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THE pomp and show of the British Raj comes alive in all its colours. This is an original colour film — much of it previously unseen. Many personal letters and diaries capture the complexities and contradictions of life during the Empire days in India. The British In Colour — Tryst With Destiny on Thursday at 9 pm on Travel & Lifestyle covers events and people, who are often read or heard about but for the first time the viewers can see them — all in colour.Some of the events include the 1911 Delhi Durbar, Lord Mountbatten’s arrival in India, discussions between major leaders of the time, including Nehru and Gandhi, Partition and its pains and the jubilations in India on its first Independence Day. It also features there is Nehru’s historic speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’. For all Indophiles this is a unique and must-see film. Identity crisis Matt Damon returns as the
trained assassin Jason Bourne in espionage thriller The Bourne
Ultimatum on Friday at 9 pm on HBO. In this action-packed sequel,
having lost his memory and the one person he loved, Jason Bourne is
forced to hunt down his past in order to find a future and search for
his own identity.Travelling from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and
New York City, he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne —while
trying to outmanoeuvre an army of cops, federal officers and Interpol
agents. An edge-of-the-seat movie with a nail-biting climax that will
set the pulses racing. — NF
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