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Tortellini, treasure Nicholas McCarthy gives of Italian cuisine. new life to evil kid horror. Page 6 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Twist in the tale Though the film’s premise feels predictable, there is a twist in the third act that horror audiences will not see coming
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Humanitarian Services Offi ce MOM-CHILD DYNAMIC: Jackson Robert Scott, left, and Taylor Schilling in the film The Prodigy. (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 (The stories) feel like these moral object Qatar Airways 40253374 lessons where we’re being asked, ‘What would you do if your child was capable of something awful?’ ote Unquo u te — Nicholas McCarthy, director Q “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to By Sonaiya Kelley keep walking, eventually n the new horror movie The Prodigy, you’ll make progress.” out Friday, a mother’s love is put to — Barack Obama the test when her precocious young son begins to exhibit signs of an otherworldly possession. IDespite the spooky overtones, the mother-child dynamic at the heart of the ‘ fi lm inspired scriptwriter Jeff Buhler’s wife to organise a special screening for an Community Editor unsuspecting audience. “On opening weekend, she’s organising Kamran Rehmat like 30 moms from my kid’s school to go e-mail: ’ [email protected] see this movie,” said Buhler with a laugh. Telephone: 44466405 “She’s telling them it’s all about parenting Fax: 44350474 and they’re all excited to come. And then we’ll be changing schools next year.” We’re standing in front of the Tommy Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY
Doyle house from John Carpenter’s accomplish that was to inject horror 1978 genre classic Halloween, a large themes into settings and institutions but unremarkable Dutch Colonial that people inherently associate with just north of Sunset Boulevard in safety and familiarity. Hollywood and one of several spots “There’s a million horror movies, on a tour of horror movie locations in and they’re all set in these suburban the area. houses or very familiar locations,” “Halloween was probably one Vinson said. “When we were working of the trigger points for me that on this, that was very specifi c. We anchored me in the genre,” said wanted this movie to take place in Buhler. “I remember being too young a neighbourhood that you could to go to a rated-R movie when it recognize.” came out but sneaking in with my The fi lmmakers drew inspiration sister and friends who were older. It from Jordan Peele’s Get Out was one of those experiences when with respect to sneaking social I knew immediately that I was not commentary into the oft-disparaged prepared for what I was going to see. horror genre. “What Carpenter did that was “Horror as a genre has always so genius, and that you can see been sort of the stepchild, and it’s throughout the genre since then, was rarely critically revered,” said Buhler. take suburban family life and insert “Now it feels like what we refer to horror and danger into it. And that’s as ‘elevated horror’ has started to sort of the touchstone of The Prodigy, creep back into appreciation by that idea of taking safe places or mainstream press and critics, but relationships and inserting some that’s relatively new.” form of threat into it.” “When you look at the success In the fi lm, Orange Is the New Black of a movie like Get Out, which is star Taylor Schilling plays Sarah, a refl ecting horror that exists in our fi rst-time mom whose gifted young society, in a sense we’re looking son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) in a mirror at all these things that begins to develop a disturbingly are very diffi cult for people to talk unpredictable dark side. For Buhler about,” he said. “Genre allows and director Nicholas McCarthy, it you to explore it because you take was just as important to focus on the this leap of faith like, ‘Oh, we’re in pitfalls of new parenthood as it was to this crazy world where crazy stuff pack in the scares. happens.’” “There’s a lot of pressure in our “It’s almost controversial to say, society and also a lot of anticipation ‘Having a child could be a mistake, or that people have for what it’s going dangerous,’” he added. “Like, that’s to be like to be a parent and how not something you can talk about. exciting that change is in your life,” And so genre allows you to sort of said Buhler. hold up a mirror that makes people “We wanted to explore this idea FEAT: The director feels it is some sort of a feat that the film is not a sequel or a remake. think about their own feelings. I think of a young couple that had really there’s a wave of genre fi lms that are worked hard to get to this place and to a place where they really start to your child was capable of something said. “All those movies end with the doing that really well right now, and the cherry on top would be that they make you think about ever having awful?’” destruction of the parent. They’re I would say we sort of fi t into that are having their fi rst child. And then children. Our goal with this movie Though the fi lm’s premise feels about the transformation you are universe.” the fl ip side of that is that when you was not to depress the birth rate, predictable, there is a twist in the forced into when you have a child. “Well, we hope to,” Vinson said. have a child, you never know who but it’s as important to focus on third act that horror audiences You have to accept that your life has “One of the things that I’m most that person is going to be. You’re what’s happening with Sarah and will not see coming, something vanished, or whatever version you proud of in the movie is it’s not a basically inviting a stranger, a person the changes that she goes through in the fi lmmakers hope will quell thought you had of your world will be sequel or a remake,” said McCarthy. you’ve never met before, to live with her marriage [as what happens with the comparisons to memorable destroyed.” “It can be great to watch a movie you for the rest of your life.” Miles].” contemporary fi lms in the genre such Another goal of the fi lmmakers that is revisiting old ground, but “And that’s the mistake I think The Prodigy falls squarely into the as The Omen and The Good Son. was to create a movie that fi t into the along with this culture of remakes all parents make,” joked McCarthy, evil or creepy kid subgenre of horror “We didn’t want to end on one of landscape of “elevated horror,” which and reboots there’s clearly, I think, whose previous genre work includes that was pioneered by movies like the big tropes of the genre where an conjures the bulk of its fear factor out an appetite for new stories. When I the indies The Pact and At the The Bad Seed (1956) and Village of the expert character comes in and then of realistic settings and ideas. fi rst saw the poster for our movie at Devil’s Door. “But it’s true that if Damned (1960). there’s some kind of ritual that makes “We wanted to keep everything the Arclight, every other movie in you think you know what being a “If you look at these movies everything go away,” said Buhler. “It grounded in the real world and to tell the line of posters was a sequel or a parent is going to be like, you have no collectively, these stories almost was really important to us to fi nd a a story that felt like it could really remake. And the top of our poster idea. It was one of the fi rst things I feel like parables from the Bible,” departure from that.” happen,” said Buhler. “And I think did not say, ‘The next chapter in The responded to when I read the script. said McCarthy. “They feel like these “But it doesn’t end well,” Vinson that fi ts into a lot of what’s happening Conjuring universe’ or something like But it also feels like a metaphor for moral object lessons where we’re said. “That’s the spoiler.” right now in the genre.” that. I feel like that’s a feat.” working in Hollywood.” being asked, ‘What would you do if “They never end well,” McCarthy One of the ways they sought to —Los Angeles Times/TNS “It does?” asked Buhler. “How so?” “You have all your hopes and “Horror as a genre dreams, all your ideas about how it’s has always been sort going to go and then you just have your soul crushed by a murderous of the stepchild, and sociopath.” They burst into laughter. “There’s one other metaphor it’s rarely critically that we talked about while we were working on this project, which revered. Now it feels was the anxiety as a parent that like what we refer to you feel for your child,” chimed in producer Tripp Vinson. “And if as ‘elevated horror’ you’ve noticed or are concerned that something’s wrong, what does that has started to creep do to you? What does that do to your back into appreciation marriage?” “Not only are you inviting a by mainstream press stranger in, but you’re inviting change into yourself that you can’t and critics, but that’s predict,” added Buhler. “And you have to just make the leap. With a relatively new” horror movie, what you’re doing is — Jeff Buhler, taking those things that everybody understands and exaggerating them scriptwriter 4 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND Men’s brains diminish faster than women’s hile the human and that persists throughout between men and women, the brain tends to life,” said Manu Goyal, Assistant team analysed 121 women and 84 shrink with age, Professor of radiology at the men, ranging in age from 20 to men’s brains university’s Mallinckrodt 82 years. diminish faster Institute of Radiology. The researchers trained a thanW women’s which may explain “What we don’t know is what machine-learning algorithm why the fairer sex are more likely it means. I think this could mean on men’s age and their brain to stay mentally sharp in their that the reason women don’t metabolism, taken from PET later years, fi nds a study led by a experience as much cognitive scans by measuring the fl ow researcher of Indian-origin. decline in later years is because of oxygen and glucose in their The study noted that the their brains are eff ectively brains, and applied it to women’s. brain’s metabolism slows as younger, and we’re currently The algorithm yielded brain people grow older, but it may working on a study to confi rm ages an average of 3.8 years diff er between men and women. that,” he explained. younger than the women’s The fi ndings, led by researchers Older women tend to score chronological ages. from the Washington University better than men of the same age The researchers also performed School of Medicine in St Louis, on tests of reason, memory and the analysis in reverse. This showed that women’s brains problem solving. The results were time, the algorithm reported that appear to be about three years published in the proceedings men’s brains were 2.4 years older younger than men of the same of the National Academy of than their true ages. The relative chronological age, metabolically Sciences. youthfulness of women’s brains speaking. The brain runs on sugar, but was detectable even among the “It’s not that men’s brains age how the brain uses sugar changes youngest participants, who were COMPARISON: Women’s brains appear to be about three years younger than men faster, they start adulthood about as people age. To fi gure out in their 20s, the researchers said. of the same chronological age, metabolically speaking. three years older than women, how brains use sugar diff erently – IANS
High-risk HPV contributes to developed high-risk HPV infections. increased CVD risk Interestingly, women who smoked, consumed alcohol and reported being While human papillomavirus physically active were also more likely (HPV) have been linked to cancer, to have high-risk HPV. In contrast, infection with high-risk strains of higher education – college degree the virus might also increase the or more – was associated with a fear of cardiovascular disease (CVD), decreased likelihood of having high- especially among women with obesity risk HPV. or other cardiovascular problems, “A better understanding of high-risk according to a new research. HPV as a risk factor for cardiovascular Certain strains of HPV are disease and possible combined considered high risk because they can eff ects of high-risk HPV, obesity and increase the probability of mouth, metabolic syndrome in increasing throat and cervical cancers. The study cardiovascular disease risk may help showed that women with high-risk improve preventive strategies and HPV were 22 percent more likely patient outcomes,” said Seungho Ryu, than uninfected women to develop Professor at Sungkyunkwan University cardiovascular disease. in South Korea. In addition, women with obesity Further studies are required to were nearly two-thirds more likely to identify specifi c high-risk HPV develop CVD and those with metabolic genotypes that may contribute to syndrome and high-risk HPV were cardiovascular disease and to examine BOOSTING: The immune system could be given a boost by adding vitamin D to antibiotic treatment to help nearly twice as likely to develop the whether vaccine strategies to reduce the body clear TB bugs. disorder, showed results published in high-risk HPV infection for cancer Circulation Research: Journal of the prevention may also help reduce CVD, Vitamin D helps combat benefi t this hard-to-treat group of patients by American Heart Association. suggested the study. For the study, drug-resistant TB taking a novel approach to their treatment,” said Conversely, slightly more than 7 researchers included 63,411 women Martineau. percent of the women without CVD aged 30 or older without CVD. – IANS Vitamin D, commonly known as the ‘sunshine The immune system could be given a boost vitamin’, can combat tuberculosis (TB) bacteria by adding vitamin D to antibiotic treatment to found in the lungs of people with multi-drug help the body clear TB bugs, rather than relying resistant TB, according to latest research. on antibiotics on their own to kill the bacteria The study showed that when added to antibiotic directly, the study suggested. treatment, vitamin D was found to treat TB While vitamin D is best known for its eff ects on specifi cally in patients with multi-drug resistant bone health, previous studies have shown its role (MDR) TB. The vitamin D supplementation was in protecting against colds, fl u, asthma attacks, also found to be safe at the doses administered, and that it can also protect chronic obstructive with no links to serious adverse events, fi ndings pulmonary disease (COPD) patients from deadly further revealed in the European Respiratory lung attacks. Journal. MDR TB is caused by bacteria that are resistant “Multi-drug resistant TB is on the rise globally. to treatment with at least two of the most powerful It’s notoriously diffi cult to treat, and it carries a fi rst-line anti-TB drugs, causing around 500,000 much worse prognosis than standard TB,” said cases and 150,000 deaths per year worldwide, the PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES: A better understanding of high-risk HPV as a risk Lead Researcher Adrian Martineau, Professor from study noted. factor for CVD and possible combined eff ects of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Queen Mary University of London. For the study, researchers included 1,850 increasing cardiovascular disease risk may help improve preventive strategies and “Our study raises the possibility that vitamin patients who received antibiotic treatment. – patient outcomes. D, which is very safe and inexpensive, could IANS Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY
GET BETTER: Anti-inflammatory drugs or biologic therapy improves coronary artery plaque similar to the eff ect of a low-dose statin. Anti-inflammatory drugs can prevent heart disease
nti-infl ammatory drugs used on the elbows, knees, scalp, and lower back. “Psoriasis severity is related to the burden patients with severe psoriasis who took to treat severe psoriasis have They have an elevated risk of heart disease of coronary disease, our fi ndings suggest biologic therapy for one year had 8 per cent the potential to prevent heart and young patients with severe psoriasis are treating psoriasis may potentially benefi t reduction in a frequent cause of heart attacks. disease, according to researchers at twice the risk of having a fi rst heart attack coronary heart disease,” said Nehal Mehta, Conversely, coronary plaque burden including one of Indian-origin. at 40-50 years of age. Chief at the National Institutes of Health increased by 2 percent in patients who did not AThe study showed that during one year In addition, psoriasis patients often have (NIH) in the US. take the therapy. of treatment, anti-infl ammatory drugs or infl ammation throughout the body and may For the study, the researchers included “We found that these anti-infl ammatory biologic therapy improved coronary artery be treated with anti-infl ammatory biologic 121 patients with severe psoriasis among drugs commonly used to treat severe psoriasis plaque similar to the eff ect of a low-dose therapy when their skin condition is severe which 89 took biological therapy and 32 used also improve plaque in the coronary artery, statin. and topical treatments or phototherapy have topical treatment. The fi ndings, published making them more stable and less likely to Psoriasis causes scaly skin patches, often failed. in Cardiovascular Research, showed that cause a heart attack,” Mehta noted. – IANS
Novel technique could provide Mindfulness, sleep may night. The fi ndings, published in early lung cancer diagnosis reduce exhaustion in the Journal of Business Venturing, entrepreneurs showed more than 40 percent of Researchers have developed a new the participants reported working technique that has the potential to identify Overburdened with work? Relax. 50 hours per week or more on specific lung cancer markers at the earliest Adequate sleep and mindfulness average and sleeping less than 6 possible stage in a convenient and reusable exercises such as meditation hours a night. The team found way. can help you feel less stressed, that the entrepreneurs who slept The new technique could create a highly suggests a new study. more, or who engaged in the sensitive graphene biosensor with the The study showed that when highest levels of mindfulness capability to detect molecules of the most- entrepreneurs feel exhausted exercises, reported lower levels of common lung cancer biomarkers. but cannot aff ord the time for exhaustion. In addition, the new biosensor design adequate sleep, they may be able In addition, the second study could revolutionise the existing electronic to replenish their energy with consisting of 329 entrepreneurs, nose (e-nose) devices that identify specific mindfulness exercises. also confi rmed the fi ndings of the components of a specific vapour mixture “You can’t replace sleep with initial study that mindfulness can — a person’s breath — and analyses its mindfulness exercises but they combat feelings of exhaustion. chemical make-up to identify the cause. might help compensate and However, in both studies, the “The new biosensors which we have provide a degree of relief,” said team also found that mindfulness developed show that graphene has lead researcher, Charles Murnieks, exercises are less helpful if you are significant potential for use as an electrode Assistant Professor from the getting adequate sleep but still in e-nose devices. Oregon State University in the US. feeling exhausted. “For the first time, we have shown “As little as 70 minutes a week, “If you’re feeling stressed and that with suitable patterning graphene or 10 minutes a day of mindfulness not sleeping, you can compensate can be used as a specific, selective and practice may have the same with mindfulness exercises sensitive detector for biomarkers,” said benefi ts as an extra 44 minutes to a point. But when you’re Ben Hogan, postgraduate researcher from of sleep a night,” said Murnieks. not low on sleep, mindfulness the University of Exeter in Britain. With For the study, the researchers doesn’t improve those feelings of further development of the devices, a included 105 entrepreneurs who exhaustion,” said Murnieks. cheap, reusable and accurate breath test were asked about their exhaustion More research is needed for early-stage detection of lung cancer levels, whether they engaged in to better understand how can become a reality, the researchers mindfulness practices. If so, how mindfulness exercises may help added in a paper published in the journal REPLENISH: When entrepreneurs feel exhausted but cannot often and for how long. weary entrepreneurs and the limits Nanoscale. — IANS aff ord the time for adequate sleep, they may be able to replenish They were also asked about the of those benefi cial eff ects, the their energy with mindfulness exercises. number of hours they slept each study noted. – IANS 6 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY CUISINE
pasta breaks while poaching in water. Keep the pasta covered. Pasta dries out quickly if left uncovered and thus becomes diffi cult to work with and prone tearing and cracking. Keep the pasta covered with plastic wrap or damp kitchen towel to keep it soft. Use ample fl our. Be sure that you dust both the sides of tortellini with ample fl our to avoid it sticking to each other or to the tray. Have enough time in hand. Pasta making is a time-consuming process so allow yourself ample time to prepare it. But you can always make it beforehand and keep it frozen for later use. Make sure the fi lling is chopped small enough to be encased in the pasta dough otherwise the fi lling will make it diffi cult to stuff the pasta and will break the pasta dough too. Tomato Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
Olive oil 1 tbsp Onion chopped ½ cup Garlic minced 3 cloves Bay leaves 2 leaves Red pepper fl akes 12 tsp DELIGHTFUL: Tomato tortellini soup not only has a delightful name but a delicious reputation too. Photo by the author Tomato diced 600 gm Vegetable broth 1 lt Basil leaves few sprigs Salt to taste Black pepper to taste Heavy cream ½ cup Tortellini 300 gm Parmesan cheese, grated ½ cup Tortellini, treasure For Garnish Basil leaves to garnish
Method: In a heavy bottom pan, heat olive oil and add chopped onion and garlic and cook until tender. of Italian cuisine Stir in the bay leaves and crushed inter time we all thoughtfully crafted pasta is said speciality cheese, and some add Traditionally the tortellini is red pepper fl akes. want a comfort to have been born in the town herbs. Making tortellini is an always served in the broth, but Add the diced tomato and food that is warm of Castelfranco Veneto, in the elaborate process and women were today people serve it with butter, vegetable broth and simmer over and sumptuous province of Modena, near Bologna. responsible for it but with the cream or tomato sauce, but then slow fl ame. and hot pasta In that region near the Italian city popularity of Italian cuisine more they are killing the taste of the Stir in fresh basil and season soupW is a perfect choice for this of Bologna they are strictly served men make this now a days. fi lling. More likely, tortellini was with salt and black pepper, simmer season. We all know that the pasta as dumplings in broth. While the Tortellini is a traditional recipe discovered in the 1950s to encase for 12-15 minutes. is known by its own unique shape. exact date of origin may not be which was handed over by the the fi llings and cook them without Remove the bay leaves and use a Today I will talk about the Tortellini certain, but historians believe grandmothers to daughters and them spilling into the boiling water. hand blender to blend the soup to a pasta, which is the most special that the initial preparation of this granddaughters. For every 4 oz No matter the history, Bologna has smooth consistency. member of the Italian Pasta family. delectable Italian speciality dates (115 grams), one whole egg is used. built a gastronomic reputation, Stir in the tortellini and cook on If you haven’t yet experienced to 1500’s. This timeless recipe To make the dough sift the fl our and tortellini is said to remain at medium low fl ame until tortellini tortellini, it is a pouch of rolled and treasure of Italian cuisine not and make a crater in the centre the heart of cooking and continue is cooked. dough encasing various fi llings. only has a delightful name but a and break the egg in the centre to be a well-practiced tradition. Add heavy cream and add the If moulded accurately it creates a delicious reputation too. and whisk briskly with a fork to Tortellini is a storied and is time- grated parmesan cheese. delicate circle or slightly triangular Tortellini are an integral part break the egg and then make a honoured pasta that is an absolute Serve hot garnished with fresh shape. With the curved and of the family life in the Emilia smooth stiff dough. Once the must-try in Italy. basil leaves carefully cut egg noodles crowning region. Tortellini brings out the dough is smooth, shape it like ball Tips to make perfect homemade varying pockets of goodness, they family spirit and every family and keep it aside to rest and start tortellini z Chef Tarun Kapoor, are a work of culinary art. Possibly has their own version. Some on the fi lling using a moisture Do not over stuff your pasta. Culinary Mastermind, no Italian food is surrounded by add more parmigiana, some add of parmesan, eggs, chicken and Extra fi lling in the pasta makes it USA. He may be contacted at so much love and history. This less parmigiana, some add other nutmeg. diffi cult to seal the edges and the [email protected] Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY PMG warmly welcomes Ustad S Ali Nazar in Qatar
The Punjab Music Group (PMG) recently welcomed Ustad S Ali Nazar, well known Pakistani musician and a student of Ustad Nazar Hussain, Pakistani maestro music composer, in Doha. Ustad S Ali Nazar is in Qatar to perform at Pakistan Festival happening till February 14 at Entertainment Village. For further details, contact Nazakat Ali Khan, Chief Organiser, at 33181490.
DPS-MIS organises farewell event
DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) recently Verghese was the chief guest at the assembly. organised a farewell event for the outgoing Head Boy of DPS-MIS along with Head Girl students of Grade-XII. Addressing the and Presidents of Students Council also gathering, Asna Nafees, Principal of DPS-MIS, addressed the gathering. The event included wished the outgoing batch all the best for various performances by the students of their future endeavours. She expressed her Grade-XI. The event also featured a video hope that students will continue to outshine presentation. The outgoing students were in the pursuit of their aspirations. Sunny felicitated at the event with mementos.
Students of OIS organise assembly
The students of Grade-III, under the guidance of Bijo Philip, class teacher, organised a special assembly ‘Poverty’. The assembly featured various speeches highlighting the problems that comes with poverty, their reasons and aff ects. A group song was also a part of the assembly. The assembly was concluded with a motivational speech by co-ordinators, which was followed by the national anthem of India.
Students of DPS-MIS and faculty members felicitated at SGA-18
Science India Forum Qatar (SIFQ) recently organised Science Gala Awards 2018 (SGA-18) to honour the students and faculty members of various Indian schools in Qatar who successfully participated and won accolades in competitions, science workshops and seminars, organised by SIFQ in 2018. Rajesh Kamble, Counsellor at the Embassy of India, was the chief guest and Mohammad Jaber al-Sulaiti, Manager of Privatised Companies Aff airs Department at Qatar Petroleum, the guest of honour at the event. The event was attended by notable personalities, including Dr Mohan Thomas and Manikantan A P, President of Indian Cultural Centre. Karuna Gopal, founder President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities, spoke on the occasion. Dr Mohan Thomas, Vinod Nair, President of SIFQ, Manikantan A P and Mohammad Jaber al-Sulaiti also addressed the gathering. The winners of Shastrapratibha Contest and Shastrapradarshan 2018 were felicitated with mementos and certificates and the teachers who guided the finalist teams of NCSC were also awarded with the Plaques of Appreciation. Students of DPS- Modern Indian School along with faculty members were also felicitated on the occasion. 8 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGR Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 RAPHIC COMMUNITY 10 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY These plants off er 24-karat gold to your cool season garden Goldilocks lysimachia, Golden Lemon thyme, and Lemon Ball sedum are the ultimate finishing touches to the cool season’s dazzling containers, baskets, or landscape beds, make sure you include them. By Norman Winter
DUO: Golden Lemon thyme is both beautiful and edible.
ometimes I am amazed at the sheer reaches about 6-inches tall with a spread of beauty of the cool season garden. 18-inches. The temperatures have pushed us As you are planting it, you will notice the a little closer to the warm clothes culinary fragrance or aroma of the leaves that past few days but outside it is the quickly tell you this will also be one for the ‘wonderfulS world of colour’. Pansies, violas, kitchen. Golden Lemon thyme is heavenly in dianthus, heuchera are just a few of the plants rock gardens or along stone paths. Keep your giving us a riotous show of colour right now. eyes open for the variety Archer’s Gold. My eyes however immediately go to the gold. Lemon Ball Sedum won the Mississippi Mixed containers or landscape entrances Medallion Award in 2018 and Louisiana that feature the pockets of gold or chartreuse, Super Plant Award in 2019. It is cold hardy, if you will, are the ones that seem to have meaning much of the South will fi nd it a everyone mesmerised. Right now, it is chains terrifi c perennial for mixed containers, rock of gold from Goldilocks lysimachia, the gardens or along paths. It exudes a lush lime Louisiana Super Plant award-winning Lemon green that will turn gold in the winter. It also Ball sedum, and the Golden Lemon thyme that loads up with uncountable yellow fl owers. Its are so riveting. foliage and soft needle-like texture, however, Goldilocks lysimachia or Creeping Jenny will have your eyes fi xated. You can expect it is magical as during the summer it exhibits to reach about 6-inches tall with a potential true lime green in the sun. You just can get spread of three feet over the years. Lemon enough as it hangs downward from baskets, Ball forms a tidy rounded mound of narrow, window boxes and as spiller-plants in mixed needle-like foliage that provides a strong containers. In the winter, however, once it is architectural form in the garden. This is a exposed to the South’s frosty nights it really BOUQUET: Lemon Ball sedum is part of a winter bouquet in this container with heuchera, terrifi c choice for mixed plantings where does look like it is a chain that has been carved lamium and pansies. it can be free to cascade over the side of a of gold. Plant it with violet coloured pansies planter or wall. Looks great fi lling in between and the look becomes like nature’s sapphires a couple of inches tall but has a groundcover grown in average, well-drained soils. Add rocks and spilling over container edges. on a gold chain. spreading ability. lime if soil is acidic and control weeds until Perfect selection for fi lling in between paving Goldilocks is a perennial really meaning that Golden Lemon Thyme is a little bit of plants have fi lled in. Once established, shear stones. no matter where you live, you have a season a mystery plant. One has to wonder, why periodically to promote dense new growth. In Goldilocks lysimachia, Golden Lemon where it will be stunning. How stunning you doesn’t everyone grow this plant. It fi lls the cold regions, mulch to protect in winter. Feed thyme, and Lemon Ball sedum are the ultimate might wonder, well, it won the ‘Knock Your role as a spiller plant as well though it is more with a general purpose fertiliser in spring. It fi nishing touches to the cool season’s dazzling Socks Off ’ designation multiple times in the of a gently tumbling off the edge or rim of the needs a sunny locale to get its golden colour containers, baskets, or landscape beds, make University of Georgia Plant Trials. It only gets container. Golden Lemon Thyme are easily and, it’s cold hardy from zones 4-10 and sure you include them. – TNS Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LEISURE COMMUNITY
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ACROSS DOWN 1. Stop the car on the side of 1. Wraps up the material the the road to get the garment idiot brought round (6) (8) 2. The colt trotting round us 5. A bad attack outside North certainly eats a lot for it’s size Carolina (6) (6) 9. Had improved, one learned 3. An old love meet, in an usual (6,2) way (3-4) Sudoku is a puzzle based 10. Come briskly in for a piece of 4. Assumes the birds will go on a 9x9 grid. The cake (6) back inside (4) grid is also divided into 12. The bumpkin brought back 6. Shorten to ‘A Bird, In Time, nine (3x3) boxes. You the dog; it’s inside (6) Will Fly’ (7) are given a selection of values and to complete 13. Was it wrong to have the old 7. Split, or bust, the cases father the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that carouse in young carousals? put in (8) every column, every row and every 3x3 (4,4) 8. Getting into a row for giving box contains the digits 1 to 9 and none 15. You and who else? (6,6) sauce to (8) is repeated. 18. ‘We’re getting a divorce’? 11. Does it fly at the cat? (4,3) (7,5) 14. Harden when a fellow at ‘The 23. It’s only sensible if a lion is Angel’ gets rowdy (7) The Mall Cinema (1): Royal Plaza Cinema running after the animal (8) 16. Birds, fish and animals are Yatra (Tamil) 2:30pm; Yatra Palace (1): 9 (Malayalam) 24. See to getting the dent out seen about (8) (Telugu) 4:45pm; Yatra 2:15pm; The Lego Movie 2 after a time (6) 17. Doing a piece about hospital (Malayalam) 7pm; Yatra (3D) 5pm; Yatra (Telugu) 26. I get a magazine, perhaps, when in pain? (8) (Telugu) 9:15pm; Yatra 2 (Tamil) 2:15pm; The 7pm; Yatra (Malayalam) about something of interest 19. Keep away from the others, I Lego Movie 2 (2D) 5pm; to cook (6) note, at tea-break (7) (Malayalam) 11:30pm. 9:15pm; Yatra (Telugu) 27. Extra peeved about the note 20. Can’t decide on the figure The Mall Cinema (2): The Lego Movie 2 (2D) 11:30pm. (4,4) theirs should be set at (7) The Lego Movie 2 (2D) 7pm; The Prodigy (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema 28. Spoke sadly of the players 21. The noise will tell you what 2pm; The Lego Movie 2 9pm; Dhilukku Dhuddu 2 Palace (2): The Lego mentioned (6) your child’s been up to (6) (2D) 4pm; The Lego Movie (Tamil) 11pm. Movie 2 (2D) 2:15pm; 29. Before I lay in something to 22. Now take this stick (6) 2 (2D) 6pm; The Prodigy Landmark Cinema (2): Kumbalangi Night drink (8) 25. Swallow feathers (4) (2D) 8pm; Vs. (2D) 9:45pm; Yatra (Telugu) 2:15pm; (Malayalam) 4:30pm; The Amavas (Hindi) 11:30pm. Yatra (Malayalam) 4:45pm; Lego Movie 2 (2D) 7pm; The Mall Cinema Yatra (Telugu) 7pm; Yatra The Prodigy (2D) 9pm; Yesterday’s Solutions (3): Kumbalangi Night (Malayalam) 9:15pm; Yatra Cold Pursuit (2D) 11pm. (Malayalam) 2:15pm; 9 (Telugu) 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema ACROSS: 1 Bare facts 6 Salad 9 DOWN: 1 Bower 2 Reputable (Malayalam) 4:45pm; Cold Landmark Cinema (3): Palace (3): Dhilukku Wiper 10 The Broads 11 Rotten 3 Force feeds 4 Catches 5 Pursuit (2D) 7:30pm; The The Lego Movie 2 (2D) Dhuddu 2 (Tamil) 2:30pm; hand 12 Here 14 Rubbers 15 Sternum 6 Sure 7 Leave 8 Prodigy (2D) 9:45pm; 2:15pm; Yatra (Tamil) Vs. (2D) 5:15pm; The Debt Militia 17 Speeded 19 Stirred Disregard 13 Plain to see 14 Dhilukku Dhuddu 2 (Tamil) 4:15pm; 9 (Malayalam) Collector (2D) 7:15pm; At 20 Opal 22 Department 25 Responded 16 Turned out 18 6:30pm; Cold Pursuit (2D) Depressed 26 Stole 27 Dread Dress up 19 Swaddle 21 Ample 11:30pm. Eternity’s Gate (2D) 9pm; 28 Presented. 23 Tweed 24 Lead. Landmark Cinema 9:15pm; Kumbalangi Night Dhilukku Dhuddu 2 (Tamil) (1): Dhilukku Dhuddu (Malayalam) 11:30pm. 11:15pm. 14 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE Why fake jewellery unites us and how to wear it well of fashion, Lane, a Rhode Island fi ngered gem-encrusted earrings jewellery into bold, unabashed doing it with neutral clothes. If By Cindy Dampier School of Design-trained designer, displayed at arm’s reach. They were objects of high style. “Costume you see a brilliant blue and you’re imagined his pieces with an jaw-dropping, sure, but meant to be jewellery is getting bolder and attracted to it, you can wear it. artist’s eye, a fl air for colour and worn, not squirrelled away behind bigger,” says Jim Wetzel, co-owner “Love that one piece, and wear ake is big, but you know an unapologetic love of fl ashy, faux glass. of Space 519 with partner Lance that one piece. You don’t have to that by now. stones. The bigger, the better. Lane’s creations, which are Lawson. “We’re in this moment really pack on more friends. If you Fake news, fake He was emphatic about the fact estimated to sell for prices ranging where women want to be diff erent. have an amazing pair of statement Facebook accounts, fake that he was never using anything from the low hundreds to around And with costume jewellery, original earrings, then that is the statement product reviews, fake that was a real stone,” says Victoria $1,500, will likely fetch lower prices can be attainable.” earring, and you don’t really need to Flove, fake hair... Fake has built its Tudor, a decorative arts specialist than the paintings, furniture and Wetzel styles statement jewellery go much further. own little universe out there. So it at the auction house Christie’s. “It objects he collected. Which he with simple, modern clothes “Take care of your jewellery. makes sense that Kenneth Jay Lane was all fake. It was all supposed to probably wouldn’t mind. “His or even with a T-shirt and cool When you take it off at night, is hotter than ever. be.” pieces are defi nitely worn by famous blazer. He points out that getting put it in the little sleeping bag. Lane, a jewellery designer whose Next week in New York, Christie’s women,” says Tudor, “but they were your fl air from a jaw-dropping Because you want it to stay in good fl amboyant pieces have graced will auction Lane’s estate, including also for any woman to wear.” piece of costume jewellery is a condition. It may not be a Cartier the arms, necks and earlobes of the contents of his grand Park Fake news? Divisive. Fake trick employed by “past masters” piece, but it might be the piece your famously stylish women from Jackie Avenue apartment and pieces jewellery? Democratic – in the like Audrey Hepburn – and it still grandmother gave you that she wore Kennedy to Rihanna and Gwyneth from his jewellery archive, and best sense. Long before Target telegraphs a sure-handed style. It’s on Saturday when she went out to Paltrow (or from Barbara Bush to on Wednesday, the auction house mass-marketed style, Lane was not hard to follow that lead, Wetzel dinner with her husband. That’s Beyonce, if you want to get real) held a preview of select pieces of making accessibility the bedrock of says. Just remember: important. died last year at age 85. He was jewellery at Chicago’s Space 519, his jewellery line. He was so fake, “Don’t ignore the emotional. If And, of course the point that Lane unabashedly fake to the not-so- a fashion and lifestyle boutique he was real. Today’s statement you’re looking at something and never forgot: Fake doesn’t have to bitter end. with a growing following. At the jewellery trend follows a straight you’re like, ‘I love that colour,’ then be Putin-on-Facebook creepy. Fake The most beloved costume preview, potential buyers ogled line back to Lane, who credited buy it. A colour in a necklace isn’t can just be fun. Wear it with pride. jewellery designer in the world elaborate waterfall necklaces and himself with making costume going to be unwearable if you’re — Chicago Tribune/ TNS
ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20
The period you’re in now is about getting ahead, Aries. If you’ve What meticulousness, Taurus! You may feel a sudden, urgent need to You may be meeting a friend today, Gemini. Whether you’re in a been dissatisfied with some aspect of your career over the last few take a close look at your financial situation, wardrobe, cupboards, or relationship or starting one, you’re in the mood to spread positive months, don’t wait any longer to do something about it. Things car. List the things you need to do in order to fix them over the next vibes with a touch of sophistication. It’s time to add to your natural aren’t going to get better all by themselves. You need to remould few days. You’re going to spend your day taking inventory in your charm – a new scent, attractive outfit, or new haircut. Sometimes your reality to fit your goals and aspirations. This would be a perfect life. Why not? It’s important to get a really good look at the reality of changing your appearance makes deeper personality changes than day to ask for a raise if you feel you deserve one. things occasionally. you expect. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22
You will get the most satisfaction today through your activities Leo, today you will be like a good-luck charm to your family and If you can’t feed your artistic tendencies in the work you do, today with others, Cancer. So you should take the initiative and propose friends. It’s up to you to motivate people to get going and have fun is a good day to create a better balance and make your days more something you and your friends could do together. Be creative together. Show them your enthusiasm for life. Anyone would be satisfying. Art isn’t just for artists, Virgo. All you have to do is take the and think of something unusual, perhaps an outdoor activity like extremely lucky to cross your path today. Your world is full of joy, initiative to create something and you will see just how good it feels. horseback riding, hiking, or an outing to an amusement park. Your creativity, and laughter. You’re a real inspiration to the people around Have you ever thought about writing a children’s book? This is one friends will appreciate the thought you put into it. you. idea, considering the planetary aspects. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21
Regardless of your gender, why not show a bit more virility in your Today you may feel a lot more energetic after a tiring past few It may be diff icult to get people to listen to you at the moment, relationships and actions? If you’re dominated by your emotions, the days. When you’re feeling good, everything’s fine. You’re feeling Sagittarius. The people around you may even be annoyed at hearing day could be extremely trying for you. Protect yourself from your motivated again to get down and tackle the work that’s waiting for all of your new ideas. The stars are pushing you to change your anxieties by talking things over with a friend or someone else close you. If you have time to make some calls, don’t be afraid to look tactics before you alienate everyone. You won’t get anywhere unless to you. This will help take some of the pressure off – that is, if that for new prospects, because today promises some very beneficial you’re cleverer about getting your ideas across. Be subtle and you person knows how to be discreet. partnerships in your professional or even spiritual life. will have more success. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20
You may not have been taking very good care of yourself lately, What would happen if you decided to take care of yourself today, This is an intense phase of interior modification, both physically Capricorn. The planetary aspects are encouraging you to be a Aquarius? This is what the planets are trying to tell you. You need to and psychologically. Don’t hesitate to padlock your refrigerator and little more disciplined in your lifestyle. Don’t overwork, don’t drink relax, to let yourself be taken care of, and close your eyes and dream. avoid your favourite stores, Pisces. You need to exert a bit more self- too much coff ee, and try to eat lighter meals. Anything you do for Leave the daily tasks behind. You need peace and quiet. Lie down control as far as eating or spending is concerned if you want to get yourself today could have very quick, healthy eff ects. Think about and release all your worries. You don’t need to act and you don’t back into shape physically and mentally. Have you been overdoing it this as you go for a run at lunchtime or go to bed early tonight. need to react. Just relax. a little lately? Perhaps you regret it now. Friday, February 8, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Nicholas McCarthy gives new life to evil kid horror
REUTRN: Nick Jonas will be reprising his role as Jeff erson Seaplane McDonough. Nick Jonas to return for Jumanji sequel
Pop singer Nick Jonas is returning to the sequel of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, reprising his role as Jeff erson “Seaplane” McDonough. The plot of the fi lm is being kept under wraps. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan are also set to return and Awkwafi na is in fi nal negotiations for a signifi cant role, reports variety.com. Danny DeVito and Danny Glover have also joined the cast, and the four teens from the fi rst fi lm (Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Alex Wolff ) are also returning. Jake Kasdan returns to direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner. The yet-untitled movie will open on December 13, a week before “Star Wars: Episode IX” launches. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a sequel to the 1995 hit Jumanji, starring Robin Williams. Set in the present day, the reboot follows four high school students placed in detention together. The quartet is assigned to the school’s basement PLOT: The story revolves around a child, whose disturbing behaviour signals that an evil, possibly supernatural force possessed and then transported into the Jumanji board game after they him, forcing his parents to investigate whether sinister forces are involved. activate the discarded game. Jonas, who is married to Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, modern mom: Young, pretty, once do we realise what that connection just completed production on Roland Emmerich’s Midway By Rafer Guzman hip, now living in the quiet suburbs is, and where it will lead both Miles and the thriller Chaos Walking with Daisy Ridley and Tom of Philadelphia with her fashionably and his too-willing mother. Holland. – IANS bearded husband, John (Peter The Prodigy deals in some very re demon children Mooney), and their only son, Miles old tropes: The unknown ancient Rohit Shetty, Farah team up for action-comedy making a comeback (Jackson Robert Scott). Miles is an tongue, the hypnosis session, the at the movies? They unusual kid, with one brown eye and journal full of creepy drawings. What Filmmaker Rohit Shetty has signed Farah Khan to direct an were all the rage right one blue (“like David Bowie,” says an makes it all work is the execution. action-comedy fi lm for his production house, Rohit Shetty after the 1960s –The admiring woman). When the infant Director Nicholas McCarthy and Picturez. ExorcistA, The Omen and The Other Miles startles his paediatrician by writer Jeff Buhler (both of 2012’s The “Sometimes the universe just conspires to give you what were nothing if not allegories for talking, Sarah stocks up on books Pact) pace the story nicely, building you didn’t even imagine. Together with Rohit, who I genuinely a generation of youth gone wild. like A Gifted Life and Nurturing from mild shivers to violent jolts; love as a brother and whose work ethic I respect and share, I The genre faded over subsequent Genius. the cloudy-day cinematography, can only promise ‘Mother of all Entertainers’! Can’t wait to decades, but it seems to be burbling We suspect she’s nurturing by Bridger Nielson, is chilly and say ‘roll camera’ for this one,” Farah said in a statement. up again in such recent movies as something else. Miles has a mournful; and Scott (who played The fi lm is presented by Reliance Entertainment and Hereditary, The Witch and the new sweet, sensitive nature, but also a Georgie in 2017’s It) is wholly produced by Rohit Shetty Picturez. release The Prodigy. As always in propensity toward violence. He beats believable as a frightened yet Fresh off the success of Simmba, Rohit said it’s a privilege these stories, a supernatural force a fellow student with a pipe wrench frightening child. “Mommy,” Miles for his production company to have Farah on board to direct a takes over a child, but there’s a and does something awful to the says, snuggling against Sarah in the fi lm for them as she is “extremely talented and hardworking”. growing sense that the parents might family pet, but claims to remember film’s follow-you-home moment, “It will defi nitely be a wonderful association. I can’t wait to share the blame. none of it. We know something Sarah “will you love me no matter what I start working with this extremely talented powerhouse,” he In The Prodigy, Taylor Schilling doesn’t – that Miles has some kind do?” added. plays Sarah Blume, a quintessential of connection to a killer. Only slowly – Newsday/ TNS After giving a decade of hits as a director, Rohit has proved himself to be a successful producer as well after doing fi lms like Golmaal Again and Simmba under his production house. I’m victim of my own success: Ali Asgar But he has become selective now. In addition to Hindi fi lms, Rohit Shetty Picturez has plans “I am not a woman. But with my performance, I am to address the digital content consuming audience with Ali Asgar, famous for playing female characters in several convincing that right, which means there is a talent of a original web series and cater to Rohit’s younger fans with comedy shows, feels he is stuck with that image. The actor- performer. I am seeking more avenues to explore my acting animated content like Little Singham. – IANS comedian says he is looking for ways to break it and grow as talent… and any platform is good for me, whether it is a performer. stage, TV, cinema or web. I want to play interesting roles,” He got popular for playing the character of Dadi in said the actor, who also featured in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. Comedy Nights with Kapil and followed it up with The Kapil He stars in horror-thriller Amavas, slated for release Sharma Show. today. – IANS “I have been playing female characters on television for quite a long time. There was a time when I used to come on television for a week in diff erent female characters. And I would go back home and think ‘what I am doing?’, after watching myself on the screen,” Ali told IANS. “It hit me when my son said his school friends tease him with my character name. He asked me ‘dad, can’t you do anything else as an actor?’ It was an alarming thing for me,” he said. The actor says he was fl ooded with off ers of playing drags on TV and live gigs. “I realised I am stuck within my own success,” he said. “The reality of an actor’s life is that we are serving to TEAM WORK: Rohit Shetty and Farah Khan will the audience. Even though, I do not want to play a female work together on an action-comedy film. character, my performance is giving TRP to the channel. It means people enjoy watching me that way”, he remarked. DRAG: Ali Asgar in drag as dadi on Comedy Nights with Kapil. 16 GULF TIMES Friday, February 8, 2019 COMMUNITY Popular Indian flautist to mesmerise Doha today Rahman composed and arranged By Mudassir Raja for the fi ylm Bomba in 1995. Other popular songs that feature his fl ute interludes are Zara Zara (Rehna Hai orld renowned Tere Dil Mein) and Kal Ho Na Ho title Indian fl autist is all track. He also performed with A.R. set to mesmerise Rahman and the Royal Philharmonic audience at Qatar Orchestra at the Southbank Centre the National in London in 2010. WConvention Centre’s Al Mayassa Ratul Shankar is on drums. With Theatre today. The performance, a major in Mass Communication titled ‘Music of Bollywood With and Videography from St. Xavier’s Naveen Kumar’, will feature noted College, Kolkata, Shankar made Indian musicians and artistes. The his debut in acting with Rituporno concert will start at 7:30pm. Ghosh in the National Award Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra winning fi lm Utsab in 2000. will host the concert. But music has always been his The concert is part of the fi rst love and shall always be, as he offi cial Qatar-India 2019 Year of always says, his greatest infl uence Culture, a year-long programme has been his uncle Ananda Shankar. developed by Qatar Museums to While performing with Taal Tantra deepen understanding between and other various projects, Ratul nations through mutual exchange has had the privilege to perform of arts, culture, heritage and sports. with the maestros namely Ustad Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Taufi que was planned in collaboration with Quereshi, Selvaganesh, Tejendra leading institutions in Qatar and Narayan Majumdar, Bickram India, including the Embassy of Ghosh, Pete Lockett, Tilmann Qatar in New Delhi, Embassy of Dienhart, Niladri Kumar, Carl India in Doha, Qatar’s Ministry Peters, Ranajit Sengupta, Wolfgang of Culture and Sport, Qatar Netzer, Soweto Kinch, Jesse Foundation, National Tourism Bannister, Attab Hadad and others. Council, Doha Film Institute among Tanmoy Bose is an Indian others. percussionist and tabla player, The Embassy of India in Doha INSTRUMENTAL: Naveen received great attention for the instrumental orchestral piece, Bombay Theme, which A R musical producer, fi lm actor and is all set to host many musical and Rahman composed and arranged for the film Bombay in 1995. Photos supplied composer. He has collaborated with cultural events throughout the year. Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka The tickets for the Naveen concert Nasser Sahim’s Four Seasons, Naveen Kumar has accompanied with other composers in India. He Shankar and Amjad Ali Khan, and are available online as well as at Ravi’s Music from Chaudhvin Ka many fi lm music directors and has featured vocals in fi lm songs by created the musical group The Taal the Indian Community Benevolent Chand, Cyclists Theme by unknown composers on popular Bollywood M.M. Keeravani and Deva, among Tantra Experience in 2002. Forum (ICBF) offi ce in the embassy artiste, Wael Binali’s Shafallah tracks. He has also directed music others. Songs include Kaadhal Subramanya Hebbagelu, ICBA building and TCA Qatar. Suite: The Oryx and the Unicorn, for Gospel recordings. Sadugudu in Mani Ratnam’s member and a noted representative The concert will feature Tuomas A.R. Rahman’s Cry of Rose (Kadhal Naveen has played for leading Alaipaayuthey, and Salam Gulamu of the Indian community, said: Kantelinen, conductor; Naveen Rojave), Naveen Kumar’s Cafe Indian fi lm music composers such in Deva’s Hello. “Indian expatriates are excited Kumar, fl ute; Ravi Chari, sitar; Fluid, A.R. Rahman’s Medley of as A.R. Rahman, Ilayaraja, Pritam, He created his own fl ute, which to listen to the great fl autist and Tanmoy Bose, table; Ratul Shankar, Tollywood and Bollywood, Ave Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Sajid- he calls the ‘Naveen Flute.’ The fl ute other musicians. I hope to see the drum; Madhab Deka, keyboard; Maria’s Symphonic Music on Indian Wajid and Salim Sulaiman. He has features fl ute tone and the vibration expatriates to be present in the Hricha Debraj Das, vocals; and Bansuri, Naveen Kumar’s Fantasy performed with musicians such as of strings (through the placement auditorium in large numbers. We Pranav Robin Joseph, vocals. Flute, Ilaiyaraaja’s work from the Sivamani, Louiz Banks, Mandolin of a string on the side of the fl ute). are also excited to see other cultural The performances will include; movie Thalapathi: Rakkamma Srinivas, and John McLaughlin. Naveen received great attention programmes to be organised in A.R. Rahman’s Theme from Bombay, Kaiya Thattu, and M.M. Keeravani’s Eventually, Naveen moved to for the instrumental orchestral connection with Qatar-India Year Dana Alfardan’s Spirit of Thunder, music from Baahubali. Mumbai to get chances to work piece, Bombay Theme, which A R of Culture 2019.”
VENUE: The performance, titled ‘Music of Bollywood With Naveen Kumar’, will take place at the Qatar National Convention Centre’s Al Mayassa Theatre today.