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SAI DG’s visit exposes
false claims CHANDIGARH,
However, the Director General of SAI, Mr D.K. Mittal, said the new centre would only support the NIS at Patiala. Mr Mittal visited the Sector 42 northern centre of SAI to meet officials and monitor the working of the centre. He was accompanied by Mr G.S. Anand, Regional Director of SAI at the NIS. The Tribune had published a news item, “Confusion at SAI office” on June 9, questioning the need for the centre. Today, Mr Mittal said the present SAI centre would have a small sport sciences centre and doctors and experts would be called from Patiala when required. He said it would become operational within two months. Mr Mittal said he was shocked to know that no hockey turf was available for the new centre of excellence for women's hockey, the trials for which had been held in July. However, Mr Kashyap said the turfs at Punjab Agricultural University at Ludhiana and the NIS at Patiala could be used for the purpose. Mr Mittal said if it was so, SAI would have to rethink about establishing the new centre. He also said the Sector 18 Sports Training Centre, where trainees were showing good results, could be used for the purpose. The UT Administration plans to lay a new Astroturf after December in place of the present one which is damaged. At present, the UT Administration is giving four rooms at the Sector 42 Sports Hostel for the new centre to accommodate 22 girls. He said, besides SAI coaches, former hockey players could also be asked to run these centres. In Delhi, where new centres of excellence were opened past month for table tennis and badminton, former national table tennis champion Manjit Dua, former Thomas Cup player Vikram Singh and his wife Madhumita Bisht are training youngsters. Mr Mittal said no new centres under the NSTC scheme had been approved. He, however, did not say whether the NSTC centre in the Sector 41 Shivalik Public School would be allowed to continue or not. He said the school had tried to manipulate things in the case of one such scheme, so, the SAI was planning to discontinue these centres. Regarding the day-boarding scheme in DAV School which Mr Kashyap had announced past month, Mr Mittal said no such decision had been taken. He said if any medal-holder was recommended for any of the incentives, whichever be the institution, he or she would get these. |
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Administration seeks shifting of national highway CHANDIGARH,
This proposal is aimed at allowing vehicles to enter the city from one point only to check the number of these entering the traffic flow. There has to be a final inspection by a team of the MoST before the project is accepted. On the other hand, a Rs 4.98 crore project to double-lane outer Dakshin Marg, from the intersection of Sectors 46, 47, 48 and 49 to Sectors 39 and Palsora village, has been included in this year’s plan outlay of the Chandigarh Administration. This road will be a part of the national highway. At present, the national highway in the city is the stretch of Dakshin Marg from Tribune Chowk to the roundabout of Sectors 21, 22, 34 and 35. From this point, vehicles coming from Ambala turn left on the busy road that divides Sectors 34 and 35 and also Sectors 43 and 44. The vehicles join outer Dakshin Marg by turning right at the intersection of Sectors 43, 44, 51 and 52. The Administration has asked the MoST to allow the use of the road dividing Sectors 31 and 32 and Sectors 46 and 47 as national highway. The road will join the outer Dakshin Marg at the intersection of Sectors 46, 47, 48 and 49 before turning right towards the Kharar-Ludhiana road. On both sides, the road has an ample space for three lanes; a recent survey of the Administration has shown. The road also has a daily traffic density of 19,752 passenger-car units. On the present national highway, the road dividing Sectors 34 and 35 takes a daily load of 42,532 PCUs. The stretch of Dakshin Marg which divides Sectors 33 and 20 takes a load of 38,000 PCU's. The PCU is calculated on basis of the size of vehicles. The PCU for a bus will be different from that of a bicycle or scooter. Once the MoST accepts the proposal, the road will be repaired and strengthened. The Administration will only be an executing agency and most of the project will be funded by the Union Government. The road was chosen after the MoST rejected the original choice of the Administration. Originally, the plan was to make the incoming traffic from Ambala turn left from Tribune Chowk. The traffic would then have turned left till the corner of Sector 47-C before turning right towards the stretch of outer Dakshin Marg dividing Sectors 47 and 48. The plan was rejected as the MoST did not want to spend money for connecting Sectors 31 and 47. This would have needed an extensive land-fill job as the stretch is a low-lying area. The Finance Secretary and Secretary Engineering of the UT, Mr Rakesh Singh, said traffic had increased, so there was a need to shift the location of the national highway. At present, about 4,000 vehicles, including the heavy ones, pass through the city daily because the national highway runs right through the main roads. The number of such vehicles almost doubles in the tourist season when visitors from Delhi and Haryana head for Manali, Kullu, Mandi or Dharamsala. According to the original master plan of the city, the national highway was to bypass the city. However, it has not happened in the past 50 years. |
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All set for Mohali civic
poll SAS NAGAR,
About 260 employees of different government departments had been put on duty, said the Returning Officer. For each polling booth, there would be four persons, including the presiding officers. He said 71,320 ballot papers had been printed. At some of the polling stations, there are two, three or four, polling booths, which brings the number of these to 65. On the directives of the Punjab State Election Commissioner, Mr C.D. Cheema, the Deputy Commissioner of Ropar, has deputed three observers for the elections. The observers are Mr Devinder Singh, Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) of Kharar, Ms Kuljit Kaur, Assistant Commissioner of Ropar and Ms Hargunjit Kaur, Executive Magistrate of Ropar. Each observer has been given eight wards. The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the town, Mr S.S. Gill, said 218 police personnel had been put on duty. Six police patrol parties and two additional reserve units would be on standby. The polling booths that have been identtified as sensitive, fall in Ward 6 (Government Primary School, Phase 2), Ward 15 (Government Middle School, Matour), Ward 24 (Community Centre, Phase XI), Ward 25 (Sandeep Model School, Kambali), Ward 26 (Government Primary School, Phase XI) and Ward 27 (Government Primary School, Phase X). In all, 14 polling booths have been declared most sensitive. Mr Gill said at each sensitive booth, eight police personnel had been put on duty and at the other booths, four policemen would be on duty.
Violation of code of conduct The Shiromani Akali Dal government appears to have left nothing to chance for tomorrow’s polls as 14 Punjab ministers and some former MPs have been given a ward each. In the past few days also, senior members of the Punjab Cabinet have been openly taking part in public functions in support of the candidates of the party. The ministers at certain functions have promised new projects in violation of the model code of conduct. Meanwhile, Mr Prem Singh Chandumajra, a Tohra loyalist and a former Member of Parliament, today, alleged that the Badal government had used official machinery in there elections. He alleged that voters were being pressurised to cast their vote in favour of the ruling party candidates. He said the issue had been brought to the notice of the Punjab Election Commissioner, Mr C.D. Cheema. Mr Hardeep Singh of the All-India Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal (AISAD) said at least 300 votes of the SBI colony in Ward 22 had been deleted. He said there were flaws in the voters list released on August 12 and the one released to the polling staff. |
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Bomb detonation successfully
demonstrated CHANDIGARH,
According to Mr R.S. Verma, Director, Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL), who supervised the operation, the Jammu Police had brought the RDX laden IED a couple of months back for testing. The device had been seized from a militant and had been sent to them for analysis and a final report about its contents. He said the device was in the form of a milk can, commonly used by milkmen, but the RDX had been cleverly concealed. The upper part was filled with ghee, but the bottom was hollow where the explosive was stored. This is one of the ways that explosives are being smuggled in the valley, he disclosed. The team took the can and placed it in a fibre glass container atop a sand bagged truck of the local police and transported it to the firing range. The police had made adequate arrangements and traffic was held up briefly while the device was slowly driven to the venue. It took the team five hours and the device was finally exploded at 5 pm. There was a loud bang and it was all over. Mr Verma revealed that there was one kg of RDX which could have done extensive damage had it been exploded in a crowded place. He said the bomb which went off in the Sector 34 market and the one used in the assassination of the late Beant Singh, a former Punjab Chief Minister, were also of the same intensity. |
No salvation for Shivalik
Arboretum CHANDIGARH,
Surprisingly, however, even after ten years of its existence, barring perhaps a couple of trees, no others have a name plate. The name plate, essentially mentions the classification of the plant, especially the genus and the species. Incidentally, an arboretum is a live collection of trees of different species and types, grown together for research and educational purpose. In this case, as the name signifies, the arboretum has a collection of trees from the Shivalik range. Mr H.S. Sohal, the Deputy Conservator of Forests, while defending the position of his department, says that the name plates are ready and would be placed on the respective trees soon enough. Further, the arboretum, at the moment, is infested with Congress and wild grass, making it virtually impossible to make way through it. Mr Sohal, however, says that the arboretum is not a garden but more like a forest. “There is a difference between a forest and garden. Shivalik Arboretum is a place where different species of trees have been grown together in a natural way. In any case, we plan to clear the grass, but only after the monsoon. It would be quite impractical to cut the grass in this season,” he adds. The environmentalists, though disagree, “An arboretum is not a forest but is part of a botanical garden,” they say. With some investment and care, a green house, a rockery, a cactus and a fern house and a pond for aquatic plants could be created. All these are part of a botanical garden. The Shivalik Arboretum was conceived and set up in eight acres of land on the Madhya Marg on the busy Chandigarh-Panchkula-Shimla Highway, near the Transport Chowk, in 1991 for planting different species for scientific and educational purposes. The place was planned so that all organisations and institutions interested to plant a rare species or saplings can do so by providing representative saplings. Initially as many as 500 plants belonging to 58 varieties were planted. According to experts , the site for the arboretum itself is wrong from the Environment Impact Assessment point of view. They say that the Chandigarh Administration had selected the place without giving thought to the future and carrying out the usual studies as to how many would actually be able to survive in alien conditions. “First and foremost, an arboretum has to be in a place away from the hustle and bustle of the traffic and in a pollution-free environment,” the experts say. Mr Sohal disagrees. “It used to be a dumping ground. Efforts by the administration have now prevented further degradation of the environment. Moreover, maintaining it as an Arboretum also ensures that it is free from encroachment.” Mr S.K. Sharma, President, Environment Society , who is a regular visitor to the arboretum also says that initially too, the trees were planted rather haphazardly. Many of them have died over the period. Moreover, despite repeated warnings from environmentalists and others, burning of grass and dry leaves in May 1995, had caused extensive damage to the arboretum. |
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Telephone wires go
haywire MULLANPUR-GARIBDAS, Aug 19 — No new telephone connections have been released from the telephone exchange situated here, since 1996, allege the residents of the villages connected to the exchange. An official of the telephone department blamed the exchange capacity. According to the villagers, whenever they contact the department, they repeatedly get the same answer, “The present exchange is small and very soon a bigger one will be installed”. “In one month or so a new exchange will be installed at Ratwara Sahib, near Mullanpur”, clarified an official, when contacted. “I applied for a connection some three years ago, and till date I have not heard anything from the deparment”, said Mr Gurmail Singh of Parol village. Similar is the story of Mr Sitar and Mr Amrit of Mullanpur village and scores of other people in the area. The present telephone exchange is installed in a dilapidated building. According to sources, in the telephone department, problems faced by the consumers connected to Mullanpur exchange are not only because of the small exchange but also because of shortage of staff. This is not all. The residents complain that their telephones never work properly. “The phone functions almost normally between 9 a.m. to dusk”, said Mr Arvind Puri, a shop owner at the Mullanpur market and added, “in the evenings the dial tone goes off”. The villagers complain that they are facing this problem for last many years”. Since some time now the tone remains but once you dial a number you will hear only ‘this route is busy or check the number you have dialed’. Mr Ashok Chabbra, a shop owner in the Mullanpur market complains that “Outstation calls are a far cry, at times one cannot talk to a friend on the phone who lives across the road”. The recent breakdown in the main telephone exchange has only added to the problem. “Though we are accustomed to hearing the taped massages of the telephone department, but for last few days, my customers are facing lots of problem”, complained Mr Gurpreet Singh, an STD owner at Parol village. “I had to make an important call to Sangrur but for last three days, I am shutlling between one STD booth and another”, said Harnek Singh of Bharongjan village. STD lines still down in, around Chandigarh CHANDIGARH, Congestion on the STD and ISD lines is continuing as the oft repeated computerised command ‘’this route is busy, please dial after some time’’ .. drills the callers ears. Engineers of the French firm Alcatel and telecom engineers are yet to locate the exact fault. The exchange has been put on partial load , which means all the channels or connecting links from exchanges has not been put on the TAX for the fear that it may collapse. Meanwhile, engineers are observing the exchange round-the-clock and act immediately when the software stops functioning. The Principal General Manager Telecom, Mr Prithipal Singh, claimed that the traffic was normal but admitted that it may be taking a few attempts by subscribers to get through to dialled stations. He also said the fault is yet to be pin pointed and it cannot be said as to when things will be right. Meanwhile, sources have indicated that Alcatel engineers worked throughout the night to locate the fault with active help from their headquarters in France. |
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Bank of information next
week CHANDIGARH,
A senior staff member of the department will man this counter and a touchscreen system monitor will be set up, says Mr Vivek Atray, Director, Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration. To create a bank of information required by the public, various enquiries or requests received by each department are being looked into. Such information can be classified into two parts. The first will be time invariant information, which does not change over a medium time-frame of six months to one year. This information is generally available with various departments in the form of leaflets, brochures and handouts. These generally describe how the public can get services from a particular department, what kind of services are on offer and the forms one is required to fillin. The second part of this information is time-variant and changes on a daily or weekly basis. This relates to the status of the services being provided by the government to the public, and information about the decision making process of the government. Examples of this include the waiting list of house allotments by a state development authority or decisions on the tendering process. Information on the first kind is relatively easy to identify and collate. In most of the cases, such information is already available, but not in a computer readable form. Information of the second kind has two problems, first identifying information which can be classified as open domain (i.e. information to be made public), and information related to the decision making process, which, with the passage of time moves from the confidential category to the open domain category. The second problem relates to the dynamic nature of information. Information of this kind keeps getting updated on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. |
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Superstition disguised as business CHANDIGARH,
Superstitious feelings among public have increased so much that people seeking alms in the name of Shani Dev profit from it. To ward away their bad luck people give away charity in the form of money or anything. Astrology comples people to believe that if something is donated in lieu of charity, they get rid of bad luck. In public places and markets, small kids can be seen asking for money on Saturday. Slum-dwellers are also in the rat race and pick up a vessel and collect oil and coins the whole day. Students studying in night schools are also reportedly sent by parents on Saturday mornings to collect money. Mrs Anuradha Suri, a house-wife said: “We strongly believe that on every Saturday it is a must for the whole family ensures putting coins so that nothing bad occurs during the day. They sell the oil to shopkeepers and it is a business for them.” Another shopkeeper in Sector 17 said, “On every Saturday a person comes over and I keep half a kg of mustard oil and coins to give him. It proves to be lucky for me.” Presidents of some temples said we have never seen these people coming to temples and making offerings to God. Hari Kumar, a Shani Dev who was roaming about in the Sector 17 market said, it was a practice to help people to get rid of the bad stars. “Hum to logon ka achha hi karte hain, aur unke kharab grahaon ko talte hain”. Some people, nevertheless, believe that most of them are frauds. They play with the feelings of people and sell the oil in the shops. |
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Hope for power starved
Panchkula PANCHKULA, Aug 19 — A variety of issues pertaining to encroachments, sanitation, development works and the action taken on pending issues came up for discussion at a press conference held in the presence of heads of various departments under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner, Mr S.K. Monga, at the mini-secretariat in Sector 1, here today. A site on the national highway has been chosen to accommodate the 200-odd shops in Old Panchkula. The Administrator, HUDA, Mr Sandeep Garg, said the Estate Office had conducted a survey and identified the shops to be allotted alternative sites. He informed that the process of allotment was being delayed since a part of the area selected by the department was occupied by jhuggi-dwellers and the matter was pending in court. On illegal mining in the river bed in Saketri, Mr Monga said the Mining Officer had been asked to carry out a check at the site and the demand of proper demarcation of the river bed with Punjab and Haryana was being taken up with the departments concerned. Also, an enquiry to ascertain the role of the sarpanch was being carried out simultaneously. The DC added that in Barwala a spray had been carried out in 14 villages in the vicinity of the poultry farms to check the fly manace. He said that the poultry farm owners had been instructed to maintain hygiene by regular spray to control the flies who had plagued the entire place. “The cleanliness in the secretariat is not proper owing to paucity of manpower. I have recommended that a common facility service be started at the venue to ensure its upkeep since the departments do not have sufficient manpower,” Mr Monga contended. Replying to a question on the deplorable state of the bus stand in Kalka, Mr Monga said a new site for the same belonging to the Education department had been identified. However, a private colony had encroached upon a part of this land and negotiations to settle these were on. Other problems highlighted on the occasion included that of the Kalka bypass, for which a survey has already been conducted, and the maintenance of the Housing Board Colony. The SDM, Kalka, said a meeting to decide on the issue of the colony had been fixed for September 5 when a final decision would be taken. Earlier, Mr Monga highlighted the development works carried out in the district. Speaking on the occasion, he informed that HUDA had spent Rs 16 crore in development of infrastructure, the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam had started the long-awaited Shahbad-Panchkula link line which would improve voltage and power situation in the district. Further, he lauded the improved water situation in rural areas, increase in crop yield, progress in ascertaining those below poverty line, facilitation of pension scheme beneficiaries and facility of more dispensaries in the city. |
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Swami Shiv Swaroop Atma
remembered CHANDIGARH,
Master of many languages including Sanskrit, English, Gujrati, Tamil and Malayalam, he would effortlessly remember the names of thousands of his followers. Every year on the eve of Guru Poornima and Makar Sankranti, he was visited by around 3 lakh to 4 lakh people and saw to it that every one was properly fed. According to him, everything in the world was subject to change except the Almighty whose knowledge could set us free from the cycle of birth and death. This was the ultimate truth and our final goal. He used to say that truth was hidden and fulfilling one’s duties faithfully was the only way to achieve it. In his words,“God is found where there is His thought, His desire and He is hidden among everybody and He beckons us. Actually the basis of all attractions is the Almighty. Being omnipresent, He drives the cycle of life.” “We see nothing, but Him. All manifestations of life have been caused by His energy and one sees only the outer form and forgets the causal force which without any form shall have no existence.” Born in Kerala, Swamiji settled in Kurali in 1946. He never encouraged his disciples to ask about his age. However, they estimated him to be 130 years old when he passed away. Swamiji’s life and thought deeply transformed millions of people who came across him. A cosmopolitan by thought, he was committed only to the truth. A yogi of the highest order, his creativity and simplicity were inimitable. He would share and solve all kinds of problems of people from all walks of life. He was a model of good conduct and inspired people to rise above suffering and attain freedom, peace and happiness which he used to say “always resides within all of us, only we have forgotten it. It is the desire that binds us and makes us small. Otherwise, we are completely free and great. One who desires nothing is completely free, he does not even need God.” Swamiji’s sohlavi, the sixteenth day since his passing away, is scheduled for tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Kurali. |
‘Suspend cops in custodial death case’ CHANDIGARH,
The victim, a 29-year-old RMP doctor was running a small clinic in Badala village in Ropar district. The victim died on the intervening night of August 10 and 11 allegedly in Sector 39 police custody. The President of the lawyers’ forum, Mr Amar Singh Chahal said that police killed the young man and was then trying to scuttle every effort to unearth the truth by cooking up false evidence and planting false witnesses. It was a clear case of custodial death exposing the doctor-police nexus, he stated. The team members who investigated the case are Manpreet Singh Chahal, Tejinder Singh Gill, Hirdaypal Singh, Ravinder Jolly, Yogesh Vinyak and Arunjeev Singh Walia. Different persons concerned with the case, including police personnel were contacted during the investigation. The General Secretary, Mr Navkiran Singh, further added that after examining at least twenty witnesses and collecting all the necessary information from different sources, the team is of the belief that Amanjeet had undoubtedly died in police custody and that the police version of the accidental death and scuffle while under the influence of liquor was nothing but a figment of their minds. He did not rule out the possibility of the police obtaining a false medical certificate. The team also proposed three theories behind the custodial death. The first theory is that one of the police witness at village Badala had played an important role in the elimination of the deceased. He might have taken the deceased to the Police Station at Sector 39 on his vehicle on August 10. The second theory is that the deceased had died in the police station itself due to excessive beating, and then the police cooked up the story that the deceased had consumed excessive alcohol with Dhindsa in his clinic and was arrested from Sector 39-40 while he was making nuisance under the influence of liquor. While coming back from the hospital, the victim fell down from the vehicle and died because of the injuries. According to the third theory even if it was not a planned murder, the deceased might have died due to a fall from the moving vehicle. It was possible that under the influence of liquor, the deceased had scuffle with constable Naresh Kumar in the moving vehicle and tumbled out, said the team members. The team recommended that it is a case, where the story of the police is flawed. The role of the hospital sources in helping the police authorities, the fabricated evidence and the false witness produced before the SDM (South) by the police, is a fit case for an independent probe by some independent agency, preferably by the CBI, said Mr Singh. They demanded that a case under Sections 342, 330, 304-A of the IPC should be registered against the policemen. |
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One killed in mishap PANCHKULA,
Vehicles stolen:
A Maloya resident, Harpal Singh, has reported that someone has stolen his scooter, CH-03-A-4562, from the Sector 22 market. A case under Section 379 of the IPC has been registered. CHANDIGARH Case registered:
According to the police sources, a Panchkula resident, Subash Chander had filed a compliant against Yash Pal Majahan, MD of the company, P. Shiv Ram, its Executive Director, Sudhakaran, Manager, L.M. Verma, GM (Marketing) and Rohit Nagpal, Marketing Manager, for selling him the vehicle at Rs 5.39 lakh. When he took the vehicle to the Motor Vehicle Inspector, he refused to register, saying that it had not been manufactured according to specifications. Subash moved a petition in the court of Ms Gurwinder Kaur, JMIC, who ordered the case to be registered. The case has been registered under Sections 420 and 120-B of the IPC. |
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Rani Balbir Kaur fights back CHANDIGARH,
Addressing mediapersons at her residence here late this evening, she alleged that she had been wrongly framed in the case. The cassettes reportedly containing the deliberations between her and the complainants, Jagjivan Singh, Preet Inderpal Singh and Sandeep Passi of Patiala, were fake and she had at no stage said was being held against her. She also presented members of her troupe who affirmed that the complainants have started creating trouble for her as soon as they learned that their visas had been sanctioned as a part of her troupe to leave for America. When money could not sway her, they threatened her with dire consequences and when even this did not work, they got filed a case registered against her at Patiala. Incidentally, Mr Gurpreet Singh Gill, SP (City), Patiala, is the relative of Jagjivan Singh, one of the complainants, they pointed out. Visibly pained at the turn of events, she lamented that her years of hard work and respect earned in the country and abroad had been tarnished. “I bear no grudge against them but will expose them for what they are”, she added. She said she will move the court to get the case transferred to the city soon. |
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2 labourers killed as building
collapses KHARAR,
Mr Rupinder Singh, DSP Kharar, said that two labourers, Mr Karnail Singh (27 years old) of Sohali village and Mr Joginder Singh (22 years old) of Chandpur village were buried alive when the foundation of a previous structure caved in, in a gatta factory in Majri village. He said both the dead bodies were taken out by 10 p.m. last night. He said that in all, five labourers were working there when this incident occurred. He said three labourers—Mr Rohit Bhandari, Mr Bikar Singh and Mr Gomle Parshad—had a narrow escape and out of them, Mr Rohit Bhandari seems to have sustained a fracture. He said that the post-mortem of both the bodies was ordered to be performed. According to information a compromise between the concerned parties has been reached and hence till now
no case has been registered against the owners so far as nobody came forward to lodge a formal complaint with the police. |
by Sanjeev Bariana Is Bachchan magic on? CHANDIGARH: The super publicity of
“Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya” has generated immense interest in the film. The film (Batra) falls short of a seat-binding flow.Abhishek Bachchan shows his father’s (Amitabh Bachchan’s) movement and moods. The ‘long-race horse’ plays a videographer. He falls in love with Keerti Reddy who has gone to Agra to attend a friend’s wedding. The new-find Keerti plays a director in an advertisement agency in Mumbai. She bowls over Abhiskhek. She, however, is clear about her dream boy — a millionaire with a Mercedes. Her love for her boss Kader Khan’s son goes with her scheme of things. Abhishek is jilted when he learns about it. She lies to her boss that she was engaged to Abhishek. She asks him to behave rudely in public. He teases a girl and has to leave the venue with egg on his face. All curse him for his behaviour and show him the door. The way is cleared for Keerti to find her lover. Abhishek manages a project for her. She is awarded the best director award. Shot in Agra and France, the movie has an impressive scenery, particularly in songs. Overdose of songs makes one yawn. Paresh Rawal makes his presence felt by speaking in a dialect. “Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya” has a simple story line, with minor jerks. Keerti’s love for the millionaire and her re-thought could have been worked out better. Again, the lover’s dreams, and day-dreams in picturesque locales seem to be over done. The intensity of a triangular love story is lacking. Life moves rather ‘casually’ on the screen. Vishnu Bhagnani, who has produced acclaimed films like “Coolie No 1”, “Hero No 1”, “Biwi No 1” and “Chhote Miyan Bade Miyan” is the producer and A. Muthu, the director. Sanjay Suri, Farida Jalal, Johnny Level also feature in the movie. The story is by Ikram Akhtar, cinematography by Santosh Thundial, action by Bhikhu Verma, choreography by Saroj Khan and B.H. Tharun Kumar. Good lyrics by Sameer have been scored well. Will the songs and pre-release hype see it through the box-office? |
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