O P I N I O N S

EDITORIALS

Kick corruption out
Indians must support IOC stance
India's exile from the Olympic Movement continues because the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) officials refuse to act tough against corruption.

Advantage tourism
Not possible if Jammu is ignored
There is little doubt that tourism in Jammu and Kashmir is looking up. But it is disheartening to note that many tourism projects in Jammu are held up due to government laxity. 

Death of Heaney
Ireland loses its national treasure
Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate, who famously proclaimed, “My passport’s green/No glass of ours was ever raised/to toast the Queen,” died in Dublin recently. He was 74.

• Thought for the Day

ARTICLE

Zardari & PPP's decline
Governance suffered as survival became paramount
by Rana Banerji
As Asif Ali Zardari demits the office of President on September 8, 2013, history may reserve judgment on whether he contributed more towards the consolidation of democracy in Pakistan or to the decline of the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP) to a mere regional presence in Sindh.

MIDDLE

God’s window
by Col P S Sangha, VrC (retd)
It was early September 1975. I was posted in the Air OP Squadron at Nasik. One morning the wife of a Squadron officer went to hospital to deliver her baby. We came to know later that she had given birth to a healthy son. However, the lady had serious post-delivery problems due to internal bleeding. The Military Hospital at Deolali had its limitations in terms of resources.

Saturday Review

CINEMA: NEW Releases
Desi modern take
Nonika Singh
A nation of billion plus where marriage is the most hallowed (even if overrated) institution and big business too, a country where saat pheras are the ultimate and final culmination of a love affair, a movie that delves into live-in relationships aka premarital sex appears both bold and refreshing.

Poor re-production
Johnson Thomas
Apoorva Lakhia’s new-fangled take on the 70’s super-hit, Prakash Mehra helmed Amitabh Bachchan starrer, Zanjeer is disappointing. The film may have made it as scheduled to the big screen, thanks to an out-of-court settlement with the original’s writer duo, but it’s uncertain whether it will go the distance given its weak-kneed approach.

Third time unlucky
Ervell E. Menezes
Riddick is the third film on this hero Richard B. Riddick (Van Diesel), the earlier ones being Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) but as the second one was unsuccessful they have called this one just Riddick with The Chronicles Of in lighter print.

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EDITORIALS

Kick corruption out
Indians must support IOC stance

India's exile from the Olympic Movement continues because the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) officials refuse to act tough against corruption. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), at its meeting in Buenos Aires, stuck to its guns and insisted that Indian sports associations must not allow those officials to hold office against whom a charge-sheet has been filed in a court of law. This ethics clause, the IOC says, must be included in the IOA constitution to ensure good governance. IOA officials say that they would ban only those officials who have been convicted and given a jail term of over two years. Both the IOC and the IOA refuse to budge. Indian sport continues to reap humiliation.

This impasse is unnecessary. Any right-thinking individual would accept that action against corruption is non-negotiable. However, IOA officials insist that they are merely sticking to the Indian law. They say the Indian law bars only individuals who have been convicted by a court from holding office. They say that the IOC can't interfere in India’s “official matters” and the “law of the land”. This is absurd. Honest officials should support and invite the most rigorous scrutiny of the associations they head. This they must do also to ensure Indian sport and sportspersons do not suffer, and India is accepted back into the Olympic fold. To resist a higher level of scrutiny for the sake of holding on to their positions is extremely selfish and dishonest.

The IOC, by sticking to its position, is providing an opportunity to India to clean up sport. Indians — fans and sportspersons — and the Indian government must not let themselves be blackmailed on this issue. They must not, for the short-term solace of participating in the 2014 Asian Games or the 2016 Olympics, align themselves along with the IOA, against the IOC. In the worst case scenario, if the IOA continues to resist the IOC, Indian athletes could be allowed to participate in the Olympics under the IOC flag. It would be humiliating. But it would be only a small price to pay for the possibility of ridding Indian sport of corrupt officials.

Advantage tourism
Not possible if Jammu is ignored

There is little doubt that tourism in Jammu and Kashmir is looking up. But it is disheartening to note that many tourism projects in Jammu are held up due to government laxity. While only the other day the government announced yet another ambitious project in Jammu, a water kingdom spread over sprawling 300 kanals, its previous projects, including the Tawi Lake Project and development of a Buddhist site at Ambaran in Akhnoor, are nowhere near completion. Not long ago there were murmurs about the Jammu region being discriminated against and not given enough funds for the development of tourism infrastructure.

Tourism is the backbone of the state economy with 30 per cent of the people relying on it for their livelihood. While the beauty of the ethereal state has mesmerised visitors since time immemorial, post-1989 the boom of the gun and violence in the Valley did adversely affect its position as Asia's hotspot tourist destination. In the last few years, however, thanks to the winds of peace blowing in the state and consistent government efforts, there has been a significant revival of the tourism sector. However, the temple city can't be seen to be given a short-shrift.

The rich culture of Jammu and Kashmir is a unique blend of Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim cultures. Indeed, like the rest of India, the beauty of Jammu and Kashmir too lies in its cultural, linguistic and religious diversity. Jammu not only attracts a record number of pilgrims at the Vashino Devi shrine but also contributes Rs 475 crore to the local economy. The holy Amaranth yatra too is a big draw. If the state, often compared to the paradise on earth, has to capitalise on the gains made on the tourism front it can't afford to neglect a region as important as Jammu. While the state government must seek clearance for the pending projects, those running behind schedule must be completed at the earliest.

Death of Heaney
Ireland loses its national treasure

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate, who famously proclaimed, “My passport’s green/No glass of ours was ever raised/to toast the Queen,” died in Dublin recently. He was 74. Considered to be the most important among the Irish poets after Yeats, Heaney is known as a poet who composed the most evocative poetry of his times. Never claimed to be aligned with the IRA (Irish Republican Army), his poetry though resonated with the Irish “…habit of avoidance, (and) an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.” A prolific poet, translator and broadcaster, Heaney published more than a dozen anthologies. The lyrical beauty of his poems infused with a universal appeal, found resonance with the lovers of poetry across the globe. ‘Death of Naturalist’ and ‘The Spirit Level’ remain among the most popular poetry collections of the poet, who used to “panic for the birth of the next poem.”

Heaney wrote love poems, epic poems, poems about conflict and strife, but the division of Northern Ireland affected his poetry deeply. In fact, one of his poems “For the Croppies”, which celebrates the Irish rebellion of 1798, came to be used by the IRA for propaganda. He was aware of the sensitivity of words which, if taken out of context, can fuel passions.

It is for the range, consistent quality and its impact on readers apart from the lyrical ease of his poetry that he was treated as a living national treasure. Heaney started his career as a school teacher, and became a lecturer at Queen's and later head of English at Carysfort College, Dublin. For more than 20 years from 1985 he spent part of each year at Harvard as a visiting professor and later a Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, and then as a poet in residence. From 1989 to 1994 he was a professor of poetry at Oxford. The poet who used "words as bearers of history and mystery" will be missed by lovers of poetry.

Thought for the Day

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius

ARTICLE

Zardari & PPP's decline
Governance suffered as survival became paramount
by Rana Banerji

As Asif Ali Zardari demits the office of President on September 8, 2013, history may reserve judgment on whether he contributed more towards the consolidation of democracy in Pakistan or to the decline of the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP) to a mere regional presence in Sindh.

After Benazir's assassination in December, 2007 the PPP benefited from the sympathy vote in the February 2008 elections to emerge as the single largest party in the National Assembly, with 121 seats. Though this was short of majority, Zardari could charm the second largest party's (PML-N) leader, Nawaz Sharif, into an alliance. This bonhomie proved short-lived as differences snowballed on the judges' restoration issue but Zardari skillfully sewed up an alliance with the Muttahid Quami Mahaz (MQM-Altaf) through a power-sharing agreement in Karachi. He later opened up a line to Nawaz's rival Pakistan Muslim League (Q) to checkmate the latter's options on ousting him from power.

Zardari's maneuvering in the party leadership succession was equally adroit. Makhdoom Amin Fahim was the senior-most leader but as a Sindhi, he could not be made Prime Minister if Zardari's own ambition to become President was to be achieved. So he entered into an over-stated and tortuous process of intra-party consultations before surprising most party faithfuls by choosing a comparative lightweight but loyal Punjabi feudal from Multan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, as his Prime Minister. Till the Supreme Court disqualified him for contempt over refusing to write to the Swiss authorities to revive corruption cases against Zardari, Gilani proved completely loyal to him.

Zardari could disarm critics about his own hunger for power by passing the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution, restoring its 1973 parliamentary format, with executive power passing to the PM and the President being bound by the PM's advice. Both the 18th and 20th amendments to the Constitution were landmark legislative achievements of the last National Assembly, transferring power to the Provinces and providing for a caretaker administration to oversee elections. The consensus achieved to share finances with the states under the 9th Finance Commission award was also notable.

However, Zardari was harsh on old Benazir loyalists like Nahid Khan and her husband, Safdar Abbasi. He brought in old cronies who had served jail sentences with him to positions of power, both in the Sindh administration and at the national level. The mercurial Zulfiqar Mirza was made the Interior Minister in Sindh, his wife Fehmida became the Speaker in the National Assembly and relative lightweights like Farooq Naek were given disproportionately important Cabinet posts. This was completely different from Benazir Bhutto's style of sustaining the party's organisation and support from the mass-based cadres or ‘jiyalas’. These factors contributed to the party's poor showing in the 2013 elections but more importantly, the PPP suffered from the perception of poor governance and pervading corruption of its leaders.

Despite a grudging acceptance of his position as the Supreme Commander of the armed forces after he became President, Zardari was able to manage his relationship with the coterie of Army Generals rather cleverly. After spontaneously promising to send over his ISI chief to smoothen ruffled sentiments in India after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, he quietly reneged when the Army protested. He appeased Kayani by offering him a rather unprecedented three-year extension as the Army Chief in 2010, which even had other aspiring Generals demurring. Thereby he could ensure a full-term for the beleaguered PPP government while it faced a hostile judiciary during the latter half of its tenure. The Army remained quiescent.

The Abbotabad debacle and killing of Osama bin Laden, which brought the Army leadership and the ISI into disrepute, spurred Zardari and his cohorts to briefly try and stir the civil-military misbalance in their favour. His Ambassador in the USA, Hussain Haqqani, allegedly drafted a memorandum seeking US support to sustain democracy in Pakistan, promising the acceptance of conditionalities to the US aid, including access to Pakistan's nuclear control mechanisms and good relations with India, abjuring the terrorism card. The Army predictably took umbrage and Zardari had to meekly accept Haqqani's resignation as Ambassador. But even here, he quickly pre-empted further Army domination by appointing Sherry Rehman, PPP's firebrand , as the new Ambassador even as she faced the wrath of hidebound clerics at home over accusations of blasphemy. This proved a popular choice in America and the Army Generals could hardly complain.

Zardari's travails against a hostile judiciary were the most distressing. Personal antipathy between him and Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was well known but the stalemate over the non-implementation of the 2009 verdict holding the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) invalid brought institutions into disrepute and governance to a standstill, making him and the PPP quite a lame-duck government towards the end

A cornered Zardari once again riposted, depicting the court's one-sided persecution of the PPP as a biased action stemming mainly from personal angst. He egged on a prominent land estate dealer who employed several retired Generals, Malik Riaz, to make public allegations of corruption against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's son, Arsalan. This forced the higher judiciary to correct its bias and extend concern to other socially important issues like the 'disappearance cases' in Baluchistan and the long-pending bribery case connected to the formation of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) against the PPP in 1989. Both these issues pitted the judiciary against the Army and its powerful agencies.

Against such odds, the completion of a full five-year tenure and orderly elections were significant achievements for democratic transition in a country plagued by repeated military takeovers. However, governance suffered as survival became paramount.

The Supreme Court has now asked the Nawaz government to consider placing Zardari on the exit control list lest he should run away to evade the judicial process in several pending corruption cases which will now revive, as the immunity under Article 248(3) will no longer apply. However, Zardari has clarified he will remain in the country to steer the PPP. Street-fighter that he is, Zardai may actually revel in contesting these cases with a competent team of lawyers. However, this may not help the party much. If the PPP has to rise from the ashes, it will have to provide good governance in Sindh, which seems increasingly difficult as Karachi descends to further depths of ethnic and sectarian chaos. This may have to await the unlikely return of one of the currently remote Bhutto scions. Meanwhile, the best of Asif Zardari seems to be behind him.

The writer is a Special Secretary (retired), Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi

MIDDLE

God’s window
by Col P S Sangha, VrC (retd)

It was early September 1975. I was posted in the Air OP Squadron at Nasik. One morning the wife of a Squadron officer went to hospital to deliver her baby. We came to know later that she had given birth to a healthy son. However, the lady had serious post-delivery problems due to internal bleeding. The Military Hospital at Deolali had its limitations in terms of resources. Try as they did, they could not stop the bleeding. By that evening the situation turned serious. Her systolic blood pressure dropped to 60 and she was in a coma. The Squadron Commander conferred with the doctors on the action to be taken to save the lady. Later that night I was woken up and informed that I had to go to Bombay to fetch a medicine required for blood clotting. It was the last throw of the dice to save the lady.

I slept fitfully for the rest of the night and was in the Squadron in time for the take-off. We took off in our Chetak helicopter as planned. The monsoon was still active and as such it was overcast. About 15 minutes later we approached Igatpuri, a small town en route to Bombay. There is a valley with high hills on both sides. We found that our route was totally covered with clouds making it impossible to go further. So I started making slow-speed circuits there hoping for a breakthrough. I realised that I would run out of fuel if I continued like this. The clouds were still there literally hugging the ground. So I turned back to the airfield with the thought that we could try later.

After about 5 minutes of flying, just out of curiosity I turned the helicopter back towards Bombay. There were thick clouds like before but right in the middle there was a break, through which one could see the terrain beyond. It was like a window created by God to give us the passage beyond Igatpuri. I did not hesitate and put the helicopter at full speed towards this window. Soon we were through and on the other side where the terrain altitude fell sharply. Once beyond I again turned around to see the unique phenomenon. I saw that the window had closed thus making it impossible to go back. The whole experience lasted maybe a total of 5 minutes. So we set course to Bombay flying in a very difficult weather with poor visibility. We worked as a team to safely make it to Santacruz airport in Bombay.

We took a taxi and went on a search for the drug. After a number of hospitals we hit pay dirt at the Haffekin Institute. We took off for Nasik with a prayer that God would create another window for us to pass through. God did better by improving the weather and we landed at Nasik around 1:30 pm. The adjutant was standing by to take the drug to the hospital. By around 9 pm that evening the lady's condition took a turn for the better and by the next morning she was declared out of danger. Now some 38 years later, the lady, Ms NajmaYusufji, is alive and in good health. Her son, Salim, teaches English language at a school in Leh. But I still remember God's 'window' that made it all possible.

Saturday Review

CINEMA: NEW Releases
Desi modern take
Nonika Singh

Couple chemistry: Parineeti Chopra and Sushant Singh Rajput

A nation of billion plus where marriage is the most hallowed (even if overrated) institution and big business too, a country where saat pheras are the ultimate and final culmination of a love affair, a movie that delves into live-in relationships aka premarital sex appears both bold and refreshing.

So Shuddh Desi Romance is, at least to begin with. That it is set in resplendent pink city Jaipur, otherwise a vanguard of tradition and the land of eternal love stories and not some bustling metro makes it even more intriguing. The fact that the hero Raghu(Sushant Singh Rajput) is not some corporate honcho, but a simple registered tourist who takes foreign tourists for a ride with fake sob stories about orphan Afghanistani children adds the necessary desi tadka. Since both he and his love interest Gayatri (Parineeti Chopra) also happen to be part-time baratis (watch it to know that doubling up as a barati is a lucrative profession too) the ensuing sequences add to the mirth. Actually, the fun and froth is right there in good measure from the first scene. Humour, be it in the safe hands of gifted actor Rishi Kapoor playing a caterer-cum-marriage organiser or the talented cast of the lead pair Sushant and Parineeti or those in bit parts, works by and large.

However, the film about two commitment phobic individuals doesn’t quite transform into a deep insight into the new evolving dynamics of man-woman ties. At best it mirrors the confusion of the young generation who draw a firm line between romance and commitment. Actually in echoing the dilemmas of marriage-weary couple the director and the scriptwriter also appear confused and are unable to skim beyond the surface. For instance the character of Taara played by pretty Vaani Kapoor whom Raghu dumps at the altar of marriage has not been sketched well at all. There is little doubt the film that throws many a Bollywood conventions out of the window and etches out credible, believable people, does tread the unusual ground. Yet it stops way short of becoming earthshaking or path-breaking.

Indeed, by calling it shuddh desi romance the director is taking a dig at all of us who believe romance comes only in one shade of marriage and commitment. By placing his narrative right amidst those whose life depends on the business of keeping the institution of marriage alive the director does seem to be once again challenging set notions. But as a cinematic statement this one is no tour de force and falters at several junctures.

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Post interval the pace lags and energy flattens out even though there are few delectable moments like the bride-to-be making it out with another man hours before taking the sacred vows.

Most of us are aware of the hollowness as well as the encumbrances that come with tying the nuptial knot. But here on the silver screen after a point, the newness of the new equation that modern-day young couples are forging wears off and is shorn off freshness. More importantly it stops being riveting cinema with few surprises counted. Just as the lead pair says out of bewilderment one too is tempted to echo...kya hai?

Sure two adults have a right to choose whether to marry or not. But don’t we know that already. As for your choice to watch it or not.... well besides amusement and fine performances watch it for the chemistry between Parineeti and Sushant. The sparks fly more than once and not just in the kissing scenes (in case you didn’t know Sushant has broken serial kisser Emraan Hashmi’s record with 27 smooches in the film). Here the tenderness of romance is caught in ordinary moments like washing clothes and making paranthas for the loved one.

Poor re-production
Johnson Thomas

Apoorva Lakhia’s new-fangled take on the 70’s super-hit, Prakash Mehra helmed Amitabh Bachchan starrer, Zanjeer is disappointing. The film may have made it as scheduled to the big screen, thanks to an out-of-court settlement with the original’s writer duo, but it’s uncertain whether it will go the distance given its weak-kneed approach.

It’s not only the casting that disappoints, even the treatment and plot-twists added for greater contemporariness, are terribly defeatist. It’s an ambitious venture for all that. Simultaneously made in Telugu as Thoofan with the Hindi version also slated to be dubbed in Chinese as Chialo Kaxlaug, the producers appear to have thought they were on a good wicket- encouraged as they were to cash in on Ram Charan’s star status in South.

The sheer mindlessness with which this remake was framed speaks strongly about the lack of creative juice. Suresh Nair and Lakhia himself have co-scripted this remake. The manner in which they have tampered with the strongly emotive, original, Salim-Javed script is not funny at all. The original Zanjeer was no master-piece but it had heart. This new one comes across as unintentionally spoofy. Ram Charan has an amiable screen presence but lacks the intensity. Priyanka Chopra appears deranged. Prakash Raj and Mahie Gill are a bad joke and no match for Ajit and Bindu. There’s certainly nothing memorable about this remake!

Third time unlucky
Ervell E. Menezes

Riddick is the third film on this hero Richard B. Riddick (Van Diesel), the earlier ones being Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) but as the second one was unsuccessful they have called this one just Riddick with The Chronicles Of in lighter print.

But it all makes not a bit of a difference to the weird story written by the Wheat brothers Jim and David and put across by an equally asinine director-writer David Twohy who takes all of 118 minutes to narrate a story that has run out of steam well before the halfway mark.

It opens with our dubious hero Riddick waking up on a desolate planet saying there are bad days and there are legendary bad days. This is one of them. But the line aptly fits the plight of the viewer who by default has found his way into the show.

The question is where am I, he goes on. So far, so good. But only those who have seen The Chronicles will know that he has been betrayed by the Neckromoners on this alien planet where he has to fight predators more dangerous than ever before. Here one can trust the FX team working overtime with some creepy, crawly creatures, some with giant tentacles rising out of the water. Poor Riddick who looks like the original caveman is left to survive all of 30 minutes.

The remaining half hour is all action, zooming motorbikes, aerial high-tech machines careening about. Heads roll (literally) and the weird creatures join in the revelry, sorry battle.

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Son Of Sardaar

Star gold 9:00PM

Son of Sardaar is a 2012 Bollywood action comedy film directed by Ashwni Dhir. The film features Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt and Juhi Chawla in lead roles. Salman Khan appears in a cameo role and a song sequence. Whilst having competition with the Yash Raj film Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Son of Sardaar managed to do good business at the box office worldwide despite bad reviews.

INDIA TALKIES

6:00AM Aap Ke Deewane 9:30AM Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya 1:00PM Siskiyaan 4:30PM Heyy Babyy 8:00PM Ram aur Shyam

ZEE CLASSIC

7:08AM Saaransh 9:53AM Black Mail 12:45PM Sachaa Jhutha 3:49PM Dream Girl 7:00PM Deewar 10:00PM Ponga Pandit

ZEE STUDIO

8:00AM Animal Kingdom 10:20AM Air Bud: The Dog is in the House 1:00PM The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 2:55PM The Stepfather 5:05PM Notting Hill 8:00PM Back to the Future Part II 10:30PM D-Tox

STAR MOVIES

6:50AM Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 10:00AM The Front Row with Anupama Chopra 10:30AM Up! 12:32PM Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 2:27PM Lockout 4:29PM Terminator Salvation 6:47PM Ghost Rider 9:00PM Intruders 11:01PM The Mummy

MOVIES OK

7:55AM Josh 11:20AM Raja 2:50PM Om Jai Jagdish 6:15PM The Hero: Love Story of a Spy 9:00PM Tees Maar Khan 11:50PM 100 DAYS

STAR GOLD

8:50AM My Friend Ganesha 2 11:20AM Chup Chup Ke 2:55PM Yamraj Ek Faulad 5:55PM Style 9:00PM Son of Sardaar

FILMY

9:00AM Yahaan 12:00PM Pehchaan: The Face of Truth 3:00PM Mangal Pandey: The Rising 6:00PM Gair 9:00PM Sandwich

Namastey London

India talkies 4:30pm

Namastey London is a Bollywood film. The romantic comedy film is directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and stars Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. It also stars Rishi Kapoor, Upen Patel and Clive Standen in supporting roles. Riteish Deshmukh has a cameo role in the film. The concept of Indians being born in foreign nations and forgetting their Indian roots and instead trying to become like people of that nation is drawn from the Manoj Kumar starrer Purab Aur Paschim.

INDIA TALKIES

9:30AM Ram aur Shyam 1:00PM Main Hoon Na 4:30PM Namastey London 8:00PM Chalte Chalte

ZEE STUDIO

8:00AM Unbreakable 10:20AM D-Tox 1:00PM New in Town
3:10PM Notting Hill 6:00PM The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 8:00PM Shanghai Noon 10:30PM Twelve Monkeys

ZEE CLASSIC

8:56AM Brahmachari 12:06PM Prem Rog 3:34PM Geet 7:00PM Muqaddar Ka Sikandar 10:00PM Jeevan Mrityu

MOVIES OK

9:05AM Main Krishna Hoon 11:55AM Action Replayy 2:45PM Paa
5:55PM Chameli Ki Shaadi 9:00PM Sivaji: The Boss 11:55PM Sir

STAR GOLD

9:15AM My Friend Ganesha 12:00PM Mann 3:55PM Dragon Wars: D-War 5:40PM Bhagam Bhag 9:00PM Makkhi 11:35PM Narsimha: The Powerful Man

ZEE ACTION

7:00AM Pehchaan 10:30AM Khilona Bana Khalnayak 1:30PM Gola Barood 5:30PM Platform 8:30PM Bhishma

ZEE CINEMA

10:16AM Ajooba 1:41PM Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...! 5:53PM Race 2
9:00PM Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

FILMY

9:00AM Rangeela 12:00PM Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam 3:00PM Heer Ranjha 6:00PM Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam 9:00PM Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

STAR MOVIES

8:01AM Hot Shots! 9:54AM Van Helsing 12:25PM The Mummy 2:24PM Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 4:38PM Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6:46PM The Incredible Hulk 9:00PM Independence Day 11:44PM Green Zone