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Community Community Researchers Urdu poet say moderate Jalil Nizami P4coff ee P16 argues that consumption is contemporary associated with Urdu poetry reduced risk of lacks sublime metabolic syndrome. poetic thought. Friday, November 29, 2019 Rabia II 2, 1441 AH Doha today 210 - 280 COVER STORY Stars of substance Bollywood’s Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta have taken diff erent paths to stardom. A candid account of how they are in person. P4-5 CUISINE SHOWBIZ All-purpose Brazilian carrot cake, Kaluuya discusses his role and a perfect recipe for festive season. police brutality in Queen & Slim. Page 6 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Friday, November 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Meeting the stars How are stars in real life is a FAQ that often keeps the fans hooked. Indian showbiz journalist Arundhuti Banerjee PRAYER TIME recalls meeting Preity Zinta and Manisha Koirala Fajr 4.39am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.02am in this exclusive account for Community Zuhr (noon) 11.23am Asr (afternoon) 2.24pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 My father told Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 me it does not Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 matter if you are Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 a boy or a girl. As Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 long as both your Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 hands, legs and Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 most importantly, Qatar News Agency 44450205 mind is working 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal ‘you have the Corporation 44464444 world to conquer. 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It is doubtful that today, someone would just go with the Telephone: 44466405 BI met Manisha the fi rst time, when she came back much fl ow and become a star like Priety Zinta did in the 90s. The Fax: 44350474 stronger, after a long battle of cancer. Preity is happily married bubbly girl of Liril soap, who could be turned into a girl next now, enjoying her life as a cricket entrepreneur and trying to door in Cadbury Perk to the one who asks the male protagonist fi nd her space in movies that she once left voluntarily. with utmost wit and innocence, “Are you virgin?”’ in her Friday, November 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY debut fi lm and essay an unmarried pregnant college student in Kya Kehna — has to be a special talent. The only image she established in her career as an actress was the image of a camellia. Now, harking back to the past, you realise how infl uential she was as an actress. As a baby, after watching the Liril ad, I tried the soap and the slices of lemons to dance over my hands and back, exactly like it was shown on TV. I ended up ruining the soap followed by a solid scolding from my mother. I also managed to peeve mom in another creative way after watching the Cadbury Perk ad. I would take out the chocolate bar, take a bite quite close to her ear and ask her “Are you getting that munching sound like it shows on TV?” Mom would fi rst say ‘yes’ and because she said ‘yes’ I would keep doing it thinking I am entertaining her until she would push me aside, saying “Stop it, will you?” Fast forward. I had to meet Priety BLAST FROM THE PAST: From left, baby Preity Zinta in the arms of her father, who passed away in a road accident when she was 13; with her mother, who and share all these. But by the time I was bedridden after the same accident; and in a portrait. did, she got married and almost left acting. I met her before the release Manisha Koirala now, I wasn’t surprised to know that she made her fi rst appearance in a eyes, and answered with a smile, of a ‘forgettable’ fi lm but what was My fi rst introduction to a Nepali she was also a Nepali actress! TV interview…Ma saw her and sat “Whether it is in Mani Ratnam’s very unforgettable though is what was the gatekeeper of our school The fi rst-ever Manisha fi lm I down saying, “how could life be so Bombay in my no-makeup look or she told me. and his wife. They both had watched on big screen was actually cruel to this beauty? Oh God! Is she in other fi lms where I wore make up, Her father, Durganand Zinta, tiny eyes and nose. As a child, I a Bengali fi lm titled Khela in which the same Manisha Koirala?” all my life, the critics and my fans, was an offi cer in the Indian Army. innocently presumed that’s how she played a Bengali wife. Finally, I met Manisha in 2017 never fell short of words to praise He died in a car accident when she they looked. Dil Se was the fi rst-ever fi lm when she gave me the fi rst interview my beauty. I am thankful…but I was 13; the accident also involved The myth was busted when I once of Manisha that I watched with for her comeback fi lm Dear Maya. think from now, they would get to her mother, Nilprabha, who was sat down with my grandmother to a degree of attention. Her silent This time, the 90s star is an actress, see me much more, that is beyond severely injured and, remained watch a fi lm called Shohorer Itikotha acting touched me so much that a much stronger human being, the surface.” bedridden for two years. featuring Mala Sinha. She told me with that one fi lm, she made an with all her wrinkles, the vivacious We continued that conversation “As you know, my father was an Sinha was from Nepal. When I admirer out of me. I would stand smile and cosmic experience of a of constant balance between the offi cer in the Indian Army, he told started haranguing her on how she in front of the mirror again and try life where she encountered death, vanity of an actress and immersing me something I will repeat this for looked totally diff erent, grandma to utter those lines without even fought it and came out strong! herself in a character ignoring the you as well because I am impressed interjected and countered: “You understanding the depth of it, Jo It is quite interesting to observe vanity. by you! My father told me it does don’t look like your mother, does ajnaabi desh mein so gaya, uska how in all her fi lms post-cancer, Perhaps, it only suits Manisha not matter if you are a boy or a girl. that make you less of her daughter?” sab kuch kho gaya… (The stranger she looked completely diff erent to say that she does not want to As long as both your hands, legs and Even though it was a little tough for who went to sleep in the country, in each of her characters. Starting compromise on a ‘good role’ in a most importantly, mind is working, me to understand back then, I have a he would stand to lose everything) with Dear Maya, I had to ask her, fi lm and would rather sacrifi ce her you have the world to conquer. vivid memory of that chat. from Dil Se. how comfortable she was to play an vanity. Yes, she is the one who can Nothing, really nothing, can stop One day, I saw Manisha Koirala I remember how my mother was old lady, who looked so unkempt, confi dently carry off a swimsuit you, if you are a dreamer with a and tried to copy her dance by upset when the news came out that haggard…and well, not glamorous onscreen at the age of 47 — as she plan,” the pretty Priety told me at clapping and shaking my legs to the she was diagnosed with cancer. And at all. did in the anthology Lust Stories for the end of that conversation. beat of O’ Yaara Dil Laga Na. By then, after her chemotherapy when She looked straight into my Netfl ix. “All my life, the critics and my fans, never fell short of words to praise my beauty. I am thankful…but I think from now, they would get to see me much more, that is beyond the surface” —Manisha Koirala, actress CHRONICLED: Manisha’s journey through cancer and conquest is now available in book form. RENDEZVOUS: Journalist Arundhuti Banerjee, right, poses with Manisha Koirala after an interview. 4 GULF TIMES Friday, November 29, 2019 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND Drinking coff ee may mechanistic perspectives behind coff ee consumption and MetS and reduce heart disease risk the inverse association.