15-01-2019

ART & CULTURE
TUeSDAY,
jANUARY 15, 2019
8
Uri box office collection Day 3
Vicky Kaushal film earns
Rs 35.73 crore
The Nutcracker and
the Four Realms
A young girl is transported into a magical world of
gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
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02 November 2018 (USA)
Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Ashleigh Powell
Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley,
Morgan Freeman
In 2018, the legend you know has a
dark side
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
99 minutes
USA
English
The Mark Gordon Company, Walt
Disney Pictures
Storyline : All Clara wants is a key - a one-of-a-kind key that will
unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden
thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's annual holiday
party, leads her to the coveted key-which promptly disappears into a
strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a
soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over
three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers, and Land of
Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home
to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return
harmony to the unstable world. |Source: IMDb]
Uri box office collection Day 3: Vicky Kaushal film is easily beating the competition.
Uri box office collection
Day 3: After just three
days, this Vicky Kaushal
starrer has minted Rs
35.73 crore. On its third
day, it grossed Rs 15.10
crore.
Vicky Kaushal’s military
drama Uri: The Surgical
Strike is doing well at the
box office. After just three
days, it has minted Rs
35.73 crore. It opened at
Rs 8.20 crore and earned
Rs 12.43 crore on the
second day. On its third
day, it grossed Rs 15.10
crore.
Based on the retaliatory
attacks on terror launch
pads across the Line of
Control, Uri: The Surgical
Strike is directed by Aditya
Dhar. It also stars Paresh
Rawal, Mohit Raina and
H O ROScOpe
ARIeS
(March 21 - April 20):
Everything should be going great
for your career, Aries. It may all
seem too good to be true, but rest assured that
it's real. Events could involve a job change,
promotion, raise, or the opportunity to strike
out on your own. Don't kid yourself.
TAURUS
(April 21 - May 21): Discussions
with those close to you could lead
to the discovery of new concepts,
perhaps from foreign cultures.
You will want to learn more about them,
Taurus, as will your friends. You might even
decide to plan a trip to a place where you could
expand your knowledge of this new interest.
GeMINI
(May 22 - June 21): Emotions that
run very deep should bring you a
lot of satisfaction today, Gemini.
Relationships of all kinds could
also be especially promising. A romantic
relationship may be consummated, revitalized,
or moved to the next level of commitment.
cANceR
(June 22 - July 23): Relations
with neighbors, siblings, or
other relatives could get a shot
in the arm now, Cancer. For
some, your recent business successes cause
them to get on the bandwagon. For others,
your personal growth could increase their
admiration of you.
LeO
(July 24 - Aug. 23): Success in your
work continues to bring good
fortune your way. Today you might
get reassurance that this isn't a
flash in the pan. You're likely to be financially
secure for a long time. You're probably feeling
strong and robust, full of energy and stamina, and
ready to take on just about any challenge.
VIRGO
(Aug. 24 - Sept. 23): As you continue to
enjoy success and good fortune, your
self-confidence grows, Virgo, and so
you're likely to attract new relationships
with fascinating people in exciting fields who share your
vision and interests. These could be business
associations, close friendships, new romantic partners.
Yami Gautam.
Trade analyst Taran
Adarsh tweeted third day’s
figures. He wrote,
“#UriTheSurgicalStrike
emerges the FIRST HIT of
2019… Indeed, 2019 has
started with high josh…
Sets the BO on ..... on Day
3… Packs a solid total in its
opening weekend… Fri
8.20 cr, Sat 12.43 cr, Sun
15.10 cr. Total: ... 35.73 cr.
India biz. #Uri #Hows The
Josh.”
Earlier, trade analyst
Girish Johar had talked
about Vicky Kaushal being
the film’s USP, “Definitely
people are looking forward
to seeing Kaushal as a
military officer after he
delivered
good
performances last year. He
is one of the USPs of Uri.”
Uri has received mixed
reviews. The Indian
Express film critic
Shubhra Gupta gave it 2
stars and wrote, “Uri: The
Surgical Strike is slickly
made, and on the whole
keeps you watching
despite some clunky
passages.”
She added, “It’s always
good to have movies in
which the soldiers look real,
and the conflict is taken
seriously, even if the action
is buoyed by such dialogues
as ‘unhe Kashmir chaihye,
humein unka sar’. If that’s
not jingoism, I don’t know
what is. The Pakistani bigwigs
are shown as a bunch
of not exactly incompetents,
but incapable of matching
up to the Indians.”
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LIBRA
(Sept. 24 - Oct. 23): Today your
sensitivity joins forces with
practicality. Intuitive insights could
come to you today, and you might express your
new ideas to others, Libra. Don't be surprised if
they accept them. Your unconscious mind is on a
far more practical track than you may assume.
ScORpIO
(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) : Today shows the
promise of being a very busy yet
fulfilling day, Scorpio. Enterprises
involving corporations, churches, or
other groups in your community are likely to benefit
from your participation. You combine intuition with
practicality in everything you do. You're especially
communicative and good at dealing with others. Don't
be surprised if public recognition comes your way.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 23 - Dec. 21) : - Your financial
success over the past several weeks
may seem too good to be true,
Sagittarius. It might make yet
another leap forward. This should make you
happy. It also could bring up your insecurity over
whether or not this cycle will continue.
cApRIcORN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20): You're flying
high at this point, Capricorn,
enjoying the success you've achieved
over the past several weeks. Today
you could accomplish yet another goal, adding to
your feeling of accomplishment. You might plan a
vacation or perhaps return to college.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19): Today you might
have insights as to how to advance your
career. These could come your way
through dreams, sudden revelations, or
perhaps visions. Don't hesitate to put them into action
simply because of the unorthodox way they come to you,
Aquarius. Some of the most progressive and successful
ideas have come because the inventor had a vivid dream.
pISceS
(Feb. 20 - Mar. 20) : All your relationships
should be especially warm and
supportive now, Pisces. This is a great day
to form a business, personal, or romantic
partnership. Business partnerships made now should be
successful, while committed romantic bonds entered into
today could well last for a long time.
On and off the endless
treadmill of fitness trends
Face-o-Metrics, taught at Alexander’s department stores.
In 1969, The Times declared that exercise
studios, particularly those run by a certain
Russian émigré, had become as modish as
restaurants. Women who were attuned to
aspirational signifiers like the right hairdresser
or, as the article said, "that little jewel of a
manicurist".
Penelope Green
Do you remember Face-o-Metrics? How
about FloMotion? Or kitchen calisthenics? Me
neither. But The New York Times recorded
these and many, many other modern fitness
fads, an exhausting - and often poignant -
chronicle of pain, gain and some very peculiar
practices. Taken as a whole, the paper's
coverage of the last half-century of exercise
recalls the old joke, Samuel Johnson by way of
Oscar Wilde, about second marriages: a
triumph of hope over experience.
In the mid-1960s, companies like Shell Oil
offered their female employees a program of
self-improvement: five weeks' worth of
exercise, posture, etiquette and fashion titled
Personality Workshop Inc. It was so successful
with "the girls," as they were called - otherwise
known as secretaries - that their male
managers signed up as well, to learn how to
count calories, breathe properly by blowing up
balloons and fling towels about to stay trim.
In 1966, Face-o-Metrics were taught at
Alexander's department stores. (It was an era
when department stores were still gathering
places, vibrant agoras for more than just
shopping.) These facial workouts were
invented by one Jessica Krane, the "prophet of
the basic woo and the ostrich," as the paper
described her. The basic woo, the article went
on to say, is the shape your mouth makes "as if
one were uttering a very intense woo" - go on,
try it - and its practice, with variations,
promised to erase lines around the mouth. The
ostrich, designed to banish double chins and
jowls, required leaning your head back as far as
possible.
Another exercise was to obscure your age, if
you were a woman older than 25. The article
portrayed Krane's own face as being wrinkle
free, though it pointed out, rather nastily, that
she did look as if she were over 25.
In 1969, The Times declared that exercise
studios, particularly those run by a certain
Russian émigré, had become as modish as
restaurants. Women who were attuned to
aspirational signifiers like the right hairdresser
or, as the article said, "that little jewel of a
manicurist" - these included a copywriter from
Cosmopolitan, a filmmaker's assistant and the
wife of a television personality - were drawn to
places like Alex & Walter on West 57th Street,
where they might hang from rings like circus
performers or real gymnasts.
More populist was an establishment that
cannily operated across the street from Macy's,
where fashion collided with reality on a daily
basis. The trauma of the dressing-room mirror
greatly benefited the Health Spa, as it was
blandly named, which saw as many as 400
clients a day. "Hot pants, especially, have
gotten us a lot of clients," its proprietor said.
Operating under the principle that "all women
are sisters under their leotards," the place was
a favorite of switchboard operators, flight
attendants, bookkeepers and, notably, Phyllis
Chesler, the second-wave feminist author and
psychologist, who offered, as the reporter
wrote, "the women liberationist point of view."
"Physical health is important to women,"
Chesler said. "And they don't get the same
opportunities that men do to exercise their
bodies." Speaking of hot pants, The Times
reviewed a curious piece of apparel in 1971, an
inflatable "reducing" garment named for the
popular short shorts. Shrinkage, not fitness,
seemed to be the goal; the contraption was
tested by a 32-year-old woman and a 16-yearold
girl, both of whom were identified as
overweight in a jaw-dropping expression of
rigid beauty standards that would surely have
inflamed Chesler.
"The teenager is about 30 pounds
overweight according to insurance industry
statistics," the article said flatly, adding that she
was "extremely athletic, and has won several
swimming and diving trophies."
Neither tester lost inches, but their legs were
Working out is one of the most common New Year resolutions.
sore from the routine, which was grueling by any
standards. Also, the Hot Pants leaked, making
them potentially more toxic than their
messaging. One can only imagine what
poisonous cocktail was in the garment's
"thermal packs," which contained "a chemicallyimpregnated
sponge that produces heat."
In 1973, two years before it went out of
business forever, Arnold Constable, a carriage
trade establishment on 40th Street and Fifth
Avenue, offered working women lunchtime
exercise classes. (Open since 1825, it was once
the city's oldest specialty store, and a favorite of
Eleanor Roosevelt's.)
One teacher performed her version of yoga
and calisthenics in the windows, hoping to lure
passers-by into her classes. The female reporter
who had written so trenchantly about
aspirational exercise also covered the Arnold
Constable window act, in an article that
included this unsisterly sentence: "Women
shoppers, including one 200-pounder, looked
on in envy." Oh to have been a participant in
kitchen calisthenics, taught by Suzy Prudden, a
co-author of I Can Exercise Anywhere,
published in 1981. Couples wielding salad
spinners whirled furiously to "Flight of the
Bumblebee," among other classical favorites
that had been set to a disco beat.
"When you've finished making the salad,
you'll be very tense," Prudden was quoted as
saying, "so that means it's time for the shakethe-salad-dressing
exercise." When the movie
Flashdance landed in 1983, with a sweaty
flourish of leg warmers and scissored-up
sweatshirts, its "calisthenic pornography," as
Janet Maslin put it in her review, was more
than just filmmaker Adrian Lyne's fantasy. To
remind: Jennifer Beals (and her uncredited
body double, a French dancer named Marine
Jahan) played a welder who also worked as an
exotic dancer, and dated her older boss.
Young women had already begun to sport leg
warmers as a fashion statement, though not, as
their forebears did, to signal an allegiance to the
ballet barre, but to prove membership in a new
tribe of aerobics fanatics. Led by instructors
who had become celebrities by virtue of their
ability to bark exhortations that could be heard
over the chorus of "It's Raining Men," they
imagined that contorting to Pat Benatar would
be a transformative experience.
-IndianExpress