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 Friday re-dressing
Heading for a weekend bash straight from office? Cheer up, it does not take much to morph from a lady
with a laptop into a temptress in a tube top, writes Jasmine Singh
Samiksha Sodhi, working with a city-based bank, hurriedly goes through the last lot of papers. She has to attend a party in the evening. But she doesn’t have any time to go back home and change. Now what? She certainly can’t go partying in her executive attire of formal pants, shirt and a tie, lest she look like a zombie on the move!
Photo by Vicky Gharu, Model: Diljott
Poll pret
 It’s once again that time of the year when students indulge in slogan shouting, wear ideologies on their sleeves, flaunt their knowledge of political issues, indulge in serious brainstorming, and escort girls to the hostels. Welcome students, it’s election time on the campus and you bet, it’s getting bigger with each passing day.
sopu president Brinder Singh Dhillon (extreme right) and his pals put their best foot forward.
Photo by Himanshu Mahajan
NEW RELEASES
This Friday’s flicks Rock On, Champu and C Kkompany are a cocktail of guitars, guns and gags.
 Baja, bahu aur babe
The leading lady of Rock On Prachi Desai tells
Jasmine Singh that the role just happened though she knows next to nothing about rock music
HER mobile is constantly engaged. And if you are lucky, you get to hear a rocking ring tone, which goes on and on till you finally give up. Can’t blame her, it’s her day and she wants to share the excitement and jitters with all and sundry. Finally, we manage to get across. A soft, excited and hasty voice answers the call, ‘Hi, Prachi Desai here.’
Great expectations
THE last time we saw him on the silver screen was in a rib tickling comedy ‘Dhol’. Back to tickle your funny bone, Tusshar Kapoor hones his comic skills with his home production
(Balaji Motion Pictures Ltd), ‘C KKompany’. A light-hearted comedy this film would see Tusshar in a typical comic role, and for Tusshar he hopes that acclaimed scriptwriter Sachin Yardi’s, directorial debut ‘C Kkompany’ would justify his faith in good cinema and his need to work with new-age directors. In conversation, Tusshar gets talking about his new film ‘C Kkompany’.
Tinsel Tadka
Dus
Ka Dum
 Sarson da saag in Sydney
A slice of Punjab has always found its way into Bollywood. But in recent flicks, Punjabiyat may well have got a makeover — with new rap as well as wrap, writes
Ashima Sehajpal
Blooming mustard fields, multi-hue outfits a rich cultural heritage: Punjab has so often rendered the perfect background to Bollywood flicks. From romantic scenes of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le
Jayenge, shot amidst the all so yellow mustard flowers to the rural backdrop shown in Jab We Met, a little of Punjab and its lifestyle has been showcased in numerous movies.
About Town
Chunk of jewels
 WE may have had stacked away those chunky chokers in favour of those sleek modernistic ones, but a visit to Episode-9, the venue for Annu Chadha’s two-day jewellery exhibition, one gets tempted to at least reconsider, if not buy, the fact that nothing can beat those good ol’ classical pieces. Heavy earrings, rings that covers almost the entire hand and chokers that once used to make Asha Parekh and Mumtaj the envy of millions of women.
YoungisTAAN
Beauty
and brawn
 Sidelanes
Images
that talk
Sometimes, in the midst of grime,
gobar, human excreta, mountains of plastic waste, domestic garbage, stinking
nullahs, rodents, desi murghis, flies, pigs, goats and cattle, people emerge to take up challenges to make their pockets of existence better places.
Objet d’art
Commonplace objects that inspire painters
Brush with faith
It’s the bursting human energy which makes Hardwar special for artists like Marianne North, Raghu Rai or Bheem Malhotra
Parbina Rashid
WHEN Victorian artist Marianne North visited India during 1877-79, her primary aim was to satisfy her passion for recording the world’s flora with her paintbrush. But when she landed at
Hardwar, temple-scape took precedence over her love for botany. Maybe it was the spiritual aura of the place at the foothills of Himalayas, which motivated her to paint Ganga and the banks in more than 200 frames.
| HOPE & FAITH: While Bheem Malhotra’s painting |
Raghu Rai’s photo
capture colour and energy, Vinay Vadhera focuses on human greed |
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Eat raspberries,
avoid cancer
A mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may effectively inhibit cancer development.Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center examined the effect of freeze-dried black raspberries on genes altered by a chemical carcinogen in an animal model of esophageal cancer. The study found that using raspberries in the diet can restore one-fifth of carcinogenic genes.
These findings, published in recent issue of the journal Cancer Research, also helped identify 53 genes that may play a fundamental role in early cancer development.
— ANI
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