YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! Community invites you to to send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]. Select images will appear in both the print edition as well as Community Instagram page @communitygt. — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Sunday, October 13, 2019 Safar 14, 1441 AH Doha today: 300 - 360 A good language always connects people, veteran Indian actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha tells Community. P4-5 COVER STORY CCommunionommunion SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE Fonda arrested in DC during Ugandan community celebrates climate change protest. 57th Independence Day. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Sunday, October 13, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.14am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.32am Zuhr (noon) 11.22am Asr (afternoon) 2.42pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.10pm Isha (night) 6.40pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Sky is Pink 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She DIRECTION: Shonali Bose is sassy, sardonic, spunky and also – dead! CAST: Zaira Wasim, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar SYNOPSIS: An incredible love story of a couple spanning THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Aadhyarathri Mullakkara. The marriage broker has been fi nding ideal match DIRECTION: Jibu Jacob for youth in his village for 22 years. Will his thoughts on love CAST: Sarjano Khalid, Biju Menon, Sneha Babu and marriage change when Ashwathy enters the scene? SYNOPSIS: Manoharan is the last word for the villagers of THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza, The Mall ote Unquo Qu te “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhowe 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 Sunday, October 13, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY administered for stream preference, career countries for children and adults. test, branch preference, personality, Mamangam has become the favourite multiple intelligence and learning styles centre for learning. We off er regular classes and productivity. For more information, in the following disciplines like traditional 55448835. classical and folk dance forms, art and craft, drawing and painting, personality After School Activities development and public speaking, Bollywood WHERE: Atelier dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music WHEN: Ongoing both vocals and instrumentals. To develop Music and arts activities for students health consciousness, we train them karate, taking place after they fi nish their day in yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- Mamangam has also come up with chess and hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama robotics in regular batches in an attempt to Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 give a better learning experience, as they years old after school hours. sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Artistic Gymnastic Classes Short Executive Programme – ‘Re- Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience The festival off ers other benefi ts to WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Inventing Your Business Model’ Tanzania’ participants, including the promotion of WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: HEC Paris, Doha Campus WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art their work, interaction with print, electronic, TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm WHEN: Tomorrow till Ocotber 15 Gallery at Education City digital, and social media, interaction with The olympic sport using horizontal bar, HEC Paris In Qatar off ers an Executive WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 selected art collectors, art investors, and rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the Short Program in ‘Re-Inventing your TIME: 4pm potential buyers. QIAF, one of the largest art children from age 4 till 16. Business Model’ with HEC Paris Associate ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project festivals in Qatar, is organised every year. Professor Hélène Musikas. supported by Student Aff airs Division of This two-day programme is designed to Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows give executives an original and novel view students and faculty to explore and immerse of how to envisage strategy and suppress themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural crafting in a world that requires constant cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s adaptation. Building on the concept of aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare business models, participants will learn how services to the locals as a way of giving to systematically explore new opportunities back to the community and learn about for business models and discover what the the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic conditions are to make this kind of innovation hierarchies and health systems of the local happen in their company. Tanzanian communities. A collection of photographs of the wildlife, landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg will be exhibited. Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Career Guidance Hobby Classes Basics of TV Presentation WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art WHERE: Qatar National Library Sadd Centre WHEN: Oct 18 WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN: Saturday – Friday TIME: 5pm to 8pm Qatar International Art Festival 2019 TIME: 6pm – 8pm Mamangam is an art and performance Through this workshop, young adults will WHERE: Katara Cultural Village Career guidance for course, country, centre started with a vision of spreading familiarise themselves with the basics of WHEN: 30 October - 5 November college and entrance for students of Grade our knowledge, interests and experience in television presentation. The workshop is led TIME: 10am - 12pm IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments various disciplines in arts across diff erent by Library specialist Ahmed al-Maliki. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, October 13, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Urdu has a strong imprint on Bollywood” — Shatrughan Sinha, Veteran Indian actor, politician SUNDAY CONVERSATION Urdu, like Sanskrit and Persian, is an old language. It has also made extensive contributions towards our upbringing and ‘ practical life By Mudassir Raja language always serves as a means of connection. Urdu as a “Hindustani” language connects people both inside and outside India. This was the crux of an interview with AShatrughan Sinha, veteran Indian fi lm actor and politician, of his association with Urdu language and its role in the Indian fi lm industry. Shatrughan along with Pahlaj Nihalani, ex- chairman of Central Board of Film Certifi cation (CBFC) India and a fi lm producer was recently in Qatar. They were invited to attend an Urdu’ poetic symposium organised by Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ) in connection with its 60th anniversary. The literary group was founded in 1959. Shatrughan, who is also the father of leading Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha, has a long association and exposure to Urdu. “I got fi rst introduction with the language from my father. Though he got his university education from the US, he knew many languages. He had good command over Urdu as well. He also knew Persian. He however, had good association with Urdu. Further, I went to Film and Television Institute of India and then joined Bollywood. Urdu has a strong imprint on Bollywood. Though the fi lm language is not completely Urdu, it has greatly been infl uenced by Urdu. If you put it right, the language of Bollywood is in real sense HOLDING FORTH: Shatrughan Sinha speaking at the Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar mushaira. a Hindustani language [a fusion of both Hindi and Sunday, October 13, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “New technologies have always thrown new challenges to the cinema. We in India need to uphold our social values through cinema. It will also help us maintain our identity” —Pahlaj Nihalani, filmmaker MEN OF SUBSTANCE: Shatrughan Sinha, left, with Pahlaj Nihalani. Photos supplied Urdu]. May be there is not a single much. World class movies are sentence in the fi lm language that being made. As far as viewership is is devoid of Urdu words. Many concerned, the Hindi fi lm industry actors like me learn how to speak tops the world. However, we still and express themselves in Urdu but need to improve the quality of the unfortunately, they cannot read fi lms. and write the language. I salute the “People however criticise some language that showed us the way fi lms for being vulgar. Earlier, the and took us to our destination.” fi lms were not inclined towards The veteran actor appreciates the vulgarity. Sometimes action tilts constant literary activities arranged towards morbidity. Emotionally, by Urdu speaking expatriates the fi lms often lack real stories. from India and Pakistan. “Such They miss the soul. In recent times, activities need to be appreciated there have been hit fi lms but these and encouraged. It is not only about fi lms are not immortal. If we speak Urdu. These activities create a kind about music, it has become loud (as of harmony in the community. opposed to being a) melody.” They are getting people connected. The former union minister of A good language always connects India sees the fi lm industry as an people.