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Paul Anka
At 71 Anka still does about 100 live
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Paul Anka
Paul Anka
tells his
amazing tale
JANE WOLLMAN RUSOFF
NYT SYNDICATE
E
ARLY rock ‘n’ roll rocketed a
cadre of swoon-worthy teen
idols to fame in the 1950s, but
none has stayed aloft longer
than singer/songwriter Paul
Anka.
The hits that Anka wrote and re-corded, including Diana (1957), You Are
My Destiny (1958), Lonely Boy (1959)
and Puppy Love’ (1960), put him on
the map. My Way (1969), the stirring
anthem he penned for Frank Sinatra,
ensured that he stayed there.
Anka has released 124 albums in
English, German, Italian and Spanish,
selling more than 42 million records
all told. He has recorded three songs
that hit No 1 on the Billboard charts:
Diana, Lonely Boy and (You’re) Having
My Baby (1974). Citing his total of 33
top-40 songs, Billboard has named him
one of the 25 most successful recording
artists of all time.
At 71 Anka still does about 100 live
performances each year, spending four
to ﬁve months touring in China, Europe
and South America as well as in the
United States and his native Canada. It
has been decades, though, since he had a
top-40 hit in the United States.
“Am I as needy of that as I was years
ago? No,’’ Anka says, speaking by tele-phone from his Los Angeles home. “Do I
need it to survive? No. I’m very realistic.
There is no music business as I knew it.’’
Once upon a time, though, Anka
was at the centre of the music business
and, indeed, the whole entertainment
world. His new autobiography, My Way
(St Martin’s Press, 2013), written with
David Dalton, is packed with revela-tions about Angie Dickinson, Michael
Jackson, John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley,
Sinatra and more.
He looks back, for example, to his
romance with the late Annette Funicello,
at the time a crazed Anka fan who was
fresh from Mouseketeer duty and soon
to star in Beach Party (1963) and a
string of similar ﬁlms.
“She was ... a very, very passionate
girl,’’ Anka writes. “Having an affair with
Annette was an absolute fantasy come
true.’’
Nonetheless, it was a relationship
without a future.
“I loved Annette,’’ Anka says, “but I
wasn’t ready to get married. Ultimately
she got it that that wasn’t going to hap-pen.’’
Besides, Anka had other things to
worry about. He had established himself
as both a canny songwriter and a power-ful singer when suddenly the “British
invasion’’ hit. Musical tastes changed
virtually overnight and knocked him off
the radio. Many of his peers saw their
careers wiped out in a ﬂash.
“I wasn’t supposed to last with what I
was up against,’’ Anka says. “I’ve abso-lutely led two lives.’’
The secret to his success was, in part,
that he had already launched a counterinvasion. As early as his ﬁrst hit, Diana,
the 16-year-old Canadian of Lebanese
Christian descent was already touring
Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Eng-land, France, Japan, Spain and Sweden.
“While the British invaded the
United States,’’ he says, “I was moving
into their territory. I went to Europe
and established the foreign marketplace,
which has been very supportive of me to
this day.’’
Anka, whose new CD, Duets, features
team-ups with Celine Dion, Michael
Jackson and Willie Nelson, among other
top artistes, attributes his songs’ inter-national appeal to strong melodies and
“easy to understand’’ lyrics.
“People can relate,’’ he says. “And I
write in a minor key, which is very, very
emotional.’’
Also helping him keep his head
above water during Beatlemania’s high
tide was his second career as an author
of songs for other singers. The artistes
for whom he has written include Buddy
Holly, Tom Jones, Sinatra and Sonny
and Cher, as well as Michael Jackson
– he co-wrote Jackson’s posthumous
No 1 hit, This Is It (2009). That sus-tained him in the mid-1960s when, as he
writes, he was “performing but living on
my past.’’
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
His new autobiography,
My Way, written with David
Dalton, is packed with
revelations about Angie
Dickinson, Michael Jackson,
John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley,
Sinatra and more
“If I weren’t a writer, I don’t think I would have
lasted,’’ he says. “Frankly, if I weren’t a writer, I don’t
think I would have started.’’
Anka was only 15 when he wrote Diana, initially as a
poem about a neighbourhood girl four years his senior
on whom he had a serious crush. He was already a mu-sician, however, having formed a singing group called
the Bobbysoxers at 13, and it was natural for him to set
his own poem to music.
It didn’t win him the girl, but a half-century career
is a good consolation price. Anka had the song with him
when he journeyed to New York and, without even an
appointment, walked into ABC-Paramount and walked
out with a recording contract.
Diana zoomed to No 1 in England, then again in
the United States, hitting the top of the charts a month
after Anka’s 16th birthday. One triumph followed
another: At 18 he became the youngest act to play New
York’s fabled Copacabana nightclub and the youngest to
headline in Las Vegas, when Sin City was in its heyday.
Playing Vegas was a thrill for Anka, because he was
fascinated by the storied Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
“Silly little teenage songs got me started,’’ he says.
“They were emotional and had a lot of heart. But that
didn’t mean that other dynamics of my personality
weren’t alive.’’
Though he never became an ofﬁcial member, the
brash young singer struck up a friendship with the Rat
Pack, who seemed to be amused by his eagerness and
let him hang with them.
“I was intrigued by that world,’’ Anka recalls. “I
wanted to be like those guys. I wanted to have the cool
they had. But I never became Sinatra cool or Dean Mar-tin cool. I was this kid who tried to be cool, dressing like
them and emulating their behaviour. But not their bad
behaviour – smoking, drinking, womanising – because
(my manager) was always watching me.
“I was making money (for him),’’ Anka says. “Money
was driving everything.’’
In his ﬁrst two years in show business, the young
Canadian chalked up ﬁve top-20 hits. At 21 he was Os-car-nominated for writing the title song for The Longest
Day (1962), a ﬁlm in which he also acted. The same
year he composed the theme music for The Tonight
Show.
It didn’t last, though. Beatlemania rocked the music
world, and by 1967 even Sinatra’s career was on the
wane.
“Frank was going to quit because, in his mind, it was
over for him,’’ Anka recalls. “The Rat Pack was fall--
Having My Baby.
Released right after abortion was legalised in the
United States and at the height of the feminist move-ment, the song generated controversy. Feminists saw it
as deliberately retrograde: The National Organisation
for Women “honoured’’ Anka with a “Keep Her in Her
Place’’ award.
“I wrote that as a love song to my wife after our
ﬁfth daughter was born and when I noticed that a lot
of women were having children out of wedlock,’’ Anka
says. “But I wasn’t ready to hand out pamphlets ex-plaining what my songs were about every time I wrote
one.
“It’s interesting, though,’’ he says. “That one went to
No 1 after all the ﬂak heated up. It took on a new life.’’
He may specialise in romantic love songs, but Anka
has been divorced twice. His ﬁrst marriage, to former
model Anne de Zogheb, ended in 2001 after 39 years
and ﬁve daughters. Six years later he wed his personal
trainer, Anna Abery, a union that lasted only two years
before a divorce that he calls “really scary’’ in his book.
“The marriage was horrible,’’ the singer/songwriter
says somberly.
It did, however, produce his ﬁrst son, Ethan, who is
now 7 and often accompanies his father on out-of-town
gigs.
“My son is a treasure in my life,’’ Anka says simply.
“He’s everything to me. My life is centered around
him.’’
Paul Anka (left) with Celine Dion.
ing apart, he was fed up. He was playing with electric
trains. But he needed to work.’’
Inspired by Sinatra’s adamant refusal to tailor his
act to the new wave in music, Anka wrote My Way for
his buddy. It became a huge hit, revitalised the careers
of both men and was Sinatra’s theme song for the rest
of his life.
She’s a Lady (1971), which he wrote for Tom Jones,
proved that Anka was back to stay, surging to No 2
on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Three years later Anka
himself scored his ﬁrst No 1 hit in 15 years with (You’re)
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
That domestic haul
comes on top of
$33.7 million Oblivion
added in overseas
markets, where the
film began rolling out
a week earlier. Oblivi-on raised its overseas
total to $112 million
and its worldwide
receipts to $150.2
million
A Still from the ﬁlm Oblivion.
Fans sink into Cruise’s
Oblivion in $38.2mn debut
AP
M
OVIE fans slipped into Ob-livion as the Tom Cruise
sci-ﬁ thriller led Holly-wood with a $38.2 million
debut, according to studio
estimates on Sunday.
That domestic haul comes on top of
$33.7 million Oblivion added in overseas
markets, where the ﬁlm began rolling out
a week earlier. Oblivion raised its over-seas total to $112 million and its world-wide receipts to $150.2 million.
Though many people on Friday were
caught up in coverage of the manhunt
for the suspect in the Boston Marathon
explosions, it seems to have had little
effect on how the ﬁlm fared.
Oblivion took in $13.3 million on
opening day on Friday and $14.9 million
on Saturday. That 12 percent increase is
not unusual for big new releases, which
typically do better business on Saturday
than Friday.
While Boston was on lockdown much
of Friday, that market only accounts for
about 1 percent of the nationwide box
ofﬁce, said Nikki Rocco, head of distri-bution for Universal, which released
Oblivion. The manhunt mainly affected
matinee business, with theatres reopen-ing on Friday night, when Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev was taken into custody.
“Once the guy was arrested, I think
people got back into their regular rou-tine,” Rocco said.
The previous weekend’s top ﬁlm, the
Warner Bros baseball drama 42, held
up well, slipping to second-place with
$18 million in its second weekend. The
Jackie Robinson biography starring
Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford
raised its domestic total to $54.1 million
and is on its way to the $100 million
mark, said Dan Fellman, Warner’s head
of distribution.
Overseas, Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Re-taliation got a lift with $40 million, most
of it coming from a $33 million debut
in China. The action sequel has topped
$200 million internationally and $300
million worldwide.
Oblivion came in a bit higher than
industry expectations. But despite its
strong opening, Hollywood’s 2013
revenue funk continued, with overall
domestic receipts at $109 million, down
19.4 percent from the same weekend last
year, according to box-ofﬁce tracker Hol-lywood.com.
A year ago, two new romances - the
comedy Think Like a Man and the dra-ma The Lucky One - combined for $56
million that weekend, while the block-buster The Hunger Games remained
strong with nearly $15 million.
“Even Tom Cruise was unable to
beat the strength of two really strong
newcomers that were devoid of stars
anywhere near in his league,” said Hol-lywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
“That tells you the difference between
last year and this year. Even when we
have a good weekend like this in 2013,
generally these weekends, they pale by
Tom Cruise in the ﬁlm Oblivion.
comparison to what happened last year.”
Domestic revenues in 2013 total
$2.76 billion, down 11.2 percent from
where business was at last year, when
Hollywood took in record cash.
Business slumped a bit in summer
2012 with some high-proﬁle duds, so
studios have a shot at gaining ground
over last year with this season’s upcom-ing blockbusters, which include Iron
Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, The
Hangover Part III and Man of Steel.
Still, the gap almost certainly will
continue to rise in the early part of the
summer season.
Disney’s Marvel Studios sequel Iron
Man 3 is expected to open with a whop-ping $125 million-plus domestically over
the ﬁrst weekend in May, Dergarabedian
said. But that would fall far short of the
record-breaking $207.4 million debut for
the Marvel ensemble smash The Aveng-ers over the same weekend last year.
Even so, Cruise’s Oblivion provides a
solid action lead-in to summer. The ﬁlm
stars Cruise as a repairman ﬁxing ma-chines in the wastelands of Earth after
an alien attack.
Despite upheavals and odd behav-iour in Cruise’s personal life in the last
six or seven years, he remains one of
Hollywood’s surest box-ofﬁce draws.
Universal reported that in exit polls, fans
cited Cruise as the No 1 reason they saw
the ﬁlm.
“He’s a global star,” Rocco said.
“People love Tom Cruise. If you put him
in the right vehicle, they love him even
better.”
In narrower release, Rob Zombie’s
latest horror tale The Lords of Salem
ﬂopped with $622,000 in 355 theatres,
for a dismal average of $1,752 a cinema.
That compared to an average of $10,085
in 3,783 theatres for Oblivion.
The low-budget hip-hop drama Filly
Brown opened solidly with $1.4 million
in 188 theatres, for an average of $7,250.
The ﬁlm stars Gina Rodriguez and the
late Jenni Rivera in the story of a young
talent with a shot at stardom on Los
Angeles’ hip-hop scene.
HOLLYWOOD
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
‘Threatening’ Witherspoon apologises after arrest
AP
R
EESE Witherspoon is “deeply embar--
rassed” about what she said to police
ofﬁcers after she and her husband were
arrested during a trafﬁc stop in Atlanta.
The Oscar-winning actress released a
statement recently apologising for her behav-iour to police that began when her husband,
Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was arrested early
on Friday for driving under the inﬂuence of
alcohol.
“Do you know my name?” Witherspoon is
quoted as saying in a state trooper’s report.
She also said: “You’re about to ﬁnd out who I
am” and “You’re about to be on national news,”
according to the report.
“I clearly had one drink too many and I am
deeply embarrassed about the things I said,”
Witherspoon said. “It was deﬁnitely a scary
situation and I was frightened for my husband,
but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the
ofﬁcer who was just doing his job. The words
I used that night deﬁnitely do not reﬂect who
I am. I have nothing but respect for the police
and I’m very sorry for my behaviour.”
Witherspoon said she can’t comment fur-ther “out of respect” for the pending case, and
A combination photo of actress Reese Witherspoon
and her husband James Toth (left) after their arrest.
her publicist, Meredith O’Sullivan Wasson,
offered no other details.
The 37-year-old actress was arrested on
a municipal charge of disorderly conduct
early on Friday after a state trooper said she
wouldn’t stay in the car while Toth was given
a ﬁeld sobriety test. She was released from jail
after the Friday morning arrest and was in
New York on Sunday night for the premiere
of her new ﬁlm, Mud. She posed for cameras
on the red carpet but did not stop to talk to
reporters.
The trooper noticed the car driven by her
husband wasn’t staying in its lane early Fri-day morning, so he initiated a trafﬁc stop. He
reported that Toth had droopy eyelids, watery,
bloodshot eyes, and his breath smelled strong-ly of alcohol.
Toth told the trooper he’d had a drink,
which Witherspoon said was consumed at a
restaurant two hours before the trafﬁc stop, the
trooper writes.
Before the ﬁeld sobriety test began, With-erspoon got out of the car, was told to get
back in and obeyed, the report said. After the
Walk the Line star got out a second time, the
trooper said he warned her that she would be
arrested if she left the car again.
As the test continued, “Mrs Witherspoon
began to hang out the window and say that she
did not believe that I was a real police ofﬁcer. I
told Mrs Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be
quiet,” Trooper First Class J Pyland writes.
Toth, 42, was then placed under arrest. He
was charged with driving under the inﬂuence
and failure to maintain the lane.
At that point, the report says,
Witherspoon got out and asked the trooper
what was going on. After being told to
return to the car, she “stated that she was
a US Citizen and that she was allowed to
stand on American ground,’” the report
states.
The trooper then arrested Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon
Marc Anthony to launch first single of new salsa disc
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Marc Anthony
MERICAN salsa star Marc Anthony
will launch on April 26 Vivir Mi
Vida, the ﬁrst promotional cut
from his new disc, which goes on sale
next July, his publicist said.
The day before the single goes on
the market, the artiste will appear at
the Billboard Latin Music Awards gala,
where he will perform his new number,
an adaptation of the song C’est La Vie by
Cheb Khaled.
Vivir Mi Vida will be available on
iTunes immediately after the world
debut of the single at the Billboard
awards, his publicist Blanca
Lasalle said in a communique
Saturday.
This is the ﬁrst disc of tropical
music that the New Yorker, winner
of two Grammys and three Latin
Grammys, has made in almost ten
years, since Valio la Pena in 2004.
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Michael Buble uses Spanish when
fighting with wife
Jessica Simpson wants unborn son to
be a ‘mamma’s boy’
ACTOR-SONGWRITER Michael
Buble says when he fights with his
wife Luisana in public, he speaks
Spanish so that nobody can
understand.
“Two languages are very
handy, femalefirst.co.uk quoted
Buble as saying.
Although Buble might think
he’s learning enough to get by,
he admitted his wife isn’t quite as
impressed with his progress.
“Luisana and I didn’t share a
language when we first met. She
didn’t speak much English, and I
Michael Buble
didn’t speak much Spanish. But
I’ve been learning it and I’m getting pretty good - although
Lu says I still sound like a caveman,” he added.
The Haven’t Met You Yet singer won’t be disagreeing with
her anytime soon, conceding she is definitely the boss in
their relationship. “Luisana is the alpha in our marriage, so
I’ve learned it’s easier to just do as she says,” he said.
ACTRESS Jessica Simpson, who is expecting her second
child, a boy, hopes he will be a “mamma’s boy”.
The actress hopes to develop a special
bond with her yet-to-be-born son, as her
daughter Maxwell, 11 months, is closer to
her father Eric Johnson, reports contact-music.com.
“Maxwell is definitely a daddy’s
girl. If he’s in the room she doesn’t
want anyone else to hold her. So
I hope my son will be a mamma’s
boy,” she said.
Simpson, 32, had put on
weight when she was pregnant
with her first child, so she is more
cautious this time.
“With my first pregnancy, I really
let go. I felt like I deserved to eat
whatever I wanted. Now I’m work-ing out three times a week. I’ve only
gained half of what I did during my
first pregnancy,” she said.
Jessica Simpson
When Rebecca took charge of her life
ACTRESS Rebecca Hall says she
dropped out of Cambridge University
because she wanted to take charge
of her life and gain some pride for
taking a different road.
The Iron Man 3 star was studying
English literature at the university in
Britain, but she left the course before
the final year, because she felt she
had achieved all she hoped to.
“I had reached a fork in the road
Rebecca Hall
where I thought everything I had
wanted to do at university had
been done - make great friends and do a lot of theatre and
work out what kind of grown-up I wanted to be, and I’d
got to that point,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Hall as saying.
“Basically I thought, if I can make a choice like this
which bucks the trend, and is different and now, I know
that I’ll be able to do it for the rest of my life. I’ll feel proud
of myself taking a different road,” said Hall.
It was a risk for the 30-year-old, but she is glad she took
as it gave her a sense of purpose, making her feel authen-tic and bold for taking the chance.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
BOLLYWOOD
Sanjay Gupta loses
cool over rumours
about Kangana Ranaut
Sanjay Gupta
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HOOTOUT at Wadala director
Sanjay Gupta feels it is unjustiﬁed
to spread rumours and clariﬁes
that Kangana Ranaut, missing so
far from the ﬁlm’s promotions,
will soon be seen promoting the crime
thriller.
Reportedly, the actress is unhappy with
the way she has been sidelined to favour
Priyanka Chopra and Sunny Leone, both of
whom have much-publicised item numbers
in the ﬁlm.
When asked, Gupta got upset. “I also
read this morning. You all are the media
and you all have a very, very strong weapon
in your hand, which could be a source,
insider, friend, somebody from there... the
person is never named.”
“So, it’s very convenient to cook up a
story and then say, insider tells us the story,
source tells us this. Name the source,” he
added.
He was speaking at a press conference in
Mumbai.
While Kangana is the female lead, Priya-nka has an item number called Babli Bad-maash and Sunny Leone too will be seen
shaking a leg to O Laila. The third item
number Ala Re Manya has singer Sophie
Choudry in it.
All the three actresses have been seen
during the ﬁlm’s promotions and at the
launch of their songs, but Kangana has been
conspicuous by her absence.
Gupta says if Kangana has any query, he
Reportedly, the
actress is unhappy
with the way she
has been sidelined
to favour Priyanka
Chopra and
Sunny Leone,
both of whom have
much-publicised
item numbers in
the film
is willing to respond to that.
“But unless she does not speak...I would
not give that much importance by reacting
to it,” he added.
In Shootout at Wadala, Kangana will
be seen as Vidya, love interest of gangster
Manya Surve, played by John Abraham.
The ﬁlm also features actors Anil Ka-poor, Tusshar Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee and
Sonu Sood.
Rumour mills are abuzz with the stories
of rift between Ekta Kapoor, the co-produc-er of Shootout at Wadala, and Kangana.
But Gupta dismissed it. “Not at all and
for what?”
On the contrary, Gupta is extremely
proud of Kangana’s work in the crime
thriller based on real life story.
“As a matter of fact, I am extremely
proud (of Kangana), I am very happy with
her in the ﬁlm, her performance, her look.
She has worked very hard in the ﬁlm,” said
Gupta, who has co-produced the ﬁlm.
In Shootout at Wadala, Kangana’s look
has been de-glamourised.
“For the ﬁlm, she had to unlearn a lot. I
don’t think and I haven’t seen any of Kanga-na’s ﬁlms, where she is completely de-glam-ourised,” said Gupta.
Kangana
Ranaut
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
You can’t repeat the success of any
movie, says Mahesh Bhatt
I had never ever thought about
making films, says Farhan
PTI
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N a departure from the original musi--
cal blockbuster Aashiqui which had
an erotic-thriller component, Direc-tor-producer Mahesh Bhatt is slotting the
upcoming sequel Aashiqui 2 as a family
entertainer.
“After the successful run of Aashiqui
in 1991 and in following years due
to repeat runs at theatres and
on TV and the music ruling
the chart for years, we must
make a departure from the
previous genre,” Bhatt told .
Aashiqui 2 needed the
departure as the audience
has changed and a whole
new generation now
ﬂock to multiplexes for
wholesome entertain-ers, Bhatt said after a
promo meet.
“Aashiqui was a cult
movie. It will sound cli-che if you say you want
to reach that level. You
can’t repeat the success of
any movie. So let’s call it an-other movie, with a fresh cast,
a whole new look, a whole new
content and a rocking music
Mahesh Bhatt
director (Jeet Ganguly) who is a
household name in Bengal and also making his
mark in Mumbai,” he said.
“Aashiqui 2 ushers in the glorious
golden period of cinema... the phase
of ﬁlms like Abhimaan. It rekindles
the feel of the ‘70s and ‘80s -- which
celebrated middle class values -- and
seeks to bring back that kind of cin-ema. But it’s set in the contemporary
world,” he said.
On the reason behind
casting Aditya Roy Kapoor
and Shraddha Kapoor,
Bhatt said, “You can-not repeat Rahul Roy
and Anu Agarwal in
the present age Aash-iqui. Can you? For the
simple, emotional ﬂick
high on adrenalin, we
needed two fresh faces
in the lead as well as
in music,” he said.
Stating that all the
tracks of Aashiqui
like Nazar ke samney
were his favourites,
Music director Jeet
Ganguly said he was
hooked to the music cre-ated by Nadeem Shravan
when he heard it for ﬁrst
time at a young age.
F
ARHAN Akhtar, who fea--
tured as the ﬁrst guest in a
series of intimate conversa-tions with the renowned person-alities, revealed that he did not
take ﬁlms seriously in school and
college.
When asked how and from
where he entered this ﬁeld of tell-ing ﬁction and fantasies, Akhtar
said that he never took ﬁlms
seriously but when he had to do a
job he decided that ﬁlm-making
would be best suited for him.
“I really didn’t think about
ﬁlms that seriously when I was in
school or college. I really enjoyed
watching movies but I never ever
thought that I would be making
them or writing them. But, you do
have fantasies to be in a certain
ﬁlm or to be a part of it when you
are a fan.” he said
“But that was really not an
extend that how far it went and
its really strange because of the
threat almost to be thrown out of
home that I must get a job and
it felt like a very natural thing to
me, since that’s my interest that
I should do something in ﬁlms,”
Farhan
Akhtar
Akhtar added.
The 39-year-old said that time
allows him to manage to do his
best in so many ﬁelds like acting,
directing, script writing and many
others.
“Its weird but time just
presents itself in the ways they
want me to do it. So, that’s really
how it happens. I don’t go out
of my way to make time to do it.
More often if a decision is made
that this is what I want to do and
just do stuff towards that direc-tion,” he said.
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My daughter an influence on my film: Dibakar
Malaise lies in us as a society: Shabana
Prithviraj to offer a script to Big B
FILMMAKER Dibakar Banerjee says
his segment in Bombay Talkies, about
parenthood, has been influenced by
his daughter.
“My daughter is an influence on
my film. To a daughter, a father can do
no wrong. So you have to be this hero,
otherwise you fail your child. It is a
wonderful position to be in,” Banerjee,
who is married to Richa Puranesh, said.
“The story is about parenthood,
I couldn’t have made the film three
years back as my daughter wasn’t
there with me,” said the director of
films like Khosla Ka Ghosla and Oye
Lucky! Lucky Oye!.
He feels that a child doesn’t “judge
you”.
“But they want you to be the best
thing in their life. Everyone judges you
except that child. I could have had
Dibakar Banerjee
a miserable flop, but when I would
come back to my child, I would be the hero,” he said.
Bombay Talkies is a compilation of four short films celebrating 100
years of Indian cinema. Others who have contributed to it are Zoya
Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar.
THE news of the rape of a five-year-old girl has left the
entire Bollywood numb, including actor-activist Shabana
Azmi. She feels that the problem lies in the society and
individuals.
The 61-year-old will talk abut
“gender sensitisation” at a conference
organised by the Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) in the national
capital on April 29.
“I am the keynote speaker
at the conference organised
by CISF in Delhi on April 29
on gender sensitisation
followed by workshops
by activists,” tweeted
Shabana.
“Certainty of conviction
will act as a deterrent not
severity. But the malaise
lies in us as a society that
women and children are bru-talised,” she further wrote.
The girl was abducted
on April 15 and held hos-tage in east Delhi’s Gandhi
Nagar for over two days,
according to police.
SOUTHERN superstar
Prithviraj Sukumaran,
who debuted in Bol-lywood with Aiyyaa,
has bought the rights
of his hit Malayalam
film Ayalum Njanum
Thammil. He plans
to make it in Hindi
Amitabh Bachchan
and has approached
Amitabh Bachchan with
the script. Ayalum Njanum Thammil, directed by
Lal Jose, released in October last year. Also fea-turing Narein, Prathap Pothen, Samvrutha Sunil
and Remya Nambeesan, the film was a medical
drama and critics appreciated the film as well as
Prithviraj’s performance in it.
“I have taken the first step and bought the
film. Now, the rights of the film rest with me, so I
can be assured that nobody else is going to do it.
That’s the first step to ensure that the project has
somehow shaped up,” Prithviraj said.
“I have started showing the film to few
people over here. Let’s hope that they have the
same kind of interest that I do and hopefully, I
get a draft written in English that I will take to Mr
Bachchan to read it,” he added.
Shabana Azmi
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Indian Food Festival
at Grand Regal Hotel
LEZIMA GOMES
DOHA
T
Ras Malai
Dum Pukht Biryani
RUE foodies have a great
opportunity to discover and
taste the exotic dishes
and ﬂavours of India at
the three-day Indian Food
Festival organised by Grand Regal Hotel.
The event will be held at the hotel’s sig-nature restaurant Mehﬁl on April 25 th
to 27th from 7 pm onwards.
The festival will feature 15 varieties
of delicious biryani in unlimited quantity
on a buffet spread, including dumpukh
biryani-mutton, gulnar dum biryani-ﬁsh,
kaju biryani and vegetable biryrani, to
name few.
Guests visiting the festival will be
able to experience traditional Indian
desserts, such as ras malai, gulab jamun,
shahi tukda etc.
The Mehﬁl restaurant is all set to
recreate the magic of Indian culture,
complete with rich aroma of hot steam-ing biryani, delicious Asian sweets, warm
atmosphere and romantic live ghazals
in the backdrop. All guests of the festi-val are guaranteed an unforgettable
sensorial adventure.
At the helm of the
Indian food festival is
Executive Chef of
Grand Regal Hotel
Rajeev Sharma
an expert of
Indian and
Continental
cuisine with
over 10 years
culinary
and kitchen
management
experience, he
has been working
with Grand Regal
Hotel ever since it’s
opening. With formal
training in India (Hotel
Management) and in Scotland,
Edinburgh (International Hospitality
Management).
His skills were further honed dur-ing a four-year period in UK, working
as a Chef in such hotels as Holiday Inn,
Murrayshall House Hotel and in ﬁne
dining restaurant Duncan’s in Perth.
Before arriving in Doha, Rajeev was also
working in Radisson Blue in India and
in Lotus Hospitality in Dubai. Here he
shares some of his secret recipes with
Qatar Tribune.
Dumpukht Biryani
Ingredients
Mutton 200gms
Basmati rice 400gms
Cinnamon 1’’ stick 2pcs
Cumin 1 table spoon
Mace 2 blades
Nutmeg half
Water 8 cups
Bay Leaves 3 leaves
Saffron mixed with 2 table spoons
of milk
GingerGarlic paste 1 table spoon each
Ghee 2 tablespoons
Fried brown Onion 100gms
Cloves 6-7 pcs
Yogurt 80gm
Black cumin 1 table spoon
Lemon juice 3 tablespoons spoon
Mint leaves (chopped) 2 tablespoons
Coriander leaves (chopped) 1 table-spoon
Garam masala powder-1 table spoon
Cardamom powder-tea spoon
Chilli powder -2 tablespoons spoon
Turmeric powder-½ tea spoon
Salt - to taste
Method
Marination: Put mutton with brown
onion, ginger-garlic paste, chopped
coriander and mint leaves in a bowl, put
all the dry spices powder in the yoghurt,
add lemon juice, ghee, salt (for taste) and
mix well all together. Marinate at least
two hours.
Rice preparation:
(Soak the rice at least 30 minutes)
Boil water in a large pot with the
whole spices and salt; when the water is
boiling, add
the rice and cook till the rice is half
done.
Put marinated mutton in another
thick base pot; add layer of rice on top of
the marinated mutton, ﬁnish with ghee,
saffron and little brown onion. Close the
lid tightly and seal with dough, cook for
30 minutes on a tawa on slow ﬁre. Leave
the pot to rest for 20 minutes. Serve hot
with raita and a pickle.
Murgh Malai Kebab
Ingredients:
Chicken thighs (boneless) 180 gms (8
Equal pieces)
FOOD
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Mehfil restaurant
is all set to recreate
the magic of Indian
culture, complete-with rich aroma of hot
steaming biryani, deli-cious Asian sweets,
warm atmosphere
and romantic live
ghazals in the
backdrop.
Cashew nuts 30 gms
White processed cheese 20 gms
Hung curds 20 gms
Cooking cream 15 ml
White pepper powder 05 gms
Corn oil 10 gms
Cardamom powder 03 gms
GingerGarlic paste 10 gms
Green Chilli 02 gms
Chaat Masala 02 gms
Salt to taste
Method
Marinate the chicken pieces with ginger garlic
paste.
Mix all the remaining ingredients in a mixing
bowl and make a paste.
Soak marinated chicken pieces in to that paste at
least for 45 minutes.
Arrange the marinated chicken pieces on skewers
and cook it in Tandoori oven (clay oven) for 10-12
minutes. Serve with mint chutney, onion rings, lemon
wedge and sprinkle a pinch
Of chaat masala on top of kebab.
Murgh Malai Kebab
Saffron 1pinch
Cardamom powder 2 gms
Rose water 2 ml
Sugar 30 gms
Pistachio nuts for garnish
Sugar syrup
Sugar – 1 kg;
Water – 500 ml
Method
1) Sugar syrup: put sugar in water and boil till the
sugar is dissolved and keep aside.
2) For small ball: mash the paneer (chaina) and
make small ﬂat cakes and boil in the sugar syrup for
8 - 10 minutes. Take it out and put it in warm water
and put 50 ml of sugar syrup.
3) For malai: boil the milk, sugar (50 gms) and
pinch of saffron till milk is reduced to half.
4) Arranging: squeeze the small ball from the
water, put in malai and put a pinch of cardamom
powder.
5) Garnish with pistachio nut. Serve chilled.
Ras malai
Ingredients
Milk 500 ml
Paneer (chaina) 110 gms
When: 25th, 26th & 27th april, from 7 pm to 1 am
Where: Mehﬁl Restaurant, Grand Regal Hotel, Doha (Ras Abu Abboud street, Near Dar Al
Kutub roundabout)
Price: QR99 per person.
For more information and reservations, call: +974 4409 4444 / 4409 4400.
Grand Regal Hotel Chef
Rajeev Sharma
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
ENVIRONMENT
Wild weather can send
greenhouse gases spiraling
NYT SYNDICATE
C
LIMATE change has a discon-certing tendency to amplify
itself through feedback effects.
Melting sea ice exposes dark
water, allowing the ocean
to soak up more heat. Arctic warming
speeds the release of carbon dioxide
from permafrost. And, as research-ers discussed at a meeting last week
in Seefeld, Austria, climate extremes
– heatwaves, droughts and storms – can
hamper plant growth, weakening a ma-jor buffer against the rise of CO2 in the
atmosphere.
“Heatwaves and droughts will very
likely become more frequent in a warmer
climate, and ecosystems will somehow
respond,” says Philippe Ciais, a carboncycle researcher at the Laboratory of
Climate and Environmental Sciences in
Gif-sur-Yvette, France. “More storms
will add an extra dimension to the prob-lem.”
The meeting was organised by the
CARBO-Extreme project, a 3.3-million
euro ($4.5-million) collaboration of 27
groups from 12countries, funded by the
European Union. Attendees showed off
an array of tools for uncovering how
extreme events affect terrestrial carbon
cycles, including numerical models, CO2
ﬂux measurements and ﬁeld experi-ments. The challenge now, says Ciais, is
to predict how the frequency of climate
extremes will change, and to model the
intricate physiological responses – some
of which are poorly understood – of
plants and ecosystems.
Land plants create a huge carbon
“sink” as they suck CO2 out of the air to
build leaves, wood and roots. The sink
varies from year to year, but on average
it soaks up one-quarter of the annual
CO2 emissions from the burning of fos-sil fuels. And events such as droughts,
wildﬁres and storms are likely to “cause
a pronounced decline” in the sink, says
Markus Reichstein, a carbon-cycle
scientist at the Max Planck Institute of
Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, who
coordinates CARBO-Extreme.
Climate anomalies have already had a
detectable impact. Satellite observations
and data from CO2 measurement towers
suggest that extreme events reduce plant
productivity by an average of 4 percent
in southern Europe and 1 percent in
northern Europe, says Reichstein. That
lowers annual carbon uptake by 150mil
The most extreme
events can turn
forests and grass-lands from carbon
sinks to sources. In
2003, a heat wave
in Europe led to the
release of more CO2
than normal
lion tons – equivalent to more than 15
percent of Europe’s annual man-made
CO2 emissions. The most extreme events
can turn forests and grasslands from
carbon sinks to sources. In 2003 alone, a
record-breaking heat wave in Europe led
to the release of more CO2 than is nor-mally locked up over four years.
So far, scientists have detected no
increase in extreme weather events. But
they expect one. Reindert Haarsma, a
climatologist at the Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute in De Bilt,
forecasts a surge in hurricane-strength
storms such as 1999’s Lothar, which
raged northeastward from the Bay of
Biscay, slashing forest biomass by 16
million tons. By the end of this century,
model studies suggest, storms similar
to Lothar and another that caused huge
damage in France in 2009 will become
25times more common in Europe. The
probability of major heatwaves in Eu-rope is expected to increase up to tenfold
by mid-century.
Lack of water makes plants less capa-ble of fending off pathogens and insects.
After the 2003 heatwave, caterpillars
devastated Mediterranean oak forests
near Montpellier in France. Research-ers have presumed that this triggered a
large carbon release, but such responses
are hard to predict. Severe droughts in
2005 and 2010 in the Amazon basin
seem to have released much less CO2
than expected, says Ciais.“In some eco-systems, small disturbances can have a
large impact,” he adds. “In others, even
signiﬁcant anomalies seem to cause only
little harm.”
CARBO-Extreme teams have con-ducted ﬁeld experiments that simulated
drought in different climates and vegeta-tion types, from Atlantic pine forests to
alpine meadows. Unpublished results
show that in grasslands, drought mark-edly slowed photosynthesis, which stores
carbon in leaves, roots and soil. It had a
smaller effect on soil respiration, which
releases carbon, so the net result was a
decline in carbon uptake.
The experiments also showed that
plants and soils keep a “memory” of dis-turbances, says Michael Bahn, an ecolo-gist at the University of Innsbruck in
Austria who oversees a grassland experi-ment. He simulated a series of droughts,
and found that later ones had a larger
effect on net carbon release. Existing
biosphere models do not capture such
effects, which Bahn thinks might be due
to changes in soil microbes.
Such omissions could lead to a large
bias in the models. The world’s soils
contain almost 100gigatons of carbon
– twice as much as the entire atmos-phere. Just a 10 percent increase in
soil-respiration rates, says Bahn, would
release more CO2 in a year than humans
pump out.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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09:45 C.S.I New York
10:30 Blue Bloods
11:15
12:00
13:00
13:45
14:30
15:30
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
22:00
23:00
00:00
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Knockout Sportsworld
Driven
C.S.I New York
Human Target
Blue Bloods
Fist Of The Warrior
Action ya Dawry
NCIS
WWE Superstars
Red Eye
The Mentalist
Action ya Dawry
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Action ya Dawry
True Blood
Dead Silence
MBC MAX
05:30 The Aviator
08:15 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
09:30 Barbarian Princess
11:00 The Women
13:00 Mrs. Harris
15:00 Mamma Mia!
16:30 I Really Hate My Job
18:00 Ofﬁce Space
19:30 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
21:00 Things We Lost in the Fire
23:00 Kung Fu Hustle
00:30 Intersection
02:00 Kung Fu Hustle
03:00 The Women
04:00 Breakdown
NAT GEO ADVENTURE HD
05:20 Ep 2
06:15 Mexico
06:40 Singapore
07:10 The Black Diamonds
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09:00 Kiev, Ukraine
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09:55 Bangkok Underworld
10:50 Escape from Argentina
11:45 City Chase Rome, 2
12:40 Vietnam
13:35 Hawaiian Fusion
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14:30 The Journey Begins Again
14:55 The Seafood Chronicles
15:25 Kicked Out of Gansu
16:20 Accra, Ghana
16:45 Paris, France
17:15 Saddam's Iraq
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19:05 City Chase Rome, 3
20:00 The Journey Begins Again
20:30 The Seafood Chronicles
21:00 Hawaiian Fusion
21:30 Kuala Lumpur (aka Malaysia)
22:00 Ep 3
22:55 Belize
23:20 Germany - Berlin
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00:15 Peru
00:45 Savate
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07:00 What's Wrong With Virginia
09:00 The Darkest Hour
11:00 Second Chances
13:00 Ties That Bind
15:00 Return
17:00 Soldier Love Story
19:00 This Means War
21:00 The Devil Inside
23:00 Meet Monica Velour
01:00 Dirty Girl
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OSN FIRST HD
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12:30 Coronation Street
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21:00 Castle
22:00 The Client List
23:00 Greek
00:00 Supernatural
01:00 The Client List
02:00 Castle
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OSN MOVIES COMEDY
06:00 Wayne's World 2
08:00 Lying To Be Perfect
10:00 The Winning Season
12:00 Just Crazy Enough
14:00 Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow
16:00 The Winning Season
18:00 While You Were Sleeping
20:00 A Little Help
22:00 Bridesmaids
00:15 Take Me Home Tonight
02:00 A Little Help
04:00 While You Were Sleeping
OSN MOVIES FESTIVAL
06:15 Gandhi
09:30 Honey 2
11:30 Love Finds A Home
13:15 George Harrison: Living In The Material World
17:00 Love Takes Wing
19:00 Bruc
21:00 The Weather Man
22:45 An Ofﬁcer And A Gentleman
01:00 Mad Bastards
03:00 The Weather Man
04:45 Bruc
OSN MOVIES KIDS
06:00 A Monster In Paris
08:00 Toyz Goin' Wild
10:00 Twigson
11:30 The Three Bears: Dreadful Dangers
13:00 Arthur's Missing Pal
14:30 Horrid Henry
16:15 Ploddy Police Car
18:00 Twigson
20:00 Kung Fu Panda 2
22:00 Arthur's Missing Pal
23:30 Ploddy Police Car
01:00 Toyz Goin' Wild
02:45 Arthur's Missing Pal
04:30 Twigson
OSN SPORT 1 HD
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07:00 Snooker
11:00 PGA European Tour Highlights
12:00 Live Snooker
16:00 NRL Full Time
16:30 Live Snooker
20:00 Futbol Mundial
20:30 PGA European Tour Weekly
21:00 Live Snooker
01:00 Inside The PGA Tour
01:30 PGA European Tour Weekly
02:00 Trans World Sport
03:00 International Rugby League
SONY ENTERTAINMENT
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07:30 Maan Rahe Tera Pitaah
08:00 Godbharaai
08:30 Seva Sagar
09:00 Palampur Express
09:30 Pyarr Ka Bandhan
10:00 Baytaab-dil Kee Tamanna Hai
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
12:59 Kyaa Hua Tera Vaada
13:30 Bade Ache Lagte Hai
14:00 Kareeb
17:00 Dil Ki Nazar Se Khoobsurat
17:30 Anamika
18:00 Amita Ka Amit
18:30 Chhanchhan
19:00 Parvarish - Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi
19:30 Kyaa Hua Tera Vaada
20:00 Bade Ache Lagte Hai
20:30 Dil Ki Nazar Se Khoobsurat
21:00 Anamika
21:30 Amita Ka Amit
22:00 Chhanchhan
22:30 Parvarish - Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi
22:59 Kyaa Hua Tera Vaada
23:30 Bade Ache Lagte Hai
00:00 Dil Ki Nazar Se Khoobsurat
00:30 Anamika
01:00 Amita Ka Amit
01:30 Chhanchhan
02:00 Parvarish - Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi
02:30 Kyaa Hua Tera Vaada
03:00 Bade Ache Lagte Hai
03:30 Adalat
04:30 Leader
STAR MOVIES
06:30 Absolon
08:15 The Ladykillers
10:00 The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag
11:45 Battle Of The Brave (New France)
13:30 Unbreakable
15:00 Absolon
16:45 Renaissance Man
18:30 Battle Of The Brave (New France)
20:00 Big Business
21:45
23:30
01:15
03:00
04:45
Guilty as Sin
Try Seventeen
The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag
Big Business
Guilty as Sin
TCM
05:20
07:00
08:55
10:55
12:55
15:00
17:00
18:45
20:00
22:00
23:50
01:30
03:30
On The Town
Somewhere I'll Find You
The Seventh Cross
The Bad And The Beautiful
Ivanhoe
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Swan
Arena
Three Daring Daughters
The Gypsy Moths
On The Town
Straight Time
Easter Parade
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11:00 Ancient Aliens
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14:00 Pawn Stars
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00:00 Pawn Stars
00:30 Storage Wars
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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]
You feel passionate about ﬁnancial
matters today or about something
you own. You’re concerned
because you might be looking
for it or trying to clean it or ﬁx
it. Why? Because it matters!
Your relationships with others
will be powerful today, primarily
because you are so powerful. You
won’t hesitate to say what you
mean and go after what you want.
Clandestine romance and secret
love affairs might take place
today. Something is hidden,
and you feel passionately about
it. (You know who you are.)
In group situations, you might
try to vehemently persuade
others to agree with you. Lighten
up. Just speak your piece, and
let them decide. (Ya think?)
You might fall passionately in love
with a boss or someone older or
richer today. This is a feeling that
really grips you! Fortunately, it will
pass. (But it will be memorable.)
You’ll love seeing beautiful
buildings, parks, boutiques,
galleries and the creative
work of others. Romance with
someone from a different
background also might ﬂower.
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 highly romantic,
passionate day. A new relationship
that begins now will be intense,
because your responses to
others are quite physical.
You are focused on partners and
close friends today, hopefully
for a good reason. People feel
the intense and magnetically
drawn to each other. Have fun!
You might be obsessed about
something at work today,
especially if you’re trying to
improve things or make something
more attractive. Lighten up.
Others will get the drift.
This is a classic day for love
at ﬁrst sight, especially for
your sign. Eyes across a
crowded room and all that.
(Be still, my beating heart.)
You’ll enjoy making home
improvements or redecorating
today. In particular, you want to
make things look more beautiful as
well as function more smoothly.
You’re unusually persuasive
today, which makes this a great
day for those of you who sell,
teach, market and act. No one
can resist you! This also is a
powerful day for writers.
MOVIES IN QATAR
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Fire With Fire
(Action)
A ﬁreman takes an unexpected course of action
when a man whom he’s been ordered to testify
against, after being held up at a local convenience
store, threatens him.
Foodﬁght!
(Animation)
When the lights are turned off and the doors
are locked, chaos reigns supreme for the
products in this grocery store.
CITY CENTRE CINEMA
FIRE WITH FIRE (ACTION): 10.30 AM, 12.45 PM, 3 PM, 5.15
PM, 7.30 PM, 9.45 PM, 12 MN. [VIP GOLD]: 11.45 AM, 2 PM,
4.15 PM, 6.30 PM, 8.45 PM, 11 PM
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2 (HORROR): 12.30 PM,
2.45 PM, 5 PM, 7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.45 PM.
THE HOST (ACTION): 11 AM, 1.30 PM, 4 PM, 6.30 PM, 9 PM,
11.30 PM, 1.15 AM
DETECTIVE DEE (THRILLER): 11.15 AM, 1.45 M, 4.15 PM,
6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM
FOODFIGHT! (ANIMATION): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM
KON TIKI (ADVENTURE): 12 PM, 2.15 PM, 4.30 PM, 6.45 PM,
9 PM, 11.15 PM
IT TAKES A MAN AND A WOMAN (FILIPINO): 11.45 AM, 2 PM,
4.15 PM, 6.30 PM, 8.45 PM, 11 PM
OBLIVION (ACTION): 11.30 AM, 2 PM, 4.30 PM, 7 PM, 9.30
PM, 12 MN
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 12.15 PM, 4.45 PM, 9.15
PM
JURASSIC PARK (3D)(ADVENTURE): 2.15 PM, 6.45 PM,
11.15 PM
A HAUNTED HOUSE (COMEDY): 12.45 PM, 2.30 PM, 4.15 PM,
6 PM, 7.45 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.15 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11 AM, 3.45 PM, 8.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (CRIME): 1.30 PM, 6.15 PM, 11 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 6 PM, 8 PM, 10 PM, 12 MN
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 12.15 PM, 2.30 PM, 4.45
PM, 7 PM, 9.15 PM, 1.30 PM
UDAYAM N H 40 (TAMIL): 10.30 AM, 3.45 PM, 9 PM
EK THI DAAYAN (HINDI): 1 PM, 6.15 PM, 11.30 PM
VILLAGGIO CINEMA
LANDMARK CINEMA
MALL CINEMA
FIRE WITH FIRE (ACTION): 10.30 AM, 12.45 PM, 3 PM,
7.30 PM, 9.45 PM, 12 MN
DETECTIVE DEE (THRILLER): 10.30 AM, 1 PM, 3.30 PM, 6
PM, 8.30 PM, 11 PM
KON TIKI (ADVENTURE): 12.15 PM, 2.30 PM, 4.45 PM, 7
PM, 9.15 PM, 11.30 PM
FOODFIGHT! (ANIMATION): 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM, 3.30 PM
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2 (HORROR): 11.30 AM,
2 PM, 4.30 PM, 7 PM, 9.30 PM, 12 MN
OBLIVION (ACTION): 11 PM, 12.30 PM, 1.30 PM, 3 PM, 4
PM, 5.30 PM, 6.30 PM, 8 PM, 9 PM, 10.30 PM, 11.30 PM
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 12.30 PM, 2.45 PM, 5
PM, 7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.45 PM
THE HOST (ACTION): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15 PM, 5.45
PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM
THE CROODS (ANIMATION): 11.45 AM, 1.45 PM, 3.45 PM,
5.45 PM
APARTMENT 1303 (HORROR): 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM
OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 10.30 PM,
3.30 PM, 8.30 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 1 PM, 6 PM, 11 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 11.15 AM, 3.30 PM, 7.45 PM, 12 MN
DEAD MAN DOWN (CRIME): 1.15 PM, 5.30 PM, 9.45 PM
A HAUNTED HOUSE (COMEDY): 11.15 AM, 1 PM, 2.45 PM,
4.30 PM, 6.15 PM, 8 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.30 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 5.30
PM, 7.30 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
KON TIKI (ADVENTURE): 2.30 PM
FOODFIGHT (ANIMATION): 5 PM, 7 PM
FIRE WITH FIRE (ACTION): 9 PM, 11.30 PM
UDHAYAM (TAMIL): 4.30 PM, 11 PM
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2 (DRAMA): 2.30 PM,
4.30 PM
THE HOST (ACTION): 4.30 PM, 9 PM
DETECTIVE DEE (THRILLER): 6.45 PM, 11.15 PM
EK THI DAAYAN (HINDI): 9 PM
SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN (ACTION): 3 PM, 7.15 PM,
11.15 PM
BEAT THE WORLD (DRAMA): 5.15 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 9.30 PM
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM
FOODFIGHT (ANIMATION): 4.30 PM
THE HOST (ACTION): 6.15 PM. AMEN (MALAYLAM): 8.15 PM
EK THI DAAYAN (HINDI): 11 PM
KON TIKI (ADVENTURE): 2.30 PM
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2 (DRAMA): 5 PM
UDHAYAM (TAMIL): 7 PM
FIRE WITH FIRE (ACTION): 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
ROYAL PLAZA
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM
FOODFIGHT (ANIMATION): 4.30 PM
THE HOST (ACTION): 6.30 PM
FIRE WITH FIRE (ACTION): 9 PM
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2 (DRAMA): 11 PM
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (ANIMATION): 3 PM
BRAVE (ANIMATION): 5 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 7 PM
DEVIL’S DOUBLE (DRAMA): 9 PM, 11 PM
JACK REACHER (ACTION): 3 PM, 5.30 PM
THE BOURNE LEGACY (ACTION): 8 PM, 11 PM
Movie Review
NOTICE: Timings are subject to change without prior notice.
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
BUILDING on the terror of A Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family’s nightmarish descent
into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick (Chad Michael Murray, House of Wax) moves his wife Lisa
(Abigail Spencer, TV’s Mad Men) and daughter Heidi to an historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not
the house’s only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa’s free-spirited sister, Joyce (Katee Sackhoff, TV’s Battlestar Galactica), the
family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire...a haunting secret rising from
underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
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