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RIVETING: Gal Gadot is brilliant as the Wonder Woman in the similarly titled film. 2 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT
Velailla Pattadhari 2 DIRECTION: Soundarya Rajnikanth CAST: Dhanush, Kajol, Amala Paul, Samuthirakani, Saranya Ponvannan And Ritu Varma SYNOPSIS: Velailla Pattadhari 2 is a Tamil movie starring Dhanush, Amala Paul and and Kajol in prominent roles. It is an action-comedy-drama movie directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth and Dhanush is also handling the story and dialogues. The fi lm opens with Raghuvaran (Danush) winning the Engineer of the Year Award working for Anitha Constructions and is an executive now with PRAYER TIME a parking spot. His wife Shalini (Amala Paul) becomes an authoritative, nagging wife who Fajr 3.45am controls him. Raghuvaran is also dismissive Shorooq (sunrise) 5.07am about his wife getting a job. Vasudhara (Kajol), Zuhr (noon) 11.39am chairman of a big construction company in Asr (afternoon) 3.07pm South India, makes Raghuvaran a job off er, but Maghreb (sunset) 6.12pm he refuses. This off ends her and she begins to go Isha (night) 7.42pm after him, placing one obstacle after another. THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall USEFUL NUMBERS
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The Mall Cinema (1): Velaiilla (Telugu) 5pm; Kidnap (2D) 7:45pm; 47 Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) 2pm; 47 Meters Down (2D) 9:30pm; Toilet Ek Meters Down (2D) 4:15pm; Kidnap Prem Katha (Hindi) 11pm. te Unqu (2D) 5:45pm; Finally Found Someone Raju (Telugu) 4pm; Toilet Ek Prem Asian Town Cinema: uo ot (Tagalog) 7:30pm; Kidnap (2D) 9:45pm; Katha (Hindi) 6:45pm; Kidnap (2D) Screen 1: Chunkzz (Malayalam) Q e Velaiilla Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) 9:30pm; Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Hindi) 2:30pm*,3pm*,5:15pm,7:45pm, Performance 11:30pm 11:15pm. 10:15pm, 12:45am** stands out like a ton of The Mall Cinema (2): The Emoji Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Screen 2: Podhuvaga (Tamil) Movie (2D) 2:30pm & 4pm; Kidnap (2D) The Emoji Movie (2D) 2pm; Velaiilla 12:30pm*; Jaya Janaki (Telugu) diamonds. Nonperformance 5:30pm; Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Hindi) Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) 3:30pm; 47 3:15pm*; Podhuvaga (Tamil) 5:45pm; can always be explained away. 7:15pm; 47 Meters Down (2D) 10pm; Meters Down (2D) 6pm; Finally Found Chunkzz (Malayalam) 8:15pm, Velaiilla Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) Someone (Tagalog) 7:45pm; 47 Podhuvaga (Tamil) 10:30pm; Vip-2 — Harold S Geneen 11:30pm Meters Down (2D) 10pm; Podhuvaga (Tamil) 1am** The Mall Cinema (3): Jaya Janaki Emmanasu Thangam (Tamil) 11:30pm. Screen 3: Vip-2 (Tamil) 12:30pm*, Nayaka (Telugu) 2pm; Nene Raju Landmark Cinema (1): Podhuvaga 3:15pm*, 6pm, 8:45pm, 11:30pm, (Telugu) 4:30pm; Finally Found Emmanasu Thangam (Tamil) 2:15pm; 2:15am** Someone (Tagalog) 7:15pm; Huroob Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Hindi) 4:30pm; Screen 4: Toilet Prem Katha (Hindi) Ezterari (Arabic) 9:30pm; Wind River Velaiilla Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) 12:30pm*; Nene Raju (Telugu) (2D) 11:30pm. 7:15pm; Kidnap (2D) 9:45pm; Velaiilla 3:30pm*; Toilet Prem Katha (Hindi) Community Editor Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): Pattadhari 2-VIP 2 (Tamil) 11:30pm. 6pm; Vip-2 (Tamil) 9pm; Toilet Prem Kamran Rehmat Wind River (2D) 2:30pm; The Emoji Landmark Cinema (2): The Emoji Katha (Hindi) 12am; Vip-2 (Tamil) 3am Movie (2D) 4:30pm & 6pm; Kidnap (2D) Movie (2D) 2:30pm,4:15pm, 5:45pm & e-mail: [email protected] 7:30pm; Chunkzz (Malayalam) 9:15pm; 7:15pm; Chunkzz (Malayalam) 9:15pm; Timing marked (**) only screening on Telephone: 44466405 Wind River (2D) 11:30pm Wind River (2D) 11:30pm. Thursday & Friday Fax: 44350474 Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Landmark Cinema (3): Nene Raju Timing marked (*) only screening on Huroob Ezterari (Arabic) 2pm; Nene (Telugu) 2:15pm; Jaya Janaki Nayaka Thursday, Friday & Saturday Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY
EVENTS participating outlets will be entered into a draw to win a stack of cash or even a luxury Rythm of the Alphabet Exhibition car. WHERE: Katara WHEN: Until today Summer Workshop 2017 for kids TIME: 10am WHERE: IAID Katara presents Rythm of the Alphabet WHEN: July-Aug Exhibition by the artist Rami Khoury. Summer break is a long-awaited respite for your kids after months of hitting the books. This is an opportunity for them to hone their current skills, pick up a new hobby, or simply stay active, whether their interest lies in dance, music or arts. This summer, get your kids up and going by enrolling them at IAID! Starting three years and above, we have courses to off er this summer such as Ballet Kids, Strum-A- Long, Bolly Thumka, Music Fun, ARTmazing & more.
#I Am Evo Summer Camp Skate Girls of Kabul Exhibition For the Love of Qatar WHERE: Al Waab and Doha College West WHERE: Katara Evolution Sports Qatar WHERE: Doha Festival City Bay WHEN: Until Oct 20 WHERE: Evolution Sports WHEN: Until tomorrow WHEN: Ongoing Award winning photographer Jessica WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 12pm TIME: 8am to 1pm Fulford-Dobson will present her critically- Evolution Sports will mark its anniversary by Doha Festival City (DHFC) visitors will have The #IamEvo Camps are designed to acclaimed series of portraits, Skate Girls of hosting a number of exciting events throughout the chance to take part in creating the country’s challenge young athletes to progressively Kabul in her fi rst show in the Middle East. 2017 as well as some amazing promotions, ten largest mosaic, alongside Qatari artists Lina develop their skills, performance and Presented by Qatar Museums, the exhibition years on from when the club was formed on al-Ali and Radi al-Hajri, over the coming days. confi dence. The courses are structured to meet will be at the QM Gallery Katara. The portraits September 1, 2007. The club has been working The collective work of art, dubbed ‘For the the needs of all young players, to have fun, learn tell the extraordinary story of Afghan girls who with a panel of coaches and directors to plan Love of Qatar’, is an initiative of Qatar Summer new skills and meet new friends in a safe and took up skateboarding, thanks to Skateistan, the events which will be announced over the Festival (QSF) and continues until August 15 friendly environment. Members have a choice an Afghan charity that provides skate parks coming months. Members should look forward (tomorrow). QSF is organised by Qatar Tourism of venue, with camps held at Doha College Al as a hook to get children from disadvantaged to a variety of diff erent occasions, suitable for Authority (QTA). The artists will be at DHFC Waab and Doha College West Bay. The camps families back into the educational system. The all ages so the whole family can get involved in between noon and 3pm and again between 5pm are open to boys and girls aged 4-16 years striking images bring to life the hopeful spirit of the birthday celebrations. To kick-off things and 8pm daily until end. and run from 8am to 1pm daily at each site. these young girls that show a new perspective off , Evolution Sports recently launched their Registration Now Open. and dimension to skateboarding culture – one 10-year anniversary logo. The emblem has been Unfolding Creative Methods that shows strength in the face of adversity. designed by Toyan Greaves, the man behind the WHERE: Garage Gallery Summer Camp original Evolution Sports logo and will be used WHEN: Until Aug 19 WHERE: Ain Khaled on all documentation, both online and offl ine TIME: 8:30am WHEN: Until Aug 31 for the next 12 months. Unfolding Creative Methods is now open to TIME: 8am-1pm the public at the Garage Gallery. The entry is Summertime is just memories waiting to Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans free. happen. The Stem Xplorers Summer Camp WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art is just the place for your kids to make lifelong WHEN: Until November 4 Summer Camp at TCA memories to cherish. This exhibition focuses on the exchange WHEN: Until August 24 Our camp will be Stem-based wherein we of artistic and material cultures between WHERE: TCA will engage the children in Science along with the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. TCA has successfully completed the two Lego, some exciting Sports, Nutrition, Arts, Highlighting MIA’s masterpiece carpets, among batches of summer camp and now the 3rd Crafts and Outdoor Field Trips!! Each week will other artworks, from Turkey, Iran and India, batch is going on. There was an overwhelming be a diff erent theme covering an exciting new these objects will be contextualised within the response from parents as well as students. Stem project making science come to life. Call historical circumstances of politics and artistic Admission for the forth batch has already us now on 33996665 or 33120001. production of their time, primarily from the started. Grab this opportunity not to miss 16th to the 18th centuries. anything as there is only a few seats are left for batch 4, which starts from August 12. Come Salsa Beginners Dance Class and register your kids for Abacus, Vedic Math, WHERE: B Attitude Spa, West Bay Rubic Cube, Robotics, Fun with Science, WHEN: Every Friday Connectivate (knowing your own inner skills), Salsa n Candela off ers a variety of dance drawing and painting, and calligraphy. So classes for adults at Beverly Hills Tower West what are you waiting for, grab your seats at the Bay B Attitude Spa, such as Salsa every Friday earliest. For more details, please get in touch and other Latin dance during other days of the with TCA Qatar at [email protected] or 66523871. Qatar Summer Festival week. WHEN: Until Sept 5 Splash & Dash 3rd Edition WHERE: Across Doha Festive time WHERE: Aspire Dome Doha Summer Festival has just been announced WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Until August 30 and it will run twice as long this year. That WHERE: Doha Festival City TIME: 7pm means more family fun, entertainment, The entertainment off ering has been Aspire Dome is opening its doors for you Camera Kids: Make Your Own Short activities and promotions across Qatar designed to ensure there are numerous in the summer to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Film this summer. The extended Qatar Summer opportunities for physical activities, from the Swimming and running sessions will be WHEN: Aug 6-24 Festival will run from Eid al-Fitr to Eid al- running track which features exercise stations, available for all community members A well-rounded introduction to the diff erent Adha. Prepare for more than 100 activities the bike trail, through to our ‘fi rst-of-its-kind’ throughout August in the Aspire Dome elements of photography, fi lm and fi lmmaking this time round. Best of all there will be in Qatar, Snow Dunes theme park. DFC is Swimming Pool and Indoor Athletics Track. helps young people make their fi rst one-minute malls full of shopping discounts across excited to welcome fi rst visitors in April and to Registration will be available online and onsite short fi lms. Applicants must be between 13 and Doha. Discounts of up to 50% are off ered celebrate the best leisure facilities, retail mix at the Dome’s main entrance. 17 years old. and anybody spending more than QR200 at and dining options, all with exceptional service.
Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Hollywood capers Rafer Guznám delves into the year’s high-octane fare but also bemoans the run-of-the-mill pitch that ever so often dents the decent work
alfway through 2017, we can say a couple of things about the movies. One is that the major studios are making a lot Hof bad ones. The other is that they can make great ones when they try. Take, for example, just about every big-budget franchise fi lm released this year. With a few exceptions, they’ve been awful. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, ostensibly the fi rst in a six-fi lm series, was a major fl op. The new Pirates of the Caribbean movie turned Johnny Depp’s name into mud, while the latest Transformers instalment reached a 16 percent rating on RottenTomatoes. As for The Mummy, it’s been a terrible advertisement for Universal’s forthcoming series of monster-movie reboots. All of these non-blockbusters looked and felt exactly the same: created by committee, written for the box-offi ce and directed by people who seemed to regret it. On the other hand, look at Wonder Woman, a superhero movie that had a purpose — to give a female superhero her own story — and managed to be an absolute crowd-pleaser. Or take Jordan Peele’s Get Out, a horror- comedy with overt racial overtones that became a critical and popular hit. Both fi lms made over $100 million — a fi rst for a female-fronted SUPERHERO: Gal Gadot has reinforced the call for women playing the lead action. superhero fi lm, and a fi rst for a black director’s debut. Here’s my top 20 movies of 2017 — so far: 1. Wonder Woman: It isn’t often that a superhero movie really knocks it out of the park — and this time, the batter happens to be female. With a riveting Gal Gadot in the title role and Patty Jenkins in the director’s chair, Wonder Woman is top-notch summer entertainment that will surely kick open a few doors for women in the movies. 2. Get Out: Writer-director Jordan Peele delivered one of the year’s smartest movies with this horror- chiller about a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) who meets his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) parents. It’s a creepy, funny, cringe- inducing look at race in America. 3. Lost City of Oz: James Gray’s drama about the real-life British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) is an old-fashioned epic — gorgeous costumes, lavish sets — with a modern-day sensibility about its hero. He’s neither white saviour nor white devil, a nuanced approach that makes this familiar story feel fresh. 4. The Lovers: Azazel Jacobs’ story of two philandering spouses who suddenly become interested in each DISAPPOINTING: The second adaptation of E L James’ book series is pretty flat. other again is an off -kilter gem with Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY two marvelous actors in Tracy Letts and Debra Winger. Prepare for wry comedy, brutal drama and many emotional zigzags. 5. Baby Driver: Ansel Elgort plays a Director Roger hotshot getaway driver — improbably named Baby — who tries to leave Michell goes dark his life of crime after he falls for a with this Daphne du waitress (Lily James). It’s a heist fl ick, a teen movie, a Pulp Fiction rip-off Maurier adaptation and almost a musical(!), yet writer- director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the about a wealthy Dead) makes it all work. 6. Norman: The Moderate Rise young gentleman who and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer: falls for a possibly Richard Gere delivers a beautiful little performance as a Jewish fellow of no murderous beauty real importance who somehow fast- talks his way into the world of Israeli- (Rachel Weisz, left) American politics. It’s a deceptively small fi lm that touches on life-size in My Cousin Rachel. issues in funny and touching ways. It’s a classic Gothic 7. John Wick: Chapter 2: Keanu Reeves returns as a vicious hit tale, complete with man living in a shadow-world of gentlemen assassins. This is the rare ominous seaside cliffs sequel that tops the original, with slam-bang action (from director and a grand, swelling Chad Stahelski, a former stunt score by Rael Jones double) and an enjoyably cool villain played by Common. It’s total pulp, and pure fun. 8. The Lego Batman Movie: The superhero with the brooding attitude and adjustable legs gets 14. Split: M Night Shyamalan’s Disney’s live-action version has a few his own spinoff . It’s a kid-friendly best movie in years stars James things going for it. Emma Watson is comedy with grown-up appeal, full McAvoy as a kidnapper who — to picture-perfect as Belle, Dan Stevens of self-referential jokes and great the confusion of his already terrifi ed does an admirable job as The Beast voice-work by Will Arnett in the hostages — has 23 personalities. and the whole shebang looks as title role and Zach Galifi anakis as It’s as funny as it is suspenseful, gorgeous as a fairy-tale should. The Joker. and Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) 9. My Cousin Rachel: Director is compelling as a young woman The worst so far: Roger Michell (Notting Hill) goes who has more in common with 1. Fifty Shades Darker: The second dark with this Daphne du Maurier her tormentor than either wants to adaptation of EL James’ book series adaptation about a wealthy young admit. pretends to be S&M erotica, but gentleman (Sam Clafl in) who falls 15. Logan: The sun fi nally sets on it’s really just the story of a woman for a possibly murderous beauty Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine franchise (Dakota Johnson) who is so aroused (Rachel Weisz). It’s a classic Gothic with a fi lm that feels more like an old by wealth that she’s willing to take a tale, complete with ominous seaside Western than a fl ashy Marvel movie. beating for it. If these movies would cliff s and a grand, swelling score by At its best, it’s a whole new approach just be honest about what they’re Rael Jones. to the superhero genre — tough, selling, they might actually be 10. The Fate of the Furious: gritty and hard-nosed. interesting Eight fi lms in, the Fast and Furious 16. The Belko Experiment: Eighty 2. Transformers: The Last Knight: franchise hasn’t let us down yet. This employees are trapped in a remote In this episode, the Transformers one, about a super-hacker (Charlize offi ce building and told they must kill fi ght alongside the Arthurian knights, Theron) and a nuclear submarine, is each other. Greg McLean’s horror- then the Allied powers and, fi nally, noticeably goofi er than the others, thriller is a nasty little treat, thanks a present-day Texan named Cade but with Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson largely to a well-chosen cast that Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and a hot and Jason Statham on board, fun will includes Tony Goldwyn, Michael C. Oxford professor (Laura Haddock). trump logic every time. Rooker and Melonie Diaz. File this This franchise has become so awful 11. Captain Underpants: The First one under Guilty Pleasure. that Michael Bay won’t even direct Epic Movie: This animated fi lm about 17. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. these sequels anymore. two fourth-grade pranksters (Kevin 2: The sequel to the 2014 smash goes 3. Power Rangers: An abysmal Hart and Thomas Middleditch) even heavier on the rock music and remake of the kiddie TV show, with a who turn their principal (Ed Helms) one-liners, which sometimes feel new set of interchangeable teenagers into the world’s silliest superhero, like too much of a good thing. Still, it wearing the colour-coded superhero maintains the gonzo spirit of Dav has its moments, and any movie that outfi ts. Nothing here — from the Pilkey’s popular children’s books. casts Kurt Russell as an immortal guy chintzy sets to the even chintzier Even better, it adds a bit of heart. named Ego can’t be all bad. dialogue — is an improvement. 12. Personal Shopper: Kristen 18. Smurfs: The Lost Village: It took 4. The Mummy: The fi rst Stewart reteams with fi lmmaker long enough, but Smurfette (Demi instalment of Universal Pictures’ Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Lovato) fi nally realises she’s defi ned Dark Universe of classic monsters Maria) to play a fashion model’s solely by her gender in this animated — from Frankenstein to the Invisible assistant who becomes involved fi lm, which sends her on a journey Man — is reportedly shaping up as in a supernatural murder mystery. of discovery. It’s still the usual kid’s a fl op that could lose $95 million. Not for all tastes — it’s cerebral, stuff — high jinks and dance numbers Despite the star power of Tom Cruise, slightly spacey and very French — — but at least it has something on its this Mummy appears to be dead on but compelling and suspenseful mind. arrival. throughout. 19. Baywatch: Few movies this 5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead 13. T2: Trainspotting: Twenty years year got trashed as thoroughly Men Tell No Tales: Johnny Depp’s after the decade-defi ning youth as Baywatch. But why? Dwayne Jack Sparrow may have fi nally worn fi lm Trainspotting, director Danny Johnson and Zac Efron make a fi ne out his welcome with this latest Boyle and his cast (including Ewan team as crime-fi ghting lifeguards Pirates movie, a noxious mix of McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller) in a comedy that spoofs the old TV uninspired comedy, grim horror and reunite for a poignant sequel. If show yet also works as an old-school whimsical action. Someone tell the T2 occasionally feels like an older, action-comedy. Maybe critics overseas countries to stop buying weaker version of the original, well, wanted more “irony.” tickets to these things so Hollywood that might be the point. A must-see 20. Beauty and the Beast: Though will stop making them. — Newsday/ for fans. no match for the 1991 animated fi lm, TNS IMPRESSIVE: Night Shyamalan's latest work has made quite an impact. 6 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY Youngsters highlight the importance of quality education The speech contest was organised by All Pakistan Overseas Organization International
ll Pakistan Overseas Organization International (APOOworld) conducted a speech contestA for the Pakistani youth as part of its ongoing Pakistan Independence Day celebrations. Many enthusiastic youngsters spoke their minds on the role of youth in the progress of Pakistan at Akbar Restaurant on Friday. The contestants raised awareness about issues faced by Pakistan, particularly the youth, but a common thought that resonated among all the participants was to provide access to quality education in the poorer segments of Pakistan. The contest, which was open to all, saw Saad Ahmad, Ramaisa Khadija, Rafay Nabeel emerge as first, second and third best speakers respectively. Certificates and shields were distributed among the winners. Commodore Muhammad Irfan Taj, Defence Attaché at Pakistan embassy, was the chief guest. Hafiz Junaid, community welfare attaché at Pakistan embassy, was the guest of honour. Taj said that he was very A group photo with the organisers, special guests and the winners of the speech contest. pleased with the enthusiasm shown by the youngsters and educational institutions. In the wanted them to implement the first phase, we plan on focusing principles youngsters mentioned Sargodha in central Punjab and in their speeches. Multan in southern Punjab. “Character-building is the The purpose here is to provide a most important aspect in the quality education in this area at upbringing of youngsters. Many nominal charges. Highest quality people gave examples of Edhi and standards will be maintained with Malala Yusufzai, these people are latest teaching methodologies.” not famous for their wealth but Motiwala said that APOOworld their hard work and characters,” members from Europe and GCC Taj said. are going to help shape this Hafiz Junaid, on the other project. “Once these projects hand, said that youth is the begin, naturally they’ll help building block of a nation. There generate earnings for many in is a large percentage of youth their respective areas. There are in the population of Pakistan some projects that will be held and given their hard work and through joint ventures and their perseverance, the future of feasibility as well as strategy Pakistan looks bright, he added. will be announced later in the He also appreciated the efforts of presence of government officials APOOworld in bringing together of Pakistan.” this event. APOOworld has its The competition was representatives in the Middle inaugurated by Haroon Qureshi, East, Australia, New Zealand, executive member APOOworld Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Rauf Ahmad Shahzad was the Canada and the US. master of ceremony. “Besides addressing issues Speaking at the event, Zahid The organisers present Defence Attache Commodore Muhammad Irfan Taj with a token of appreciation. related to women and children, Sheikh, chairman APOOworld, said we work to create awareness he was happy with the response we can achieve that is if we work Pakistan abroad. He urged all Pakistan. Initially we are going to about Pakistan’s rich culture they received from everyone, together.” resident Pakistanis to become build it in Mansehra and Balakot and heritage among the young even though the organisation had Sheikh said APOOworld was members of the forum. and numerous overseas Pakistanis generation,” remarked Sheikh. ventured into an event of this kind established in 1989 with a vision The president of APOOworld will be stakeholders in it.” The idea King Sweet provided for the fi rst time. “We plan on to help overseas Pakistanis. It is Qatar Chapter, Amin Motiwala, behind the project is to provide refreshments at the event that was conducting such events for our a non-political and non-profit said that the organisation has opportunity to many people to fi nd held at Akbar Restaurant. community in the future as well. organisation working solely for diff erent projects in the pipeline. a suitable place to stay in while More information about We need to support youngsters in the welfare of overseas Pakistanis “One of those is a guest house and travelling to these areas. APOOworld is available at www. any way we can and the only way and for improving the image of dormitory in northern areas of “Our second project focuses on apooworld.org Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Punjab Music Group celebrates music of Mohammed Rafi
he Punjab Music Group recently organised an event at Akbar Restaurant to celebrate the music of Mohammed Rafi on his 27th death anniversary. Singers like Asma Lata, Malik Ali Ahsan, Anwar Ali Asif, and Aiswarya Murali were fl own in to perform at the event. Some of the Punjab Music Group members also performed at Tthe evening. Pakistan Sweets proprietor HEALTH passes away
ohamed Tariq Nanotechnology-based test can Ismail, proprietor Pakistan Sweets which was quickly diagnose Zika virus established in 1964,M died yesterday afternoon in Islamabad, Pakistan after fi ve cientists have developed a nanotechnology— years of battle with cancer. based test that can quickly detect the Tariq is survived by his wife, presence of the Zika virus in the blood, an three sons and three daughters. He advance that may also be applicable to other will be buried at his native city of emerging infectious diseases. Sialkot today at 11am. SCurrently, testing for Zika requires that a blood Tariq left Doha two years ago sample be refrigerated and shipped to a medical because of illness. He was very centre or laboratory, delaying diagnosis and possible famous among the Pakistani treatment. community as well as with Qataris The new test, however, relies on a protein made because of his friendliness and by the Zika virus that causes an immune response in his shop, Pakistan Sweets, which infected individuals, which is then attached to tiny gold shifted over a year ago from Arab nanorods mounted on a piece of paper. Bank R/A to Ghanam Kadeem. The paper then is completely covered with tiny, Zika virus is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes. His friends expressed grief on his protective nanocrystals. The nanocrystals allow the demise and off ered prayers for the diagnostic nanorods to be shipped and stored without “The immunoglobulins persist in the blood for a departed soul. Malik Naeem, one of refrigeration prior to use, the researchers said. few months, and when they come into contact with his old friends, said he remembers “If an assay requires electricity and refrigeration, it the gold nanorods, the nanorods undergo a slight him as very helpful and a man who defeats the purpose of developing something to use in colour change that can be detected with a hand—held would go the extra mile to help. a resource—limited setting, especially in tropical areas spectrophotometer,” explained Jeremiah J. Morrissey, Tariq used to distribute special of the world,” said Srikanth Singamaneni, Associate Professor at the varsity. sweets on Pakistan National Day Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. "With this test, results will be clear before the patient among friends. "We wanted to make the test immune from variations leaves the clinic, allowing immediate counselling and Mohamed Nabil Ismail, who is in temperature and humidity,” Singamaneni added. access to treatment," he added in the paper detailed in the current proprietor of Pakistan When a drop of the patient's blood is applied on the the journal Advanced Biosystems. Sweet, is in Pakistan and is paper mounted on the nanorods, the immunoglobulins As other infectious diseases emerge around the available on +974 5551-1618 for in the blood will react with the protein if the patient world, similar strategies potentially could be used to condolences. Mohamed Tariq Ismail has come into contact with the virus and demonstrate a develop tests to detect the presence of viruses that may colour change. become problematic, the researchers said. —IANS 8 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY OFFB A legacy of Cambodian ge
Jerry Pheng Young and his wife Connie own Inta Gems & Diamonds in the jewellery district.
Chinatown strip mall, and about 30 more crowd distrust for government institutions. They help later renamed Inta Gems & Diamonds, the By Frank Shyong the downtown jewellery district. Cambodian people store and exchange wealth in its most fi rst Cambodian-owned jewellery shop in the jewellery stores line Anaheim Street of Long crisis-proof form: gold. downtown district. Beach’s Cambodia town, cluster in a Fullerton “It’s a much more familiar and trusted The jewellery stores spread through the same n a spring day in 1975, as Khmer strip mall and dot Orange County’s Little Saigon. institution,” said Khatharya Um, a professor of tight-knit family networks that Cambodian Rouge forces launched a coup Cambodian jewellers have become well known ethnic studies at the University of California, refugees used to dominate Southern California’s that would unleash four years of in the business. The Youngs are the offi cial Berkeley. “It provides individuals with greater doughnut industry and take over the Louisiana genocide in Cambodia, Jerry Young crown jeweller of the Miss California USA, and control over their wealth.” Famous Fried Chicken chain. grabbed a fi stful of jewels from his Young’s son Peter designed the crown. Cambodian people have stored their wealth in Their proliferation accelerated during the Ostore and fl ed for his life. In the piece, diamond-encrusted patterns gold long before the Khmer Rouge, Um said, and 1980s, Young said. He and his family supplied He walked and hitched rides to the border of form stars for Hollywood and waves for the that practice is common in other Asian societies. gems, gold and advice to prospective shop Thailand, where he waited days before reuniting ocean. In the centre is a blue sapphire. It Nearly 2 million people died in Cambodia’s owners, and Young’s family members opened with his family in a camp. represents one of the jewels his father brought killing fi elds as a result of executions, starvation, seven other jewellery shops. “I was so scared. I ran,” said Young, 68. “I was with him as he fl ed Cambodia. torture and overwork. The violence instilled in In 1987, Long Ta and his wife, also jewellers so lucky.” There isn’t any single reason for the refugees a strong distrust of institutions, one from Pailin province, opened their fi rst jewellery When they moved to the US, those jewels – a proliferation of Cambodian jewellery stores. But they brought with them to America, Um said. store in Chinatown. They helped family few cut rubies and sapphires – became the seed a large proportion of jewellery store owners, like The Khmer Rouge regime eliminated currency, members open nearly two dozen other stores in funding for a business that has become common Young, are ethnically Chinese Cambodians from and many Cambodian refugees remember the Chinatown swap meets. in Cambodian-American communities: the the mining province of Pailin, which contains cutting slivers of gold to buy food and medicine “It’s a small town. Everyone knows everyone,” jewellery store. several gem mines. in camps. said Chay Leang Lim, owner of the Golden Gem There are now hundreds of Cambodian- Chinese Cambodians were among the fi rst It might explain why there’s no Cambodian- Jewelry Co. Inc., located in the same space as owned jewellery stores across Southern to fl ee the country when Khmer Rouge forces American bank, but so many jewellery stores. Young’s fi rst jewellery store. California, home to more than 50,000 people of seized the wealthy province’s assets. Their Farmers and refugees from rural backgrounds On a recent weekday at Thai Samnieng Cambodian descent, the largest such population backgrounds and connections in the jewellery were not used to using banks, Um said. Jewelry in Long Beach’s Cambodia Town, Madi outside the Southeast Asian nation. industry helped them start new businesses in After stops in Guam, Hawaii and Camp Thai waits without much hope for customers. The stores are one of the legacies of the America as refugees. Pendleton, Young and his family ended up in Entire days and weeks can pass without the door Cambodian genocide and the economic upheaval Cambodian jewellery stores in particular Bellfl ower. A friend, also from Pailin province, bells jingling. that came with it. have served multiple purposes for an immigrant loaned them some jewellery inventory, and in The sparkling cabinets of jewels in his store About two dozen stores are packed into a population made of refugees with a strong 1978 Young opened Tory Jewelry Company, give the impression of prosperity. But working Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 9 BEAT COMMUNITY enocide: Jewellery shops
There are more than a dozen Cambodian jewellery stores in the jewellery district and Inta Gems & Diamonds was the first.
in a luxury industry has not brought him a and-mortar jewellery stores in Long Beach, luxurious lifestyle, Thai said. according to city records. But there used to “I’m not getting rich off of this,” Thai said. “I be more than a dozen Cambodian jewellers make enough every month to pay bills and buy on Anaheim Street, Song said. The jewellery my family some things, and then it’s gone.” association also shuttered a few years ago While Cambodian jewellers in Chinatown, when its leadership moved onto other downtown Los Angeles and Fullerton have ventures, Song said. thrived serving a diverse, international clientele, Owning jewellery isn’t as important in jewellers in Cambodia Town serve mostly America, Song said. Cambodians and locals, said Charles Song, “Now it’s for pleasure, not for eating every former president of the Cambodian Jewelry day. So people are buying less,” he said. Association of Southern California. Song was one of the few Cambodian jewellers Cambodians usually buy more jewellery who had no Pailin connection. He learned the because they use it to store wealth, but there business from friends and relatives, and opened isn’t much wealth in Cambodia Town. About a Phnom Pich Jewelry on Anaheim Street in 1997. third of Cambodians in Long Beach’s Cambodia His seed money was a payout from a dong Town live in poverty, according to a recent UCLA ting, an informal lending club that Cambodian study – twice the poverty rate of the county. families contribute to in order to get lump sums And business has taken a hit as more refugees larger than any family could accumulate on their have grown accustomed to using banks and own. reducing their jewellery consumption, Song During the genocide, he says, jewellers, and said. Competition from Internet retailers has not anyone with education, money, or status was helped. targeted. He barely escaped with his life. Song Thai, who arrived in Long Beach in 1987 and other Cambodians opened jewellery stores as a 12-year-old refugee, is hoping that later to survive, not get rich, he said. That’s why generations will fi nd livelihoods beyond Cambodian jewellers help each other. doughnut shops, chicken restaurants and “I don’t know why I’m still here. But I believe jewellery stores. in destiny, and I have the proof. I’m sitting “Someone will break through someday,” Thai here today,” Song said. “I went through the said. “It just takes time.” killing fi elds. I want everyone to have the same Cambodians own four of the 10 brick- opportunity.” – TNS Young inspects a blue sapphire at his store. 10 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Stress-busting tips to stay organised while on vacation
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ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20
Your thinking may have emotional overtones that prevent you The thing you dread the most could be the very thing you need You may look at your orderly closet, well—organized desk, and from seeing the truth clearly, Aries. Do your best to tame your the most in your life, Taurus. You're at a point right now when the clean bathroom and be proud, Gemini. Other people may fret about feelings in order to let more rational thoughts rise to the surface. lessons that come might be hard to swallow, but they're necessary. suddenly having to get their lives in order, but you're already there. There's a stability that comes when you honour your emotions from Don't try to resist what you know you must face. Approach things Perhaps you don't realise it because you're such a perfectionist. a detached perspective instead of immediately taking action in with courage instead of fear and you can conquer anything. Once Perhaps you don't give yourself enough credit for all the work you response to how you feel. you climb the mountain, the rest is downhill. do. Give yourself a pat on the back today. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22
You could feel blocked, Cancer, like you're in a trap. Perhaps your Remember that it takes energy to repress and bottle up your Deep inside you know the right thing to do, Virgo. Perhaps you just friends are influencing you into believing one thing, while your feelings, Leo. Without realising it you may be stuff ing a great deal of saw someone drop money on the ground and you picked it up. Do family has you trained to believe another. You wear diff erent masks emotion inside while trying to ignore it. The truth is that expressing you return it or pocket it for yourself? You're likely to feel like you in diff erent situations so you may have forgotten the real person these feelings — anger, happiness, fear, self—doubt — will energise have the devil on one shoulder arguing with the angel on the other. underneath. Things are in conflict, and you may be forced to make and free you. The atmosphere around you will lighten up and you'll It's important that you listen to the angel. Do what you know is right. important decisions. The truth is the only way to escape the trap. be able to interact more openly with others. Libra LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21
Your mastery of your mind and ability to stay disciplined about your You may feel as if someone or something has just reformatted You may be forced to put your thoughts into neat little boxes that goals is impressive, Libra. Others recognise and appreciate your your hard drive, Scorpio. Suddenly things are running much more can be easily understood and processed, Sagittarius. Your ideas eff orts much more than usual. You may be called upon to assist in smoothly. The key now is to find the discipline and organisation to are abstract and don't always make reasonable sense. It's OK to some other project or someone else's emotional drama because you understand this new system fully. Streamline your thoughts and have a bit of mystery about things that rational minds can't explain. have the stability required to remedy the situation. Don't downplay be more eff icient about how you use your energy. You'll be more Although you may feel like the goal is to arrange things in an orderly your talent in this area. eff ective overall if you can keep from scattering your resources. way, don't feel like you have to do it. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20
This may be a diff icult day in which you feel pressured to get things There's tremendous discipline in your way of thinking, Aquarius, Your thoughts may be strained, Pisces, and you could find it diff icult done, Capricorn, yet there's indecisiveness and hesitation lingering which is helping you advance toward your goals. Don't expect that to process things that are normally no problem. Try not to force in your mind. Between a rock and hard place is no easy spot, but you will solve every problem right away. Keep in mind that you answers that don't seem to want to come. If the information flows you'll find your way out. Perhaps the thing you should do is make a will be able to sort through issues more eff iciently. Once you have easily and smoothly, you will know that it's meant for you. If you move — any move. Once you get the energy flowing, the direction things suff iciently fleshed out, it will be easier to put the pieces back have to pull teeth in order to get at the truth, you may need to back you need to take will be clear. together. Stay detached instead of getting emotionally involved. off . 12 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY PUZZLES/CARTOONS
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Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY
Super Cryptic Clues Colouring
ACROSS DOWN 1. Employed by the state, see, 1. About to reappoint inapt team- becomes hardened and leader (7) insensitive (9) 2. Record album (3,4) 8. Take turns (7) 3. The city can be OK as a 9. Show boy to a social worker change (5) (7) 4. Colonist discharging debts (7) 10. Don’t allow anger to show 5. Doctor Jack’s so dull (4) after attack (7) 6. Othello in back-room 13. A state benefit Butler held to production (4) be very attractive (8) 7. Seed men scattered over the 14. Kind person (4) land (7) 16. Stripped Verity (5,5) 11. Bit of a bloomer made by 20. Seer’s outlandish tongue (4) some errant heroine (6) 22. Angry about moving the 12. Care about a genus of tree (4) famous London statue (4) 15. Superior salesman going up- 24. Upset by girl’s being given a country (4) lesson outside (10) 17. On the right road to write a 28. Iolanthe’s ripe for a new song (3) production (4) 18. Pleased about the luxury (4) 29. Seizes money on the way 19. Dullness of new diet you Answers back (8) finally get many to follow (6) 31. Take in when the sun’s about 21. Very hot note (3) to come out (7) 22. Some select editions getting Wordsearch Codeword 34. Not in a band - ill-suited (7) returned (7) 35. Circle of listeners (7) 23. Nothing to write, that’s clear 36. People setting free dogs (9) (4) 25. Drum out of the army a doctor belonging to us (7) 26. Bait I swallowed, not being Jewish (7) 27. Arts set working on samplers (7) 30. Joe turned to Ron (5) 32. Boat bearing on the island (4) 33. Urges to eat (4)
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 3 Put in a word 8 DOWN: 1 Flourish 2 Swoons 3 Flower 9 Twit 10 Out of sorts 11 Present 4 Tarry 5 Nuts 6 On Her 13 Miss 14 Riposte 15 Thee the set 7 Dear dear 12 Opal 14 17 Shred 20 Later 22 Soda 24 Reed 16 Hose 17 Sundries 18 Notable 25 Rita 27 Roc 28 Reticent 19 Dabs 21 Entirely Prison fare 29 Evil 30 Noodle 23 Appoint 25 Reflow 26 Pinto 31 Setting out. 28 Plan. 14 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY BOLLYWOOD
Pahlaj Nihalani had managed to antagonise just about everyone in Bollywood.
Sacked fi nally position and replaced with the lyricist Prasoon Joshi, who is a As the chief of the Censor Board, much more acceptable personality that certifi es and cuts objectionable for the post given his reputation scenes from movies, the infamy as a sensitive poet. He is expected of Pahlaj Nihalani had been to be much more liberal in not SRK’s latest film has collected Rs58 crores in its first week. unrelenting. He had antagonised an imposing censorship on movies. He extraordinary number of fi lmmakers is also not known to be political and by justifying the merciless censoring therefore unbiased. of their movies. And this, when the What perhaps tipped it for movies he had produced himself Nihalani was when he created hurdles in the 1990s were full of sleaze and for fi lmmakers who are supposed double meanings. to be close to the government. Like Another flop Bollywood had been perplexed Madhur Bhandarkar’s Indu Sarkar. that despite their numerous So, he was beginning to be hated ubelight has been the biggest disappointment safe zone for him and his fans had always accepted him complaints, the government, which across the board in Bollywood and of Salman Khan in recent times. It has been in the role of the great lover. But they seem to have given appointed him, had not thought it fi t there was probably no one left to conceded by everyone, from he himself to his up on even this aspect of Shah Rukh. to take action against his dictatorial defend him. His tenure was anyway fans, that the movie was a resounding fl op. There was a time when he couldn’t do any wrong behaviour. going to end in January, so his sacking But compare even that with Jab Harry Met no matter what movies he chose. And now it is the But his luck has fi nally run out. probably means that they didn’t even SejalT and you get an idea of just how much Shah Rukh exact opposite, no matter what movie he does – from He has been removed from his want to give him an honourable exit. Khan’s stock has fallen. Because the fi rst week numbers experimental to commercial, none of them click. This of Jab Harry Met Sejal’s collections are in and they are might be ominous for him. If a superstar cannot even way behind Tubelight. guarantee Rs100 crore with the best directors, producers Even in the revenues of fl ops, Salman seems to be and marketing budgets, then it will not be long before he miles ahead of Shah Rukh. Jab Harry Met Sejal collected is no longer considered a superstar. And it is never clear Rs58 crores in its fi rst week, while Tubelight was at when this happens. Rs106 crores. That is a vast gulf. And what should be Amitabh Bachchan saw it painfully drag on from the especially worrying for Shah Rukh is that his earlier late 1980s for over a decade until it became certain that movie Raees, which was also a fl op in terms of what he no longer occupied the top slot. is expected from superstars, in fact made Rs122 crore In Shah Rukh’s case, it has already been close to three in its fi rst week. So the present one has done half that or four years since he pulled anything big to merit his business. status as the King Khan, a period in which Aamir and There are factors that make it even worse. Because Salman have been breaking humongous records. He while Raees was a gangster fl ick, Jab Harry Met Sejal was must be thinking hard about what he can possibly do a romantic movie. This is the genre that accounts for but there is little space for him to manoeuvre now. He Shah Rukh’s superstardom from the mid-1990s starting is reportedly playing a dwarf in his next movie that with Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Romance has been a releases in 2018. Much is in store in that movie for him.
Return from drugs
The world has forgotten about Prateik Babbar. He made an impressive debut in 2008 in a small role in Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na. Then Ranbir Kapoor has been much more measured than his father about his he had a big role in the indie fi lm Dhobi Talao, latest failure. directed by Kiran Rao, Aamir Khan’s wife. After that he managed to get lead roles in a A fair reaction He could at least have been a couple of movies that fl opped and soon was controlling force if he saw things out of sight. Unlike father Rishi Kapoor, going off track. But he has been But apparently he is going to make a Ranbir Kapoor has been much decent enough not to pin the reappearance as a negative character in more dignified in his reactions entire blame on Basu. At an event, Baaghi 2, a sequel to the hit Baaghi that had after the fate of Jagga Jasoos. reporters asked Ranbir about starred Tiger Shroff . Even if as a villain, at Rishi had gone on a public tirade Rishi’s targeting of Basu and he least fi nding some work should be heartening. against its director Anurag Basu said that it was probably because But why was he out of the scene till now? once it became clear that the his father felt protective about Apparently, he had a big problem with drug movie had flopped. He alleged him. But that he himself had no addiction but has now managed to get over that Basu had been high handed complaint. He said that they it. This was revealed by Prateik himself in about not taking anyone’s had been working on the movie an article he wrote for a newspaper. He said opinion or finishing the movie for three years and everyone that it had started at the age of 13 and he had on schedule, implying that the knew what they were doing. He then graduated over the years to hard drugs director was solely responsible also claimed that he took the like cocaine. And it reached a point where for the debacle. experience as a learning process he couldn’t get out of bed in the morning But that misses the point that instead of a failure. without his fi x. But he fi nally decided to clean Ranbir, as producer and lead himself up after a life threatening experience actor, should have been as much Send your feedback to induced by drugs. Now, he says he is free of in command of Jagga Jasoos. [email protected] Prateik Babbar is making a comeback. drugs and promises to remain so. Monday, August 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY
ACTION: Kyle Mooney in a scene from Brigsby Bear. Mooney talks about his weird new film Brigsby Bear, SNL
society is a problem — he simply He wants to preserve as many of familiar one, but it’s also one Mooney Said Mooney: “We’ve been By Gary Thompson can’t conceive of a world that doesn’t the movie’s twists as possible, but and company avoid and invert. making music and stuff together revolve around his favourite TV show. it’s fair to say the narrative ramps up Brigsby Bear has a generous spirit. since middle school, and then we Sound like anyone you know? as James’ sensational story becomes So generous that it acknowledges, fell in love with fi lms in our early ot long after writing and Brigsby Bear has a sneaky relevance national news and clips from the without resorting to satire, the idea 20s and started making them, pitching their wildly — it hits you with perceptive insights TV show become popular on the that James is only a slight variation and that was such great fun and original, completely into a cosplay culture that years ago Internet. (Mooney, who rose to on the modern American man-child a special part of the process of incomparable, crossed a Comi-Con Rubicon into stardom via oddball comedy routines (thanks, Wonder Woman), indulged being friends that we knew that’s thoroughly inimitable an extended adolescence, abetted posted on YouTube, has a keen sense by an entertainment industry that something we wanted to capture in Nmovie Brigsby Bear, Saturday Night and enabled by a movie industry of just how plausible this would be.) feeds viewers versions of the stories a story.” Live star Kyle Mooney and his whose biggest creative and monetary “The idea of the show going viral they fi rst encountered as kids. And they did. Right now, he and collaborator, Dave McCary, heard investments are in DC and Marvel came to us pretty early on,” Mooney Mooney and McCary are hip to McCary are awaiting word on how that – gulp – somebody had already properties. Brigsby Bear grew out of said. “If something like this were to this — they cast Mark Hamill (!) as they’ll be integrated into the new made it. Mooney’s own pop-culture fi xations become an actual news story, and if James’ father — but they are natural season of SNL. That is, they got wind of the 2015 and fanboy perspective. it involved clips of a TV show that optimists who spin James’ arrested Mooney does the out-there stuff documentary The Wolfpack, about “I’ve got a pretty big VHS no-one had ever seen, I know for sure development a diff erent way. Fanboys that often turns up toward the end New York shut-ins whose only collection, and I spend a lot of time I would want to see those clips.” can be isolated, obsessive, passive, of the show. He said some of that knowledge of the outside world came trading found footage of low-budget Mooney, in person, is a but Brigsby Bear uses that obsession “real estate” had been reallocated through the TV shows and movies kids’ shows, and it all started with transparently genial fellow. You feel in a way to connect with other as the demand increased, they’d watched. this idea of this kid obsessed with that in the way he portrays James and people. understandably, for sketches “You hear the log line (industry a TV show that nobody has ever in the way his screenplay treats the “I think the key thing about related to contemporary politics. jargon for synopsis) and you think, seen,” said Mooney, who stopped in character. The story of a naïve recluse James,” McCary said, “is he doesn’t “You have a pretty good idea not only has this movie already been Philadelphia recently to do a comedy let loose in the world, vulnerable to want to consume as much as he what the show is going to be on made, but it happened in real life, and show. its cynicism and exploitation, is a wants to create.” Wednesday, but last year, almost there’s footage of it!” said McCary. without fail, something would Not to worry. Their oddball drama happen and we’d have to rethink goes its own way, though there are Brigsby Bear has a sneaky relevance — it hits you with the cold opener. I feel like there things in common — Brigsby Bear perceptive insights into a cosplay culture that years wasn’t a week where we felt like, is the story of a young man named ‘Everything’s set. We can chill,’ “ James (Mooney) raised by reclusive, ago crossed a Comi-Con Rubicon into an extended Mooney said. cultish parents. Their self-produced “But (the political stuff ) gets sci-fi kids’ show is the only thing adolescence, abetted and enabled by a movie industry people watching and talking, so it’s James has ever seen, and watching all great. Anytime we get something TV is the only thing he has ever done. whose biggest creative and monetary investments are weird on the show, it means you’re Authorities remove James from in DC and Marvel properties reaching a new audience.” —The the home, but integrating him into Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Monday, August 14, 2017 COMMUNITY The varying colours of Nepal A large number of organisations actively promote the myriad cultures that co-exist in the Himalayan country
Rhythm Arts Center artistes during one of their shows. The UNI Dance Crew at a community programme.
Members of the Nepalese Cutural Center perform a traditional dance during a programme. An artiste from the Miteri Cultural Family during a programme.
(AND), Basanta Films, Tamu Cultural Society Art Culture and International Artists Society Originally named as Manakamana Arts (TCS), Fewa Cultural Society (FCS), Mithila frequently organise large concerts. Center, NCC was established in 2007. The By Usha Wagle Gautam Arts Center (MAC), Non-Resident Nepalese IAF, which was established in 2012, is artistes associated with NCC have won Musical Family (NRNMF), Sandhya Group, registered with the Nepali embassy and is positions at multiple reality shows. The QN Band, Sangharsha Band, Naba Pratibha a sister organisation of IAF-USA. Working centre has also released many popular music bout a dozen Nepali Cultural Group (NPCG), Sur Sudha Arts primarily in the domain of art, culture albums. organisations in Qatar are Center (SSAC), Rhythm Arts Center (RAA), and literature, the IAF has supported INAS was established in 2003 and boasts actively involved in cultural UNI Dance Troupe and Miteri Films. disaster survivors across Nepal through its around 150 members. activities, providing unique Together, these organisations put up an fund-raising concerts and has organised Basanta Films, also based in Qatar, has platforms to aspiring artistes to array of shows and events that showcase the several song-writing, dancing and singing released more than 100 songs and has Ashowcase their talents in front of an ever- vibrant and varied cultures of Nepal. Every competitions. IAF also successfully partnered provided over a million Nepalese rupees to sprawling non-resident audience. Many of year, reality shows are organised for singing with the Nepali fi lm fraternity in 2010 to host disadvantaged group since its inception in the performers have full time jobs in Qatar, and dance categories. These shows see high an annual Nepali fi lm award ceremony. 2015. It has felicitated around 120 Qatar- but are more than eager to use the free time interest from Nepali expatriates, with more The Tamu Cultural Family focuses on folk based artistes to date. that they have for creative purposes. than 50 participants competing for titles in culture of Tamu or Gurungs, an indigenous Miteri Cultural Group (MCG) has shot Following is an overview of some of the each category. community of Nepal. Formed in 2004, it Pardesh ko Jindagi (Life Outside Country), more prominent Nepali cultural organisations Also high is the participation of Nepalis in participates in and organises programmes a feature fi lm about Qatar-based Nepalis in Qatar and the activities that they concerts organised by the Public Relations where its artistes are given the chance to shot in various locations in Qatar. It has also undertake. Department of the Ministry of Interior to perform time-honoured Nepali dances such as released multiple music albums. The Nepali organisations that are most mark occasions such as Qatar National Day, Ghatu, Kauda and Chudki. TCF also celebrates The vibrant Nepali community in Qatar active in the promotion of native culture and Qatar Sport Day and the two Eid festivals. the Loshar festival annually and elects a consists of about 450,000 people and they arts are International Artists Society (IAS), The Nepali Cultural Center (NCC) helps nominal king each year to commemorate their are engaged outside of these prominent International Artists’ Forum (IAF), Nepalese Nepali artistes based in Doha to sharpen their own kingdom, which existed hundreds of years organisations as well, actively promoting Arts Center (NAC), Arambha Natya Dabali dance and musical skills, while the Rhythm ago in central Nepal. their art and culture.