TIMES CITY THE TIMES OF INDIA, KOLKATA | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2013 IIT KHARAGPUR TO HOLD PRELIMINARY ROUNDS BAIDYABATI IN CELEBRATORY MOOD AS OF FEMINA MISS INDIA 2014 | 4 ‘LAKSHMAN-DA’ TAKES OVER AS IAF CHIEF | 5 Road cleared for all-night revelry Park Street To Remain Open To Traffic Big-ticket parties are a sell-out Sumati Yengkhom TNN while live entertainment and music at DANCE FLOOR the ‘Galaxy’ will be crowd-pullers. Kolkata: The year-long wait has come ‘Someplace Else’ will have The Satur- to an end. The New Year is finally ON FIRE day Night Blues playing live and in- round the corner. So what are you wait- house DJs spinning magic at ‘Tantra’. ing for? Put on your dance shoes and A Secret Affair at ‘Roxy’ is sure to make the night special. Shisha make the night very special. According nightclubs and party ® Two party zone, one Private party organizers are hotspots in the city, the craze for ring- of them ‘theme-based’ also having a tough time to meet ing in the New Year has increased ® Unlimited food and THE CLUB STYLE the last-minute rush. Be it be the one at manifold this time around. Most beverage Axis Mall rooftop, Wet-O-Wild at Nicco CC&FC The Tolly party-goers have planned their night- Plush Park or the Backstage Banquets at Sec- out much earlier and made their book- ® Mumbai-based singers ® Mid-night show on tor V, all are expecting a houseful at ® In-house DJs Traffic across central Kolkata came to a halt on Christmas as Park Street was taken over by revellers ings in advance. Clubs, too, are leaving and dance troupe horse jumping and tent their respective New Year eve party. no stone unturned to cash in on the fes- pegging “All our passes are sold out. Since TIMES NEWS NETWORK No vehicles will be allowed Watch police bikes, 51 RFS (16 tive fever. Shimmers Dalhousie Institute we can not accommodate more people, ® ® Music by DJ Jazzy Joe to be parked on Park Street be- more than usual) and 12 HRFS “Apart from regular clients, we are Exotic dancers ® I am not taking calls from unknown Ball room dance and band Moon Wind Kolkata: If you missed out on tween JL Nehru Road and Wood vehicles will be on the road. expecting a rush of people who party The Park people. We are expecting a footfall of that Christmas dinner at Park Street. No vehicles will be al- Around 1,000 cops in plain- on occasions. Hence we have divided about 500 couples,” said Akshay Jaipu- ® Live entertainment Street with your family because lowed to go towards Free School clothes will merge into the our nightclub into two zones,” said ria, a team member of the event at PC and music shows you had no clue where to park Street from Royd Street up to crowd to spot mischief-makers. Ritesh Shrivastava, head of oper- Chandra Garden. your car, this is your chance to Park Street. All this will come The stand-down this year will ations at ‘Shisha’. While the nightclub Swabhumi With casinos as the theme at the make up for it. into effect from 4pm on Tuesday be extended to 6am instead of will have a regular party zone, it will Swabhumi Heritage Plaza, people will Fresh from their experience and continue till 4am on the the usual 2am. A total 5,000 cops have a ‘theme zone’ that will take the Heritage Plaza get to party the night Vegas style. And on Christmas Day when a part first day of 2014. will man important zones like guests through the journey from ® Casino theme Ukrainian dancers, dazzling beam la- of south and central Kolkata Parking will be allowed on Park Street-Shakespeare Sara- 2013 to 2014. With an offer for unlimited ® Ukrainian dancers ser show and continental, Indian and traffic collapsed trying to ac- Russel Street, Free School ni, Science City, Ballygunge and food and beverage, ‘Passport to 2014’ ® Beam laser show oriental cuisine adding to the zing, the commodate 60,000 revellers on School Street (between Royd Tollygunge. There will be spe- will have special visuals that will make heritage plaza is expecting a huge turn Park Street, Kolkata Police has and Marquis streets), Wood cial watch at leading clubs and the guests feel that they are transiting out on the big night. decided against shutting down Street and RA Kidwai Road (be- select bars. into 2014. The nightclub on Camac Party places like ‘The Chrome’ on the party zone on Tuesday eve- tween Royd Street and Shakes- “The UAV Durdanto will be Street is expecting a footfall of about AJC Bose Road has planed different of- ning. However, there might be peare Sarani). used this year. We are putting 800 in total. fers like fashion show where Tolly- certain restrictions till early Besides Park Street, cops special emphasis on securing “We get a footfall of about 150 to 200 wood actors will walk the ramp with Wednesday morning. have warned of vehicular regu- areas adjoining Park Street, like during a regular party. But going by the city models. Hitting up the ambience Top officers in Lalbazar said lation any time on January 1 at Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, Ca- bookings, we expect the number to will be cabaret dance performance by security hazards have “forced” various places including the In- mac Street and Shakespeare Sa- cross 300 on the New Year eve,” said Su- some Tollywood actress. them to keep a few restrictions dian Museum, Victoria Memo- rani. We will also set up 15 as- mitro Basu, manager of ‘Plush’. The Preparation for the big night is on in place. Park Street and Ho Chi rial, Birla Planetarium, Alipore sistance booths at strategic nightclub on Theatre Road will have its at war-footing by various clubs as well. Minh Sarani will be one way zoo, Kali Temple, Thantania Ka- locations,” said Rajeev Mishra, in-house DJs Deva and Rohan churn- mers’ at Sector V can easily hold about spinmasters at the console. Mumbai-based singer and dance from west to east and Shakes- libari, New Market area and joint CP (headquarters). ing out foot tapping music that would 500 guests, but we expect the footfall to “We are gearing up to make the 31st troupe at CC&FC, ball room dance at peare Sarani from east to west. Millennium Park. On Tuesday, four deputy drag even non-dancers to the floor. The shoot up and hence made arrange- night party very special for our guests. Dalhousie Institute, mid-night show Russel Street and Little Russel For the first time, police will commissioners will be in party hotspot has two kinds of charges ments to accommodate an additional We have an array of events and charg- on horse jumping and tent pegging Street will be one way from be deployed through the night charge of security under the su- – Rs 4000 and Rs 6000 per couple. Major- crowd,” said Vishal Shaw, spokeper- es depend on the venue and the inclu- while grooving to music by DJ Jazzy south to north. Middleton on at least 100 crossings. Special pervision of a joint CP. They ity of the second package has already son of ‘Shimmers’ and ‘Basement’. sion,” said a spokesperson at The Park. Joe and band Moon Wind at The Tolly Street will be one way from east speed-bike checking camps will will lead over 350 policewomen been booked. While the former will have exotic danc- The Park will have its guests spoilt are only few of the parties lined up. to west between Camac Street come up in areas around Park and quick response teams have “We are flooded with calls for en- ers flown in from abroad, ‘Basement’ for a choice. The secret affair at the Kolkata surely is set to party hard and JL Nehru Road. Street. Besides the 20 City been stationed for emergencies. quiry and advance bookings. ‘Shim- on Sarat Bose Road will have in-house ‘Roxy’ is sure to make it a special night through the night as 2014 ushers in. ‘Chander Pahar’ scales new heights Tiger breeding to restart at zoo Rohit Khanna TNN Tara’ outside Bengal, but the response has Krishnendu Mukherjee TNN cannot breed the hybrid lions GUNNING FOR MORE never been so overwhelming,” said Sub- CARE IN CAPTIVITY and hence the Asiatic lions were Kolkata: It’s was an uphill task for the hasis Ganguli, regional director of Inox. Kolkata: If 2013 took Alipore brought from its counterpart in WHEN WAS THE LAST makers of ‘Chander Pahar’ right from the ‘Chander Pahar’ is also being screened at Zoological Gardens to new Hyderabad. TIME THAT TIGERS WERE beginning. There were challenges of eight Inox theatres outside Bengal. heights for its adoption scheme, However, conservationists shooting in the forests of Africa, then A big push in releasing Bengali films the zoo is set to hit another high BRED IN CAPTIVITY? raised question over such move there was speculation over the possibility outside Bengal came with Jeet-starrer note in the New Year with its In 2005. Two cubs were saying it won’t serve the pur- of producers being able to recover the cost ‘Boss’. The movie was screened in theat- captive breeding programme born then pose of conservation and will and finally, will the film be able to compete res in cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Jaipur, for the tigers and lions. ® Cross breeding of tigers only raise the footfall in the zoo. with big-budget Bolly flick, ‘Dhoom 3’.