30 Established 1961 Thursday, January 25, 2018 Lifestyle Music & Movies Indian police detain dozens protesting against controversial movie ight-wing Hindu groups in India stepped up carried sticks and caused minor injuries to 14 peo- properties in Gujarat and Rajasthan,” Deepak protests yesterday against the release of a ple, said B.S. Sandhu, a senior police official, Asher, director of Inox multiplexes, India’s second Rcontroversial Bollywood film, as several adding that police had detained 15 protesters. “We largest theatre chain, told Reuters, referring to the states boosted police patrols a day after the will not tolerate any violence in the name of two states hit by the worst protests. Supreme Court refused to allow bans on the protests against a movie,” Sandhu added. “Our primary concern is the security of our movie. Groups critical of the film, set to be “Sporadic rioting did take place but no one will be employees and audiences. I think this is a decision released today, have accused its director, Sanjay allowed to protest now.” that almost every theatre owner in these two states Leela Bhansali, of distorting history by portraying Indian films that touch upon the historical rela- has taken,” he added. In the central state of a Muslim ruler as the “lover” of the Hindu Queen tionships of Hindus, India’s majority religion, and Chhattisgarh, dozens of members of the Rajput Padmavati of the Rajput warrior clan. The filmmak- Muslim leaders are often controversial. In the community staged protests and burned an effigy ers deny the accusation. financial capital of Mumbai, police have boosted of Bhansali on Tuesday, Rakesh Singh Bais of the Violence over the film, “Padmaavat”, reached security at all theatres screening the film, and community group Sarwa Kshatriya Mahasabha the outskirtsof India’s capital just as New Delhi detained more than 100 members of protest told Reuters. Police in northwestern Rajasthan began to receive southeast Asian leaders for a groups, such as the conservative Sri Rajput Karni have enforced tight security for protests planned major summit yesterday, to be followed the next Sena, as a precaution, a senior police official said. by the Karni Sena and other Rajput groups, its day by a parade and celebrations of India’s Police are also closely monitoring social media, he police chief, O. P. Galhotra, said. Republic Day. Security for the parade showcasing added. Police had to open fire to disperse crowds “We have been talking to the leaders of the India’s military might, which is to be attended by on Tuesday nightas protests against the film turned Karni Sena and they don’t want to end their “We will not allow the movie to be released,” he ten leaders from the Association of Southeast increasingly violent, with vandalism around multi- protest,” Galhotra added. “We have decided to Indian Bollywood actress said. “Queen Padmini is like our goddess, no one Asian Nations, has been tightened more than in plexes in the western state of Gujarat and dozens allow them to hold small protests, and have made Deepika Padukone, lead of will be allowed to insult our goddess and our previous years. of motorcycles being set on fire. adequate arrangements to maintain law and the film “Padmaavat”, Hindu pride.”— Reuters Television broadcast images of gangs of young Police have arrested 20 men involved, said order.” Anyone trying to depict history as fiction arrives at the Hindu men, their faces concealed by swathes of cloth, Kalpesh Patel, a police officer in the state’s key will have to pay a price for their mistake, said Siddhivinayak Temple ahead throwing stones in the streets of Gurgaon, 30 km industrial city of Ahmedabad. The protests are Rajvansh Singh, an official of the Karni Sena in the of the film’s release in (19 miles) from New Delhi, while the hollowed-out expected to continue around the country. “We city of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, who called him- Mumbai yesterday. — AFP shell of a bus smouldered nearby. The protesters have decided not to play the movie in any of our- self the custodian of respect for Rajput women. British pop musician John to quit touring, Daily Mirror says ritish pop musician Elton John is to quit touring after nearly 50 years, the Daily BMirror newspaper reported. The 70-year- old star is calling time on the road after one last world tour, the newspaper said. The newspaper said the singer would make an announcement soon. A spokeswoman could not be reached for comment on the report. With a penchant for fan- cy costumes and an ear for piano rockers and This file photo shows (from left) Guitarist Gary Holt, bassist/singer Tom Araya and guitarist Kerry King of Slayer performing at This file photo shows Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music ballads that made music history, John has domi- The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. — AFP Director Robert Spano speaking during the 34th Annual nated the pop industry for five decades. Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards Concert and Show in Atlanta. — AFP Elton John Macabre metal masters Spano to leave Atlanta orchestra Slayer call it quits layer, whose lugubrious, occult-infused music which the band denied, for its song “Angel of Death” after key two decades helped create the genre of thrash metal, on Tuesday about human experiments in a concentration camp. It Sannounced that the group was retiring after a final also came under fire for its 2006 song “Jihad,” which tour. The metal band, whose founding member and key related the September 11 attacks from the viewpoint of onductor Robert Spano, who made the Atlanta songwriter Jeff Hanneman died in 2013, said it was retir- the Al-Qaeda assailants and quoted plot leader Symphony Orchestra a major force as he champi- ing after nearly 37 years of making “the most brutal, Mohammed Atta. Coned contemporary composers, said Tuesday he breathtakingly aggressive, all-hell’s-a-breaking-loose Slayer released its 12th and apparently final album in would step down after two decades. One of the longest- music ever created.” “The age of Slayer, one of the great- 2015, “Repentless.” The album was its first without gui- serving music directors in US classical music, where est thrash/metal/punk bands of this or any age, is coming tarist Hanneman, who died from a flesh-eating bacteria Once a hard-partying tearaway with a vora- turnover is expected and encouraged, Spano said he to an end,” the group immodestly wrote on Instagram. after he was bitten by a spider while taking a bath. The cious appetite for cocaine and alcohol, John has would end his tenure in June 2021 at the close of his 20th The band said it would start its farewell tour on May 10 group more recently raised eyebrows when its frontman, achieved a long-lasting fame among British acts season. “Twenty years is a good benchmark to balance in San Diego, playing across the United States and Chilean-born Tom Araya, posted a picture of President matched only by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones the long-term commitment I have made to the ASO with Canada before a final date on June 20 in Austin, Texas. Donald Trump, although he said the gesture was a provo- and David Bowie. Raised in a modest family, he the necessity of looking towards its future as well as my Emerging in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Slayer cation rather than a statement of support. Slayer is con- started playing the piano when he was just three. own,” the 56-year-old said in a statement. wrote ferocious metal songs driven by minor keys, sidered one of the four founding bands of thrash metal, A magazine advert in 1967 put him in touch with “I believe that together, many shared goals and intense bursts of speed and gloomy guitar riffs. Yet the subgenre marked by dark aggression. The others are English lyricist Bernie Taupin and together they dreams have been achieved,” he said. Spano helped build Slayer distinguished itself for the extent to which it Anthrax-which will join Slayer on the final tour-as well as wrote some of the best-loved songs of all time - the orchestra based in the unofficial capital of the US embraced the dark side, with lyrics that evoked Megadeth and Metallica, which has been by far the most transforming shy Reg Dwight of suburban north South into a major player, leading 49 world premieres so Satanism and stages decked out with upside-down cru- commercially successful. — AFP London into global star Elton John. Mixing bal- far under his tenure as he welcomed living composers. cifixes under blood-red lights. Slayer frequently raised lads like “Candle in the Wind”, “Your Song” and The orchestra won Grammys for recordings that featured controversy and faced allegations of Nazi sympathies, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” with pounding the works of rising US composers Jennifer Higdon and rockers “Crocodile Rock” and “Bennie and the Christopher Theofanidis as well as Argentina’s Osvaldo Jets” proved to be a winning formula: he has sold Golijov, whose opera “Ainadamar” won awards in two more than 300 million records. —Reuters categories in 2007. Fulfilling a key role in the current economic climate for orchestras, Spano also led a funding campaign that raised $27 million. — AFP Chloe Grace Moretz lifts lid on gay conversion therapy t sounds like it ought to be a relic of 17th-century dent Barack Obama, these centers offer counseling, puritanism, but gay conversion therapy is alive and support groups and, in extreme cases, drugs, hypnosis Pallbearers carry the coffin of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan during her funeral at well across the modern United States.