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Women DirectorsAshwini Iyer TiwariAshwini Iyer Tiwari’s Neel Battey San-nata uses the mother-daughter story with its few ups and many downs to draw other sub-plots of how determi-nation can overcome the struggles of everyday life. The film scores not only in terms of its simple storyline but also in terms of the screenplay and the di-rector’s ability to flesh out every single character so that they appear credible placed against a reality setting. The director has kept cinematographic and production values distanced from glamour.The best part about the script lies in the way it depicts the change in Chanda’s character, the ‘matric fail’ who is de-

termined that her daughter will not be a ‘matric fail’ and finds herself becoming a stu-dent after many years. In Neel Bat-tey Sannata,the mother decides to give competition to her unfocussed daughter who has

no dreams in life and does not want to pass her matric exam.Nil Battey Sannata was released under the title of The New Classmate inter-nationally, the film garnered critical acclaim and Tiwari was praised for her direction and sensitive handling of the subject matter.Tiwari delighted us all over again with her wonderfully entertaining Bareilly

Ki Barfi. She brings one more subtle feminist statement in Bareilly Ki Barfi, said to be the first Bollywood film to have been shot entirely in Bareilly. The feminist statement is so subtle, that if you do not follow the naughty but open pranks of Bitty, her parents included, you might miss it completely. Iyer won the Zee Cine Award 2017 for best Di-rector for her directed film Bareilly ki Barfi. She also won the Filmfare Award for Best Director at the 2018 ceremony.Tiwari’s two films are polar opposites of each other that testifies that we now have a gutsy director who is versatile, ready to experiment with the main-stream and the off-mainstream and also make a powerful political state-ment about girls and women not given the choice to live life their own way.Ashwiny Iyer was born on 15 October 1979 to a Tamil Hindu family and grew up in the suburb of Mulund, Mumbai. She studied in St Marys Convent and did her higher studies from SIES col-lege of commerce and economics. She is married to writer-director Nitesh Tiwari and lives with their twins in Chembur.A gold medalist in commercial arts from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, Ashwiny spent 15 years in the adver-tising agency Leo Burnett (India). She won several awards like Cannes Lions, New York festival, One show, Promax and the Goafest Awards. She quit Leo Burnett to follow her passion in film-making. She made her first short film What’s

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living in a small town. Ammaa’s five grown-up chil-dren’s, namely Parmu (Gov-ind Namdev), Jeetu (Sita-ram Panchal), Rukmi (Sanjay Mishra), Ka-lavati (Himani Shivpuri) and Hari (Zakir

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and Arun’s brother-in-law, Vinodhini as Padma, Siri’s mother and Arun’s sis-ter, Keshav Deepak as Venkat, Vinod Sagar as School Teacher Sobharaj, Su-zane George as ACP Lakshmi, Surya as Doctor Kishore, Kasi Viswanath as Po-lice Constable Viswanath, Ravi Prakash as Police Officer Sravan, Raghavi Renu as Sophie, Christopher’s friend, Ravee-na Daha as Sharmi, Siri’s classmate, Trishala as Sanjana/Sangeetha, Priya as Meera, Radha Ravi as Inspector Jaya Prakash (cameo appearance)Director: Ramesh VarmaMusic: Ghibran The film opens with two old men dis-covering a corpse which happened to be a teenage school girl named Sa-myuktha, a 15-year-old school student


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who was found brutally murdered and wrapped in a polythene bag.Arun Kumar (Bellamkonda Sreenivas) is an aspiring filmmaker who wants to make a movie on psychopaths. After being rejected many times despite hav-ing a good script and due to pressure from his family, he decides to give up his dreams and become a sub-inspec-tor with the help of his brother-in-law, Prasad (Rajeev Kanakala), a police of-ficer himself. He moves and stay with his sister Sopna (Vinodhini Vaidyana-than), Prasad, and their daughter Siri (Abhirami). Siri gets into trouble when she makes Arun forge her father’s sig-nature in her report card as she failed in two subjects. Her class teacher Krish-naveni (Anupama Parameswaran) figures this out and thinks that she

signed it herself. Siri brings Arun to her school to act as her father. Later, which Siri is caught by her parents, this leads them to transfer their daughter to another school. Later, Arun meets and befriends Krishnaveni and her niece Kavya (Dua Kaushik), who is speech deprived.A teenage school girl named Amrutha is abducted on her way back home. Her parents then find a mutilated doll’s head in a gift box attached to their dog’s collar. Arun finds a similarity between Samyuktha, who was murdered few days ago, and Amrutha, both of them being 15-year-old school students who were kidnapped while returning home from school. He tries to convince ACP Lakshmi (Suzane George), his superior egotistical officer, that this was a psycho


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at work, but his theories are brushed off as fake stories.Later, Amrutha’s corpse was found brutally mutilated. On top of that, Am-rutha’s body was scarred all over with a knife while she was alive. Arun sug-gests the corpses be hidden from the public to prevent the killer from gain-ing public attention. Initially, the offi-cials opposed this idea owing to break-ing protocols, but they eventually give in, moving the bodies to a secret facil-ity under Dr. Kishore (Surya). Soon after, another school girl named Meera (Priya) is abducted. She happened to be from Siri’s ex-school. The search leads to a teacher named So-maraj (Vinod Sagar), who works at Siri’s current school and is revealed to be a pedo-phile who is preying on s c h o o l g i r l s . Arun encounters Somaraj trying to molest Siri and beats him up before detaining him. Somaraj admits to be-ing a sexual predator but denies having anything to do with the murders. In a bid to escape, he holds Venkat (Keshav Deepak), a policeman, at gunpoint. Arun manages to gun Somaraj down inside the lift thereby saving Venkat.Meanwhile, Siri is abducted during her birthday party at home. Arun and Prasad try to find her but they were too late. Arun discovers her mutilated body in their own car trunk, implying that she is also killed. To make things

worse, Arun is suspended for his neg-ligence on shooting Somaraj. Dejected and angry, Arun investigates the case by himself, with the help from a few po-licemen. Finding an audio clip from the hearing aid of Meera, he traces it back to an old lady magician named An-nabella George’s (Saravanan) perfor-mance at the victim’s school function. The lady used her magic show as a tool to kidnap the girls since she impressed all the students with her magic tricks. She invites one student to perform an act and then interacted with the select-ed student to get closer to them. Then, she started to stalk the selected student leading to their kidnap exactly on the

second day after meeting them, with-out any hassle. This leads him to the next po-tential victim, a schoolgirl named Sanja-na (Trishala). Arun realised

that he was following the wrong girl due to Sanjana having a twin sister. Sanjana was abducted, even though she was under surveillance. Arun tracks her location to a house in the city, where he narrowly saves Sanjana from being murdered. The perpetrator escapes, but her identity is revealed to be Mary Fernandez (her real name), who was involved in a killing a long time ago. Arun finds more about the case from the investigating officer, Jaya Prakash, (Radha Ravi), a retired cop.Mary’s son Christopher (Yasar) had



September 11715 - The “Sun King” (King Louis XIV of France) died. He had ruled since the age of five and was succeeded by his 5-year-old great-grandson Louis XV.1939 - At 5.30 a.m., Hitler’s armies invad-ed Poland starting World War II in Europe.1969 - Military officers overthrew the Libyan government. The Libyan Arab Republic was then proclaimed under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.1983 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Russian fighter jet while on route from New York to Seoul, killing all 269 persons on board. Birthday - Boxing champ Rocky Mar-ciano (1923-1969) was born in Brock-ton, Massachusetts (as Rocco Francis Marchegiano). September 21666 - The Great Fire of London began in a bakery near the Tower. Over than 13,000 houses were destroyed.1752 - The British ended their use of the Julian calendar, switching to the Grego-rian calendar, resulting in a major ad-justment as Wednesday, September 2, was followed by Thursday, September 14. The correction resulted in rioting by people who felt cheated and demanded the missing eleven days back.1864 - During the American Civil War, Atlanta was captured by Sherman’s Army. 1870 - Napoleon III surrendered to the Prussians during the Battle of Sedan.1923 - The first elections were held in the Irish Free State after achieving in-dependence from Britain.1930 -French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte made the first non-stop flight from Europe to USA.

1945 - President Harry Truman de-clared V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day).1945 - Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence of Vietnam and the es-tablishment of the Democratic Repub-lic of Vietnam.1962 - Soviet Russia agreed to send arms to Cuba.September 31783 - The Treaty of Paris was signed by John Adams, Ben Franklin and John Jay, formally ending the Ameri-can Revolutionary War between Brit-ain and the United States.1833 - The New York Sun newspaper first appeared, marking the beginning of the ‘penny press’ and by 1836 was the largest seller in America with a cir-culation of 30,000.1939 - Great Britain and France de-clared war on Nazi Germany after its invasion of Poland two days earlier.September 41609 - The island of Manhattan was dis-covered by navigator Henry Hudson.1781 - Los Angeles was founded by the Spanish Governor of California, Felipe de Neve, near the site of the Native American village of Yang-na. The orig-inal name was El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels).September 51972 - Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic Team were killed during an attack on the Olympic Village in Mu-nich by members of the Black Septem-ber faction of the Palestinian Libera-tion Army. 1975 - The first of two September as-


Women dir...Continued from page 8for Breakfast which won the Dadasa-heb Phalke Award in 2012. She remade the film in Tamil as Amma Kanakku which released on 24 June 2016.She was selected as one of the “Pow-erful Women in 2016” in the Femina poll and was a part of Grazia Women Achievers 2016. She was a speaker at Tedx Bangalore 2016 on women, films and self-empowerment. In 2017, she won a Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director. She signed a two-film deal with Ekta Kapoor, Balaji Motion Pictures from which one she will direct and another she will produce along with Ekta.In 2018, Iyer teamed up with Kangana Ranaut and Neena Gupta to make a movie about a story of a new-age fam-ily that challenges stereotypes.

Zoya AkhtarZoya Akhtar, daughter of Javed Akhtar and sister of Farhan, believes in direct-ing mainstream films. Yet, her first film Luck By Chance (2002), was not exactly mainstream. In fact, it was a satire on mainstream cinema, on film schools, on auditions all of which un-derlined the struggle of young men and women with stars in their eyes who come to Mumbai to enter films but mostly fail. The film’s strength lies in making real actors play themselves as characters strongly tinged with negative shades, barring a few like Shahrukh and Amir. The falseness, the arrogance, the jealousy, the coy ma-noeuvrings, the pain, the one-up man-ship, the film school lecture, the party scene filled with memorized lines from Rani Mukherjee and the rest, come

across through subtle, light touches.Her second film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) is a high-budget, multi-starring male buddy film that fetched her several awards and fattened the producer’s bank balance in terms of the box office returns on the film. It is a spectacular road movie that travels across continents with the three bud-dies taking their last journey as bach-elors stopping along the way to explore the fun in adventure sport ranging from deep-sea diving, sky-diving through running with the bulls right up to the Tomatina festival filmed with the dynamic pace and ceaseless action it demands, spilling over the invite the audience to participate in the fun. Her short film Sheila Ki Jawani within the longer four-short films called Bom-bay Talkies (2013) is offering a mov-ing insight into enforced gender-con-ditioning by a dictatorial father who wants his son to become a football play-er. But the son hates football and wants to dance like Katrina Ka-poor. Her next film, Dil D h a d a k n e Do(2015) followed her style of high production values, big stars, to narrate a story of a stinking rich family that take a luxury cruise in celebration of the marriage anniversary of the patri-arch and his wife when the dysfunc-


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been afflicted with Werner Syndrome, a hormonal disorder that caused him to look aged. He was an outcast at school, but a girl named Sophie (Ragavi Renu) took pity on him and befriended him. Christopher soon be-gan to develop feelings for Sophie, but unfortunately, he is heartbroken when she turns down his love and is soon ridiculed at school. The next day, Mary asked Sophie to become friends again and handed her a gift. When Sophie opens the gift box, she found a muti-lated doll’s head, which was what So-phie gave Christopher as his birthday gift. Sophie was brutally murdered by Mary, and both Mary and her son were arrested.It was then told that both Mary and Christopher died in an accident, but

she is still alive and murdering with the same vengeance. Jaya Prakash finds a clue in the files but is killed by Mary before meeting Arun. On finding him at the scene of the crime, Arun is de-tained and kept handcuffed at the sta-tion. He discovers that Jaya Prakash was trying to reveal that the person who had been performing the magic show in the school had six fingers on left hand and by a photo evidence, it is known that it was Christopher who has six fingers. Since only Mary died in the accident, the psycho is not the lady; it is her own son Christopher, who has taken advantage of his aged appearance. Before Arun can act on this, Christopher attacks Krishnave-ni and abducts Kavya. While trying to apprehend Christopher, Venkat is


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Month in History... from page 27sassination attempts on President Ger-ald Ford occurred as a woman pointed a gun at the President in Sacramento, California. Two weeks later, a second attempt occurred as another woman fired a shot at Ford in San Francisco. Ford was not harmed in either incident.1997 - Mother Teresa died in Calcutta at age 87.September 61991 - Leningrad was renamed Saint Petersburg by Russian legislators fol-lowing the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia’s second largest city had been known as Leningrad for 67 years in honor of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union.September 71822 - Brazil declared its independence from Portugal after 322 years as a colony.1986 - Bishop Desmond Tutu became Archbishop of Cape Town, South Afri-ca, the first black head of South Africa’s Anglicans.1999 - After World War II, Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag return to Berlin first session was held. Birthday - Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born in Greenwich Palace. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She ascended the throne in 1558 at age 25. During her reign, Britain became a world pow-er by defeating the Spanish Armada. The Anglican Church was established.September 81565 - The first Catholic settlement in America was founded by Spaniard Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles at St. Au-gustine, Florida.1883 - The Northern Pacific Railroad across the U.S. was completed.

1900 - A hurricane with winds of 120 mph struck Galveston, Texas, killing over 8,000 persons, making it the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. 1935 - Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long was shot while attending a session of the state House of Representatives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1941 - The German Army began its blockade of Leningrad, lasting until January 1944, resulting in the deaths of almost one million Russian civilians.1974 - A month after resigning the presidency in disgrace as a result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon was granted a full pardon by President Gerald R. Ford for all offenses commit-ted while in office.September 91776 - The United States came into existence as the Continental Congress changed the name of the new Ameri-can nation from the United Colonies.1948 - Following the withdrawal of So-viet forces from North Korea, the Demo-cratic People’s Republic of Korea was pro-claimed with Pyongyang as its capital.1976 - Longtime leader of Communist China, Chairman Mao Zedong, died. He proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949 in Beijing.1993 - Israel and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) agreed to recognize each other, paving the way for a possible peaceful end to the hun-dred year old conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Mideast.September 101898 - Elizabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in Geneva by an anarchist.1919 - Following the defeat of Germa-


New Films.. Continued from page 29killed. Kavya escapes and is found by Kishore, who tries to hide her in the fa-cility, but Kishore dies trying to protect her. Arun tracks down Christopher to the facility, and after a prolonged fight, manages to kill him and save Kavya.The movie ends with the media report-ing the chain of events and an end to the murders done by the psychopath. It is then revealed that Arun gets a chance to make a movie about a psy-chopath fulfilling his dream.

The Angry Birds Movie 2Genre: AnimationLanguage: English/HindiHindi Voiceover:Kapil Sharma ... Red - VoiceoverKiku Sharda ... Leonard - VoiceoverArchana Puran Singh...Zeta - Voiceover

English Voiceover:Jason Sudeikis as Red, Josh Gad as Chuck, Leslie Jones as Zeta, Bill Had-er as King Leonard, Rachel Bloom as Silver, Awkwafina as Courtney, Ster-ling K. Brown as Garry Pig, Eugenio Derbez as Glenn, Danny McBride as Bomb, Suzanne Waters as Bomb’s op-era singing voice, Peter Dinklage as Ethan “Mighty” Eagle, Beck Bennett as Hank, Brad, Zach Woods as Carl Eagle, Pete Davidson as Jerry Eagle, Lil Rel Howery as Alex, Dove Cameron as Ella, Nicki Minaj as PinkyThe birds and pigs are in constant war against each other after Piggy Island, which was destroyed in a prior battle with the birds, is rebuilt. Eventually, an

ice ball from a nearby isle called Eagle Island hits the sea near Piggy Island, forcing the pigs to seek a truce with the birds. Zeta, the leader of Eagle Island, is fed up with her frozen surroundings and wants to occupy the two islands by shooting ice balls to force their inhab-itants to evacuate. Meanwhile, three hatchlings, one of whom is Terence and Matilda’s daughter Zoe, plan to act in a play using three eggs at a beach, but the eggs drift out to sea by accident. They set sail to retrieve them, but once they catch up to them, a whale blows them into a cloud. They manage to get them down after inflating Zoe into the air but then misplace them again. Chuck and Bomb force Red to join them in a speed

dating activity. Red meets Chuck’s sis-ter Silver, an intelligent engineering student who deems him incompat-ible. Leonard, the King of Piggy Island, meets Red at his house and convinces him to build an alliance with the pigs. They recruit Bomb, Chuck, Mighty Eagle, and Silver. A team meeting in Mighty Eagle’s cave is disrupted when an ice ball hits Eagle Mountain and de-stroys it.As the team travel to Eagle Island by submarine, Red assures the civilians that they do not need to evacuate. Once


Month in History. from page 31ny in World War I, the victorious Al-lies signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain ceding parts of pre-war German-Aus-tria to Italy and Czechoslovakia. Aus-tria was also forbidden to unite with Germany.1943 - Hitler’s troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City.September 112001 - The worst terrorist attack in U.S. history occurred as four large passen-ger jets were hijacked then crashed, killing nearly 3,000 persons. Four sep-arate teams of Mideast terrorists, op-erating from inside the U.S., boarded the morning flights posing as passen-gers, then forcibly commandeered the aircraft. Two fully-fueled jumbo jets, American Airlines Flight 11 carrying 92 people and United Airlines Flight 175 carrying 65 people, had departed Boston for Los Angeles. Both jets were diverted by the hijackers to New York City where they were piloted into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The impact and subsequent fire caused both 110 story towers to collapse, kill-ing 2,752 persons including hundreds of rescue workers and people em-ployed in the towers. In addition, Unit-ed Airlines Flight 93, which had de-parted Newark for San Francisco, and American Airlines Flight 77, which had departed Dulles (Virginia) for Los Angeles, were hijacked. Flight 77 with 64 people on board was diverted to Washington, D.C., then piloted into the Pentagon building, killing every-one on board and 125 military person-nel inside the building. Flight 93 with 44 people on board was also diverted toward Washington but crashed into a

field in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to overpower the terrorists on board.Birthday - Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989) was born in Sarrat, Philippines. He ruled the Philippines 1966-1986.September 121943 - Former Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini was rescued by German. Mussolini was being held prisoner by Italian authorities.1953 - John F. Kennedy, 36, married Jacqueline Bouvier, 24.1974 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethi-opia, was deposed by an army coup af-ter 44 years as ruler.Birthday - African American Olympic athlete Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was born in Oakville, Alabama (as James Cleveland Owens). He won four med-als in track and field at the 1936 Olym-pic Games in Berlin, defeating Nazi athletes.September 131788 - The U.S. Congress chose New York as the Federal capital of the new American government.1814 - The Battle of Fort Henry in Bal-timore. He watched the British attack overnight and at dawn saw the Ameri-can flag still flying over the fort, inspir-ing him to write the verses which were later coupled with the tune of a popu-lar drinking song and became the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.September 141741 - Composer George Frederick Handel finished Messiah after working on it nonstop for 23 days.1812 - Napoleon and his troops first entered Moscow as the retreating Rus-sians set the city on fire. Napoleon


Month in History....from page 33found it was impossible to stay through the winter in the ruined city. He then began a retreat from Moscow which became one of the great disasters of military history. Fewer than 20,000 of the 500,000 men with him survived the Russian campaign.1901 - Eight days after being shot, President William McKinley died from wounds suffered during an assassina-tion attempt in Buffalo, New York. He was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.1930 - The Nazi Party became the sec-ond largest party in Germany follow-ing a stunning election triumph by Ad-olf Hitler.1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first American saint.September 151776 - British forces under General William Howe captured New York during the American Revolution.1940 - The height of the Battle of Britain occurred as massive German air raids took place against London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liver-pool and Manchester. 1944 - The first entry of American troops into Hitler’s Germany occurred.Birthday - British mystery author Ag-atha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, England. September 161810 - Mexico’s break from Spain be-gan in the town of Dolores Hidalgo as Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church’s bells and exhorted lo-cal Indians to “recover from the hated Spaniards the land stolen from your forefathers...”1908 - General Motors was founded by entrepreneur William Crapo “Billy”

Durant in Flint, Michigan.1976 - The Episcopalian Church in the U.S. approved the ordination of women priests and bishops.1982 - Beginning of a two day massacre in Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut as Christian militiamen (the Phalangists) entered Sabra and Shatila and began shooting hundreds of Pales-tinians, including elderly men, women and children.September 171908 - The first fatality involving pow-ered flight occurred as a biplane piloted by Orville Wright fell from a height of 75 feet, killing Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, his 26-year-old passenger. Plane was being tested for possible military use. 1939 - Soviet Russians invaded Eastern Poland, meeting little resistance and taking over 200,000 Poles prisoner. September 181810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain after 269 years as a colony.1947 - The U.S. Air Force was estab-lished as a separate military service.Birthday - Movie actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was born in Stockholm, Sweden (as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson). September 191893 - New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote.1985 - Earthquakes in Mexico City killed an estimated 5,000 to 20,000 per-sons and left more than 100,000 home-less, causing $4 billion in damage. The quakes registered 8.1 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.1994 - U.S. troops invaded Haiti, with the stated goal of restoring democracy.September 201873 - The New York Stock Exchange



Women Dir..Continued from page 28tions of the family begin to tumble out. It is by no means a brilliant film but it has the signature of the director and was a box office hit.Zoya Akhtar was born on 14 October 1972 to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani. Zoya’s stepmother is Shabana Azmi. Her younger brother, Farhan Akhtar, is an actor and director. She attended Maneckji Cooper and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Xavier’s College, both from Mumbai. Later, she joined the New York Univer-sity Film School to learn film produc-tion.Her great-grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, a scholar of Islamic studies and theology, edited the first diwan of Mirza Ghalib on his request, and later became a figure during the Indian Re-bellion of 1857 in his native Khairabad.She is great-granddaughter of re-nowned Urdu poet Muztar Khairabadi and granddaughter of poet Jan Nisar Akhtar.Zoya does not believe in any religion.Zoya started her career as co-director of a music video called Price of Bul-lets for a rock band called Pentagram. She has worked as a casting director for films including Dil Chahta Hai and Split Wide Open, and as an assistant di-rector for her brother Farhan Akhtar’s films Lakshya and Dil Chahta Hai. She then worked as an executive producer for her longtime partner Reema Kag-ti’s Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., also produced by Excel Entertainment.After Dil Dhadakne Do, Zoya Akhtar directed Gully Boy starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, loosely based

on the lives of Mumbai rapper Naezy.Akhtar and Reema Kagti are also work-ing on a story for Amazon Prime web series Made in Heaven about two wed-ding planners, to be produced by Excel Entertainment.She has been invited by the Academy Awards to be a member of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. She also appeared in a very brief role as Rasa Devi’s Rekha’s Courtesan in Kama Su-tra: A Tale of Love.

Reema KagtiReema Kagti made her debut with a sparkling entertainer, a journey film that explored man-woman relation-ships in different dynamics in Honey-moon Travels Pvt Ltd. (2007) with the stories of four couples off on their re-spective ‘honemoons’ to Goa on a lux-ury bus, each with problems of its own. This entirely character-driven film that blends itself into the road movie genre offered delightful entertainment, with-out big stars, from beginning to end.Her second film Talaash – The Answer Lies Within (2012) was a psychologi-cal thriller which also made a strong socio-political statement on the posi-tion of sex workers in our society. She used a lot of surrealism, fantasy, prayer to departed spirits, automatic writing, a marriage falling apart by a tragedy shared by both husband and wife and a whole lot of issues but did not lose track of the main issue – the criminal marginalisation of a prostitute.She is now directing Gold adapting the true story of India’s first ever Olympic medal winner. She has established her


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was forced to close for the first time in its history as a result of a banking crisis during the financial Panic of 1873.1989 - F.W. De Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa. He began an era of reform aimed at ending apartheid and was succeeded by Nelson Mandela.September 211949 - The People’s Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.September 221828 - Shaka, chief of the Zulus and founder of the Zulu empire, was killed by his two half-brothers.1862 - President Abraham Lincoln is-sued a Proclamation freeing the slaves in territories held by Confederates as of January 1, 1863.1862 - Otto von Bismarck became pre-mier of Prussia. He forged a loose con-federation of German states into a pow-erful nation, with Wilhelm I becoming Kaiser of the new German Empire.1996 - Australian Bob Dent, a cancer vic-tim, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide, via a lethal injec-tion, under a voluntary euthanasia law.Birthday - British scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was born in Sur-rey, England. His discovery of electro-magnetic induction proved that mov-ing a magnet through a coil of wire produces a current, resulting in the development of electric generators.September 231952 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered his Checkers Speech on television and radio to ad-dress accusations of financial misdeeds.1991 - Armenia declared its indepen-dence from the Soviet Union.September 24

1980 - War erupted between Iran and Iraq as Iraqi troops crossed the border and encircled Abadan, then set fire to the world’s largest oil refinery.Birthday - Puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) born in Greenville, Missis-sippi. He created the Muppets, including Kermit the Frog, and Bert and Ernie.September 251513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa first sighted the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.1690 - The first American newspaper was published. British authorities con-sidered the newspaper offensive and ordered its immediate suppression.September 261687 - The Acropolis in Athens was at-tacked by the Venetian army attempt-ing to oust the Turks, resulting in heavy damage to the Parthenon.1960 - The first-ever televised presi-dential debate occurred between presi-dential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. 1984 - Britain agreed to allow Hong Kong to revert to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.September 271964 - After a 10-month investiga-tion, the Warren Commission Report was issued stating a lone gunman had been responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.1995 - The Israeli cabinet agreed to give Palestinians control of much of the West Bank which had been occu-pied by Israel for 28 years.Birthday - American political cartoon-ist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was born in Landau, Germany. He originated the symbols for the two main U.S. politi-


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New Films ..Continued from page 32there, Mighty Eagle confesses that Zeta is his ex-fiancée whom he abandoned due to cowardice, and he retreats to Bird Island. Red insists on fighting alone and Silver decides to follow him. They intrude the base from the mouth of the weapon only to be captured by the guards. The other team members disguise themselves as a Trojan Eagle and grab a key card to get into the base. Their disguise rips apart, but not before they drive the eagle guards into a breakdance battle, allowing them to escape.The three hatchlings finally find the eggs on a small island, held by a py-thon. They defeat her and plan to drift back to Bird Island, but arrive at Piggy Island by mistake and are greeted by three piglets whom they travel with by hot air balloon. Red gives up leader-ship to Silver, who establishes a plan to destroy the weapon. Silver and Red put themselves in an ice ball and roll on a rail towards Zeta’s superweapon, but the plan fails and the whole team are confronted by Zeta and her guards.Suddenly, Mighty Eagle arrives to apologize to Zeta, but she quarrels with him, revealing his name as Ethan and that she raised a daughter, her ser-vant Debbie. While Zeta is distracted, Silver tells Chuck to tie up the weapon using her super string, which catches and decelerates the lava balls after Zeta fires them. As the string breaks, the hatchlings and the piglets traveling above Eagle Island help grasp it. The lava balls slide back into the weapon, destroying the whole base. Everyone escapes, and Mighty Eagle protects Debbie from being crushed by a metal

plate, redeeming himself to her and Zeta. Mighty Eagle and Zeta get mar-ried on Bird Island, with Red as the chief witness. Everyone praises Red for saving the islands, but he credits Silver and the team for doing so, unveiling a Mount Rushmore-style monument to them, and to his surprise, being even more beloved for his honesty and self-lessness. The birds have a huge party to celebrate while Red and Silver be-gin a romantic relationship and Chuck comes in to interrupt the two.The hatchlings put the eggs back home but three snakelets hatch. The injured mother python comes and exchanges the babies with them, only for the three new hatchlings to drift out to sea again, saying goodbye to their sister.

The Zoya FactorGenre: DramaStar Cast: Dulquer Salmaan as Nikhil Khoda, Indian Cricket Team Captain, Zoya’s love interest, Sonam Kapoor as Zoya Singh Solanki, an advertising ex-ecutive, Nikhil’s love interest, Sanjay Kapoor as Vijayendra Singh Solanki, Zoya’s fatherDirector: Ab-hishek SharmaThe story revolves around a Rajput girl, Zoya Solanki, an executive in an advertising agen-cy. She ends up becoming a lucky charm for the In-dian Cricket team during the 2011 Cricket World Cup.


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LEO (23 July – 22 August) You can focus on getting the little things done, being more on top of the smaller projects, and being more productive. You can be overly practical and realistic, too stuck in the mundane world and lacking any imagination, and you can stress your-self out way too much. If in a relation-ship, you can use the energy to make your relationship more exciting and you can be more affectionate. You may come across as warmer, friendlier, or prouder. People are drawn to you for your wisdom, experience, knowledge, and point of view. Favorable Dates : Sep 1, 3, 10, 12, 19, 21 Favorable Colors : White & Blue

VIRGO (23 August – 22 September) There can be a new sense of optimism about the future and a greater love for mak-ing plans, as a feeling of direction and purpose is very welcome in your life right now. You are feeling freer, lighter, and more forward-looking, and you are especially charismatic as a result. You can feel much more creative and romantic. Your emotions are felt more powerfully, but you also have all the tools available to direct them appro-priately. You are especially valued for your contributions and insight, as well as your work ethic. Favorable Dates : Sep 1, 7, 10, 16, 19, 25 Favorable Colors : White & Yellow

LIBRA (23 September – 22 October) You can be feeling especially confident about

creative work, and you can be espe-cially industrious and resourceful now. You may be frequently look-ing to past actions, relationships, and connections these days, and ideally you’re learning from these memories as you look at the past in a new way. Setting some limits, rules, structures, and goals can help strengthen your life and now is an excellent time to do so. You are find-ing freedom and joy in self-disci-pline and structure right now, and you can be wonderfully productive as a result. Favorable Dates: Sep 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 23 Favorable Colors : Blue & Yellow

SCORpIO (23 October – 21 November) You may be putting in work towards im-portant causes or group efforts now, and contributing unique and excit-ing elements to these things. There is also good energy for new proj-ects, idea creation, and goal-setting, which have more chances of success than usual. Learning from others’ experience and wisdom may be nec-essary. Focus on eliminating redun-dancies in your life, particularly on practical levels. Your overall mood can be more positive and uplifted. You can also feel more connected to your beliefs. It’s a good time to really think about what you value and to prioritize accordingly.Favorable Dates: Sep 2, 3, 11, 12, 20, 21 Favorable Colors : Blue & Red

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Khayal Aata Hai” (Sung by Muke-sh), “Tere Chehre Se Nazar Nahin” (Kishore & Lata) and “Mein Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar Hoon” (Mukesh).Khayyam gave memorable music to the films of the late-1970s and early-1980s. Songs from Trishul, Thodi Si Bewa-faai, Bazaar, Dard, Noorie, Nakhu-da, Sawaal, Bepannah, Khandaan are some of his best works.Khayyam was still to deliver his best and the opportunity came in Mu-zaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan in 1981. He made Asha Bhonsle sing songs which are indisputably her best. “In Aankhon Ki Masti Ke”, “Ye Kya Jagah Hai Dos-ton” and “Dil Cheez Kya Hai” are ev-ergreen.Rajesh Khanna gifted Khayyam a car after Khayyam had composed a tune



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Deepak Obhrai was born on July 5, 1950 in Oldeani, Tanganyika, now Tanzania, to a Punjabi family. His father died when Obhrai was six, so he was raised by his mother, who worked at a bank. Obhrai went to primary school in Moshi, a town near Mount Kilimanjaro, and went to high school in Arusha before transferring to the prestigious Daly College in Indore, India. He moved to the United Kingdom and trained as an air traffic con-troller. Disillusioned by discrimination he faced in Britain, he returned to Tanzania to work. In 1976, Ob-hrai was on duty at a nearby Tanzanian air-port when the Enteb-be raid took place in neighboring Uganda.Obhrai immigrated to Canada in 1977 with his wife Neena, whom he had married in 1971, and his daughter Priti. Obhrai retrained as an accountant in Cal-gary and got a job with the municipal government. With his wife, he estab-lished a dry cleaning business that expanded to three stores.In the 1990s Obhrai became more involved in Calgary community life, serving as the president of the India-Canada Association of Calgary, the Monterey Park Community Associa-tion, and the Hindu Society of Cal-gary. He also was the vice-president responsible for Alberta in the Na-

tional Indo-Canadian Council.In 1993, Obhrai lost a race for an alder-man position on Calgary City Council. He launched a failed bid for the Pro-gressive Conservative nomination for a provincial byelection in Calgary-Mc-Call in 1995, and for Calgary-Montrose in 1996.Obhrai's successful bid for the Reform Party of Canada nomination in the 1997 federal election. He won the riding, and was re-elected when the Reform Party

became the Canadian Alliance in 2000. In 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2015 he was elected as a member of the Con-servative Party of Can-ada. Representing the riding of Calgary East (until 2015) and Forest Lawn (from 2015).As an opposition mem-ber he served as the Op-position critic for Inter-national Cooperation, Multiculturalism, Inter-

national Trade and of CIDA.In February 2006, Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper appointed Obhrai as Par-liamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In March 2008, he was given the additional responsibility of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minis-ter of International Cooperation, a role he held until November 2008; he would hold the role again from November 2010 to January 2011.During the 2011 Canadian federal elec-tion, Obhrai chose not to appear in an


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superhit songs for Khayyam’s career like “Chandni Raat Mein”, “Aisi Has-een Chandni,” “Pyar Ka Dard Hai”, “Kehte Darr Thi Ho”, “Hazaar Raahe”, “Aankhon Mein Humne Aapki”, “Maa-na Churaoge Badan”, “Phoolon Jaisa Rang”, “Tere Chehre Se” , “Jo Ho Yaar Apna” among others.He also composed non-film songs. Some of them include “Paaon Padun Tore Shyam, Brij Mein Laut Chalo”and “Ghazab Kiya Tere Vaade Pe Aitbaar Kiya”. He also gave music for Meena Kumari’s album, I Write, I Recite (1971)


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Business Chamber in a dinner cer-emony held on Capitol Hill.Obhrai was the longest-serving Con-servative MP in Canada's 42nd Parlia-ment. Obhrai served as the Internation-al Development Critic in the Shadow Cabinet of Rona Ambrose,before re-signing from the Shadow Cabinet to seek the Conservative Party leadership.Obhrai ran in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election.Having received 0.41% of the vote on the first ballot, Obhrai was eliminated after the first round.Obhrai died of liver cancer on August 2, 2019 in Calgary. Obhrai has been on Asian Magazine since 1993. Last interview (2015)with Jagtar is on youtube; link: https://youtu.be/V1bPKVYz6J0



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1941 - Nazis killed 33,771 Jews during the Babi Yar massacre near Kiev.Birthday - Nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was born in Rome. While teaching at the University of Chicago, he developed a method of causing nuclear fussion, producing a chain reaction releasing explosive nu-clear energy which led to the develop-ment of the Atomic bombs.September 301938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to England de-claring there would be “peace in our time,” after signing the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The Pact ceded the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland to the Nazis. Chamberlain claimed the agreement meant peace, however, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939.1955 - Actor James Dean was killed in a car crash in California at age 24. 1966 - Nazi war criminals Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released from Spandau prison after serving 20 years. The prison, originally built for 600 inmates, was left with only one prisoner, former Deputy Führer Ru-dolf Hess.



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around Rupees10 crore (US$1.4 mil-lion). He decided not to celebrate his birth-day after terrorist attack on India’s bor-der post of Pulwama.Khayyam was suffering from various age related ailments. He died on 19 Au-gust 2019 following a cardiac arrest at the age of 92. Awards: * 1977: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Kabhi Kabhie* 1982: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Umrao Jaan* 1982: National Film Award for Best Music Direction: Umrao Jaan* 2007: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award: Creative Music* 2010: Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award* 2011: Padma Bhushan* 2018: Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award


Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanNusrat Fateh Ali Khan born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan on 13 October 1948 in a Punjabi Muslim family in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, shortly after the par-tition of India in 1947 during which his family had migrated to Pakistan from their native city of Jalandhar in Punjab, in the village of Pholiwala. His family originates from Basti Sheikh in Jalandhar. His ancestors learned music and singing there and adopted it as a profession. He was the fifth child and first son of Fateh Ali Khan, a musicologist, vocalist, instrumental-ist, and qawwal. Khan's family, which included four older sisters and a younger brother, Far-rukh Fateh Ali Khan, grew up in central Fais-alabad. The tradition of qawwali in the fam-ily had passed down through successive generations (Patiala gharana)for almost 600 years. Initially, his father did not want Khan to fol-low the family's vocation. He had his heart set on Nusrat choosing a much more respectable career path and be-coming a doctor or engineer because he felt Qawwali artists had low social status. However, Khan showed such an aptitude for and interest in Qaw-wali, that his father finally relented. He began by learning the tabla before moving on to vocals.In 1964, Khan's father died, leaving his musical educa-tion under the supervision of his pa-ternal uncles, Mubarak Ali Khan and

Salamat Ali Khan. He is the uncle of singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Nusrat was known as Pervaiz until he visited Ghulam Ghaus Samdani who changed his name to Nusrat Fateh Ali. Samdani also told him that he would become a great singer.In 1971, after the death of his uncle Mubarak Ali Khan, Khan became the official leader of the family Qawwali party and the party became known as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid

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Nusrat.. from page 50at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York in 1989, earning him admiration from the American audience.Khan, throughout his career, had great understanding with many south Asian singers such as Alam Lohar, the Noor Jehan, and various other Pakistani and Indian singers.In the 1992 to 1993 academic year, Khan was a Visiting Artist in the Eth-nomusicology department at the Uni-versity of Washington, Seattle, Wash-ington, United States.In 1988, Khan teamed up with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ, which led to Khan being signed to Gabriel’s Real World label. He would go on to re-lease five albums of traditional Qaw-wali through Real World, along with the more experimental albums Mustt Mustt (1990), Night Song (1996), and the posthumous remix album Star Rise (1997). Khan’s experimental work for Real World, which featured his collabora-tions with the Canadian guitarist Mi-chael Brook, spurred on several fur-ther collaborations with a number of other Western composers and rock musicians. One of the most notewor-thy of these collaborations came in 1995, when Khan grouped with Pearl Jam’s lead singer Eddie Vedder on two songs for the sound track to Dead Man Walking. Khan also provided vocals for The Prayer Cycle, which was put together by Jonathan Elias, but died before the tracks could be completed. Alanis Morissette was brought in to sing with his unfinished vocals. In 2002, Gabriel included Khan’s vocals

on the posthumously released track “Signal to Noise” on his album Up.Khan’s album Intoxicated Spirit was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in 1997. That same year, his album Night Song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.Khan contributed songs to, and per-formed in, several Pakistani films. Shortly before his death, he composed music for three Bollywood films, which includes the film Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, in which he also sang for “Koi Jaane Koi Na Jaane” on-screen with the lead pair (Bobby deol and Ashwariya), and “Zindagi Jhoom Kar”. He also composed music for Kartoos, where he sang for “Ishq Da Rutba”, and “Bahaa Na Aansoo”, alongside Udit Narayan. He died very shortly prior to the mov-ie’s release. His final music composi-tion for Bollywood was for the movie, Kachche Dhaage, where he sang in “Iss Shaan-E-Karam Ka Kya Kehna”. The movie was released in 1999, two years after his death. Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar sang for the songs he composed in his brief stint in Bolly-wood. He also sang “Saya Bhi Saath Jab Chhod Jaye” for Sunny Deol’s movie Dillagi. The song was released in 1999, two years after Khan’s death. He also sang “Dulhe Ka Sehra” from the Bol-lywood movie Dhadkan which was re-leased in 2000.Khan contributed the song “Gurus of Peace” to the 1997 album Vande Mata-ram, composed by A. R. Rahman, and released to celebrate the 50th anni-versary of India’s independence. As a posthumous tribute, Rahman later re-



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CApRICORN (22 December – 19 January) You may desire more freedom and indepen-dence in your life to do whatever you want without someone holding you back. You can be open to the other ways in which people live, fascinated by other cultures, and attracted to for-eign lifestyles. A new perspective on your health and well-being may come of your researching efforts. This period can be excellent for romance and hav-ing fun with love. If single, you can use the energy to put yourself out there and meet new people, but you may feel like playing the field and not taking anything too seriously right now. Favorable Dates : Sep 1, 3, 10, 12, 19, 21 Favorable Colors : Blue & Yellow

AQUARIUS(20 January – 18 February) There can be nice energy for work efforts, sup-port from superiors, reputation mat-ters, and any project that benefits from

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Nusrat..Continued from page 53leased an album titled Gurus of Peace, which included “Allah Hoo” by Khan. Rahman’s 2007 song “Tere Bina” for the film Guru was also composed as a trib-ute to Khan.Various reports said Khan weighed over 300 pounds. He had been seri-ously ill for several months, accord-ing to a spokesperson at his U.S. label, American Recordings. After traveling to London from his native Pakistan for treatment for liver and kidney prob-lems, he was rushed from the airport to Cromwell Hospital in London.He died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital on 16 August 1997, aged 48. His body was repatriated to Faisalabad, and his funeral was a pub-lic affair. He was buried in Kabootran Wala Qabristan also known as Jhang Road Graveyard on Jhang Road, Fais-alabad.His wife, Naheed Nusrat, died on 13 September 2013 in Credit Valley Hos-pital in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Naheed had moved to Canada after the death of her husband. She is survived

by their daughter Nida Khan. Khan’s musical legacy is now carried forward by his nephews, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Rizwan-Muazzam.Khan is widely considered to be the most important qawwal in history. In 1987, he received the President of Pak-istan’s Award for Pride of Performance for his contribution to Pakistani mu-sic. In 1995, he received the UNESCO Music Prize. In 1996 he was awarded Grand Prix des Amériques at Montreal World Film Festival for exceptional contribution to the art of cinema.In the same year, Khan received the Arts and Culture Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes. In Japan, he was also remembered as the Budai or “Singing


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