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2 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 3, 2003 DELHI

Lutyen’s city will lose its sheen To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 "It is the employer's responsibility to protect The new Master Plan has been proposed by you". — VEENU KAKKAR, Programme Associate, CREA people who have no idea about town plan- PEOPLE ning. The proposed high rise buildings will Q. I am working in an Q. What is sexual harassment?- ruin the city’s beauty and put pressure on the MNC and my boss is Shiv scarce infrastructure. The Master Plan acting fresh with me. A: Any unwelcome sexually POWER should have been drafted by professionals I don't know what to determined behaviour such as and not politicians. do and whom should physical contact and advances, Question of the week Indrajit Singh (via email) I ask for help. Please help me.- sexually coloured remarks, Ruchi demand or request for sexual ● Whether the city’s character will change A: Try finding out about the favours showing pornography Will the new Master Plan will depend on how seriously and effectively sexual harassment at workplace and any other unwelcome improve or ruin Delhi’s the Plan is implemented. But the question is: policy in your office, law physical, verbal or non verbal character? How? Are there enough funds to see it through. mandates a complaints conduct of sexual nature. Also, will it be able to prevent the unautho- committee in each office, that Q. Can I sue the harasser too? rised construction and encroachment, which has half women members, head If I have to sue, what can a court It will ruin Delhi’s charac- will be triggered in its wake. of the committee is a woman and do for me?-Shiv ter because the guideline Nidhi Sapra, Ghaziabad an NGO representative as the A: You don't even need to go has condoned all illegal Ruin Change is the law of third party to safeguard your to the court and spend your construction that has taken interest. energies and money, each work nature and we should place in the city so far. This Improve Q. Is there a difference between place should have a committee 60% means, all illegal colonies not be afraid of af- harassment by a supervisor and of their own to prevent and will now be regularised. fecting a change be- a co-worker?-Ruchi punish the harasser. It is the The decision to allow changes in landuse in 40% cause of past fail- A: No not really, only the nature employer's responsibility to residential, commercial and industrial zones ures. As an optimists, of harassment might vary but protect you. will encourage the builder mafia and they I have reasons to be- co-workers are involved in For complete chat log on to will exploit the situation. The most impor- lieve that the new Plan should improve Del- harassment a lot of times. http://chat.indiatimes.com tant worry is that controlling fire would be a hi’s character. The need of the hour is to ac- difficult task. A tangle of shops would stran- cept ground realities. Of course, city man- gulate residential areas, forget parking even agers will have to be very careful while de- walking space will be scarce. living there. will ruin the character of the city and the tailing the new guidelines. Sanjeev Chugh, Faridabad • Sanjay Kaante Gupta nets • Hungama: Simply hilarious Mitali Sahay, Laxmi Nagar Col Onkar Chopra, Janakpuri capital will not be Lutyen’s or Ghalib’s Delhi sizzling Sameera The best part of Priyadarshan’s Certainly, the proposed Master Plan will Undoubtedly the proposed Plan will change The Master Plan 2021 spells doom for Delhi. anymore. My advice: If we don’t want water Sameera Reddy, curently the Hungama is that the cast doesn’t improve the city’s character. It has raised hottest property in Bollywood, has get into histrionics to get you into the character of Delhi. Lutyen’s beautiful The people who drafted it have not taken into and power riots in the future, throw the plan hopes about redeveloping the old areas like been signed on by director of hysterics. There’s no slapstick, so city has already become a sprawling, account the views of those who will be lead- into the dustbin and think afresh. Ashok Gupta, Bali-Nagar, Chandni Chowk, Sadar Bazar which are in a Kaante, Sanjay Gupta. Reddy plays that the audience go bananas unplanned, metropolis, courtesy politicians, ing an active life in 2021. Vertical expansion state of disrepair. The existing plan is faulty the role of a married woman who without the banana peels. land-mafias and encroachers. The Plan will and not in touch with ground reality.The new has extramarital affairs with four To listen, log on to bring further devastation to the environment Though mixed landuse The Plan in its present plan is in tune with people’s need. different men. http://talkradio.indiatimes.com and basic necessities like water, power, is not a bad idea, it format will spell ruin Kriti Popli, Kamla Nagar sewage etc will be scarce. The city should be needs to be properly for Delhiites. For so Being the National capital, Delhi needs to be left to the town planners and not politicians. regulated and con- long our colonies were developed properly. As of now, many Delhi- L K Chaterjee, Paschim Vihar trolled. If there are peaceful places. All that ities are unemployed and don’t have proper It will result in further congestion and no checks and balances, will change under the housing, the new plan seems to take care of chaos. The provisions allowing shops in resi- Delhi’s built up new Plan. When com- all that. Growth of industrial and commer- dential premises will wreck havoc with the environment will dete- mercial activities and cial areas will provide job opportunities. The urban architecture and character of Delhi. riorate further under then industrial units drive to build high residential structures will Taller buildings would eventually mean the proposed Plan. The increase in start coming up in residential areas, provide more places to live in. greater pressure on civic amenities. Raising population density is a more serious the chaos will increase. Living in the Shreya Chakraborty, Mayur Vihar the height of existing buildings, which don’t issue and given the limited infra- city will become a nightmare for the The proposed Plan will definitely improve have a strong foundation will spell disaster. structure of the metro, it will create average Delhiite. The only way out is Delhi’s character. At the moment, Delhi is Regularising unauthorised colonies would problems. to develop the NCR so that the pressure like an unplanned city with scattered resi- prove counter productive. Regularisation Vikram Lall, architect and on the city is reduced. dential colonies. With high rise flats more of unauthorised construction in 16 lakh urban planner Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister houses will be available at a low cost. DDA flats will endanger the lives of people P R Kumar,Connaught Place

gle mania. There’s the Aftab, CINEMA OF THE WEEK Rimi, Akshaye triangle with its sub-plots of lusty tenants Oops (drama) ★★★ and stingy dads. And then, Cast: Vikas Sethi, Kiran there’s a Shakti Kapoor story Janjani, Mita Vashisht and a Rajpal Yadav aside too. Direction: Deepak Tijori Don’t try to figure out how Showing at: Chanakya they are connected. Just take t’s brand new. It’s mint your individual pick from the fresh. And it’s absolutely untidy collage and have a few different. Yes, Deepak Ti- moments of fun. We’d recom- I mend the Paresh Rawal and jori’s directorial debut isn’t exactly what you expected it the Rajpal Yadav Hungama. to be: A sleazeball show The rest is dispensable. where skin outshone story. Teen Deewarein (drama) Instead, it gives you what a ★★★ 1/2 lot of recent experimental Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, films have failed to deliver: A Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla twist-and-turn story told in a Direction: Nagesh Kukunoor viewer-friendly style. Which Showing at: PVR Gurgaon means, you have the provoca- oday, they are all try- tive theme — the adventures ing crossover cinema. of a pair of male strippers in T Some years ago, there mindblowing Mumbai — his one’s like Hungama (comedy) ★★ 1/2 was just Nagesh Kukunoor Dance away disease handed out in a cinematic Cast: Akshaye Khanna, overchewed chewing who broke into Bambaiya By Niti Panta ens the circulation. language that is young, ur- Rimmi Sen, Paresh Rawal T gum. Begins fresh, cinema with Hyderabad TIMES NEWS NETWORK Acclaimed Kuchipudi bane and metro-centric. Direction: Priyadarshan ends up limp. Simply because Blues. dancer Raja Reddy sees Showing at: Delite New Delhi: Therapists The film is essentially a it’s been stretched to a point Kukunoor continues to fol- dance as a manifestation of and dancers are prescrib- tale of friendship between where the flavour has disap- f you still remember Hera low his private muse with the divine. He says dance peared. Sad, because the film Teen Deewarein too. And ing treatment in yet anoth- two quintessential Bombay Pheri, you’re going to end compensates for yoga — actually has some breezy act- once again, its not an unin- er imperative medium of Boys who are members of a up disappointed with for it involves such rigor- ing by the lead pair. I spired muse. Set in a prison, dance therapy — one dance troupe. One is rich and Hungama. If the laugh riot ous activity. ‘‘Transcend- Rani Mukherjee is the cute the film tells the story of which transcends the not so restless, with an up- kicked up by Paresh Rawal, ing the physical, dance little orphan who wins three prisoners through the physical. So to get rid of market suburban existence. Akshay Kumar and Sunil leads to a spiritual eleva- hearts wherever she goes. interviews and interactions that chronic backache and The other is restless, impa- Shetty had you splitting sides tion, which is a pure reflec- Thrown out of her job and of a documentary filmmaker. mood swings, get your toes tient and ambitious. then, the antics of this trio — tion of the soul,’’ says Red- home because of her truant That the prisoners happen to tapping to a new beat. Paresh, Akshaye (Khanna) dy. He wants the moolah and ways, she takes refuge in a be Jackie, Nagesh and and Aftab — might make you In terms of dance thera- It is the themes adopted he wants it fast without old- lonely hilltop house in Simla Naseer and the filmwalli is split hair instead. Why? Be- py,there are spiritual expe- in dance therapy, for in- fashioned morals coming in with Jonathan, her stuffed actually Juhi only enhances cause there’s a loud, hysteri- riences involved. Innova- stance the ones portraying his way. It is this adventur- simian friend for company. the quality of the film. For cal and slapstick Shoma tive dance forms like dance sequences of Radha ism that leads him through But her dream run begins Juhi makes a delightful Anand sandwiched in be- movement improvisation and Krishna which are the dark underbelly of Mum- from this dream location. comeback after a prolonged tween. She does a Rabri- which is a form of moving symbolic of the eternal bai’s glamour world. From a The house belongs to dream- hiatus and Naseer is ab- comes-to-the-city take. Eek! meditation, heals at a very beauty of the characters. dancer,to a male stripper,the er Ajay Devgan who built solutely mesmerising. As the Unlike the neat and natty sublime level since one be- A unifying source between Bombay Boy learns the facts this citadel of love for his death row prisoner with a Hera-Pheri, Hungama floun- comes aware of one’s body the body, mind and the of life — love, friendship, non-dreamer girlfriend (Son- not-so-sharp conscience, he’s ders with too many stories, and remains perfectly in spirit, dance leads to a dis- family ties — through the ali Bendre). He tries to win the sharpest ‘grey’ character sub-plots, and gag acts clam- tune with it. Dance thera- sipation of negative ener- rough and tumble of metro- back Bendre by playing the in contemporary cinema. ouring for attention. There’s pist Tripura Kashyap ex- gies. Attributing to the tra- politan dementia. love game with Rani. But Paresh Rawal’s story of pas- A small time bank robber plains: ‘‘In dance there is ditional and innovative Bored women, neglected the mists and the moun- toral bliss versus urban jun- who ended up accidentally healing which takes place tains have their dance movements in the wives, insensitive husbands, shooting the teller, Naseer’s both at the physical and classical Indian dance alcoholic parents, misguided own mysterious story has strange twists and the spiritual level.’’ ways... forms, therapist A.V. sons and the itch to get rich turns that sculpt a riveting The primordial art form Satyanarayanan explains quick — Oops holds up a tan- Too tedious, too climax. One, which includes has contributed to holistic that it depicts the om- talising mirror to big city long and quite all the other characters — healing and is being ac- nipresence of God which blues. The two boys are tiresome — espe- the two other death row pris- cepted as an alternative to results in both physical cially in the sec- earnest and interesting, oners and the documentary medicines. Therapists and spiritual healing. ond half — Chori Mink’s Mink — sultry and women too — in its magnetic have invigorated Indian The element of divine el- Chori is only for siren-ish. But the power- weave, leaving you with classical and folk dance evation in this art form is Rani buffs. She’s packed performer award be- memories of a story well movements into innova- relevant in terms of en- bright and bub- told. Watch it for the stylish tive holistic therapy to longs to Mita Vashisht hancing positive qualities bly: a perfect foil blend of art and main- combat diseases from mi- Whoops! She’s a winner. Go like love and generosity. to Devgan’s con- stream. For the well-fleshed nor body imbalances to se- For American artist for her. And for the newness. trolled reticence. characters and performanc- rious disabilities like Sharon Lowen, dance is Chori Chori (romance) ★★ And yes, there’s es. And most importantly,for schizophrenia. Unlike nor- transformative because it Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Sonali. Svelte and Naseer — an extraordinary mal physical exercise, generates hormonal activi- Ajay Devgan ethereal. How actor,in a different league all dance comprehensively re- ty and helps releasing Direction: Milan Luthria about a come- together. leases muscles and joint emotions. ‘‘And it’s always Showing at: Chanakya back, Sonali? Nikhat Kazmi pains to induce energy in a pleasure to move aesthet- POOR★ AVERAGE★ ★ GOOD★ ★ ★ VERY GOOD ★ ★ ★ ★ OUTSTANDING ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ the body which strength- ically,’’explains Lowen.

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