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DOHA 33°C—42°C TODAY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 13 PUZZLES 14 & 15 On the Zika trail It has reached 60 countries and territories, but there’s much that COVER STORY the scientists still don’t know about the crippling virus. P4-5

BONDING: Evellyn Mendes Santos, 9, kisses her baby sister, Heloyse, outside of their home in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. Their mother, Maria da Luz Mendes Santos, said it was her “biggest dream” to have two daughters. 2 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

Love Me Tomorrow GENRE: Comedy, Romance CAST: Piolo Pascual, Coleen Garcia, Dawn Zulueta DIRECTION: Gino M Santos SYNOPSIS: A generational love story about a DJ, a confl icted millennial woman, and a woman who is described to PRAYER TIME be ‘on the verge of renaissance’. They Fajr 3.14am will be caught in a Shorooq (sunrise) 4.43am love triangle that will Zuhr (noon) 11.34am spark thoughts on Asr (afternoon) 2.57pm one-night stands, Maghreb (sunset) 6.28pm May-December Isha (night) 7.58pm aff airs and other aspects of life. Love Me Tomorrow USEFUL NUMBERS is a timely and empowering fi lm that celebrates the enduring power of true love.

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e Unq uot uo Q Only when te you drink from the river of silence shall you X-Men: Apocalypse extinction level plan. En Sabah Nur, a powerful being believed indeed sing. And when you have GENRE: Action, Animation to be the fi rst mutant on Earth, rules over ancient Egypt until reached the mountain top, then you CAST: James Mcavoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer he is betrayed by a rebellion. His four lieutenants die, using shall begin to climb. And when the Lawrence their powers to safeguard him. Awakened in 1983 by chance, earth shall claim your limbs, then DIRECTION: Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly he observes the new world and believes that humanity has lost shall you truly dance. SYNOPSIS: With the emergence of the world’s fi rst its way without his presence. mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his THEATRE: Royal Plaza — Khalil Gibran Mall Cinema (1): Te3n () 3pm; (2D) 8.45pm; Warcraft (2D) Love Me Tomorrow (2D) 8.45pm; 10.45pm. Te3n (Hindi) 11pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Mall Cinema (2): Angry Birds Movie Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): House Full 3 (2D) 3pm; Un Homme A Community Editor (2D) 2.30pm; Frog Kingdom La Hauter “Up For Love” (2D) 8.30pm; Frog Kingdom (2D) 2.30pm; Angry (2D) 4.15 & 9pm; X-Men Apocalypse X-Men Apocalypse (2D) 10.30pm. Kamran Rehmat Birds Movie (2D) 4.15pm; Love Me (2D) 10.45pm. Asian Town Cinema: Iraivil (Tamil) e-mail: [email protected] Tomorrow (2D) 8.30pm; Te3n (Hindi) Mall Cinema (3): House Full 3 (Hindi) 8pm; King Liar () 10.30pm; 11pm. Telephone: 44466405 2.30pm; Un Homme A La Hauter “Up Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): A. Aa (Telugu) 7.30pm; Te3n (Hindi) Fax: 44350474 For Love” (2D) 9pm; Warcraft (2D) 7.30 & 11pm; Housefull 3 (Hindi) 7.45 Te3n (Hindi) 2.30pm; Frog Kingdom 10.30pm. & 10.45pm. Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

Chinese Food Culture Festival Let’s meet and learn some moves every DATE: June 30-July 9 Monday night. You don’t need to do TIME: 8pm- 12pm anything, just join us. Level 1 (intermediate VENUE: Barwa Commercial Avenue level) 7pm and for beginner level 8pm. Be Want to taste Chinese food? Want to watch there at Raddison Blu Hotel Cabana Club. breath taking Chinese performances? Well now you can enjoy the authentic taste and watch QSports Summer Camp wonderful Chinese performances at the Dragon DATE: June 19-Sept 1 Mart China Mall. Bringing you 10 days of food TIME: 8am-1pm festivities. Barwa Commercial Avenue, opposite VENUE: Al Jazeera Academy Al Watan petrol station from June 30 to July 9, Registration for QSports Summer from 8pm-12pm. Camp 2016 is now open. QSports summer camps are committed to providing a safe, Summer Camp & Clinic fun and skill-based experience for kids EVENTS Katara Beach Volleyball Championship DATE: July 3-14 between the ages of four and 14. We have a DATE: Until June 25 TIME: 9am dedicated team of specialist kid’s coaches Ramadan Nights @ Aqua Park TIME: 9pm- 11:55pm VENUE: Al Waab, Al Bustan, Doha and classes and activities are safe, planned, TIME: 8pm — 2am VENUE: Katara Beach The camps & clinics are a fantastic progressive, active, creative, inclusive VENUE: Aqua Park Katara announces the launch of Katara opportunity to maintain contact time with your and designed to maximise participation With a special month, comes a special treat Beach Volleyball Tournament 2016 in coach, whether that is soccer, basketball or of all children by offering a variety of from Qatar’s number 1 theme park – Aqua Ramadan on Katara beach volleyball multi-sports. Come along, learn new skills and activities. Park. court. Participants are welcome from all meet new friends who have the same passion Come spend the beautiful Ramadan nights nationalities provided they weren’t in the and desire for the game as you do. Spring Exhibition MIA at Aqua Park and get to also view the 2016 records of the Qatari Volleyball Association DATE: Until July 16 matches on a giant screen. Join other football for the season of 2015 – 2016. Karting & Mini Moto Track TIME: 10:30am- 5pm fans and enjoy the UEFA Euro 2016 feeling DATE: Until July 1 VENUE: QM Gallery Al Riwaq in France right here in Qatar. Let the fun & Find your treasure competition TIME: 6:30pm An exhibition of 15 contemporary excitement begin! DATE: Until July 1 VENUE: Losail International Circuit Chinese artists, curated by internationally TIME: 8pm-11pm The Karting and Mini Moto Track will be acclaimed New York-based Chinese artist Blood and Arteries exhibition VENUE: Katara open every Thursday and Friday until July 1 Cai Guo-Qiang, is on view at the QM DATE: Tomorrow-July 11 You might be amongst the winners by after which the track will close until further Gallery Al Riwaq. The exhibition is the TIME: 9am-11:55pm participating in the competition every notice. QR100 per session of 15 minutes. major highlight presented in the context VENUE: Katara, Bldg 18 Thursday and Friday after the Tarawih Helmet mask QR15 – not refundable. of the Qatar China 2016 Year of Culture. Creative 4D Exhibition on blood and prayers and look for the treasure box to win Artworks exemplifying each and every arteries with verses from the Qur’an and a the QR2,500. You are kindly requested, once Dance Classes with Salsa n Candela artist’s unique artistic language and free blood test. you fi nd the box, to go to the kiosk opposite VENUE: Hilton Hotel-West Bay methodology are displayed in individual building 15 to know if you’re the lucky winner. Salsa n Candela off ers variety of dance galleries. Mathaf Education Summer Program classes for kids and adults at Hilton Hotel, DATE: June 19-20 Eforea Spa Studio, such as Salsa, Bachata, Al Gannas TIME: 10am Kizomba, Swing, Tango and Greek classes. DATE: Until Oct 30 VENUE: Museum of Modern Art Price at QR60 per class per person. TIME: 9am -11:30am When school ends, fun begins at Mathaf! VENUE: Al Gannas Society Bring your favourite character to life. Ages Shifting Sands Al Gannas Association is participating in 8-11 years old. June 19-20, from 10am – DATE: Until July 7 the ‘Our culture is a school’ programme by 12noon. Participants explore diff erent VENUE: Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Museum, organising many activities for the students characters found in artworks from the Alsamariyah every Monday and Wednesday of the week. Mathaf’s collection; and learn diff erent MA students of UCL Qatar are organising and These activities include explanations on techniques of 3D modelling to bring their curating an exhibition as part of UCLQurates. hunting and related tools, kinds of falcons favourite characters to life and to create their In the very recent past, Qatar has undergone and preys, in addition to workshop on own stories. a signifi cant transformation; through these how to carry a falcon, set a traditional developments, people have had to adapt to the tent (made of goat & camel hair), prepare Qur’an Memorisation changing landscape in which they live. traditional Arabic coffee, etc. DATE: Until June 23 TIME: 10am-11:30am Qatari Agricultural Product Yards VENUE: Katara Masjid DATE: Until June 30 Stemming from its keenness to raise the VENUE: Al Mazrooa, Al Zakheera, Al young generation and enforce their bond Khor, Al Wakrah with their Islamic identity and principles Sunset Kayaking The Ministry of Environment has opened of their true religion, the Cultural Village DATE: June 17-25 the 4th season of Qatari agricultural Foundation-Katara announces the TIME: 4pm product yards for selling locally produced organisation of its fourth consecutive edition VENUE: Al Thakhira fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish and of the Qur’an Memorisation Sessions, during This is a tour designed for the holy month livestock. Work in these yards will continue the holy month of Ramadan. of Ramadan. Enjoy a great sunset paddling in for seven months. The yards will operate the beautiful mangroves of Al Thakhira. After three days a week on Thursdays, Fridays Kayaking, we head back to the beach and go and Saturdays from 7am to 5pm, with for a potluck Iftar where people share their livestock vendors in Al Mazrooa operating food! There will be a BBQ set up as well. at the same times throughout the week.

Join in our Walk-in Weekends DATE: Every Saturday VENUE: MIA Atrium MIA art education and calligraphy teams offer walk-in workshops in MIA’s atrium every Saturday. These walk-in workshops are for open for all family members.

Beach Football Championship FOODIE CHOICE DATE: Until June 25 TIME: 9pm-11:55pm RESTAURANT: Light House Restaurant VENUE: Katara LOCATION: Grand Regal Hotel, Doha Al-Frjan committee for football Located on the top floor, an elegant all- tournaments in Aspire announces the launch Yamativo Salsa Classes day dining restaurant serves international of the Sixth Edition for Katara Beach Football DATE: Every Monday buffet daily. Here you can savour a wide Championship 2016 in Ramadan on Katara TIME: 7pm choice of culinary delights and enjoy beach football pitch. VENUE: Radisson Blu spectacular views across West Bay, the city It’s always fun and always challenging. and beyond.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Chasing an epidemic Zika has now reached 60 countries and territories, including large swaths of the Americas and almost no-one has the immunity that has developed in parts of Africa and Asia, writes Alexandra Zavis

A MOTHER’S LOVE: “She’s everything in my life. It doesn’t matter what she has, for me, it’s nothing,” Maria da Luz Mendes Santos says about her daughter, Heloyse, who was born with microcephaly. “She brought a lot of happiness to my family.”

n a place where the bite of to speak to the investigators — an cream-coloured house behind a How high is the risk? Is exposure virus — and almost no-one has the a common mosquito has American paediatrician, and two forbidding metal gate. more dangerous in certain immunity that has developed in brought crippling birth nurses and a phlebotomist from Marcia de Andrade, one of the trimesters? Are there other factors parts of Africa and Asia. defects and early death, they Brazil. She didn’t want her tiny nurses on the team, banged on the that increase the chances that Zika In the United States and its are the detectives sent to daughter turned into a public gate while the others stayed in the will cause birth defects? territories, 279 pregnant women gatherI clues about the crime. curiosity, she said. car. The gate opened a crack, and The US Centers for Disease have tested positive for likely The four women have As a physiotherapist herself De Andrade disappeared inside. Control and Prevention in exposure, federal health offi cials been plying the back roads of who’d worked with microcephalic She was gone nearly an hour. February dispatched researchers to recently announced. northeastern Brazil for days. Their babies, she already knew the Finally, the gate opened again, and Brazil, which has seen an increase As of May 25, Brazilian health quarry: new mothers who may condition’s devastating potential De Andrade motioned for the rest in microcephaly cases unparalleled authorities had confi rmed have been infected with the Zika impact: seizures, learning of the team to come inside. elsewhere in the world, to help 1,434 births since October with virus during their pregnancies. disabilities, problems with There is now strong scientifi c unravel the mystery. malformations that may be Zika- Conceicao Alcantara, a 34-year- speech, vision, hearing and consensus that Zika, which Over the next month, the team related and were investigating old woman who’d given birth motor function, and for some, a for decades was thought to be in the Fiat and seven others like it thousands of others. the month before, was on their shortened life span. relatively harmless and often has no fanned out across the northeastern Zika is believed to have arrived list. Her daughter was born with Were these researchers going to symptoms, can cause microcephaly state of Paraiba, logging thousands in Brazil in 2014, most likely microcephaly, a serious condition accomplish anything? and other serious neurological of miles down undulating country brought in by a traveller from the that affl icts some babies whose A local health worker agreed damage. But there is much that roads and narrow alleyways. Pacifi c Islands. mothers have been exposed to to bring the team to Alcantara’s scientists still don’t know. Zika has now reached 60 The increase in microcephaly the virus, leaving them with an house to see if she might be Why are only some babies whose countries and territories, including cases began in August in the state abnormally small skull, and often persuaded. The health worker mothers were infected during large swaths of the Americas where of Pernambuco, just south of an underdeveloped brain. guided the group’s small Fiat down pregnancy aff ected, while others there is an abundance of the Aedes Paraiba. Genetic disorders, certain Alcantara had been reluctant narrow, cobblestone streets to a are not? aegypti mosquito that spread the viruses and other known causes of Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

There is much that scientists still don’t know. Why are only some babies whose mothers were infected during pregnancy affected, while others are not? How high is the risk? Is exposure more dangerous in certain trimesters? Are there other factors that increase the chances that Zika will cause birth defects?

Two mothers were waiting to see show. The baby screamed as another them, while another hadn’t shown team member drew a sample of his up yet. All had healthy babies and blood, then one from his mother. were there to serve as control cases. An antibody test would indicate A shy mother in shorts and a whether they had been exposed to tank top entered the room cradling the virus. a sleeping baby girl. But there was Did she experience any rashes a problem. The mother, Maria during her pregnancy, De Andrade Girdielly, was 17. They needed a asked the mother. parent’s consent to enrol the pair in Any fever? Headaches? Joint pain? the study. Red eyes? She shook her head no. REPORT CARD: After taking the measurement of a child’s head who has microcephaly, Dr Megumi Itoh, an epidemic Goncalves pulled up a number on Had she had any other infections? intelligence off icer with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), centre, shows mother Sabrina her cellphone and dialled the girl’s Was she exposed to pesticides? Did Mateus, 17, where her baby’s head measurement of 34.2 cm falls on a growth chart — well below the 1/3 percentile of mother. She was busy making lunch she drink? No. babies that age. Sabrina Mateus and her baby took part in the CDC and Brazil’s Ministry of Health case-control study for her employer. De Andrade wrote down each investigating the association between women having the Zika virus when they are pregnant, and the eff ects they are “Can you just come sign the answer on a standardised form. The seeing of microcephaly in babies. paperwork?” Goncalves pleaded. questions continued for half an hour. “We will come in a car to get you and Many Brazilians remain doubtful microcephaly did not seem to be an For each mother who agreed “We would literally go in and bring you right back.” that the surge in microcephaly can issue in these cases. to take part, the researchers say, ‘Do you know this mom?’” The Fiat was dispatched, and 10 be traced to Zika. Something else was going on, wanted to enrol, as a control, three Itoh said. minutes later Maria’s mother, Creusa Various other theories have and Alcantara’s pregnancy became others whose babies were born at When the teams located an dos Santos, walked into the room. gained popular currency. Some a key piece of the puzzle. around the same time and in the address, the mother might not be She looked nervous. want to blame the epidemic on Her obstetrician had noticed same place but who did not have home. “We were going in circles.” “You have a chance to help a lot of expired vaccines; others on a British during an ultrasound that the microcephaly. They needed a better strategy. other mothers,” De Andrade said. biotech fi rm that has been releasing fetus’s head was not developing Dr Megumi Itoh, the San In Sao Vicente do Serido, an The woman signed the forms. genetically modifi ed mosquitoes to normally, and then heard of the Francisco paediatrician who was on elderly shopkeeper pointed the In the afternoon, they visited a combat dengue fever, or a larvicide cases of microcephaly in nearby the team with De Andrade, worried researchers toward the municipal clinic in Juazeirinho, the town where used by the government to prevent Pernambuco. how families would respond to health secretariat on a cobblestone they would meet Alcantara the next mosquitoes from breeding in Those cases, doctors were strangers showing up at their street of houses painted pastel day. standing water. beginning to suspect, might be homes, asking intimate questions yellow, blue and green. Waiting for them was Sabrina Government offi cials hope the linked to Zika. Many of the women and taking blood samples. The town recently had its Mateus, her mother and her study will provide a defi nitive had experienced a rash typical of The researchers had a bigger fi rst case of microcephaly, and 2-month-old son, who was born answer. the virus early in their pregnancies challenge fi rst: fi nding them. The expectant mothers were desperate with microcephaly. In the end, 600 mothers agreed to — did Alcantara remember having mothers were spread across nearly to know if their babies might also After measuring the infant’s head, participate in the research. a rash? 22,000 square miles, from the be at risk. Itoh took photographs to document A preliminary analysis was not She did. densely populated coast to the “It is so good to have you,” said its shape and proportions. surprising: Mothers whose babies Her doctor found a lab that hinterlands of the interior. Constanca Goncalves, a primary De Andrade assured the 17-year- have microcephaly were more could test for Zika in her amniotic The teams set out in the state care co-ordinator, as she led the old mother that they would not be likely than other women to have fl uid, and it was positive. The capital, Joao Pessoa, often with team into an offi ce. shared on social media networks — a experienced symptoms during fi nding was a breakthrough little more than a name and a The researchers sorted through worry in a country where curiosity pregnancy that could be caused by — some of the fi rst biological neighbourhood. They went from reams of paperwork and used a about the condition has meant that Zika. There were no other obvious evidence connecting the virus to clinic to clinic searching for more pink pillow to turn a cabinet into its victims are sometimes treated explanations for the epidemic. —Los microcephaly. information. an examination table. like characters in a national freak Angeles Times/TNS “Never before in history has there been a situation where a bite from a mosquito could result in a devastating malformation,” said Dr Thomas Frieden, the CDC director. Over the coming months, the evidence favouring a Zika connection mounted. Other countries with outbreaks started reporting cases of microcephaly. Brain tissue collected from still births tested positive for the virus, as did spinal fl uid from babies with microcephaly. In Paraiba, the detectives started with a list of more than 800 reported cases of microcephaly in the region, which they winnowed to a sample of 190. They focused on severe cases, based on the head’s circumference at birth — NOTES: A notebook belonging to Meg Itoh, an epidemic intelligence off icer 32 centimetres for boys and 31.5 STUDY: Marcilia Souza, left, with the Center de Patologia e Analises with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), used for centimetres for girls — as well as Clincicas (CEPAC) in Campina Grande, works with Veronica Dantas, right, a tracking patients they have seen and are going to see, as part of the CDC its size relative to body length. Just lab technician who is part of the team of workers with the CDC and Brazil’s and Brazil’s case-control study investigating if there is an association between 3 percent of newborns have heads Ministry of Health conducting a study on the eff ects of the Zika virus in women having the Zika virus when they are pregnant, and the eff ects they that small. Campina Grande, Brazil. are seeing of microcephaly in their babies. 6 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY Gymnastics and construction ... it’s all in the balance By Jon Sanderson and Matthew Schofield of Quantum Global Solutions Qatar

Like gymnastics, a construction project needs strong foundations. It may not get scores out of 10 for performance but the contractor still requires to have great safety records, meet quality standards and ensure that all the stakeholders are engaged. Photos by Nigel Downes

n April we discussed whether we were ‘Hunters or I imagine you are now scratching Jumpers?’ Describing how a your heads and thinking, come on fantastic sport of equestrian can be compared to ... how can ... in what way ... really Iconstruction projects and aligning ourselves with the equestrian ... gymnastics and construction ... term ‘Jumpers’ in which obstacles what do they have in common ...? are put in front of us, whether on the project or on the course; and although at the outset we may not will succeed. So too gymnastics get scores out of 10 for performance know what these are, we formulate — if you ever watch the diff erent or lose points through the project, risk strategies and plans, to deal disciplines, whether it be on the but the contractor still requires to with, and progress through them fl oor or the apparatus, all gymnasts have great safety records such as no in an pre-determined timescale, have a strong, solid foundation injuries and no Lost Time Injuries trying not to clip a hurdle or deviate to start their routine. The actual (LTI’s), maintain quality control from the contract. start of any routine requires a base whether it is material ordering or Recently Qatar hosted the 9th to leap or propel into the air or to completing correct welds, which Artistic Gymnastics World Cup ensure there run up is in proportion means the contractor has to be Series at the Aspire Dome; this and at the right speed and velocity fl exible, have a good understanding world event precedes the Olympic to provide the correct execution. of the balance required to deal with Games 2016 in Brazil and more than The same for the project — that their workers, the sequence of work 100 gymnasts from 33 countries base going forward will always and making sure all stakeholders showcased their unbelievable determine the right or wrong are engaged with. skills in a fantastic competition. behaviours for the project. One of the main areas for a and grace before completing the completes the routine without I imagine you are now scratching Gymnastics is a sport involving construction project is control move, shows that control is not falling or having a bad dismount your heads and thinking, come on the performance of exercises and this has to be the area that about telling people what to do, or and the same can be said for … how can … in what way … really requiring strength, fl exibility, most construction projects fail dictating actions or thoughts or the project — procurement is … gymnastics and construction balance and control and as with on, not that Jon and I are bias in even trying to force them to behave delayed, approvals take longer … what do they have in common most sports, there are judges, regards to this area, but because in a certain way, the term ‘control’ than expected, but hopefully the …? After aligning equestrian and umpires and referees and for many project teams and client are is comparable in certain respects project will be on time and on cost construction, surely gymnastics gymnastics the rules and scoring dismayed by the term ‘control’, as to steering a ship. It is about how and above all provide the quality and construction will struggle. are as rigorous as ever. Whether it is they mistakenly equate it with the a course may be adjusted without the contractor wants to deliver and Well a construction project an arm out of place, a step back on concept of authority and the spies losing sight of the main objective. what the client expects to have. But needs strong foundations, a dismount or a fall from the pommel are watching us. This is the same if the gymnast above all the objectives and goals contract, leaders and managers horse, scoring can be detrimental if Gymnasts feel the same, the way falls off the balance beam, the remain the same and if the ship has with a strong team built around a the rules and performance are not a gymnast holds his position on the routine needs to be adjusted but the to change direction, controls are in detailed organisation chart, and of perfect. still rings or how she throws their objective remains. place so adjustments can be made course a strong belief the project A construction project may not ball or ring into the air, with control Hopefully the gymnast to get back on the right path. Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY

students in Evanston are also offered to NU-Q students, which was revealed to the two students following a meeting with the director of undergraduate research who visited Doha earlier this year. “We realised at that meeting that all the opportunities that are available to the students in Evanston are available to us,” Mehtab said. Their research process started with the simple idea of identity and its fl uid nature. The students say that they were fascinated by the very concept of how strong cultural identity can be for diaspora. “We found that Pakistanis who migrated right after the - partition and had no real sense about Pakistan as a country, would clearly identify themselves as British-Pakistanis,” Mehtab said. “We wanted to understand what it meant to be British-Pakistani,” she said. Mehtab and Azmi say that their curiosity about cultural assimilation stems from the current European migrant crisis. “We are curious about what it means to hold on to two cultural identities at the same time,” Azmi said. The students competed with 322 applications for the grant from the undergraduate research offi ce and attributed their success to the guidance they received from NU-Q faculty Ibrahim Abusharif and Christopher Sparshott. “They NU-Q Dean and CEO Everette E Dennis says the university “considers skills to be an important part of its students’ academic education.” asked us questions that helped us think deeply about how our experiences and knowledge could give us an edge in the competition,” Azmi said. Two NU-Q students to research Meher and Azmi are Pakistani and speak Urdu, which will allow them to conduct the oral-history project in the local language, which they consider to be most on British-Pakistani identity comfortable for their subjects. “Cultural assimilation can’t be based on or statistics or facts you wo students from Basmah Azmi and Meher Matab Kingdom and its implications on follow their research interests.” fi nd in a book, it’s an experience — Northwestern University fi nancial support to fund their identity. The grants will allow Mehtab and we want to study and present it in Qatar will have the research project on Pakistani “Northwestern considers and Azmi to travel to Great Britain as that,” Mehtab said. opportunity this summer identity, which will be conducted in research skills to be an important to conduct qualitative-research on Mehtab and Azmi will spend to further their research London. part of its students’ academic generations of British-Pakistanis two-months conducting interviews thanksT to grants provided by the Mehtab and Azmi, students in education,” said Everette E Dennis, who have lived in the UK since the and capturing the everyday university. NU-Q’s journalism programme, dean and CEO, “To support these country’s separation from India in experiences of British-Pakistanis; Northwestern’s Offi ce for plan to use the grants to research initiatives we are committed to 1945. their fi ndings will be presented on Undergraduate Research and the the cultural assimilation of assisting students in connecting Research opportunities that an interactive website when they Buff et Institute have provided Pakistani migrants in the United them to the resources necessary to are available to Northwestern complete their research.

Shantiniketan Indian School marks World Environment Day

The Shantiniketan Indian School celebrated the World Environment Day recently. Students of Class VII in the International Stream and SIS Eco Club members actively participated in the programme. Principal Dr Subhash B Nair, Vice-Principal (Academics) Shihabudeen Pullath, Vice Principal (CBSE-i) Dudley O’Connor, Science Department Head Tono Fernandez, teachers and the students planted sapling at the school campus. A drawing competition was also organised. Lamiya and Fatima emerged as winners. 8 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY

Anti Smoking Society Qatar marks World Environment Day

The Anti Smoking Society Qatar launched a campaign aimed at educating various aspects of the concerns of Qatar government in protecting the environment and exhorted the audience to environmental protection to mark the World Environment Day recently. The celebrations got make it a personal obligation. He underlined the most serious environmental issues such as global off to a flying start at the Ideal Indian School, with hundreds of students and parents joining the warming, climate change, carbon emissions, sustainable development, and alternative sources of environmental parade. energy. Mohammed Unni Olakara, global chairman of the society, administered the environmental pledge, This was followed by an interschool painting competition where children expressed their feelings. while Dr M P Hassan Kunhi, the chairman, inaugurated the campaign. Hundreds of students The junior students were given the topic “My Environment: Don’t Pollute It”, while the seniors were representing various schools joined the parade along with their parents and teachers. asked to paint on the theme “My Dream About A Clean And Safe Environment.” Amanulla Vadakkangara, CEO of Mediaplus, conducted the event. In his speech, he highlighted Seen here are the Anti Smoking Society off icials and students at the environment parade.

AMU Alumni Association Qatar holds its annual Iftar Party

More than 160 people attended AMU Alumni Association Qatar’s (AMUAAQ) annual Iftar Party at the Moti Mahal Restaurant in Doha recently. Jawed Ahmad, the VP of AMUAAQ, presented the welcome speech and introduced the special guests: Hassan Kunhi (corporate leader), Azim Abbas (MD Sulaiman Jewelry & Watches), Shadab Khan (MD RedDot Films). M Faizan Khan, co-ordinator of the association, talked about the importance and benefits of Ramadan. Ahsan Masood and Habibun Nabi Zama, senior alumni, were also facilitated on the occasion. Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 9 COMMUNITY Arabian Porter launches new mobile app rabian Porter launched their new mobile app at W hotel recently. Arabian Porter is an online fashion retailer for woman, providing glamorous high-end Afashion. It is focused firmly on the future of Arabian fashion with many “dedicated, passionate and well-known designers.” The online retailer promises customers the best online shopping experience — a place where customers can come and discover the latest fashion trends, with a smart easy to use website that has secure payment methods, and fast delivery. The launch event took place at the W hotel. Designers, digital media, social media experts, and bloggers attended the evening. Arabian Porter launched their new app, explaining how it would facilitate shopping online for women in the GCC. The new app is the first of its kind to streamline the online shopping experience in Qatar, relying solely on visual prompts to help users purchase authentic and unique fashion and accessories. Its main purpose is to save people time and effort, providing a one-stop shopping destination that has many varieties in Qatar and GCC. Arabian Porter is based in Qatar and launched in November 2015. The company says: “Within a short span we have experienced 10,000+ new users and 41,000+ page views on our website last month. We now serve customers all over GCC, and we are thrilled to be a part of your world. We hope you enjoy our products as much as we enjoy offering them to you.” Models at the launch event.

H.B.H Al Mulla & Sons, Mosafer Group participate in Victorinox training seminar

H.B.H Al Mulla & Sons and Mosafer Group participated in Victorinox Training Seminar 2016 recently. Seen here are the staff members of the two groups at the training session. 10 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY Dress like Ronaldo

All the Sacoor Brothers’ shoes are made in with genuine leather. Photo by Umer Nangiana

capitals where Sacoor Brothers celebrities and has dressed well- By Umer Nangiana is present from to Kuala known personalities from the world Lumpur, London, Dubai, Madrid, of fashion, sports, cinema and , Brussels, and Doha. television like the famous Hollywood arefully designed, allying “Thank God, I am able to choose actors Rob Lowe, William Baldwin, the wealth of detail practically whatever it is I like. Patrick Dempsey and Irina Shayk. visible in the cut, the Sacoor is a label I have always liked In their Cristiano Ronaldo & personalised buttons, and I can relate to it. That is why we Sacoor Brothers collection, they the welt, the tiepin, the are in partnership and I am quite have a whole line of suits, Bold Suit, Cpersonalised label and the carefully pleased about that,” says Ronaldo, for Doha. selected materials, they have an while speaking about the brand in “The timeless pattern of this entire line of collection in his name, his interview with local Portuguese suit could well make it an icon of the Cristiano Ronaldo & Sacoor media earlier this year. modernity, keeping up with the pace Brothers. “I really like the fashion world. It of a fast and unstoppable city like Only available at nine boutiques is not by chance that I have shirts, Doha. It is ideal for the man who around the world with fi ve of them my own boxers, my own fragrance, wants to make a bold statement, but in the UAE, this special collection my own headphones. And more is a classic nonetheless,” says Sacoor of items is inspired by Cristiano things will be coming soon,” adds Brothers. Ronaldo, the offi cial global the world-renowned football star. Coming to Doha in 2013, the ambassador of Sacoor Brothers. Present in Doha in Ezdan Mall, brand plans to expand to fi ve outlets The 7 suits, refl ecting the Sacoor Brothers is a well-known by the end of this year. Off ering Portuguese football superstar’s international label, based in collections for men, women and jersey number, in the collection Portugal. It is the result of the children, the label does it in grand illustrate the best of haute couture; dream of four brothers committed to style. You step into their store and reinvented classics that combine adding elegance, quality and style to you get the feeling of entering an shapes, colours and textures to the fashion world. American penthouse, with a grand VARIETY: The 7 suits, reflecting the Portuguese football superstar’s jersey create proposals that combine the In existence for 25 years, Sacoor piano sitting in one corner opposite number, in the collection illustrate the best of haute couture. city look of some of the main fashion Brothers been a favourite with a personal small Sacoor Café. Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 11 COMMUNITY

EXPANSION: Mireille Sarkis, the Marketing & PR Manager of Sacoor Brothers, says they are expanding to five outlets in Qatar by the end of this year. Photo by Umer Nangiana

If you are wearing eye-glasses, In women’s collection they off er visible in only one mall, which is they will make sure the glasses are a more casual look. A lot of items in a bit challenging but a lot of our clean so you look sharp. The in- their children’s collection have the customers have heard about us house tailor would make sure you same look as the adults’ collection. from other countries such as Dubai, favourite apparel looks fi t on you, no You will fi nd adorable father-son and others. So once they matter what size you pick. and mother-daughter looks. know that we are available in Doha, “The store itself off ers a very “We have our in-house design they are very loyal to the brand,” unique ambiance. It is a US team in Portugal and our designs says Sarkis. Penthouse atmosphere. You feel have a very Portuguese infl uence to “Our global ambassador, like you are a couple living in them. We have a very slim tailored Christiano Ronaldo has brought uptown Manhattan with a grand fi t to most of our items so it would a lot of attention to the brand piano and Sukoor Café and the always give you a very fl attering and of course the people who are COMBO: Many of the collections for children have mother-daughter and in-house tailor,” Mireille Sarkis, the silhouette,” says Sarkis. loyal to him are loyal to whatever son-father looks. Photo by Umer Nangiana Marketing & PR Manager of Sacoor They do everything in-house he promotes so that is also a big Brothers tells Community in a chat including marketing and graphic advantage for us,” she adds. Doha Festival City. There will be two off ers on a regular basis besides a recently at the store in Ezdan Mall. design. The collection of Sacoor Sarkis says the label is doing “very stores in each mall — one Sacoor strong loyalty programme, with “It is a very grand feeling that we Brothers shoes is all made in well in Doha compared to other Brothers and other Sacoor Kids, three diff erent brackets Silver, off er to our customers as well as the Portugal with genuine leather, with countries that we have presence which is a beach-house concept. Gold and Platinum. Each bracket is professional staff that we have. You both formal and casual look for both around the world.” The label’s target audience with entitled to additional discounts on will notice that our staff gives you men and women. “People here want to look its designs, Sarkis says, is mostly a top of the on-going store discounts. one-on-one personal attention. You The inspiration behind the designs classical but very elegant at the bit mature audience from the mid- You also receive birthday gifts are not just another customer,” says is mostly western. Their in-house same time. There are a lot of 20s to the late 40s. from the store if you are a Platinum Sarkis. design team, based in Portugal does professional men here who want to “We off er more of a classical customer. They off er everything that you travel around the world and attend wear suits on a daily basis,” says the elegant look; youngsters tend to like Since the early 1990s, Sacoor expect in men’s formal as well as all the fashion fairs to see what is manager. more edgy type of things. We are Brothers has continued to expand causal collection such as polos, coming up in the trends. By the end of this year or from mid to high price range. We are with boutiques in the United chinos, jeans and the formal The label has been received in beginning next year, they are not too expensive and we try to keep Kingdom, , , the collection such as suits and ties and Doha very well, says the store’s opening four more stores in the it aff ordable,” says the manager. , , dress shirts and cuff links. Marketing Manager. “We are only upcoming Mall of Qatar and the And there are always enticing Qatar, Bahrain and Singapore.

Sacoor Brothers’ sample of men’s collection. Photo by Umer Nangiana The designs for all collections are western. Photo by Umer Nangiana 12 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 13 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Gym-free fitness ideas anyone can do

isiting a gym to lift weights or presents the opportunity for fi tness. For take a class is great for your example, walk or run the parking lot while health. However, busy schedules, kids are taking dance or music classes rather tight budgets and simply not than passing the time on your smartphone. feeling like the gym environment Vis for you are reasons that frequently cause Nutrients people to stop going. Fortunately, being fi t A healthy balance of nutrients keeps doesn›t require the gym! blood sugar levels from crashing and gives you a steady source of energy. Piattoly Inside the home especially recommends taking a Nordic Stuck inside? No problem. Try some squats Naturals supplement daily to get the or, if mobility is an issue, squat to a chair. omega-3s you need for optimal health. Push-ups are another classic, highly eff ective Extensive research has documented the option. If regular push-ups aren›t an option, health benefits of the two main omega-3s do them from your knees or against the wall. (EPA and DHA), which include not only Other amazing exercises: lunges around the support for a healthy heart, but also brain house, shoulder presses with dumbbells, and cognitive function, joint mobility, eye jumping rope, jumping jacks, running in health, pregnancy and lactation, healthy place, planks and sit-ups. skin and hair, and a normally functioning immune response. Outside in nature Being out in the fresh air is a great escape Balanced meals that off ers loads of fi tness possibilities. Try To support fi tness eff orts, it›s important hiking, paddle boarding, kayaking, skiing, to eat well and regularly. The best foods fi shing, mountain biking or whatever else for sustained energy are balanced meals of peaks your curiosity. Simply taking a walk complex fi bre carbohydrates, healthy fats and around the yard or block is benefi cial, too. to do something active such as chair squats races or create an obstacle course outside. lean protein. Piattoly suggests eating every or seated leg raises. Set an automated alert so Other enjoyable group fi tness activities three to four hours. Some ideas to include At the offi ce you don›t forget. include hiking, swimming, basketball, soccer, in balanced meals: whole grain breads and Overcome the sedentary offi ce lifestyle by Frisbee and bike rides. crackers, chicken breast, legumes and fresh making time for fi tness. Try taking the stairs Group fi tness fruit and vegetables. every day and park far away so you walk to the Fitness can be more fun when you do it When out and about door. Then, use a 5-minute break every hour with friends or family. Play tag, organise relay A busy schedule packed with errands still ©Brandpoint

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

Mercury the communicator moves into Gemini today joining up Talking about money, bills, debt and all other things financial is not You welcome your ruler Mercury back into the fold today Gemini’s with the Sun and Venus in your third house of communication and easy. It’s one of those things most people avoid talking about, like — he moves into your sign today where he stays (through June 30). chitchat. Be careful what you say, to whom you say it and what tone politics or religion. However, if you need some financial advice today, With the Sun and Venus in your sign as well for the majority of the of voice you use for the next few weeks Aries. Mercury’s move into your second house of cash flow makes it a week, the world is your cosmic oyster! great time/week/month to set time aside.

CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Don’t say “no” to something outright without really listening to what Mercury the planet of chitchat joins hands with the Sun and Venus Your ruler Mercury, the planet of clear and concise planning and it being off ered today. You may hear a word or name that you don’t the lover in Gemini today, your eleventh house of hopes, wishes and communication moves into Gemini today, the other sign he rules. In like and instantly tune out. friendship. If you’ve had a silly falling out with someone — someone your tenth house of career for the next 3 weeks, you will definitely you love and care about — you’ve got great stars to fix it. find your voice when it comes to asking for what you want.

LIBRA SCOR PIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Your fellow air sign and ninth house of spirituality is ruled by Don’t let someone blindside you today and have you scrambling to It really is all about ‘who you know versus what you know’ today Gemini, the birthday sign. Right now, the Sun, Mercury and Venus fix things or put things back the way they were Scorpios. Be wary of Sags. With communicator Mercury taking his place in Gemini along are all lined up in Gemini. If you’ve been thinking of furthering your people off ering to help you with something — particularly at work with the Sun and Venus the lover today — your relationship zone education, travelling or both, this is the time to really put some today. — the people in your life are really showing their true colours right thought into it. now.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Don’t let one bad apple spoil the lot today Capricorns. If you have In your fifth house of romance, creativity and fun, Mercury joins up In your fourth house of home and family, the 2 personal planets, a silly tiff with a co-worker, leave it at that. It doesn’t mean that with the Sun and Venus today and for the next few weeks. Singles Venus and Mercury along with the Sun align and give you a everyone you work with is going to take sides or even get involved. and couples are in for a very sexy, romantic time. Get out your best wonderful opportunity to talk over anything and everything on your lingerie and clothing! mind that is family related. 14 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY PUZZLES/CARTOONS

Wordsearch Adam

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ACTION DUEL ROW ARGUMENT ENCOUNTER SCRAP BATTLE FEUD SCUFFLE BOUT FIGHT SKIRMISH CLASH FRACAS STRUGGLE CONFLICT FRAY TUSSLE CONTEST JOUST WAR DISPUTE MELEE Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

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, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 15 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Quick Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Incredible (12) 1. Unburdened (12) 7. Jargon (5) 2. Meadow (3) 8. Crustacean (5) 3. Occupy (6) 9. Hint (3) 4. Arrest (9) 10. Total (9) 5. Animal (5) 11. Tiny (6) 6. Meddling (12) 12. Redress (6) 7. Grim (5) 15. Stretched (9) 10. Signature (9) 17. Tune (3) 13. Silly (5) 18. Additional (5) 14. Coma (6) 19. Cleanse (5) 16. Frequently (5) 21. Unkind (12) 20. Decay (3)

Cryptic Clues

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ACROSS DOWN 1. Approves of human faces (12) 1. Round trip? (8,4) 7. Looks like a well used part of a mine (5) 2. A brew the French accentuate (3) 8. Company about to broadcast in Egypt 3. It’s possibly not in a race (6) Yesterday’s Solutions (5) 4. Need no luxury (9) 9. Sue changes employment (3) 5. Type which is the very best (5) QUICK CRYPTIC 10. Look-out, it may have a high tar 6. Was dirt-cheap? Hardly! (4,3,5) Across: Across: content (5,4) 7. What could be finer than a riddle? (5) 4 Jittery; 8 Loathe; 9 Islamic; 10 4 Balance; 8 Roused; 9 Florist; 10 11. Drive to a meeting place? (6) 10. Be not as important as many (9) Manger; 11 Gained; 12 Guardian; 18 Bracelet; Indian; 11 Icicle; 12 Lowering; 18 Optional; 20 12. Polish, or polish off (6) 13. Susie’s spoilt children (5) 20 Scrape; 21 Lawyer; 22 Worship; 23 Insult; 24 Drivel; 21 Parade; 22 Radiate; 23 Teller; 24 15. When it is, the creditor may not allow 14. Sailor’s way to make ends meet (6) Slander. Leisure. it (4,2,3) 16. Aimed to provide means (5) Down: 1 Plumage; 2 Gainsay; 3 Thread; 5 Down: 1 Article; 2 Run down; 3 Repair; 17. A novel female subject (3) 20. One who is not an R.C. (3) 18. Not appropriate, being excessive (5) Insignia; 6 Tragic; 7 Raider; 13 Imbecile; 14 5 All right; 6 Adroit; 7 Castle; 13 Idolater; 14 19. Rodent that is about to become angry Playful; 15 Iterate; 16 School; 17 Parson; 19 Entails; 15 Allegro; 16 Ornate; 17 Avoids; 19 (5) Cranny. Images. 21. A blinking sham (5,7) 16 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY Trouble with the censors again

ust as everyone thought was. Kashyap was understandably Nihalani was just looking after that Anurag Kashyap furious because without the letter the interests of his ‘masters’, it is might have fi nally learnt asking for changes in the movie alleged. the politics of how to deal they couldn’t go into appeal and Meanwhile Nihalani went on a with the Censor Board, he that meant they wouldn’t be able to counter off ensive and in interviews hasJ decided to go to war with them. make the release date. accused Kashyap of taking money But in his defence, he had a just Also, he read newspaper reports from a rival party to make this cause. The spat was over Udta that claimed that just under 90 movie and he said that it showed Punjab, starring changes had been sought and Punjab in a bad light. The catch is and Alia Bhatt, which he has co- even ‘Punjab’ had to be dropped of course that even if it did, it was produced. The movie talks about from the title. Kashyap went on a not the Board’s business to correct the narcotics menace in Punjab media blitzkrieg and spoke in detail it. where a large number of youths are about how dictatorial the Board’s After all, everyone agrees that the drug addicts. chairman, Pahlaj Nihalani was. Board should only certify whether It was slated for release on Filmmakers, he alleged, had to go a movie is suitable only for adults June 17 but the Censor Board and personally sit before Nihalani or for universal viewing, instead has stonewalled them at the and get a lecture on fi lmmaking of changing it. Later Kashyap did certifi cation process. Usually the before their movies would get get an offi cial intimation from the Board has to give a list of changes passed. The reason Nihalani was Board asking for 13 cuts, insisting they want for the movie to get so keen to see so many changes in on the dropping of Punjab from the certifi ed and the fi lmmaker has this movie is because Punjab goes title and also to remove names of the option to go through diff erent to election next year and the state the state’s cities from the movie. stages of appeal. is ruled by the political party that The producers have gone to court In Udta Punjab’s case, after one appointed him Board chairman. now and the movie’s fate hangs in stage, they refused to tell the fi lm’s Showing the drug problem might balance until the controversy is POLITICS: Anurag Kashyap is again in a spat with the Censor Board over his producers what their decision refl ect badly on the party and so resolved. latest production.

Just another rumour The latest rumour of a new relationship doing the rounds of is between Ranbir Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut. Gossip websites have been writing about how they are regularly in touch and were also seen together at an event. It does not necessarily insinuate that there is a love affair and in all probability, even if true, that is something no one will know for a long time. But it is a connection that people are eager to make, given that Ranbir has recently broken up with Katrina Kaif and Kangana is also in the news because of her very public spat with Hrithik Roshan over whether they were lovers or not. Also, while her relationships are always little bit of a mystery, she is not linked to anyone at the moment. Meanwhile, Ranbir is said to be not taking too kindly to these rumours of him and SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Kareena Kangana and might even be rethinking his policy Kapoor has come out and denied the reports of of not reacting to baseless rumours. Rumours are abound of Ranbir Kapoor and Kangna Ranaut being together. her being pregnant. Not pregnant South calling Tamil and Telugu. For sure, it is Recently it was reported that Kareena Kapoor a huge project, with the director was pregnant. The leading newspaper of India There are two times when being AR Murugadoss, who is the quoted a leading gossip website to even give an Bollywood actresses test their luck top southern director and has also exact period — three and a half months — for in south Indian movies. One is when made a Bollywood blockbuster, which she had been pregnant. Others were more they want to break into the Hindi Ghajini. Parineeti is reportedly being speculative. fi lm industry and so doing a few paid a huge amount and the hero When she went for an event in a loose fi tting initial movies down south gets them cast opposite her is also a reigning dress and kept her hand locked together in a launching pad. Both Aishwarya Rai regional superstar. front, it was said that she was hiding her baby and ’s fi rst forays So the movie is safe undertaking to bump and that she had also been careful to not were in South Indian fi lms. be a superhit and that is something bend down too much. They also pointed to how The other time when an actress Parineeti needs. Her last Hindi she had not signed on any movie after the soon- does this is in somewhat diff erent movie, Kill Dil, was in 2014 and it to-be-released Udta Punjab. circumstances, when after being was a fl op. So she does need to do Alas, they are all wrong apparently. Because established in Bollywood, they have something to get back in the game. Kareena herself came out in public to say that a string of fl ops and off ers dry up. Recently, she also had an image she was not pregnant. When a newspaper Then it might help to get a big budget makeover and from a chubby person contacted her, she said that as a woman she south Indian movie that becomes a became very lean and toned up. She hoped to become pregnant sometime but the blockbuster. is trying to reinvent herself and time latest fl urry of rumours were misleading. And Is that the path that Parineeti will tell how successful it will be. that when she did become pregnant there would Chopra is following? Because word be no secrecy around it since she had always RELAUNCH: Parineeti Chopra is going to do a movie that will is in that she is now going to do Send your feedback to been open about her life. be shot in both Tamil and Telugu. a movie that will be shot in both [email protected] Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 17 BOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY Rs100- club has poisoned filmmaking sensibilities: Shah

there were 20 or 30. “But the By Kishori Sud number of rubbish movies have also proportionately increased. The percentage of people making new- spiring to cross the age cinema is still very small. And I glorifi ed fi gure of Rs am afraid they will always be small. 100 crore at the box That is something experimental offi ce is proving to cinema-making people will have to be a “poison” for the live with... They will never have it AIndian fi lm industry, says acclaimed easy,” he added. veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, He, however, has high hopes who believes making content- from the regional fi lm market. “It based movies more economically is important that regional cinema will be a step in the right direction. develops. It is certainly happening Just last month, Naseeruddin in Marathi (cinema). In , featured in two fi lms — The the alternative cinema has always Blueberry Hunt and Waiting. The been there and also in Malayalam. Blueberry Hunt just came and went, The signs are good, but trouble is but Waiting — a story on a special that everybody is looking at Rs100 bond established by two people crore,” Naseeruddin said. from diff erent walks of life, who He feels the revival of Marathi befriend each other in a hospital and is great. while nursing their respective “Marathi cinema went through a comatose spouses — found many very bad phase because of the low takers. comedy that was being made. It has “This Rs 100-crore club been recently revived. And Punjabi has poisoned our fi lmmaking cinema has revived too as they sensibility. It is as if we are fi nally make more popular kind of stuff ,” admitting the real reason why we he said, praising his A Wednesday make movies ... It is important that STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: Naseeruddin Shah co-actor Jimmy Sheirgill for his content-based movies must be contribution to reviving Punjabi made economically,” Naseeruddin to even expect it,” said the 66-year- quality of such fi lms will suff er,” stimulate your thinking, but at cinema. told IANS. old, who in his four decade-old the Padma Bhushan awardee the same time I would say they are Asserting that regional cinema His reason: “You cannot expect a career, has featured in a mix of added. still less ratio-wise as compared must fl ourish because “today there guy who plies a rickshaw or works commercially entertaining as well The actor says a lot of fi lmmakers to the 1970s,” said the actor, who is no longer such a thing called a on the road all day to go and see as niche movies. succumb to the “temptation of impressed viewers with his work in pan-Indian movie”, Naseeruddin fi lms like Waiting. He will not. He He doubts if niche movies bigger budgets” very quickly. fi lms like Sparsh, Aakrosh, Masoom said: “The days of 50-week run will go and see a would ever appeal to labourers and “When a small fi lm succeeds, in and Mandi. are gone forever. Sholay ran in or a Happy New Year because he factory workers. “These fi lms will the next fi lm they want Amitabh Drawing parallels between the the same theatre for two years in needs that. always be a niche activity. So, if Bachchan in it. So it’s a dismal 1970s and present times, he said Mumbai ... That era is gone. Now “You cannot expect him to see a these movies start aspiring to enter scenario. I would agree that there that if earlier there were two or every movie is a niche movie.” – fi lm about his own life ... It’s unfair the Rs 100-crore club, then the are a lot of fi lms coming which three content-based fi lms, now IANS

Nawazuddin fl ooded with work, but loving it

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is one busy man with fi lms like Raman Raghav 2.0, Raees and Mom, and also brand commitments in his kitty, but he is not complaining. The actor says for him it seems like “an endless marathon”. After his visit to the 69th Cannes Film Festival with Raman Raghav 2.0 earlier this year, Nawazuddin has been caught up with the shoot for his fi lm Mom with Sridevi and his project with actor and fi lmmaker Sohail Khan — Ali. Nawazuddin fi nished a brand commitment early in the morning and directly ran to the airport to catch a fl ight to COMPLIMENTS: Irrfan Khan, left, and Deepika Padukone. Lucknow where he is shooting for his next Babumoshai Bandookbaaz directed by Kushan Nandy. Deepika Padukone is the montage of actors and I am glad he “The last few months have been extremely hectic biggest star: Irrfan Khan acknowledged Deepika’s work.” for me — juggling my fi lm shoots, promotions, fi lm Meanwhile, Irrfan is busy festivals and my brand commitments. It feels like an Actor Irrfan Khan, who shared promoting his fi lm Madaari and he endless marathon but it’s one I’m really happy about,” the screen with Deepika Padukone says the defi nition of commercial Nawazuddin said in a statement. in Piku, says Deepika is the biggest cinema should be broadened. He added: “The quality and the diversity of work I’m star and he is glad Amitabh He says, “We are trying to involved in ensures that I’m always on my toes, aiming to Bachchan thinks the same. redefi ne commercial cinema and constantly give my best.” Recently, commercial cinema’s defi nition The acclaimed actor will also bring the life of Pakistan’s said that people watched Piku only should be broadened.” short story writer Sadat Hassan Manto alive on the silver because of Deepika Padukone. Miraj Entertainment and screen through actress and fi lmmaker Nandita Das’s Irrfan, asked for his reaction on Bharat Shah in association with project titled Manto. Meanwhile, his latest fi lm to the same, said: “I don’t want to EaseMyTrip.com are presenting release is TE3N, in which he has starred with megastar react on that. If he is saying so Madaari, a Paramhans Creations Amitabh Bachchan. – IANS then there is some truth to it. production. The fi lm is directed by Deepika is the biggest star and Nishikant Kamat and is all set to HANDS FULL: Nawazuddin Siddiqui she was the diamond in the whole release on July 15. — IANS 18 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY HOLLYWOOD

“We sort of didn’t think there was ever going to be a Nemo sequel,” Morris said. “It’s easy to understand why studios make sequels. Audiences like them. They’re easier to market. But it had been a long time. And Disney was great about not pressuring us. When Andrew got excited about it, that’s all it took.” Coming off of John Carter, the failure of which had knocked Stanton on his heels, the director expected that returning to the familiar world of Nemo and safety of his home studio would be easier. Instead he found the Dory story confoundingly hard to nail down — even for the studio’s resident story guru. “It was a bear,” Stanton said. “You don’t realise until you make a character with short-term memory loss that self-refl ection is the only way you can chart that somebody is progressing in a fi lm. We had many smart people banging their heads against the table for a year or two to fi gure out, how do you get that same progression you get from any other character?” The solution came with the introduction of Hank as Dory’s sidekick, and the use of flashbacks, another conceit Stanton had initially resisted. Along the way, Stanton and his crew spent time at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Marine Mammal Institute in Oregon, observing how the environments FINALLY: Finding Dory opens June 17 with lofty expectations at the box off ice. looked from the animals’ person to be around so maybe the perspectives. The Finding Dory next person — or fi sh — she meets filmmakers also watched the 2013 won’t leave her.” documentary Blackfish, about the Stanton had resisted the notion controversy over captive killer of a Nemo sequel for years. In the whales at Sea World. late ’90s he had worked to retool the The animals’ experiences vary story on Pixar’s fi rst sequel, Toy Story — Hank enjoys life in captivity and Finding Dory 2, a pressure-plagued production harbours a dream of ending up in a that saw its beleaguered crew racing Cleveland aquarium. But a sequence to meet a release date despite an in an educational touch tank is played unfi nished script. “We always said like a battle scene in a war movie, after that, ‘We’ll only make a sequel if with animals dodging the creepy, the idea is that good,’” Stanton said. invasive hands of curious children. (Some might disagree that Pixar has Stanton said he isn’t pushing any been quite so picky about its sequel particular view of marine animals after 13 years choices — Cars 2 was a rare misfi re living in captivity. “On ‘Wall-E’ with critics, and the studio now has people kept wondering what my and most respected employees, studio’s creative executives, Stanton Cars 3 due in 2017 and Toy Story 4 set environmental message was,” By Rebecca Keegan having joined the studio as its second projected an assurance. for 2018). Stanton said. “I’m a very selfi sh animator in 1990 and established “One of the things I took from In 2016 — a year that has so far storyteller. I just want whatever himself as a creative executive whose ‘John Carter’ was, I’m not sweating delivered several underwhelming works to help tell the character’s or years, a standing bit clear-eyed sense of story and no- this,” Stanton said as executives sequels to the box offi ce, including story. I don’t have a secret agenda.” on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk nonsense attitude help ground the Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Jim Morris, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Stanton has multiple post-Dory show was her irritation fi lmmakers around him. Colleagues fellow directors Pete Docter and Lee Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out projects in mind, including a couple at the lack of a Finding refer to him as the John Lennon Unkrich, producer Lindsey Collins of the Shadows and The Huntsman: of live-action scripts. Returning to Nemo sequel. The to Pixar chief creative offi cer John and the fi lm’s department heads fi led Winter’s War — Stanton’s sequel- Pixar after “John Carter” reinforced Fcomedian, who voiced the cheerful, Lasseter’s Paul McCartney, with into a screening room with notebooks averse policy seems like a sensible an idea that governs his writing: amnesiac sidekick Dory in the Stanton bringing the grit that leavens in hand. one. But over the years it looked as if being open. aquatic 2003 Pixar fi lm, greeted the Lasseter’s optimism. In the new fi lm, which is co- the studio was leaving money on the “If your ego can take it and announcement of other sequels from Dory is a return home for Stanton, directed by Angus MacLane, Dory table with Nemo. So when Stanton if you’re in a healthy enough the animation studio with a dramatic who also directed Wall-E, and has is trying to fi nd her parents, a came up with the idea of a movie atmosphere and if you’re not worried fl ash of side-eye. writing credits on all three Toy Story quest that takes her to “the jewel focused on Dory while he was still in about winning the argument, you can Fans protested too, wondering in fi lms but stepped away from Pixar to of Morro Bay, California,” a marine production on John Carter, a studio make a movie better,” he said. — Los online comment sections why Cars make his live-action debut with John life institute, and pairs her with a green light quickly followed. Angeles Times/TNS 2 and Toy Story 3 got made, while Carter, a big-budget adaptation of cantankerous octopus named Hank, Nemo, which was a global box offi ce an Edgar Rice Burroughs book that voiced by Ed O’Neill. Finding Dory hit (making $937mn worldwide), became a costly and high-profi le unfolds as a kind of mystery, as the an Oscar winner and the highest- misfi re for Disney in 2012. lead character’s memory loss keeps selling DVD of all time, still had no In returning to Pixar, Stanton has her past a secret from her and the follow-up. returned to a fi lmmaking culture he audience. Thirteen years later, it does — helped shape, one where failure is “I had always seen Dory as a tragic Finding Dory opens June 17 with considered a painful but necessary character,” Stanton said. “I had DeGeneres’ character as the lead fi sh step in the creative process. One always assumed she had spent most and with lofty expectations at the box morning in May, as his colleagues of her life wandering the ocean being offi ce. The reason for the long delay gathered at the Skywalker Ranch ditched or accidentally ditching other was Andrew Stanton. in Marin County for what is people, and had this compounding Stanton, 50, who wrote and traditionally a panic-inducing sense of abandonment. I fi gured she directed Finding Nemo and its sequel, event for fi lmmakers, a fi nal notes had developed this superpower of is one of Pixar’s longest-standing screening of Finding Dory for the being the most optimistic, nice, fun A scene from Finding Dory. Monday, June 13, 2016 GULF TIMES 19 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY , JLo lipsync to Enrique Iglesias’ number

ollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is throwing surprises one after another in her international journey, has now featured in a video with the likes of Jennifer BLopez and Cristiano Ronaldo. What’s more, the song is by Enrique Iglesias. The song, titled Don’t you need somebody, has been primarily sung by Hero singer Iglesias, with bits of it crooned by R City, Serayah and Shaggy. Priyanka, a former Miss World title holder, is pleasantly not in a a blink-and-you- miss appearance. Instead, she features in a number of frames as she is seen grooving to and lipsyncing to the number. The video also features international celebrities like Akon, Mila Jovovich, Ryan Seacrest, Mesut Özil, Lopez and Ronaldo among others. Released on YouTube on last week, the video has Priyanka in a hair updo and a beige-hued jumpsuit. Her wine coloured lipstick stands out. Priyanka’s journey on foreign shores fi rst began when she released her English single In my city. She launched two more tracks before landing a lead role in American TV show Quantico, and now she has even shot for the Baywatch movie with Dwayne Johnson. — IANS PITCHING IN: Jennifer Lopez, left, and Priyanka Chopra.

Depp’s lawyer’s request to Justin Bieber gets into brawl aft er NBA game depose Amber Heard denied extend a temporary restraining order communications with potentially issued against Depp. every person she has spoken with, Singer Justin Bieber got into a physical fi ght with a man Actor Johnny Depp’s lawyer’s request “Respondent’s request to take to search for any passing reference in Cleveland after a National Basketball Association (NBA) to depose Amber Heard and neighbour deposition of Heard is denied, as to the incidents in question. This is game. Raquel Pennington was denied. the request was untimely noticed,” unduly burdensome,” Heard’s attorney The 22-year-old star was there to watch the Cleveland Depp’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, fi led a the judge stated. Wasser also asked Samantha Spector stated. Cavaliers facing off the Golden State Warriors at the Quicken request to compel Heard’s deposition for the actress to provide all of her The 52-year-old actor is locked in an Loans Arena during the game 3 of the NBA Finals. immediately. But according to sources communications (writing, documents, ongoing legal drama with estranged wife Bieber was caught on camera throwing punches at a and court documents, the judge denied texts) from December 15 to present, Amber Heard. Depp has been ordered to man, but his much-bigger opponent easily retaliated with the motion, reasoning that the original including with her friend iO Tillet stay away from Heard after she claimed his own fi st and sent the star to the ground. The incident notice of deposition failed to give Heard Wright. he hit her in the face with a cellphone, reportedly happened outside his hotel, reports aceshowbiz. the required 10-day notice, reports “Amber has not been given suffi cient pulled her hair, struck her and screamed com. people.com. time to locate the requested documents. at her during a fi ght. Last month, Heard Earlier in the day, Bieber was reportedly booed by the home On June 17, a court hearing is The request requires Amber to was granted a temporary restraining team’s fans. He was joined by his homie Lewis Hamilton at scheduled to determine whether to review over six months of personal order against Depp until June 17. – IANS the Quicken Loans Arena, but it’s unclear if the F1 racer was present during the brawl. – IANS

Actor Liam Hemsworth once Jolie might star in Murder on the hurled knife at brother Chris Orient Express

Actor Liam Hemsworth has revealed Actress Angelina Jolie is in talks to star in he once hurled a kitchen knife at his older Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express. brother Chris Hemsworth. The Hunger The shooting is expected to begin in November Games star has admitted that the sibling in London and then move to Malta, reports rivalry between himself and Chris, 32, hollywoodreporter.com. became so “vicious” on occasions, that Jolie would play Mrs Harriet Hubbard, a role he would turn to using weapons to defend once played by actress Lauren Bacall in the 1974 himself, reports femalefi rst.co.uk. version. The Fox fi lm, based on Agatha Christie’s Making an appearance on The Graham classic mystery, has been in the works for years. Norton Show, the 26-year-old star — who The story is on special detective Hercule Poirot, also has another older brother named Luke, who boards the train from Istanbul to London 35 — shared: “Our childhood rivalry was a only to have a murder committed in the car next bit vicious — a bit like The Hunger Games, to his during a snowstorm. Poirot tries to discover actually.” the murderer or murderers before there’s another Liam admitted that on some occasions, victim. Director Sidney Lumet had made the fi rst their bickering became completely out adaptation in 1974 for Paramount. Albert Finney of hand. “We had a few incidents with starred in that version as Poirot, while actors weapons. I never had any problems with SIBLING RIVALS: Chris, left, and Liam Hemsworth Ingrid Bergman, Bacall and Sean Connery were Luke because he was so much older and among the passengers or the suspects. I didn’t mess with him. But with Chris, Liam revealed he came perilously close to the toaster, or something, and I picked up a Branagh is producing the project alongside we were very like-minded, very stubborn seriously injuring his older brother, who is kitchen knife and threw it at his head and the Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg and Mark Gordon. and would often get into arguments and best known for playing the Marvel superhero handle hit him in the forehead,” he said. Liam Aditya Sood and Michael Schaefer are executive because I was so much younger and smaller Thor. “So, one day when I was about fi ve, jokingly added that despite the near-miss, he producing the fi lm, slated to release on November I had to use weapons to fi ght,” he said. we had a fi ght in the kitchen about using was always in control of the situation. – IANS 22, 2017. — IANS 20 GULF TIMES Monday, June 13, 2016 COMMUNITY

LONG RUN: Gonnie van de Merwe, the Dutch owner, inside the Capitol, a venerable cinema in Germany. The picture theatre has operated in Bernburg, eastern Germany since 1927.

according to Van de Merwe, is that the cinema is so small – aside from the main cinema, which has 340 seats, there’s a smaller room for 45 people. “A good show is when half of the Now showing in tickets for the main cinema have been sold,” says Maik Erdmann, the 45-year-old who has run the cinema since 2003. Last year was a record year for Germany’s 1,650 cinemas, with 29.9mn people over the age of 10 going to the cinema at least once, the digital format according to the German Film recently moved house and needed Board (FFA). That’s 2.9mn more a change from the stress. On the than in 2014. With 40,000 cinema- Art Deco cinema in eastern Germany keeps door was a notice: “Cinema for goers, the Capitol also received sale.” “I talked to my husband about more visits than usual. it because I was so enthusiastic That’s because there were good its plush while updating for the modern age about its atmosphere,” she says. fi lms showing, says Erdmann. Such a place had to be preserved, Nevertheless, 200 cinemas have she told him. So the couple bought closed in Germany since 2002. shaky Weimar Republic phase. of its Art Deco style. Today there the cinema, though she won’t say The Capitol’s programme usually By Sabrina Gorges At its launch on November 14, are only fi ve employees. Pre-1989, how much they paid, and began sticks to current releases, but 1927, 560 people saw the silent when East Germany was a separate renovating it. when there’s space, says Erdmann, movie Der Meister von Nuernberg country, there were 35 including a “Roof, toilets, windows and they like to show something more ouble-leaf doors, golden (roughly based on the opera The boilerman and ushers. digitalisation came in 2012. It niche. “We try to combine demand handrails, red seats, Master-Singers of Nuremberg), with “In 2009 I came to the cinema cost a lot of money,” says Van de and trend,” says Erdmann, who the smell of popcorn in the music provided by the house with my daughter to relax,” says Merwe. They now sell 33,000 chooses the fi lms and negotiates the air. The enormous orchestra in the pit. Van de Merwe, 62. The family had tickets a year. What they like best, with distributors together with an screen, which appears “There was also stage room external planner. toD be on an actual wooden stage, is to the left and the right and “And they (the distributors) surrounded by polished wood and diff erent coloured curtains,” says insist the showing takes place delicate plasterwork. “This used to Dutch-born Van der Merwe. She even if no one’s turned up,” says be the orchestra pit,” says Gonnie has been director of the Capitol Erdmann. He climbs up a narrow van de Merwe, the owner of the since 2010. The original cinema staircase to the top fl oor. What Capitol cinema in Bernburg, eastern built in imitation of a proper used to be home to rolls of fi lm and Germany, as she points at the stage theatre, elegant and sumptuous, projectors is now a haven of digital fl oor. bringing some capital-city verve cinema gear. There are also balcony seats to Bernburg, a quiet town with a After the gong sounds, Erdmann and a bar in the cinema, which is population of 33,000 that survived starts the fi lm on a laptop – a celebrating its 90th birthday next the bombing of World War II intact. click of the mouse, nothing more. year. “It’s the last Art Deco cinema The sound of a gong has always The picture from the projector is in the country,” says Van de Merwe signalled the curtain going up on a beamed through one of the four proudly. fi lm. In its 90 years of existence, the narrow windows onto the screen When the cinema was fi rst cinema has been remodelled several below and the sound system opened, Adolf Hitler was just a times. In the 1960s, for example, hums. Without digitalisation, says minor politician and Germany was the orchestra pit disappeared. But Erdmann, the Capitol could no in its liberal though economically the cinema has still retained much Manager and projectionist Maik Erdmann. longer exist. – DPA