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City of Joy
Guru ki Nagri,
Amritsar, with its is colonial architecture, sumptuous food, rich
clothes and dazzling jewellery bowls over a visitor. The city is, at
the same time, a shopper’s delight and a refuge for the devout. Anuradha
Thakur takes us on a round of Sifti da ghar
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city of Amritsar has may faces. A legendary cultural fabric with
pronounced historical trimmings, it is the seat of intense
political and religious activity. A traveller’s delight, an
archaeologist’s museum, and more than anything else a
gourmet’s delight, Amritsar is all that and still much more.
It’s an experience that surprises you with its unceasing
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Call of adventure
Tribhuvan Nath
STEPPING
into the mountain ranges of north-west Himachal Pradesh, one feels
dumfounded by greenery and unbroken tranquility. Echoes of Shelley’s
lines reverberate here:
... ... away from men
and town
To the wild woods and
downs
In the silent wilderness
where the soul would not
recess its music...
Measure of a good beach
Kathy Marks
HOW
to rate the perfect beach? Is it the softness of the sand, the lack of
beach apart from thousands of others? After carefully considering this
most taxing of questions, a German tour operator turned author, Wim de
Ruiter, has come up with a mathematical formula (above) that he
believes will resolve it once and for all.
Dev Anand is on a new
high
Saibal
Chatterjee on his
latest film Mr Prime Minister
WHAT
can one say about Dev Anand, octogenarian actor-director and Dadasaheb
Phalke award-winner, who refuses to call it a day? The spirit and the
charisma of the man that the entire nation once adored – and still
does – are alive and kicking. As Dev Anand himself
says, "Making films gives me a high. I feel blessed."
Spielberg plans Mary
Poppins remake
Louise Jury
HE
has tackled man-eating sharks, extraterrestrials and the horrors of
Nazi Games in Munich. But Steven Spielberg’s next production could
be considerably more sugary. The 59-year-old director/producer is
apparently eyeing the ever-popular musical Mary Poppins for a
Hollywood remake.
A
brain-teaser
The Jacket is the story of an amnesiac American soldier who was
accused of killing a cop and put in a mental asylum. It is somewhat
convoluted and lacks credibility, writes Ervell
E. Menezes
Psychology
seems to be working overtime in films, these days, decades after the
master of suspense made a splash in 1960 with Psycho. In The
Jacket you have amnesiac American soldier (Adrien Brody), who was
shot in the head during the 1991 Gulf war, being accused of killing a
cop and put in a mental asylum instead of being treated for his
amnesiac condition.
‘I am
not willing to show
skin on screen’
Amrita Rao has had two
releases this month with Shahid Kapoor, with whom she made her debut, Vaah!
Life Ho To Aisi and Shikhar. Excerpts from an interview by Vickey
Lalwani
What is Vaah! Life Ho
to Aisi about?
Vaah! Life Ho To
Aisi is essentially a
fantasy film. We have taken many cinematic liberties. It was a perfect
opportunity to have fun, without asking for logic.
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