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Twilight Tract
She speaks eight languages, rattles names of people and places in record time, sings and dances with a flourish and prays for womanhood in the next life.
Nirupama Dutt tells the poignant tale of Kaajal Mangalmukhi who is a familiar figure in Mohali homes
Mummyji, I will take 11 thousand rupees, 11 beddings, 11 utensils, 11 kilos of gheo and Munde da Peo.
What will you do with the boy’s father?
Why Mummyji it is so hot in Mohali, I will take him to Kulu-Manali!
Kaajal Mangalmukhi is well known in the Mohali homes where she reaches to bless newborn babies or the grooms, as the case may be for no auspicious occasion is complete without the Third Sex making its presence
felt.
A ceremony intiating one of the sect, who is decalred a widow soon after she is made a bride. |
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Tiger, Tiger burning bright…
A fine case for saving the tiger has been built in a play that comes to town next week, says
Parbina Rashid
Jaimini Pathak may be little known in this part of the country, but he sure is making a splash in the theatre world, especially in Mumbai. For his latest play Once Upon a Tiger which he wrote and produced only last year, has already completed 500 shows. And guess what? He is coming with this production to the City Beautiful on February 4.
A self-professed nature lover, Jaimini’s Once Upon A Tiger unfolds the story of ecological imbalances and environmental degradation through two families visiting a tiger reserve and trying in futility to catch the glimpse of the big cat.
“So the story is not just about a tiger but the grand sum of factors that has led to the extinction of tigers,” says Jaimini over the phone, excited about coming to Chandigarh to stage a show. “I have heard so much about the city that it will be nice to come there with my shows,” he says. The show is being organised by Shilpa Bagodia’s Theatreworks.
A scene from Once Upon A Tiger.
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No stranger to Rubin Museum
Nirupama Dutt
Early Sikh art and devotion are no longer strange to the Rubin Museum in New York where a finely curated exhibition, by
B.N. Goswamy and Caron Smith, on the theme has been on display since September 18, 2006. Titled I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion, showcases art representing the early Sikh beliefs. The exhibited art broadly falls into three categories: janmasakhis depicting reconstructed events in the life of Guru Nanak, images of the Gurus who followed him through the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh who founded the Khalsa in 1699, and manuscripts of the text named by Gobind Singh as his successor and the Eternal Living Guru.
GURU NANAK AT PANJA SAHIB: 19th Century watercolour of the local museum collection at Rubin Museum, New York, and Chandigarh Museum director
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Persian prints
The name is just right. Dreamscapes. For as you enter the newly-inaugurated The Great Art Studio in Sector 34, you find yourself surrounded by fairytale figures, transporting you to the world of love, colour and innocence. Albeit, the exhibits are all prints, but it gives you a glimpse of what Mahmoud
Farshchian, the great Iranian artist, stands for— colours and more
colours.
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Funny side up
Smriti Sharma
‘My wife’s wedding’, how does it sound? Okay, let me put it differently, Meri Vahuti Da Viyah. Yes it might seem like a funny one liner, but this precisely is the title of the latest Punjabi movie. Starring the face of Punjabi comedy, Gurpreet Ghuggi, in the lead along with Upasana Singh, Vivek Shauq, Kuldip Singh and Smeep Kang, the film promises to bring out the seriousness of man-wife relationship in a humorous way.
More than the title it is the plot that seems interesting. The story revolves around the husband, played by Gurpeert
Ghuggi, who is constantly bogged down by the thoughts of what is going to happen to his wife after he passes away. Then begins the ultimate confusion when the husband starts looking around for a perfect groom for his wife and his better-half suspects him for covering up his own infidelity by trying to hook her with someone. Gurpreet, who has written the script and the title song, has also sung for this film.
YEH DOSTI: Gurpreet Ghuggi and Smeep Kang.
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A rejuvenating experience
If the hip and urban lifestyles have created unwanted stress and pressures for the jet age populace, then it has given the antidotes as well. Spas may have made their entry in this city a long time back, but they surely are re-inventing themselves to provide the ultimate rejuvenating experience along with therapeutic remedies.
Already more than a dozen salons have spas on their menus. Adding to it, ‘Cleopatra Day Spa beauty & Slimming Solution for Today’s Men and Women’ has introduced Medi spa—a range of seven signatory Cleo-magical spas to its existing ones.
SKIN DEEP: There are a variety of spas to beat the stress. — Photo by Manoj Mahajan |
Pride of Bihar
Every actor, no matter how great the talent, needs a role that will show him the best. For Vineet Kumar, who has shown considerable talent in theatre and on the screen, the spoof on Laloo Prasad Yadav in Ram Khilawan CM proved to be one such opportunity. And now this actor of the Bihari soil as he belongs to Patna has another role just tailor made for him.
SIDE LANES
SHOOTIN’ SHETTY
Joyshri Lobo
Shootin’ Shetty, our Desi kudi, hit the Wild West with all guns blazing. In fact she behaved like a true Punjabi kudi and we in Chandigarh are thrilled that our Northern culture is spreading to the South as well as abroad. Such kudis are often seen at Heathrow, sitting it out while some firangi tries to persuade them to return to work. Remember Human Rights and all that? In the West, they “talk to you” and not laathi charge your bottoms. They need a visit from our experienced cops and husbands.
YOUTH SPEAK
Respect yourself Girls!
Girls are the future of the nation. They are emerging as giants in every field, sometimes even outshining their male counterparts. They are business women, sports girls, teachers, advocates, in fact they are making their present felt in almost every field.
Green with Envy
Going beyond envy, green has infinite variations and blends easily with every other hue. Greens combine well with yellow. A few accents in yellow like the pillows, artwork, and centerpiece perk up the colour scheme instantly.
NEW RELEASES
A tribute
to love
Kal Ho Na Ho fame director
Nikhil Advani’s much-hyped multi-starrer Salaam-E-Ishq was released
yesterday at Batra, Chandigarh, Fun Republic Manimajra and Suraj,
Panckhula. The film has been making news for quite sometime, be it for
its unique pairing or the latest buzz about filmmaker Karan Johar doing
a cameo in the movie.
FILMS & FASHION
Sushi and romance
Pop diva Jessica Simpson embarked upon a visit to Florida to join her boyfriend singer John Mayer for part of his tour in Florida. A source has revealed that the 26-year-old arrived in Miami early on Monday to meet up with Mayer, 29, at the Four Seasons Hotel.
“Jessica flew in very early after a red-eye flight on Monday morning and spent the day with her boyfriend,” Contactmusic quoted the source as telling US Weekly.
HOPSCOTCH
Maare Gaye Gulfam
For those who grew up on the samosa-chai and tears fare of Hindi film diet as against the popcorn and coke diet of Hollywood cinema and had a nomadic childhood and adolescence; many are the memories attached to where, when and how one got to see a film. In those days the adults sanctioned films and it was not done to see more than one film a week or more.
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