” said Piven, who won three 

Emmy Awards for his Entourage character 

said to be inspired by talent agency executive 

Ari Emanuel, brother of Chicago Mayor 

Rahm Emanuel. 

One of the pleasures of switching from 

Ari to Harry was leaving modernity behind, 

Piven said. 

“I just came off eight years of playing a 

character that was continuously distracted 

by his phone and email and everything 

else,” the actor said. “The great thing of 

going back in time is that you had none of 

that to hide behind. You’re face to face, and 

actually speak to people.” 

He may end up juggling the two different 

worlds. A film based on the HBO series was 

green-lighted earlier this year by Warner 

Bros, while Mr Selfridge, based on healthy 

ratings and good reviews during its justconcluded 

run on Britain’s ITV network, has 

gotten a second-season order for 2014. 

Piven, age 47, is eager to continue his 

English adventure as the retailing legend, 

but has a confession to make: He’s no shopaholic. 

“I personally don’t have a great deal of 

endurance for shopping. I think women 

have that endurance gene: They can go and 

go and go,” he said. “I love to box and can go 

12 rounds with very little time in between. ... 

I may have 25 minutes in me for shopping 

before I hit the wall.” 

Jeremy 

Piven 

“I just came off 

eight years of playing 

a character that 

was continuously 

distracted by his 

phone and email 

and everything else. 

The great thing of 

going back in time 

is that you had 

none of that to 

hide behind”

HOLLYWOOD Monday, April 1, 2013 

Blood and Honey not based on 

plagiarised story, says Judge 

Uh, no, I’m not dating Rihanna: Brown 

AP 

A 

FEDERAL judge says actress 

Angelina Jolie didn’t 

steal the story for her 

movie In the Land of Blood and 

Honey from a Croatian author. 

City News Service reports 

on Friday’s tentative ruling in 

Los Angeles will throw out the 

suit accusing Jolie of copyright 

infringement. 

In 2011, author James 

Braddock sued Jolie and the 

film company that made the 

film, saying it was partly 

based on his book The Soul 

Shattering. 

US District Judge Dolly 

M Gee wrote in a tentative 

ruling that the plots, 

characters and themes in 

the two works were not 

“substantially” similar, 

though both centred on 

war romances. 

Jolie wrote, directed 

and co-produced the 

film. 

Braddock has been 

ordered to tell the court 

why his complaint 

should not be dismissed 

with prejudice. 

Rihanna (right) with Chris Brown. 

IANS 

RAPPER Chris Brown has reportedly 

denied dating Rihanna on 

a radio interview due to air on 

Monday. Asked if he is dating the singer, 

he said: “No”. 

The revelation came on Twitter 

when it was reported the rapper, who 

recently reunited with the singer despite 

still being on probation for beating her 

in 2009, said he is not still with her, 

reports contactmusic.com. 

The Don’t Wake Me Up hitmaker 

was interviewed on Saturday by radio 

station Power 106 who posted a sneak 

peak of their chat on the social networking 

site. 

“Are you still with Rihanna? 

ChrisBrown: “Uh, no-that’s the short 

answer”, they posted. 

The conversation won’t air until 

Monday but the confusing statement 

comes after he admitted the two are like 

kids to keep the romance alive. 

“It’s still like we’re kids. I try not to 

be too grown up and be like, ‘Let’s have 

candlelight dinner every night’. I try to 

make sure everything is fun. It has to 

be fun and it has to be genuine,” said 

Brown. 

Chris also recently revealed he wrote 

a song about Rihanna for his upcoming 

album X. 

“I wrote a song for her called Put It 

Up that we did together. It’s still in the 

pot of songs we have to pick from. It 

may or may not make it, but you know, 

because she’s already on it, it’s a strong 

possibility,” he added. 

SCENE UNSEEN 

Jessica asked to keep an eye on Ashlee 

ACTRESS Jessica Simpson 

has been told by her 

mother Tina to keep a 

check on her younger sister 

Ashlee’s party habits. 

Jessica is expecting 

her second child with 

fiance Eric Johnson and 

has soothing effect of 

Ashlee. 

“Tina’s asked Jessica Ashlee (left) and Jessica 

to look out for Ashlee and 

make sure she doesn’t start partying too hard once again. 

With Jessica focusing on her second pregnancy, she’s a 

calming influence on Ashlee because she doesn’t want to 

go out on the town,” radaronline.com quoted a source as 

saying. “Instead, she prefers family nights in relaxing and 

has encouraged Ashlee to join them when they are all 

together, which she has been doing,” the source added. 

Ashlee was known to be a hard party person but 

has mend her ways recently. “Ashlee’s been looking a lot 

more like her old self, lately appears a lot healthier,” the 

source said. 

Lawrence hits the sack by 11 pm, latest 

HOLLYWOOD actress Jennifer Lawrence is said to have joked 

that she is like an old woman because she prefers to have an 

early night rather than go to parties. 

The Silver Linings Playbook star may have 

seen a huge amount of success for her role as 

Tiffany Maxwell in the rom-com drama, but 

she has claimed she’s more comfortable at 

home. 

“I act like an old woman; I’m in bed by 

11 pm at the latest. I prefer that to hanging 

around Hollywood parties at night,” 

femalefirst.co.uk quoted Lawrence as 

saying. Lawrence, whose performance 

in the film earned her the Best Actress 

award at the Oscars last month, is keen 

to stay grounded and refuses to flaunt 

her wealth. 

“I still live in the same three-bedroom 

apartment I had when I moved 

to Los Angeles six years ago. I still look 

for bargains in the supermarket. When 

I go somewhere these days I let a valet 

park my car. That costs $6,” she added. 

Jennifer Lawrence 

Lohan in bracelet trouble again 

Lindsay 

Lohan 

TROUBLED actress Lindsay 

Lohan has got into another 

problem - she has reportedly 

stolen a bracelet from the 

sets of Anger Management 

show. 

The 26-year-old shot for 

actor Charlie Sheen’s sitcom 

Anger Management before 

leaving for South Africa on 

a vacation. She was seen 

wearing a coloured band 

on her wrist, which the producers 

said she could wear it out after filming, reports 

mirror.co.uk. 

But the 26-year-old flame-haired actress actually 

hung on to it and was still wearing it when she 

landed in Brazil days later. 

In 2011, she was accused of stealing a $2,500 

necklace from Kamofie & Co in California, although 

Lindsay threatened to sue the company as she 

said they had lent it to her and then changed their 

story for publicity.


BOLLYWOOD 

Himmatwala 

Clueless remake makes original 

seem much better 

The new-age Sridevi 

is a squeal. She 

quickly changes from 

her audacious mini 

skirts and high heels 

with whips as accessories, 

to being 

a simpering salwarkameez-clad 

doormat 

who is willing to walk 

that extra mile for the 

man in her life 

IANS 

SRIDEVI famously said recently 

that her 1983 career-making 

potboiler Himmatwala was 

no Mughal-e-Azam. She was 

right to a point.... Until now, 

when Sajid Khan’s remake of the 1983 K 

Raghvendra Rao film has come along to 

provide a comparative viewpoint. 

And suddenly the old Himmatwala 

does appear to be a classic. It gave us 

the timeless Sridevi as an arrogant spoilt 

rich bitch who mouthed insanely capitalistic 

dialogues like “I hate the poor”. 

Thirty years later, Tamannaah Bhatia 

does a Sridevi. She gets into Sridevi’s 

leather pants, with a whip to match and 

tortures the peasants in a village lorded 

over by a fatuous feudal dad who is not 

really evil. He is just mad. Somehow 

Tamannaah misses the bus and the bullock-cart 

by a wide margin. Not her fault, 

really. It’s the mood and milieu that this 

oddball of a remake generates. 

We hear the larger-than-life hero 

Ravi (Ajay) mouth words of old-fashioned 

heroism with a straight face. But 

somehow we aren’t convinced if he 

means business. Indeed, there was more 

than a dash of Shakespeare’s Taming Of 

The Shrew in the way the original Himmatwala 

Jeetendra brought Sridevi to 

heel. 

A still from the film Himmatwala. 

The new-age Sridevi is a squeal. She 

quickly changes from her audacious 

mini skirts and high heels with whips as 

accessories, to being a simpering salwarkameez-clad 

doormat who is willing to 

walk that extra mile for the man in her 

life. 

There are only two other female 

characters in the entire plot. The hero’s 

long-suffering mother (played with commendable 

dignity by Zarina Wahab) and 

a sister (Leena Jumani). Vanquished by 

the villains, the mother and daughter live 

in the village forests. 

Curiously the daughter appears to 

have walked straight out of a gym. Like 

all good sisters from the past history 

of commercial cinema, this one too 

nearly gets gang-raped. This one happens 

in a sealed van (Delhi’s grisly rape 

reconstructed?) until the hero appears 

to literally crush the wannabe-rapists’ 

balls. Ouch. Devgn ends his ballsy crusade 

with one of the film’s many bravura-tinged 

exclamation lines: “As long 

as women are attacked, Himmatwalas 

would be born.” 

Chalk up a long-hurrah for this dimestore 

braveheart. We can look at Ajay 

Devgn in Himmatwala as the man who 

came in from the cold and warmed up 

the bucolic baddies’ backsides with what 

he calls a bum pe laat. That, we can say 

is the other side of the jadoo ki jhappi 

Film: Himmatwala 

Rating: 

Director: Sajid Khan 

Starring: Ajay Devgan, 

Tamannaah Bhatia, Ritesh Deshmukh, 

Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, 

Adhyayan Suman and Zarina Wahab 

NOW PLAYING IN DOHA THEATRES 

which Sanjay Dutt used to heal the world 

not so long ago. I guess Sanjay’s jadoo ki 

jhappi got a bum pe laat . 

Cute? That’s how Ajay plays his shehar 

ka hero gaon ka super-hero part. He 

wants us to believe he is having fun with 

the trite part. But the boredom underneath 

the facade of fun shows up often 

enough to make us cringe. 

The fractured world of Sajid Khan’s 

Himmatwala is not looking for healing. 

It is happy being unfinished, wonky 

and out of shape. A wheezing grunting 

snoring world of demented feudalism 

where the Zamindar, as played by the 

gifted Mahesh Manjrekar is part-fiend, 

part-clown. Meals are not cooked in this 

tottering tyrant’s kitchen. Instead he 

orders the villagers to get him khaana 

(food) from their homes which he eats 

on a table long enough to serve as the 

passenger’s cabin in a domestic airline. 

And when his daughter announces she 

is pregnant, the father throws a fit in the 

style of an eight-year-old who has just 

been told his favourite GI Joe has gotten 

flushed down the toilet. 

The narrative serves up enough ‘feud’ 

for thought to make our heads go dizzy 

with thoughts of ruptured continuity. 

But gosh, are we really seeking logical 

explanation for what the characters do, 

say and convey in this film where a tiger 

appears from nowhere to help the hero 

fight the goons in the climax? Is this a 

film to be taken seriously? Presuming for 

a minute that we are expected to abandon 

all rationale and ...well go with flow, 

how do we set aside the uneasy feeling 

that the narrative is laughing not with 

us, but at us? 

The second movement of the pesky 

potboiler is taken over by the Mahesh 

Manjrekar-Paresh Rawal duo doing the 

Amjad Khan-Kader Khan banter from 

the original Himmatwala with a dash 

of humour thrown in when the duo are 

forced to share a bed in a cowshed. This 

is where the mystery of the shapeless 

potboiler deepens. 

The dialogue that follows between 

the two bedded buffoons has to be 

heard to be believed. To their credit, 

Manjrekar and Rawal, seasoned troupers 

both, try their utmost to have fun with 

their parts. Their vain efforts to infuse 

a joie de vivre in the clogged veins of 

this perverse potboiler only reminds 

us that stereotypical characters from 

conventional mainstream cinema died 

long before Joy Mukherjee. 

Any attempt to revive the oldfashioned 

masala potboiler would 

require oodles of inbuilt humour 

and a developed sense of spoofiness. 

Himmatwala lacks both. It is neither 

fish nor fowl. How does one describe the 

film in a nutshell? For that we can go 

back to one of the songs recreated from 

the original Himmatwala. 

Ho tacky ho tacky ho tacky tacky 

tacky re.....


Indian cinema back to adapting classic writings: Abhishek Kapoor 

IANS 

INDIAN cinema had always enjoyed 

linkages with literature, says 

Abhishek Kapoor, citing the Apu 

Trilogy and Guide. The “glorification 

of mediocrity” impeded this creativity, 

but the trend is back, says the actorturned-director, 

who has adapted The 3 

Mistakes of My Life into the hit movie 

Kai Po Che. 

“The grand masters like Satyajit Ray 

(Apu Trilogy), Bimal Roy (‘Bandini’)and 

Vijay Anand (Guide), among others, 

married the two mediums with remarkable 

soul and pride,” Kapoor said in an 

email interview. 

Leaning towards god-like figures, 

who induce hero-worship, “spawned a 

subsequent culture of heroics on cinema”, 

said Kapoor, who directed Rock 

On!!. 

Q: Out of the three films that you 

have directed so far, Kai Po Che! 

was the first one based upon a 

book. Was it challenging? 

A: Cinema speaks a different language 

than literature. That’s why adaptation 

is a skill - blending the art and 

the science of writing the narrative. The 

visual imagery is the easier part. Exercising 

economy of characters and situations 

while retaining the essence, and 

then adding further flourishes in terms 

of layers to embellish the flow, was the 

SCENE UNSEEN 

Abhishek 

Kapoor 

tough part. No pain, no gain. All credit 

to the writing team for retaining their 

tenacity and good humour during the 

process. 

Most of the Oscar nominated films 

are inspired by literary work. 

India is rich in literature, but very 

few filmmakers take the initiative. 

Why’s this so? 

Indian cinema has always enjoyed 

linkages with our literature. The grand 

masters like Satyajit Ray (Apu Trilogy), 

Bimal Roy (Bandini), Vijay Anand 

(Guide), among others, married the 

two mediums with remarkable soul and 

pride. But our popular leaning towards 

god-like figures, who induce hero-worship, 

spawned a subsequent culture of 

heroics on cinema that transcended 

reality and became life-forms of their 

own. Compounded to that, the herd 

mentality attitude and the glorification 

of mediocrity left no room for the 

hard work and creative craftsmanship 

required to adapt the classic writing to 

screen. Recent years have seen a revival 

however, and I’m glad to walk this talk. 

When you made Rock On!!, the 

film got attention because successful 

director Farhan Akhtar 

was making his acting debut in it, 

and Kai Po Che! was promoted as 

an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s 

book’s adaptation. Do you feel any 

identity crisis? 

None at all. This is the kind of stuff 

non-spiritual beings may feel like, but I 

crossed that bridge a long time ago having 

risen from my early failures. People 

can take away your credit, but they can’t 

take away your talent. A director’s work 

is a director’s work after all in all its 

uniqueness. There’s more to me than 

meets the “I”, and I would like to keep 

it that way. All the world needs to know 

about me is best expressed through the 

work I do. 

You have directed three films, but 

not repeated any actor. Why? 

I think it’s a part of me which craves 

versatility. I believe every film has its 

own journey, like a unique marriage one 

could say. I’m the common link between 

all three of my films. I have ventured 

into each one, guided solely by my 

creative instinct, which has been driven 

specially by the merit of the script and 

project in contrast to following any 

trend. 

What does it take to woo the box 

office? 

The box office is brutally honest and 

truly follows no formula. It is the content 

which matters and the accuracy of 

its timing. There’s a market for all types 

of audiences, make sure you identify 

your segment and access it honestly 

with a straight-forward approach. Crack 

the right combination of these two factors 

and in the long-term you forge an 

understanding of sorts. 

What is next? Are you going to 

make Rock On!!2? 

For Rock On!!2, talks have been 

way under and the scripting process 

has been initiated. We’re all waiting to 

see when and how to proceed, once the 

respective commitments of everyone 

involved have been looked after. 

Hope to share screen space with 

SRK one more time: Hrishitaa 

HRISHITAA Bhatt, who 

did a small role opposite 

superstar Shah 

Rukh Khan in Asoka, 

wants to share screen 

space with him one 

more time. 

“I really hope so, 

because Shah Rukh 

has been one of my 

favourite actors, 

co-stars, a wonderful 

human being. I think 

Hrishitaa Bhatt 

he will always be my 

favourite and I would surely want to share screen 

space one more time with him,” the 31-year-old 

said on Friday at the fashion show Shahnaai. 

Meanwhile, the actress confesses she has 

always dreamt of becoming a pilot and hopes to 

learn flying soon. 

“Being a pilot is still on my mind and I have a 

lot of time and age on my side. With the grace of 

God I should surely learn to fly,” said Hrishitaa. 

Hrishitaa has featured in films like Dil Vil Pyar 

Vyar, Shararat, Out of Control, Haasil, and Charas: A 

Joint Operation. 

Soha never fought with brother Saif Ali Khan 

ACTRESS Soha Ali 

Khan says she has 

never had even a 

childhood fight with 

elder brother and actor 

Saif Ali Khan. 

“The age difference 

between bhai 

(Saif Ali Khan) and 

me is nine years and 

I used to respect him 

a lot so I never got a 

chance to fight with 

him. We only have 

some verbal arguments,” 

the 34-yearold 

said on Friday at a 

press conference for 

her film War Chod Na 

Yaar. 

War Chod Na Yaar Soha Ali Khan (left) with brother Saif Ali Khan. 

also stars Sharman 

Joshi, Mukul Dev and Javed Jaffrey. 

Soha, however, says the fighting was mostly with sister Saba. 

“I used to fight with my sister (Saba Ali Khan); the age difference 

between us is only two years,” Soha said. 

Saba, the older sister, is a jewellery designer. 

Bobby Deol seeks hair stylist 

ACTOR Bobby Deol, who 

was in the capital city on 

Friday afternoon, looked distracted 

and proclaimed that 

he needed a stylist to give 

him an interesting hairdo. 

He said he was bored of his 

hair style. 

“I’m kind of bored of my 

hair. I don’t like curly hair. 

I want straight hair. I keep 

looking at them all the time. 

But I have lost all hope now,” 

Bobby said, adding: “But my 

mom likes it.” 

The 46-year-old also 

Bobby Deol 

insisted that he likes staying fit. “I am happy with my 

physique. I like staying fit and fine. I take a healthy diet 

and work out daily,” he said. 

Bobby asserted that he would not take part in reality 

TV shows, ever. 

“I think I am a shy person. I am not fit for reality TV 

shows. Appearing on a TV show as a judge is also out 

of the question as I am still learning, so I can’t judge 

others. But you never know, I might take part. It’s like 

we start liking things later, which we don’t like doing 

at first,” he said.


LIFESTYLE 

Is your kitchen a 

health hazard? 

NYT SYNDICATE 

gas stove upstairs and into its own small entertainment-eating zone, too. So I’m 

kitchen at the back of the house. 

expanding my new kitchen complex into 

OUR kitchens may be killing Similarly, the kitchen of my childhood 

home in Metuchen, New Jersey, want. I didn’t order some of the now- 

my garden – with all the gizmos I could 

us – slowly. Not so much 

with radon or gas leaks, but was its own single-purpose dedicated common kitchen options: second refrigerators, 

separate free-standing freezers, 

with kindness and proximity. 

evening meal was over (in our case, usu- 

pasta faucets, bread makers, warming 

room. Back then, when my family’s 

When my 1840 Philadelphia row 

house was built for its seafaring owners, 

the kitchen was in the basement – like 

every other home on the block. If the 

family wanted a hot meal, someone had 

to tramp downstairs and stoke up the 

fire. 

Fire and smoke inhalation were chief 

among the many health hazards the 

19th-century kitchen presented. In an 

era without refrigeration, food poisoning 

was a constant danger. Home-preserved 

foods filled in dietary gaps, but if stored 

improperly botulism became a real – and 

deadly – risk. 

The widespread introduction of the 

icebox, around the time my house was 

built, led to big changes. Insulated iceboxes 

– some of them fashionable furniture 

– greatly extended the shelf lives 

of fresh foods. The electric refrigerator, 

with small but handy freezers, appeared 

in houses in the first decades of the 20th 

century. Ice block delivery by horsedrawn 

cart was no longer needed. 

When safer natural gas and electricity 

entered our lives, kitchens moved 

from basement exile into the main area 

of homes. As part of an ambitious 1934 

modernisation, the previous owner of 

my Philadelphia house moved the huge 

ally after 20 minutes of near-silent eating), 

our kitchen was declared “closed,” 

its function complete. 

But now our kitchens, like our girths, 

have grown substantially, in terms of size 

and of function. They’ve become part 

of expansive entertainment complexes 

in our homes. A recent survey by the 

National Association of Home Builders 

reports that three out of four new-home 

buyers want their kitchen and family 

room to be a combined space. 

That makes sense. People like to 

hang out and socialise in their kitchens. 

Now great spaces are full of wonderful, 

convenient devices – with super-size 

refrigerators, stoves that could service 

a restaurant and large enough cabinets 

to store provisions for a small army. 

Even our dinner plates are bigger than 

they used to be. Comfy chairs, computer 

stations and a large-screen TV – virtual 

necessities – round out the picture. 

Sure, not everyone can afford these 

gastronomic wonderlands – but a glance 

at shows like House Hunters and My 

First Place on HGTV give you a pretty 

good idea of what the ruling cultural 

ideal looks like. 

Almost 80 years after its last major 

upgrade, my old home deserves its own 

drawers, cappuccino bars, home pizza 

ovens or a built-in deep fryer and tap. So 

I guess, by some standards, I’m roughing 

it. 

Soon I’ll be able to amble (or, more 

likely, roll) a mere five feet from my 

kitchen counter stool to my couch to 

watch Chopped, Top Chef or Diners, 

Drive-Ins and Dives. The refrigerator, 

pantry and containers of food will remain 

alluringly in sight (and all beautifully 

lighted, I might add). I won’t even 

have to leave the room during a commercial. 

And why would I leave at all? The 

kitchen has Wi-Fi. 

Many of the safety issues of yesterday’s 

kitchens are gone. No one in my 

family is likely to tumble into an open 

hearth. But new kitchens pose a more 

subtle danger to our health by doubling 

as a comfortable social, entertainment 

and eating hub. Retail marketers have 

long known that when tempting food is 

within close range of our eyes or nose, 

we tend to eat more of it. In our new 

kitchens, it’s just too darn easy to get to 

addictive snacks and calorie-rich drinks. 

My newly expanded kitchen should 

be done in a few weeks. Despite its increased 

storage capacity, I plan to stock 

fewer carbohydrate-laden products and 

There are, of course, 

many reasons for 

the nation’s obesity 

epidemic, with 

its staggering health 

implications. But new 

kitchens pose a more 

subtle danger to our 

health by doubling 

as a comfortable social, 

entertainment 

and eating hub. Retail 

marketers have 

long known that when 

tempting food is within 

close range of our 

eyes or nose, we tend 

to eat more of it 

tempting treats. An extra handful or 

two of easily accessible daily snacks can 

make the difference between maintaining 

my weight and adding a few pounds 

each year. 

There are, of course, many reasons 

for the nation’s obesity epidemic, with 

its staggering health implications. But 

surely modern home design plays an 

important and underappreciated role. 

Perhaps there is one more kitchen 

option I should get: a neon sign that says 

“Kitchen Closed.” After dinner, I’ll turn 

it on.

WHEELS 


Chinese help to keep 

the London black 

cab rolling along 

The last appearance of the vehicle on the 

international stage, Olympic watchers will 

recall, was when the Spice Girls wheeled 

into the East London stadium in tarted-up 

versions of the black cab for the closing 

ceremonies 

NYT SYNDICATE 

TO the relief of Anglophiles, 

the British-astea-and-scones 

London 

black cab has been 

saved from extinction. 

After six years of running in the 

red, and five months of wobbling 

along in the British equivalent of 

bankruptcy, the London Taxi Company, 

a division of Coventry-based 

Manganese Bronze Holdings, was 

bought along with its parent company 

by the Zhejiang Geely Holding 

Group. The Chinese carmaker 

already had a 20 percent stake in 

the company. Last month it forked 

out more than $17 million to acquire 

the rest. 

The last appearance of the 

vehicle on the international stage, 

Olympic watchers will recall, was 

when the Spice Girls wheeled into 

the East London stadium in tartedup 

versions of the black cab for the 

closing ceremonies. 

So what will the Chinese be getting 

for their money? 

An icon, for one thing, whose 

design hasn’t evolved much in six 

decades. The ubiquitous black cab 

(there are about 21,000 licensed 

ones in London) has a rounded 

Alfred Hitchcock-like profile and is 

spacious, with headroom to spare. 

And it’s easy to step into. No knees 

in your stomach side-slide maneuvering, 

as one does to get into a 

New York cab. 

“Theoretically,’’ explains Malcolm 

Linskey, managing director 

of London-based Knowledge Point, 

which trains cabbies in “the knowledge’’ 

(the in-depth study of street 

routes cabbies need to know before 

qualifying for a license), “you 

should be able to sit in the cab with 

a top hat on.’’ Other city-streetfriendly 

traits include the cabs’ 

ability to spin on a sixpence, thanks 

to its turning radius of 25 feet. 

But you don’t have to be a 

cabbie to own one. All you need 

is the money, roughly $48,000 

(£32,000) for a basic-model version 

of the TX4, the state-of-the-art 

black cab. The Duke of Edinburgh 

has one, as does actor-playwright 

Stephen Fry, supermodel Kate 

Moss, and the late King of Tonga. 

“It’s an anonymous vehicle,’’ 

explains Nyasha Pitt, the London 

Cab Company’s marketing manager. 

“If you are a lead singer of 

a well-known pop group driving 

one, no one would suspect.’’ Call it 

celebrity camouflage. It’s also easily 

customised. “In the Middle East 

and in China, owners have installed 

plasma screens and fridges in the 

back.’’ 

The cars are manufactured in 

Coventry, and all vehicles made for 

the UK will continue to be made 

there, Pitt said. Cars for other markets 

will be made in Shanghai. 

The bailout was cause for celebration 

for the 107 employees of 

the company left standing after 156 

were axed when the company was 

in administration, as bankruptcy is 

known in England. 

“Most companies that go into 

administration never come out the 

other end,’’ Pitt says. But how did 

the cabbies react to the acquisition? 

Isn’t it bad enough that quintessentially 

Brit brands like Jaguar 

and Land Rover are now owned by 

India’s Tata Motors? Geely itself 

had dipped into the global market 

previously by buying the Swedish 

car manufacturer Volvo. 

“Initially there was great dismay,’’ 

admits Linskey, director of 

the school for London cabbies. “The 

thinking was the end of the world 

had come. Now, they’re grateful 

someone has taken over.’’ 

Denise Ferrer, who has driven 

a black cab for about a year, was 

among the appreciative. “If they’d 

gone under, I’d have been devastated,’’ 

she said by cellphone on her 

way into town for work. “It would 

be like yellow taxis in New York 

going to purple.’’


PARENTING 

Is Japan the worst 

developed country 

for mothers? 

As Nobuko’s example 

shows, Japan’s 

working culture can 

be brutal. It’s one of 

the reasons why 70 

percent of Japanese 

women still give up 

work as soon as they 

have their first child 

NYT SYNDICATE 

JAPANESE women are more 

likely to have a university degree 

than men, and the number 

of employed women has been 

rising steadily for 10 years 

– but, for a range of reasons, a woman 

who has had children still has a hard 

time getting a good job. 

Nobuko Ito is the very model of a 

modern professional Japanese woman. 

She is a qualified lawyer and she 

speaks fluent English. She has years 

of experience working in international 

contract law. 

But Nobuko no longer works in a big 

international law firm. In fact, she hardly 

does any lawyering at all these days. 

Instead she has three children. In 

Japan it is still one or the other. Doing 

both is extremely difficult. 

“Before I had a child I remember one 

busy month where I billed the client for 

300 hours!” Nobuko says. 

“I’d get in the office at nine in the 

morning, and leave at three the next 

morning, and I’d come in on Saturday 

and Sunday. 

“If you want to keep working you 

have to forget about your children, you 

have to just devote yourself to the company. 

“I can’t do this, it’s impossible.” 

As Nobuko’s example shows, Japan’s 

working culture can 

be brutal. It’s one 

of the reasons 

why 70 percent 

of Japanese 

women still 

give up work as soon as they have their 

first child. 

Another is their husbands. 

When it comes to helping out around 

the home, Japanese men are still far 

behind their counterparts in Europe or 

America. 

In Sweden, Germany and the US, 

husbands spend, on average, three hours 

a day helping out with children and 

household chores. In Japan it’s one hour, 

and they spend just 15 minutes a day 

with their children. 

Then there is paternity leave. Japanese 

men are entitled to take it, but only 

a tiny minority actually do – just 2.63 

percent, according to the Health and 

Welfare ministry. 

“My husband didn’t take paternity 

leave,” Nobuko says. 

“Most Japanese men are very hesitant 

to use the system. They may want to 

come back home to help with the family, 

but on the other hand they think they 

need to work as hard as possible otherwise 

they may not get promoted, or they 

may lose their job.” 

Despite all this many Japanese 

women do want to continue working 

after they have children. 

But they then come up against the 

next problem – child care, or rather the 

lack of it. 

According to the Tokyo government’s 

own statistics there are 20,000 children 

in the city waiting for places in day care 

centres. 

The government centres that do 

exist are good, but they are far too few. 

And even if you do get a place it’s means 

tested and expensive. 

“I’d have to pay about $1,000 per 

month per child even at the state nursery,” 

says Nobuko. 

“Expensive private nurseries cost 

about $2,000 for one child a month. But 

those are really good!” she says, laughing. 

All of this adds up to two things. 

Women who are having children are not 

working. Women who are working are 

not having children. Both are terrible for 

Japan’s future. 

In her groundbreaking work Womenomics: 

Japan’s Hidden Asset, Japanese-American 

economist Kathy Matsui 

says getting more Japanese mothers to 

stay in work or go back to work should 

be a “national priority.” 

She says it could add as much as 15 

percent to Japan’s gross domestic product. 

But Matsui says there is another even 

more pressing reason: Japan is running 

out of people. 

“Although a low fertility rate is common 

among other developed countries, 

Japan may be the only (Organisation 

for Economic Cooperation and Development) 

nation where the number of pets 

exceeds the number of children,” she 

says. 

Japan’s birthrate is just 1.37 births 

per woman, far below the 2.1 figure at 

which a population remains stable. 

Evidence from Europe and America 

suggest helping women to stay in work 

can increase the birthrate. 

In countries like Sweden, Denmark 

and the US, where female employment 

rates are high, birthrates are also higher. 

In countries where female employment 

is low, like Italy, South Korea and Japan, 

birthrates are also low. 

In Japan a demographic crisis is 

already under way. In 2006 Japan’s 

population began to shrink. 

If current trends persist, it will lose 

one-third of its population in the next 

half-century. 

Nothing like that has ever happened 

before.


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10:00 Hey Arnold! The Movie 

11:15 Sammy's Adventure: The Secret Passage 


14:15 Dolphin Tale 

16:15 Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays 

18:00 Hey Arnold! The Movie 

20:00 Blue Elephant 2 


23:30 Marco Antonio 

01:00 Winner & The Golden Child: Part I 


04:30 Blue Elephant 2 

OSN SPORT 1 HD 

06:00 Trans World Sport 

07:00 ICC Cricket 360 

07:30 Futbol Mundial 

08:00 Live NRL Premiership 

10:00 University Boat Race 

11:00 Live NRL Premiership 


13:30 PGA European Tour 

18:00 PGA Tour Highlights 

19:00 PGA European Tour Highlights 

20:00 Super Rugby Highlights 

21:00 University Boat Race 


22:30 NRL Premiership 

00:30 Premier League Darts 

04:00 NRL Premiership 

OSN SPORT 4 

07:00 WWE Bottom Line 

08:00 WWE Experience 

09:00 Ping Pong World 

10:00 US Bass Fishing 

11:00 NHL 

13:00 UAE National Race Day Series 

14:00 WWE NXT 

15:00 WWE SmackDown 



19:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 

20:00 UFC Prelims 

22:00 UFC 

01:00 NHL 



SONY ENTERTAINMENT 

05:00 Mere Brother Ki Dulhan 

07:30 Gnan Ganga 

08:00 Godbharaai 

08:30 Seva Sagar 

09:00 Palampur Express 

09:30 Krishnaben Khakrawala 

10:00 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge 

10:30 Dil Ki Nazar Se Khoobsurat 

11:00 Anamika 

11:30 Amita Ka Amit 

12:00 Chhanchhan 

12:30 Parvarish - Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi 

13:00 Kyaa Hua Tera Vaada 

13:30 Bade Ache Lagte Hai 

14:00 Lamhe 

17:30 Anamika 







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03:30 Andaaz 2013 

04:00 Comedy Circus Ke Ajoobe 

04:30 Welcome 

STAR MOVIES 

06:30 The Dark 

08:15 Unbreakable 

10:00 I am Number Four 

11:45 Dead Presidents 

13:30 The Dark 


16:45 Encino Man 


20:00 Paradise 

21:45 The Hurricane 

23:30 Pretty Woman 



04:45 I am Number Four 

TCM 

05:45 Ride Him, Cowboy 

07:00 20,000 Years In Sing Sing 

08:20 Abbott And Costello In Hollywood 

09:45 The Cabin In The Cotton 

11:10 Ride The High Country 

12:45 Some Came Running 

15:00 The Glass Bottom Boat 

16:50 Raintree County 

19:35 The Dirty Dozen 

22:00 Hit Man 

23:35 Death In Venice 

01:45 Abbott And Costello In Hollywood 

03:10 The Adventures Of Robin Hood 

04:55 20,000 Years In Sing Sing 

THE HISTORY CHANNEL 

05:00 The Korean War In Colour 

06:00 Ancient Aliens 

07:00 The Real Face Of Jesus? 

09:00 Jesus: The Lost 40 Days 


12:00 Grave Trade 

13:00 Mountain Men 

14:00 Jesus: The Lost 40 Days 

16:00 Grave Trade 

17:00 Mountain Men 

18:00 American Restoration 

19:00 Mud Men 

20:00 Pawn Stars 

20:30 Storage Wars 



22:30 The Men Who Built America 

00:30 Shipping Wars 



02:30 The Men Who Built America 

04:30 Shipping Wars 

THE STYLE NETWORK 

05:10 Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? 

06:05 Open House 

07:00 Videofashion News 

08:00 Videofashion Daily 

09:00 Open House 

09:30 Big Boutique In The City 

10:00 Top 10 


11:55 Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane 

12:50 Videofashion News 

13:20 Videofashion Collections 

13:50 Chicagolicious 

14:45 How Do I Look? 


18:25 Tia And Tamera 


21:15 Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane 

22:10 Built 

23:05 Tia And Tamera 


01:00 Empire Girls: Julissa And Adrienne 

01:55 Glam Fairy 

02:50 Jerseylicious 


04:40 Open House


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SUDOKU 

Yesterday’s Answer 

Star Talk 

By King Features Syndicate, Inc. 

ARIES [mar 21 – apr 19] TAURUS [apr 20 – may 20] GEMINI [may 21 – jun 20] CANCER [jun 21 - jul 22] LEO [jul 23 – aug 22] VIRGO [aug 23 – 22] 

This is an extremely feel-good 

day; nevertheless, it’s playful. 

It’s not a day for important 

decisions or serious work. Just 

kick up your heels and have fun! 

You might call this a Mother Teresa 

day, because you truly want to 

do good. You want to help those 

who are less fortunate, which is 

a noble and fine thing indeed. 

Enjoy increased popularity today. 

Groups, classes and gatherings of 

all sizes will be enthusiastic and 

fun choices for you. Accept all 

invitations. Don’t hide at home. 

You easily impress bosses, 

parents, teachers and people 

in power today. (Think of it 

as flattering lighting from the 

universe.) Make the most of this! 

This is a creative day for those 

working in publishing, the media, 

higher education and travel industries. 

However, it’s a poor day 

for serious, grounded decisions. 

If you have to divide or share 

something today, make sure you 

are being realistic. Your idealism 

could make you get carried away. 

LIBRA [sept 23 – oct 22] SCORPIO [oct 23 – nov 21] SAGITTARIUS [nov 22 – dec 21] CAPRICORN [dec 22 – jan 19] AQUARIUS [jan 20 – feb 18] Pisces [feb 19 – mar 20] 

This is a great day to schmooze 

with friends and partners. It’s 

also a great day to mingle with 

members of the general public. 

New ideas that can improve your 

health might prove to be encouraging 

today. Others might be involved 

in work-related travel or dealing 

with other countries and cultures. 

Because your creative juices are 

flowing today, do something that 

allows you to express your creativity. 

Be a kid again. Enjoy sports, 

playful activities with children, 

the arts and saucy flirtations. 

Meetings at home especially 

to teach or share information 

will be a positive experience 

today. Do whatever you can 

to improve family relationships 

or your home scene. 

Because your imagination is in 

overdrive, this is a great day for 

writers. It’s also a great day for 

all of you, because you’re full 

of wonderful ideas and keen 

to share them with others. 

In one way, this is a good day 

for business and commerce, 

because you’re thinking up great 

ideas. However, don’t put them 

into action today. Wait until 

tomorrow. (You’ll be glad you did.)


MOVIES IN QATAR 

G.I.Joe: Retaliation 

(Action) 

The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy 

Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from 

within the government that jeopardise their very 

existence. 

Madea’s Witness Protection 

(Comedy) 

A Wall Street investment banker who has been 

set up as the linchpin of his company’s 

mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with 

his family to Aunt Madea’s southern 

home. 

CITY CENTRE CINEMA VILLAGGIO CINEMA LANDMARK CINEMA MALL CINEMA 

G.I.JOE -2 (ACTION): 11.30 AM, 2 PM, 4.30 PM, 7 PM, 9.30 

PM, 12 MN, 1 AM. (3D): 10.30 PM, 1 PM, 3.30 PM, 6 PM, 

8.30 PM, 11 PM, 1.15 AM [VIP GOLD]: 11 AM, 1.30 PM, 4 

PM, 6.30 PM, 9 PM, 11.30 PM 

MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (COMEDY): 10.30 AM, 

12.45 PM, 6 PM, 11.15 PM 

SNOW QUEEN (ANIMATION) (3D): 11 AM, 12.45 PM, 2.30 

PM, 4.15 PM, 6 PM 

THE BAY (THRILLER): 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM 

FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (ANIMATION): 11.15 AM, 1.15 PM 

PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING (DRAMA): 5.15 PM, 7.15 

PM, 9.15 PM, 11.15 PM 

THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 11 AM, 1 PM, 3 PM, 5 

PM, 7 PM, 9 PM, 11 PM, 1 AM 

THE CROODS (ANIMATION) (3D): 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM, 3.30 

PM, 5.30 PM, 7.30 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM 

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11.15 PM, 1.45 PM, 4.15 

PM, 6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM 

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (FANTASY): 12.15 PM, 2.30 PM, 

4.45 PM, 7 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.30 PM 

IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 11.45 AM, 2 PM, 4.15 PM, 6.30 

PM, 8.45 PM, 11 PM 

PARKER (ACTION): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15 PM, 6.45 PM, 

9.15 PM, 11.45 PM 

OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 10.45 AM, 1.15 

PM, 3.45 PM, 6.15 PM, 8.45 PM, 11.15 PM 

RED WINE (MALAYALAM): 3 PM, 5.30 PM, 8.15 PM 

HIMMATWALA (HINDI): 12 PM, 2.45 PM, 8.30 PM, 11.15 PM 

G.I.JOE -2 (ACTION): 10.30 AM, 11.45 AM, 12.45 PM, 2 

PM, 3 PM, 4.15 PM, 5.15 PM, 6.30 PM, 7.30 PM, 8.45 PM 

9.45 PM, 11 PM, 12 MN, 1 AM 

MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (COMEDY): 1.15 PM, 

5.15 PM, 9.15 PM 

SNOW QUEEN (ANIMATION) (3D): 11 AM, 12.45 PM, 2.30 

PM, 4.15 PM, 6 PM, 7.45 PM 

THE BAY II (THRILLER): 11.30 AM, 3.30 PM, 7.30 PM, 11.30 PM 

FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (ANIMATION): 12 PM, 2 PM, 

4 PM, 6 PM 

PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING (DRAMA): 8 PM, 10 

PM, 12 MN 

THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 

PM, 8 PM, 10 PM, 12 MN, 1.15 AM 

THE CROODS (ANIMATION): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM 

(3D): 11 AM, 1 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM, 7 PM 

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11.30 AM, 2 PM, 4.30 

PM, 7 PM, 9.30 PM, 12 MN, 1.15 PM 

IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 11.45 AM, 2 PM, 4.15 PM, 

6.30 PM, 8.45 PM, 11 PM 

PARKER (ACTION): 1 PM, 6 PM, 11 PM 

OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 10.30 PM, 

11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 3.30 PM, 4.15 PM, 6.45 PM, 8.30 PM, 

9.15 PM, 11.45 PM 

HUNT TO KILL (ACTION): 8 PM, 10 PM, 12 PM 

SIDE EFFECTS (THRILLER): 9 PM, 12 MN 

MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (COMEDY): 4.30 PM 

FROM UP POPPY HILL (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM 

PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING (COMEDY): 6.30 PM 

HIMMATWALA (HINDI): 8.15 PM, 11 PM 

CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM, 5 PM 

SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 7 PM 

G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 9 PM, 11 PM 

THE BAY II (THRILLER): 2.30 PM 

RED WINE (MALAYALAM): 4.30 PM, 7 PM 

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 9.30 PM 

THE LAST EXORCISM 2 (THRILLER): 11.30 PM 

ROYAL PLAZA 

CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM 

G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 5 PM, 9.15 PM 

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 7 PM 

THE BAY II (THRILLER): 11 PM 

GRINGO: HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION (DRAMA): 

2.30 PM 

MELANCHOLIA (DRAMA): 4.30 PM, 9 PM 

TAKE THIS WALTZ (COMEDY): 6.30 PM, 11.15 PM 

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM, 4.15 PM 

JACK REACHER (ACTION); 6 PM, 8.15 PM 

THE HOBBIT: AN EXPECTED JOURNEY (ADVENTURE): 

10.45 PM 

RANGREZZ (HINDI): 2.30 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, 11 PM 

SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM 

CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 4.15 PM, 6.15 PM 

RED WINE (MALAYALAM): 8.15 PM, 11 PM 

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 3 PM 

MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (COMEDY): 3 PM 

G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 7 PM, 11.15 PM 

THE BAY II (THRILLER): 5 PM 

NOTICE: Timings are subject to change without prior notice. 

Movie review 

The Snow Queen 

THE Snow Queen is a 2012 Russian 3D computer-animated film directed by Vladlen Barbe and Maxim Sveshnikov. It was produced at the 

Wizart Animation studio in Voronezh and is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen and co-produced with the 

Moscow’s Inlay Film, by support of Timur Bekmambetov’s company named Bazelevs. 

Wishing to create a New world – where clearness of lines replaces emotions and the polar wind cools human souls, the Snow Queen 

(antagonist) is trying to find and destroy all artists and their successors. Gerda (protagonist) tries to find her brother Kai on the boundless 

spaces of the fantastic country bewitched by the Snow Queen. During her travel she faces difficult obstacles and finds new friends… 

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