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Community Community Diane von ‘Beauty Furstenberg, through P6fashion designer, P16 the Eyes author and activist visits of Women’ exhibition Virginia Commonwealth showcases modern and University School of ancient cultures of both the Arts in Qatar. Qatar and India. Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Rabia I 30, 1441 AH Doha today: 210 - 260 Star struck COVER STORY How is it like to meet Bollywood’s top stars in real life? Indian showbiz journalist Arundhuti Banerjee off ers an insightful glimpse. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, November 27, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.38am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.01am Zuhr (noon) 11.23am Asr (afternoon) 2.24pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Last Christmas decisions. Having accepted to work as Santa’s elf for a DIRECTION: Paul Feig department store, she meets Tom. Her life takes a new turn. CAST: Madison Ingoldsby, Emma Thompson, Boris For Kate, it seems too good to be true. 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CAST: Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Nivetha Pethuraj SYNOPSIS: Set against a rural backdrop, the fi lm revolves THEATRES: Royal Plaza, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “Progress e is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. — Dalai Thor Heyerdahl Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Wednesday, November 27, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 9am – 10pm The Cultural Village Foundation – Katara is organising the 9th Traditional Dhow Festival. Inspired by Qatar’s rich maritime heritage, the festival will host exciting activities and tournaments at Katara beach. 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For more information, Mamangam has also come up with chess and cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s 55448835. robotics in regular batches in an attempt to aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare give a better learning experience, as they services to the locals as a way of giving Katara Traditional Dhow Festival sharpen their minds and brains too. back to the community and learn about WHERE: Katara Cultural Village For those who wish to register for more the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: Ongoing till November 30 details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, November 27, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Meeting the stars Every fan has a certain opinion of celebrity and perhaps, a crush saved in the attic. How stars are in real life is an age old question that probably keeps the fans guessing. Indian showbiz journalist Arundhuti Banerjee traverses some distance in addressing it, with an account exclusively for Community KING OF ALL HE SURVEYS: Shah Rukh Khan lights up the stage. he year: 1998. I was too young to sit down with the elder members of the family and watch a fi lm. Born After watchingDil Se a and brought up in a middle class Bengali refugee family, I was only allowed to watch some of the black few years later, I told my and white Bengali fare by fi lmmakers like Satyajit TRay, Hritwik Ghatak, Tapan Sinha — basically movies that my mother, ‘You know Ma, I grandmother would watch and most of them were about the Partition. Among those icons (I realise they were that only in my so love Shah Rukh Khan adulthood) because of his Gupi Bagha series and Apu’s Trilogy, and his dimple; I will Ray managed to fi nd a space in my childhood. And Tapan Sinha, too, courtesy Kabuliwala. meet him someday’ However, I was allowed to listen to every kind of music, be it Indian classical, Bollywood or Indie pop. More than watching MTV and other music channels — there were hardly any — I — Arundhuti Banerjee would watch songs on the local cable channels. In fact, they ‘ used to telecast latest films as well. That is how one afternoon DREAM COME TRUE: Arundhuti Banerjee with I was introduced to that iconic number Chaiya Chaiya SRK during an Eid party. ’ featuring Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora-Khan (back Wednesday, November 27, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY then, she was a Khan). exchanged a smile and few glances Beautifully composed by A here and there. R Rahman, written by Gulzar, So fi nally, I took the opportunity rendered by Sukhwinder Singh to say: Shah Rukh, Eid Mubarak, and Sapna Awasthi, that was one to which he replied: Aap ko bhi. of most the hummable songs back Aane ke liye sukhriya. (To you, then. I was not intellectually grown too. Thanks for coming)”. Then enough to understand the lyrics he asked, Naam kya hai? (What’s but still I would stand in front of the name?) and looked into my the mirror, clap, dance and sing it eyes. Trust me that ‘look’ made me several times. feel like I was the most beautiful Unfortunately, I was not allowed creation of the Almighty and to watch the song in the presence perhaps, the most important person of the elders — thanks to homebred at that moment. censorship. I reckon a gyrating I uttered my name and he then Malaika was deemed not suitable quoted: Ek noor hai tujh mein, for a child like me. Perhaps, that is khuda kare ye mehfooz rahe (There’s why from somewhere I managed a light within you, God-willing, it to buy the cassette of Dil Se and always remains safe). lapped up all the songs by rote. And I would not be surprised if he has yes, in my opinion, that was one of forgotten about this rendezvous, or the fi nest albums ever. what he said but each word that he I knew each song so well that uttered in that interaction of may I felt like I was friends with even be only 20 seconds sounded like the creator of the album! And after music to my ears. And has stayed watching the movie, few years later, with me. I told my mother, ‘You know Ma, I so love Shah Rukh Khan and his A R Rahman dimple; I will meet him someday.” It was perhaps one of the most Since my mother is a Manisha random things that happened to Koirala fan, she said, “He has a me — meeting Rahman for the fi rst big nose, look at Manisha.