Our dogs are our clients. It`s not the people.

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The 32-year-old, Kim, expecting her first child, has gained pregnancy curves
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QATAR TRIBUNE
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April 7,
2013
Labour
of love
“Our dogs are our clients.
It’s not the people.”
– Abdullah al Naemi
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Helping the hapless
LLEWELLYN FLORES
DOHA
“T
HIS is what we do. We play with
“If you open your eyes,
you’ll see so many dogs,
and you find another one
and another. And then you
search for somebody who
can own a dog”
— GERLIN ROSE
them, keep them entertained and
keep them socialised. Without that,
they might develop behavioural is-sues and this will prevent them from
getting a home,’ says Abdullah explaining what volunteers
could do to help with his cause, giving animals a second
chance.
Abdullah al Naemi, whose growing life involved fre-quent visits to their family farm, had always been exposed
to different animals. His father taught them never to mess
around with animals and to always treat them with respect
and care. It would seem that this teaching is deeply rooted
in his heart as it is evidently manifested in his works in 2nd
Chance Rescue, a non-profit organisation he founded in
2009 to provide a new start to some of the abused, aban-doned, and unwanted dogs in Qatar.
Getting into animal rescue was more chance for Abdul-lah than a plan. It started when he lost his dog and through
his search met individuals working to take dogs off the
streets and find them homes. He was amazed at what they
were doing – they love animals as much as he does but they
followed up their love with action. He thought he can do the
same and decided to do the same.
Abdullah’s first act was to take in a puppy, whose owner
couldn’t care for, two months after he lost his dog. He
named the puppy Jack and one day when he was walking
him on a beach, found a litter of eight puppies. He con-tacted a lady, whom he also met through his search, and
told her about the litter. The lady asked if he could foster
the puppies and promised to get them all adopted, which is
what happened. “It was the happiest thing I did for a very
long time,” he exclaimed.
He started taking in animals since and treating them
and getting them adopted all the while giving him “joy.”
To say that the founding of the organisation was fuelled
by love would not be an exaggeration. Abdullah was con--
stantly broke when he started spending his money on the
animals that came to him. Over time he learned cost-cut-ting tricks like buying medicines abroad and learning
rudimentary animal care skills.
“One vet taught me how to give injections trying to help
me save money a little bit,” Abdullah related. In some cases,
he would take a vet’s diagnosis but instead of buying medi-cine from the clinic, he would use his stock and administer
the drug himself.
But financial strains did not so much affect Abdullah’s
spirits as much as the negative feedback of the people
around him who did not believe in the value of what he set
out to do.
“I was criticised in the beginning,” Abdullah recalls.
People questioned his efforts in helping the animals when
so many people around the globe are suffering. Abdullah
acknowledges the many prevailing issues in the world from
hunger to global warming, to extinction, but believes that
opinion on which is more important will always vary and
for this reason people choose their cause. “I chose mine and
I think it’s just as valuable as any other cause,” he said.
“We got a Saluki mother and her two puppies re-homed
to the US and this made me really proud,” Abdullah said.
He told the story of Najma, who came to them com-pletely paralysed. “We used to roll her on sides just so she
doesn’t develop any ulcers. Look at her now. If we let her
out she will be running all around the place.”
He told of a dog they had for two years who no one
would adopt because she was extremely hyper. “We waited
and waited for someone to show interest and take her
home,” Abdullah said. One day a person who knows boxers
and their high energy loved the dog and decided to adopt
her. To Abdullah, these stories make his months.
Now, 2nd Chance houses 111 dogs and 11 cats and has
also opened a veterinary clinic named, Parkview Pet Cen-tre. Abdullah said having the clinic has made their lives so
much easier. “We’re able to support more animals than we
could earlier.” The animals’ food has also been sponsored
by Royal Canin, which Abdullah considers “great” for the
shelter. They even once had a dog that needed to be put on
2nd Chance Rescue Shelter
diet. “For a shelter to have this problem
is very good,” he said laughing. “Even if
the animals are in the kennels most of
the time; they are healthy, happy and
have good energy.”
2nd Chance works closely with an-other rescue group, Dogs in Doha, whose
mission is to help re-home dogs, whether
someone’s pet or a rescue off the streets
of Qatar. Dogs in Doha, founded in 2009
also works with different rescue asso-ciations in the US and Europe. Qatar
Tribune spoke with one of its volunteers,
Gerlin Rose, who practically started
rescuing dogs within two weeks of mov-ing to Qatar. Her first rescue was a stray
dog she and her family found in front
of the compound where they were stay-ing. They frequently found dogs on the
streets after that, which eventually led
her to Dogs in Doha.
“If you open your eyes, you’ll see so
many dogs, and you find another one
and another. And then you search for
somebody who can own a dog,” she said.
The joy in Gerlin’s voice was evident
when she related her success stories. One
of her stories was of a puppy they found
that seemed to have been run over by a
car. The puppy got a broken hip and had
to undergo several surgeries to survive.
“Now, he still has a deformed hip but he
can walk and enjoys life.” The puppy has
also found a good home and very soon
will be taken to Germany.
Announcements of animals for adop-tion could commonly be found on bulle-tin boards of veterinary clinics and Inter-net social pages of these rescue groups.
To those thinking of adopting a dog,
Resident cat of 2nd Chance Rescue Shelter.
cue have the same policies in taking in
animals and adoption process.
“Our dogs are our clients. It’s not the
people,” said Abdullah. “We make sure
our dogs go to the best situation, not the
family getting the cutest dog or the fluffi-est,” he added.
First dogs in the farm.
Gerlin mentioned a few pointers: Train
the dog and train the family members on
how to take care of the dog, follow-up on
vaccinations and walk them.
“Most of them like to be nice to you
because you feed them. So it’s easy to
train them with treats,” says Gerlin. And
for walking the dog, she says what makes
sense in Doha is to take them to the
beach and let them run and play. “This is
what they enjoy and this is what people
enjoy.”
Gerlin related the process of prepar-ing the animals for adoption. According
to her, all the animals they find must
immediately be brought to the vet for
health check. They are all vaccinated,
sterilised and given a microchip before
Rescued dogs at the shelter.
they can be ready for adoption.
To increase the chance of animals
finding homes, the shelter does a little
background check on each applicant
before formalising an adoption. “I
think we know the animals well and
can recommend something to people if
we know their circumstances and what
they expect from a dog,” Gerlin said. The
same applies to collecting adoption fees.
It is a form of insurance that the person
adopting would be willing to spend for
the well-being of the animal. “The adop-tion fee is a fraction of the cost of the
initial package (vaccination, sterilizing
and the microchip) the animals get when
they reach the shelter,” she added.
Dogs in Doha and 2nd Chance Res--
Dogs in Doha and 2nd Chance Rescue are
both constantly in need of funds and volunteers to
support the rescuing and caring for abandoned and
stray animals. Donations to Dogs in Doha can be
made via PayPal at the group’s web site, http://
dogsindoha.weebly.com/. Volunteers may also get
in touch with the group through the site.
2nd Chance Rescue is trying to raise funds
to erect a building that can house more than 100
dogs with a cage-free cat shelter.
Those who loves dogs and has time, the farm
where 2nd Chance Rescue resides is open on
Fridays after three in the after-noon to volunteers who
want to walk dogs in a
tree-filled calming en-vironment. For Fridays
with fund raising bar-becue, visit the group’s
Facebook page, facebook.
com/2ndchancerescueqatar
Najma at the 2nd Chance Rescue Shelter.
Kim Kardashian
Pregnant Kim
Kardashian in
demand
‘One Direction
movie has lovely
emotional moments’
“There have been
some really lovely
emotional moments
that we’ve captured,
I think fans may shed
a tear or two while
watching them”
Morgan Spurlock
IANS
S
OCIALITE Kim Kardashian is
reportedly in demand by fitness
DVDs to star in their campaigns
post the birth of her baby.
The 32-year-old, expecting her first
child with boyfriend Kanye West, has
gained pregnancy curves recently and
is keen on shedding the extra kilos by
working out hard.
“The offers are flooding in for Kim
to do a post-pregnancy DVD and she
is really excited about the idea. Kim
can’t wait to get into her trademark
skinny jeans,” dailystar.co.uk quoted a
source as saying.
“She’s been talking to various big
companies about workout DVDs. In
true Kim style, this would be sexy la-tex (latex rubber is used in many types
of clothing) cat suits and lashings of
make-up for a ghetto style hip hop
work out,” the source added.
Kim has shown concern over her
growing weight and sees this as per-fect chance to get back into shape.
“Although Kim loves being preg-nant, like most women she has strug-gled with her changing body shape.
And because Kim has such a tiny
frame, she looks bigger than she actu-ally is,” a source said.
“A work out DVD would be the
perfect incentive for her to shed those
extra pounds and inspire others too,”
the source added.
IANS
H
OLLYWOOD director Mor-gan Spurlock, currently
shooting One Direction:
This Is Us, says the film
following the lives of One
Direction band members while on tour
will have some “emotional moments”
and fans “may shed a tear” while watch-ing it.
“There have been some really lovely
emotional moments that we’ve captured,
I think fans may shed a tear or two
while watching them,” Spurlock said on
Wednesday afternoon during an interac-tion on Twitter.
“We spend a lot of down time with
the band, with their families and friends.
We really wanted you to see what their
‘normal’ lives are like,” added the direc-tor of well-known documentary Super
Size Me.
One Direction has five members
- Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne,
Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They
were discovered by Simon Cowell on
Britains reality show The X Factor in
2010.
So far the musicians have churned
out hits like Up all night, Take me home
and Live while we’re young.
Although simple, the film’s title says
it all in one go and director gives credit
to the musicians for choosing an apt
name.
“They came up with it themselves.
They really wanted it to convey that it
was them bringing you into their lives,”
he said.
Talking about his interest in the
project, he said: “They are one of the big-gest bands in the world and to capture
the moment in time is an incredible op-portunity ... and in 3D no less!,” he said.
For the movie, the band members not
only spend their time in front of the cam-era, but even ventured behind it.
“The lads have been both in front of
and behind the camera. They’ve been
filming each other on the tour bus and
on day’s off... great footage,” he said.
However, they took a while to get
used to the camera.
“Can be a little unnerving with a
camera in your face all the time, but you
build trust over time. Now I’m just like a
piece of furniture,” he said.
Set to release on August 30, the
film is being jointly produced by Simon
Cowell, Adam Milano, Spurlock and Ben
Winston and it is being distributed by
Sony Pictures.
The band is eager to see Spurlock’s
final product.
“The band can’t wait to see it. But
we’re all excited to see the finished film,
aren’t we,” he said.
Spurlock has also made films like
Where In The World Is Osama Bin
Laden?, Freakonomics, and The Great-est Movie Ever Sold.
HOLLYWOOD
Jada addresses
Brad Pitt set to
Will Smith open
marriage rumours star in another
WWII film
IANS
J
Will Smith (left) and
Jada Pinkett.
IANS
ADA Pinkett Smith has admitted
that she and Will Smith have an
open relationship.
Addressing a longstanding
rumour about her 16-year-old mar-riage to Will, the 41-year-old told the
Huffington Post that she had always
told Will to do whatever he wants to
as long as he can look at himself in
the mirror and be okay.
“Because at the end of the day,
Will is his own man. I’m here as his
partner, but he is his own man. He
has to decide who he wants to be and
that’s not for me to do for him. Or
vice versa,” she said.
Jada, who married Will in a small
ceremony in 1997 after meeting on
the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
counts a foundation of friendship as an
essential component of her and the I
Am Legend star’s bond.
She said that she doesn’t think that
it’s easy to be married to anyone as you
have to go into a relationship knowing
that it’s going to be lifetime partner-ship.
Jada added that Will is her best
friend, who has been by her side
through some of the most difficult
parts of her life and it is something
one can never take away from her.
F
OUR years after the release of Inglori--
ous Basterds, Brad Pitt will be return-ing to the theme of World War II as
the star of David Ayer’s Fury, show-busi-ness blog Deadline said.
The actor is in the final stage of talks to
join the project, which is based on the actual
experiences of a US tank crew battling
the Germans in the waning months of the
conflict.
Filming is scheduled to start in Septem-ber, Deadline said.
Indie producer QED International paid
$1 million for Ayer’s screenplay.
The film aims to “bring a fresh execution
to the genre”, Ayer told Deadline. “What
these men went through is worthy of a
complex, honest portrayal. This will have
incredible, visceral action and complex rich
characters. I plan to bring tank combat to
life in a way that lands with a modern audi-ence.”
Ayer and QED recently worked together
on Ten, an action film starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington and
Mireille Enos that is set for release next
January.
Pitt both acted and directed in his latest
project, World War Z, which will be in US
cinemas in June.
Brad Pitt
SCENE UNSEEN
Osbourne contractually obliged
to have purple hair
ACTRESS-SINGER Kelly Osbourne
says she has to keep her hair
purple for two years for work,
although she wants to change it.
The 28-year-old would love to
change her hair colour to green.
“I’m contracted to this hair colour.
I can’t change it for two years. I
wanted to go green, but was told
Kelly Obsourne
I wouldn’t be able to work any-more,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Osbourne as saying.
However, the Fashion Police star is happy with her hair
and loves being called queen of the granny girls.
“In England, I’m called queen of the granny girls and I
love it. My hair is a mix of gray, blue and lavender. It’s hard
to get this colour, you have to have blond hair to get the
right shade,” she explained.
The actress also revealed she has a number of Chanel
hangbags at her home but never takes them outside.
“I have Chanel handbags and I never wear them. I
make music videos in my apartment with them. I don’t
want to ruin them. They make me happy,” she added.
I’ve been on a diet for 40 years: Cattrall
KIM Cattrall has revealed that it has
taken her 40 years of weight watching
and exercise to look as good as she
does at 56.
The actress, who played maneater
Samantha Jones in Sex And The City,
told Woman ‘n’ Home magazine that
she has been on a diet since 1974,
the Mirror reported.
Cattrall said that she likes
to eat and her body type is not
naturally this thin, especially at
this age.
The ‘Mannequin’ star said that
she hopes that working out every
other day and minimising stress
will allow her to keep playing sexy
characters as a sexagenarian.
Cattrall added that when she
hit her 40s she thought that she
can’t play a sexy siren any more,
but now almost 20 years later, it’s
still going on.
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrate
anniversary in Cuba
BEYONCE and Jay-Z
are in Cuba on Thurs-day they had breakfast
at a restaurant in Old
Havana to celebrate
their fifth wedding
anniversary.
The couple ar-rived on the island
on Wednesday ac-companied by several
Beyonce (left) and Jay-Z.
members of the family
on a private visit, em-ployees of the Hotel Saratoga told EFE.
After breakfast at the La Moneda Cubana restaurant
adjacent to the Plaza de la Catedral, the couple strolled
around Old Havana.
With her long hair tightly braided and put up in a
huge, loose bun, wearing a yellow, black and gray pat-terned miniskirt and flat shoes, Beyonce tried a daiquiri
- a traditional Cuban cocktail - and ate a salad, according
to the owner of the establishment.
Kim Cattrall
BOLLYWOOD
Wild, naughty, witty,
but never vulgar
Film:
Rating:
Director:
Starring:
Chashme Baddoor
David Dhawan
Rishi Kapoor, Lilette Dubey, Ali Zafar,
Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Taapsee
Pannu and Anupam Kher
NOW PLAYING IN DOHA THEATRES
IANS
“
DUM hai, Boss!” - the perky
young Miss Congeniality in
David Dhawan’s Chashme
Baddoor, a far cry from the
shastriya sangeet trainee tutti
fruti-eating Deepti Naval in Sai Paran-jpye’s film, exclaims whenever she is im-pressed by her loverboy’s dialogue-baazi.
Exclamation marks are the only
punctuations in this seamless comedy of
courtship played at an impossibly high
octave, without getting shrill.
‘Farce’ things first. Barring the core
theme of two friends maliciously nipping
the third friend’s romance in the bud,
and some mischievous sequences and
characters from the original, which have
been entirely re-interpreted as ‘swines
of the times’, Dhawan’s Chashme Bad-door is far(ce) removed from Paranjpye’s
original.
Those were days of relative inno-cence. Whistling at girls at bus stops,
chasing unwilling girls to their homes,
and landing up at their doorstep under
assumed identities were all considered
innocuous bachelor bacchanalia. In
Paranjpye’s Chashme Buddoor, it was a
big deal that Rakesh Bedi managed to get
into Deepti Naval’s bathroom pretending
to be a plumber.
In Dhawan’s film, the very gifted
Divyendu Sharma, who plays Bedi’s part,
just can’t pretend to know the perky girl
next-door intimately by her bathroom
decor. He manages to take a picture of
a tattoo on her waist to convince his
love-smitten pal Sid (Ali Zafar) that the
girl is... well, not chaste but quite a chalu
cheez.
While the writing gets chalu, it mirac-ulously steers clear of being cheesy by a
wide margin. Under the veneer of vicious
courtship games played by two desper-ately single guys, Dhawan’s Chashme
Baddoor retains a core of innocence. A
tongue-in-cheek virtuosity remains the
film’s greatest triumph. Sajid-Farhad’s
writing is wild, naughty and witty, but
never vulgar. The whimsical word-play
flows from a tap-dance of prankish in-ternet-styled banter which is border-line
silly but nonetheless very engaging in an
off-handedly smart way.
If anything, the repartees flow much
too furiously. From Anupam Kher’s slaphappy mother Bharati Achrekar (effortly
replacing Leela Mishra from the origi-nal) to Goan cafe owner Rishi Kapoor’s
unidentifiable assistant - everyone is a
certifiable quipster in the new film.
Among the three protagonists, Di--
Under the veneer
of vicious courtship
games played by
two desperately
single guys,
Dhawan’s Chashme
Baddoor retains a
core of innocence
A still from the film
Chashme Baddoor.
vyendu, playing an awful self-styled
shaayar, gets the most tawdry lines of
bumper-sticker wisdom, which the actor
delivers with such punctuated panache,
we can’t help guffawing out our implicit
irshaad.
Comic timing is of vital importance
to this film. And every actor gets it right,
dead-on sometime dead-pan. To me, the
film’s most natural-born scenestealer is
the southern star Siddharth. Seen lately
in Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children,
Siddharth nails his character’s filmy
flamboyance. Many would say Siddharth
has gone over the top. But to sustain
that high-pitched level of crazy energy
throughout the film is no laughing mat-ter.
Or, on second thoughts, this talented
actor’s performance is indeed a laughing
matter.
Ali Zafar is far more sober and con-trolled than his co-stars. It takes some
doing to remain steadfast in your stipu-lated sobriety while all your co-stars pull
out all stops.
The laughs, so refreshingly liber-ated of lewdness flow almost non-stop.
Adding a dollop of spice to the original
script is an entirely unscheduled love
angle between Rishi Kapoor and Lilette
Dubey. Lallan Miya (Saeed Jaffrey), who
played Rishi’s character in Paranjpye’s
film would have loved that. Outstanding
both, Kapoor and Dubey make their on-screen romance look warm, cuddlesome
and credible.
Audaciously, Dhawan and his writer
Sajid-Farhad have transferred the cel-ebrated chamko detergent demonstra-tion-sequence between Farooque Sheikh
and Deepti Naval in Sai Paranjpye’s film
to the Rishi-Lilette characters. Maybe
the writers saw this pair’s chemistry
to be more frothy and foamy than the
central romance?
Ali Zafar’s courtship of the vivacious
Taapsee Pannu is relatively thanda. One
reason for their frosty compatibility is
Ali Zafar’s reined-in performance. He
deliberately plays his part a few octaves
lower than his loud co-stars who are so
hyper-strung that you sometimes won-der which drugs they are on.
This Chashme Baddoor moves wick-edly at its own volition creating a crazy
pattern of comic chaos that stops short
of being anarchic due to the finely-tuned
situational satire simulated in the writ-ing out of a material that was created
30 years ago when there were no mobile
phones and the height of male voyeurism
was the Playboy magazine.
Dhawan’s film doesn’t take the char-acters’ contemporary courtship games
into areas that would offend the moral-ists. He knows where to stop.
Just when my faith in remakes had
been shaken by Himmatwala last week,
David Dhawan had me shaking with
laughter this week.
Carry on, Mr Dhawan. David
Dhawan’s new-age interpretation of the
1981 film moves far away from
the original creating for itself a new
pathway of laughter and hilarity without
showing any disrespect to the source
material.
Ali, Divyendu and Siddharth’s au-dacious antics, with Rishi Kapoor and
Lilette Dubey’s age-defying romance
thrown in for added measure, make the
trio of girl-crazy heroes in Paranjpye’s
film look like angels. This is David
Dhawan’s wickedest comedy of one-up-manship since Mujhse Shaadi Karogi.
You can’t miss it. The attention-grab-bing chest-thumping gibberish-spewing
rowdy boyz won’t let you.
Dum hai, Boss!
Reference makes actor’s work
interesting, says Anil Kapoor
IANS
A
CTOR Anil Kapoor,
who is playing Mum-bai’s retired encounter
specialist ACP Isaque Bag-wan - a real life character - in
Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout at
Wadala, feels that when
you have a reference
for a role, it makes an
actor’s job interest-ing.
“Somewhere
I feel that it be-comes less chal-lenging. Some-times you do such
a character that
does not have any
reference point,
so it becomes
difficult. But like
there are certain
incidents which the
story is based upon,”
the 56-year-old said on
Wednesday.
“Besides, this film is
inspired from the book
Dongri To Dubai, few
incidents have been taken
from that book. So as an
actor or director or filmmaker,
your work becomes interest-ing. I would not say it becomes
easy, but somewhere we enjoy
doing that,” he added.
Anil further says he got a lot
of support from Isaque while
playing the role.
Isaque was the one who
shot gangster Manya Surve
in November 1982, the first
registered encountered by
Mumbai police.
“In this film, I play ACP
Isaque Bagwan. He is a real
life person who did the first
encounter in Bombay. So my
character is inspired from
him. I got a lot of support
and help when I was doing
this film. Before starting
with the film, I met him,
we talked and I enjoyed
playing this role,” Anil said.
Directed by Sanjay
Gupta, Shootout at
Wadala also stars John
Abraham, Tusshar Ka-poor, Manoj Bajpayee,
Kangna Ranaut and
Mahesh Manjrekar
and is slated for a
May 1 release.
Anil Kapoor
Want to make a career in
Bollywood: Kristina Akheeva
PTI
A
USTRALIAN model Kristina Akheeva hopes to
get more movie offers after the release of her
Bollywood debut film Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
as she wants to make a career in the Hindi film indus-try.
Akheeva was on a modelling contract in India
when she saw a Hindi movie and since then can’t get
enough of Bollywood films.
After refusing a few odd roles, she finally got her
big break with the Deols - Dharmendra, Sunny and
Bobby - in YPD 2, a sequel to 2011 release of the same
name.
“I was in India for a modelling contract and I got
introduced to Bollywood while I was here. I started to
watch a lot of Bollywood movies and I got hooked on
to it. I started to think if I get an opportunity here that
would be very exciting. Last year I was offered YPD
and I am really happy to get a break with such a big
film,” Akheeva said.
“I am really keen on making a career here and am
hoping to get good offers after the movie releases,”
she added. She might not be familiar with Hindi but
in the movie Akheeva has a few dialogues in the lan-guage for which she took month long lessons.
“I like to challenge myself and I don’t see language
as limitation. I have to just work that little bit harder
than other people. In this film also I am speaking in
Hindi so I worked very hard and I will just keep doing
that. So by next film I don’t want language to be an
issue. I should get any kind of roles.”
YPD 2 is directed by Sangeeth Sivan and will
release on June 7.
Kristina
Akheeva
SCENE UNSEEN
Shahid gets stylish haircut
on camera!
SHAHID Kapoor faced the camera while
having a haircut - just for his fans!
The actor agreed to do it for his celeb-rity hairstylist Aalim Hakim’s show Style
Inc. with Aalim Hakim. The episode featur-ing Shahid will go on air on TLC Friday.
Shahid and Hakim have been good
friends for long. They take a nostalgic
trip down memory lane, wherein Shahid
speaks about his struggling days and how
Hakim supported him all through.
The actor will also be given a couple of
different looks on the show.
Hakim’s show offers viewers access to
new trends while he gives actors a whole
new look - both on-screen and off it.
Shahid Kapoor (left) and Aalim Hakim.
Rise Of The Zombies was cakewalk for Kirti Kulhari
ACTRESS Kirti Kulhari, who plays Vinny, the
zombie’s girlfriend in Rise Of The Zombies, says
the role was a cakewalk as compared to her part
in Shaitan.
In Shaitan, Kirti played Tanya, an aspiring
model, who gets no support from her family and,
hence, has to struggle a lot.
“As compared to my role in Shaitan, it (Rise Of
The Zombies) was like a ‘cakewalk’,” the 28 year-old
said in an interview. “I don’t mean to sound any-thing else... just the fact that different characters
have different characteristics,” she added.
Comparing her characters in both the films,
Kirti said: In Shaitan, it was a very complicated
character. Many things were going on in her life
that were not allowing her to think normally and
lead a normal life. In comparison to that, if you
see Vinny’s character, it is very sorted and bal-anced.”
“She knows what she exactly wants in life. Her
Kirti Kulhari
personal and professional life is all clear. So from
that angle, it was very simple to play this character,” added the actress, who
managed to garner appreciation for her character of Tanya in Shaitan.
Rise Of The Zombies, which released on Friday, features Luke Kenny as a
wildlife photographer who then turns into a zombie. Besides acting in the
film, Luke has co-directed the film with Devaki Singh.
No real-life characters in Once Upon
A Time in Mumbai Again, says Akshay
REFUTING rumours that his
upcoming movie Once Upon A
Time in Mumbaai Again (OUATI-MA) is based on the lives of two
underworld dons - Dawood Ib-rahim and Chota Rajan - Akshay
Kumar said it is a fictional story
with no real life characters.
“Let me correct you, we are
not playing real life characters,”
said actor Akshay, who plays
Shoaib Khan in the underworld
Akshay Kumar
drama, in which Imran Khan will
be seen as Aslam.
“ I am playing Shoaib’s character and he is playing his
character, there is nothing called real life character”, added
the star at a media meet, when asked whether the duo have
done any research on their respective characters.
“It’s a fictional film. Lot of small, small incidents have
been taken and added here,” he said.
Imran added: “It is a fictional story and as Akshay said
incidents are picked up, modified and used here.”
Directed by Milan Luthria, OUATIMA also stars Sonali
Bendre and Sonakshi Sinha. Produced by Ekta Kapoor and
Shobha Kapoor, the film is slated for a August 8 release.
TR
Hiking beyond
borders in the Balkans
The Peaks of the
Balkans Trail, formally
opened last year as
a 192-kilometre
trek designed to
foster tourism and
teamwork among
historically quarrel-some neighbours
NYT SYNDICATE
T
HE seasons were changing
fast, and the warmth I’d tak-en for granted had vanished
as night mustered in the hills.
I gathered the blanket around
my neck and listened to the dogs barking
below. It was now long past midnight,
with only a few hours until the morning
call to prayer.
Peter Grubb, the owner of an Idahobased outfitter called Row Adventures,
sat in the corner flipping through maps
under the lone working light bulb. We
were in Room 305 of Hotel Rosi, a bright
yellow block of a building in Gusinje, a
predominately Muslim community in the
former Yugoslav republic of Montene-gro. South of here, a rocky trail climbed
steadily into a maw of limestone peaks.
Tomorrow we would follow that trail and
slip virtually unnoticed into Albania.
That would have been among the
stupidest things you could do had it been
the 1980s, when Albania was the North
Korea of Europe. From World War II
until his death in 1985, the communist
leader Enver Hoxha hammered Albania
into an oppressive hermit state.
Hoxha’s final heart attack and the
eventual collapse of Communism hailed
RAVEL
the beginning of the end of Albania’s
isolation, and in recent years the oncetense border region separating Albania,
Montenegro and Kosovo has become
the kind of place you’d want to visit. Aid
money, remittances and relative stabil-ity have helped create a middle class,
and tourism in the region is beginning
to boom. Guides take groups kayaking
under stone bridges in Montenegro, hik-ing around Albanian archaeological sites
and even skiing in Kosovo. New hotels
are pumping fresh life into stale com-munist hangouts, even if the water isn’t
always hot.
“If you want luxury, sorry, go to Paris
or New York,” Kela Qendro, a 33-yearold Albanian working for a small tourism
company, told me later. “You come here
to see the real stuff. The shepherd. The
old woman picking pomegranates. You
go up to villagers and they will invite you
inside their home for the joy of meeting
you.”
Grubb, who runs about seven trips a
year to Croatia, had long been fascinated
with this less-developed region of the
Balkans. About a year ago he learned of
an intriguing new way to explore it – on
foot.
The Peaks of the Balkans Trail, a
project coordinated by the German
Agency for International Cooperation
and involving dozens of other groups
(including women’s associations, tour-ism offices and environmental non-governmental organisations), formally
opened last year as a 192-kilometer trek
designed to foster tourism and teamwork
among historically quarrelsome neigh-bours. The path literally links Muslim,
Catholic and Orthodox enclaves, as well
as Slavs and numerous Albanian tribes
in three adjoining national parks, each
showcasing the border region’s inestima-ble beauty.
There would be no real roughing it,
since locals have turned ancestral homes
into rustic inns offering beds, home-made cheeses, meats and brandy. Even
wandering across remote, unmanned
borders is now legal, thanks to a new
permit system introduced last summer.
Grubb needed only some willing travel-ers before offering the trip for real. Seven
gregarious Texans and I signed up.
We were about to head deep into
the Albanian Alps, better known as the
cursed mountains, some of Europe’s
most glaciated peaks after the Swiss Alps
and the highest summits of the Dinaric
Alps. The whole trail could be hiked in
about 10 days, but we had just five to do
parts of it. Even so, there were big days
and taxing climbs ahead. We would be
among the first United States-outfitted
groups to wander into the maw, and in
these parts, the order of things is more
mystery than fact.
Earlier that day I had met the Texans
at the airport in Podgorica, Montene-gro’s pint-size capital. It was dark when
we arrived in Gusinje, but the morning
dawned bright and warm. Mount Rosi,
the hotel’s 2,522-meter-high namesake,
rose to the southeast, while the 2,694meter-high pyramid of Mount Jezerca
lorded over the south.
Around 9 am Enes Dreskovic, the
newly minted director of the Prokletije
National Park, one of the three border
parks, roared up in a hunter-orange
Pinzgauer, a military transport vehicle,
to take us to the trail head. We ground to
a halt in the Ropojana Valley, a fairy-tale
scoop of swaying pines and scalloped
ridges that even the Pinzgauer could
not penetrate. The trail began in earnest
here. An Albanian from Theth, our goal
19 kilometers away, had supposedly left
the village at 3 am with horses to carry
our luggage, but there was no sign of
him.
“Well, welcome to the ‘A’ in adven-ture travel,” Grubb said.
Rocks as white as marble complained
under our boots as we marched toward
a broad meadow in the midst of a beech
forest. A griffon vulture performed lazy
8’s overhead. Shards of silvery-gray
limestone shot into the sky like missiles.
Of all the images I’d had of the region,
none were as beautiful as this.
By early afternoon we had crested
the Peja Pass, a treeless scab of rock and
wind with an elevation of about 1,525
meters. Dome-shape bunkers with ma-chine gun slits fortified the high points.
Fearing an invasion from all directions,
Hoxha had built an estimated 700,000
of these death pods around a country of
less than 29,000 square kilometres.
“Welcome to Albania,” bellowed our
28-year-old Montenegrin guide, Semir
Kardovic, mimicking gunfire.
The 800-vertical-metre climb to the
pass had been difficult but the 1,200vertical-metre descent into Theth was
brutal. Down and down we plummeted
along a series of knee-smashing switch-backs into an enormous glacial valley.
By dusk, pointy houses with orange
light seeping from the doorways winked
through the forest. We made our way
toward one, a medieval-looking guest-house with stone walls.
After a breakfast the next day of
eggs, curds and jam, we shouldered our
packs and stomped off toward the village
of Valbona, about 14 kilometres east.
The area is so rugged that the Ottoman
Turks, who were Muslims, were unable
to control the region as they did most of
the Balkans for 500 years. As a result,
both Theth and Valbona are still Catho-lic.
Mount Arapit, a 2,217-metre peak,
seemed to size me up as I crossed a
wooden bridge and began to climb
through maple, ash and hornbeams. It
was not yet 10 am but already muggy.
About three kilometres in I collapsed.
We had gained 240 vertical meters. Only
915 more to go.
Soon the trail fell some 760 meters
into a broad alluvial basin. A van waited
for us at the start of a rocky road that
joined an asphalt street poured only a
few weeks earlier. New lodges seemed to
be going up everywhere.
“A lot of locals are moving back to the
area, which is very encouraging,” Anto-nia Young, a British research fellow who
has worked for more than a decade to
create an international peace park in the
region, told me later. “The danger now is
that tourism gets too big before they can
cope with it.”
To be sure, Albania has had some
wobbly moments on its new capitalist
legs. In 1997 Albanians lost $1.2 billion
of their life savings in pyramid schemes
that sparked a rebellion against the
government and resulted in about 2,000
deaths. Even tourism, which has nearly
tripled in six years from about 1 million
foreign tourists to 2.7 million in 2012,
according to Albanian figures, has been
unable to escape certain prejudices.
“Albania is a great place to score
plenty of illegal narcotics – a ‘must have’
for any Albanian holiday!” commented
an anonymous reader of a June 11, 2012,
Southeast European Times article about
the country’s booming tourism trade.
“You cannot have an image problem
if that problem is real,” said Ilir Mati,
who in 1992 sold his car to start an ad-venture tourism company called Outdoor
Albania.
Mati was at the guesthouse with cli-ents, and I sat up late chatting with him
in French. “My friends thought I was
crazy to leave the military and go into
tourism,” he said. “But I had a dream
that one day I would be sitting around a
table like this talking to people like you.”
The discussion continued the next
morning when our plan to hike from Val-bona back into Montenegro was altered.
After two days, the trek was too
much for our group – 16 hours at least
– and the trail had been washed out. So
instead we drove to a spot just above the
village of Cerem, where we headed out
for an easy stroll back into Montenegro.
ART
Puppet festival seeks
to redefine old art
Puppetry, believed to have been born in
India, finds reference in the Tamil epic
Silappadikaaram written around the 1st or
the 2nd century BC. Historians say it came
into practise in 5th century BC
IANS
P
UPPET theatre as creative
entertainment has become
integral to contemporary
performances in the last few
years drawing new legions
of viewers to its fold in redefining an
ancient art form - believed to have origi-nated in India - to address new cultural
needs.
The Ishara International Puppet
Theatre festival April 8-16 in Delhi,
Gurgaon and Chandigarh will bring to
the country troupes from Russia, Is-rael, Bulgaria, Iran, Portugal, Italy and
Spain, who will perform a melange of
new and traditional puppetry. In the
last decade, puppetry has combined
with other mainstream arts like acting,
dance, theatre and stage dialogues.
Puppetry, believed to have been born
in India, finds reference in the Tamil
epic Silappadikaaram written around
the 1st or the 2nd century BC. Histo-rians say it came into practice nearly
500 years before the birth of Christ.
Traditional puppet theatre in India was
themed on mythological stories and
based on the ancient Natyashastra.
Each region evolved its own puppet-ry tradition like the Kathputli of Rajas-than, Kundhei of Orissa, Gombeyetta
of Karnataka, Bommalattam of Tamil
Nadu, Pavakoothu of Kerala, Putul
Natch of Bengal and Yampuri of Bihar.
Over the centuries, it has moved beyond
mythology to campaign on social issues.
The producer of the Ishara Interna-tional Puppet Theatre Festival, Team-works Production, said the “festival has
grown bigger this year to reach out to
countries whose puppetry traditions do
not always tour the globe”. Countries
like Bulgaria, Israel, Portugal and Italy
will showcase their puppet theatres in
India for the first time.
Petar Todorov, director of the entry
from Bulgaria, Garbage for Plums, says
the play “is based on a very popular
and funny Bulgarian folktale, full of
self irony and humour that is typical to
Bulgarian folklore”.
“We try to transmit the traditional
Bulgarian system of values to children
in the country and to audiences else-where,” Todorov said.
The festival will begin on April 8
with Masha and the Bear by the Mos-cow Regional State Puppet Theatre in
English at the India Habitat Centre. The
theatre narrates the tale of Masha, a lit--
tle girl who loses her way while picking
fruits. It uses a fusion of traditional Rus-sian puppetry and modern theatre.
On subsequent days, the festival
will host master Indian puppeteer Dadi
D Pudumjee’s Heer ke Waris - based on
Kitaab-e-Ishq by Waris Shah;
Dhola Maru, a love story from the
deserts of Rajasthan by Puran Bhat;
Ravan Chhaya, a shadow puppet
theatre of Odisha; The Pier is Alive from
Portugal; Nonso and Nonsa from Italy;
Garbage for Plums from Portugal;
The Cubes Circus from Israel; The
Musician Who Played the Moon from
Israel and Bernarda’s Backstage from
Spain.
However, the main attraction of the
festival will be Heer ke Waris.
Pudumjee says “the bilingual play in
Hindi and Punjabi scripted by actor and
stand-up comedian Maheep Singh is the
tale of the doomed love between Heer
and Ranjha, who met to part and then
reunite under tragic circumstances.
“The idea of doing this universal
love story is because people can iden-tify with sagas like Laila Majnu, Shirin
Farhad and Heer Ranjha. There are two
versions of Heer Ranjha, one with a
happy ending and the other with a tragic
ending. We have chosen the story with
the sad ending. We are working on the
story at three levels - the present-day
significance of the story, the traditional
backdrop and a combination of genres,”
Pudumjee said.
The script intreprets the star-crossed
love story of Heer-Ranjha in the mod-ern day milieu with the tale of a young
couple, “who face similar problems
in love like opposition from families,”
Pudumjee said. The puppeteer looks at
Heer as a Sufi seer and employs shadow
puppets, big hand held puppets, actors,
dancers, poetry and live music to nar-rate the Sufi epic on stage.
“We have used original poetry from
the compositions of Waris Shah,” Pu-dumjee, a pioneer of Indian cintempo-rary puppetry, said.
The festival will discuss puppetry as
a performance tradition at a two-day
seminar on April 11-12.
“The centuries-old tradition has
been evolving. Now, each artist puts in
something. Presentations are faster and
often shorter. Modern puppetry is not
bound by any style. It is a full-fledged
performance art that merges as a ho-listic theatre module with other arts on
stage,” Pudumjee said.
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April 7, 1862
During the American Civil War,
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SUDOKU
Yesterday’s Answer
Star Talk
By King Features Syndicate, Inc.
ARIES [mar 21 – apr 19]
TAURUS [apr 20 – may 20]
GEMINI [may 21 – jun 20]
CANCER [jun 21 - jul 22]
LEO [jul 23 – aug 22]
VIRGO [aug 23 – 22]
You feel happy and content
with the world today because
so much seems to be going
your way. And indeed, it is.
Alphabetise your blessings.
Don’t promise more than you
can deliver in monetary terms
to someone in a group situation
today. No matter how good
something looks, don’t pledge
more than you’re willing to give.
You may be viewed as overly
extravagant today. Be careful,
because the people who view you
are those in authority -- bosses,
parents, teachers and the police.
Travel plans look exciting! But are
they doable? It’s also wonder-ful to feel enthusiastic about
publishing, higher education, the
media, medicine and the law.
Keep your feet on the ground.
If dividing or sharing something
today, don’t give away the farm.
Alternatively, don’t demand
more than your fair share. It’s
easy to skew things out of
proportion today.
You feel warm and friendly
toward loved ones today, which
is why close relationships and
partnerships will flow smoothly.
Each seems to be looking out
for the best for the other.
LIBRA [sept 23 – oct 22]
SCORPIO [oct 23 – nov 21]
SAGITTARIUS [nov 22 – dec 21]
CAPRICORN [dec 22 – jan 19]
AQUARIUS [jan 20 – feb 18]
Pisces [feb 19 – mar 20]
Things will go smoothly at work
today, but just make sure you
don’t take on more than you can
handle. Only agree to realistic
deadlines, then you look good.
You might overdo things partying
or attending social functions
today. Keep this in mind, because
there is always the piper to
pay -- one way or the other.
Enjoy entertaining at home. For
some reason, more people might
show up when you don’t expect
them. Hot tip: Stock the fridge.
Your ability to think positively
will make your day today. In fact,
enthusiasm is contagious, which
is why others are attracted to
you now.
Your moneymaking ideas look
great. But be suspicious of
something that looks better
than it is. Nevertheless, grab
the baton and run with it.
Today you feel positive, confident
and extravagant. It’s not a working
day, it’s a play day! (Take a long
lunch or leave work early.)
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(Comedy)
When a street magician’s stunts begins to make their
show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone
and Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act - and
their friendship - by staging their own daring stunt.
Jurassic Park - 3D (Adventure)
A wealthy man has created an island amusement park filled
with dinosaurs cloned from fossilised DNA. When he invites
experts to endorse it, nature takes over. Not a remake or
reboot. This is the release of 1993’s Jurassic Park as a remas-tered and IMAX 3D film. With his remastering of the epic into
a state-of-the-art 3D format, Steven Spielberg introduces
the three-time Academy Award-winning blockbuster to
a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime
fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way
was unimaginable during the film’s original release.
CITY CENTRE CINEMA
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 11 AM, 1.30 M, 4 PM, 6.30
PM, 9 PM, 11.30 PM. 1 AM [VIP GOLD] 12.30 PM, 3 PM, 5.30
PM, 8 PM, 10.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (CRIME): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15 PM,
6.45 PM, 9.115 PM, 11.45 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 11.45 AM, 1.45 PM, 3.45 PM, 5.45
PM, 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM
JURASSIC PARK (3D) (ADVENTURE): 10.30 AM, 1 PM, 3.30
PM, 6 PM, 8.30 PM, 11 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 10.30
AM, 12.45 PM, 3 PM, 5.15 PM, 7.30 PM, 9.45 PM, 12 MN,
1 AM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM, 3.30 PM,
5.30 PM, 7.30 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
LOVE WEDDING, MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 12.45 PM, 5 PM,
9.15 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15
PM, 6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 11.15 AM, 1.15 PM, 3.15
PM, 5.15 PM, 7.15 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.15 PM
THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6
PM, 8 PM, 10 PM, 12 MN
OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 11.45 AM, 4.30
PM, 9.15 PM
IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 10.30 AM, 2.45 PM, 7 PM, 11.15 PM
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (FANTASY): 2.15 PM, 7 PM, 11.45 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 12 PM, 5.45 PM,11.30 PM
HIMMATWALA (HINDI): 3 PM, 8.45 PM
CHASME BADOOR (HINDI): 12.15 PM, 3 PM, 5.45 PM, 8.30
PM, 11.15 PM
VILLAGGIO CINEMA
LANDMARK CINEMA
MALL CINEMA
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 10.30 AM, 11.45 AM,
12.45 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, 4.15 PM, 5.15 PM, 6.30 PM, 7.30
PM, 8.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11 PM, 12 MN, 1 AM
DEAD MAN DOWN (CRIME): 2 PM, 4.30 PM, 7 PM, 9 PM,
12 MN
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM, 8 PM, 10
PM, 12 MN, 1,15 AM
JURASSIC PARK (3D) (ADVENTURE): 6.15 PM, 8.45 PM,
11.15 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 12.30
PM, 2.45 PM, 5 PM, 7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM,
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 10.45 AM, 12.45 PM, 2.45
PM, 4.45 PM
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (DRAMA): 11.30 PM, 2.30
PM, 5.30 PM, 8.30 PM, 11.30 PM
LOVE WEDDING, MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 11.30 AM, 3.30
PM, 7.30 PM, 11.30 PM
THE CROODS (ANIMATION): 1.30 PM, 5.30 PM, 9.30 PM
(3D) 12.15 PM, 2.15 PM, 4.15 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11 AM, 1.30 PM, 4 PM,
6.30 PM, 9 PM, 11.30 PM
PARKER (ACTION): 6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM
THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 11.45 AM, 1.45 PM,
3.45 PM, 5.45 PM, 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM
OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 12 PM, 2.45
PM, 5.30 PM, 8.15 PM, 11 PM
IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 12.15 PM, 2.30 PM, 4.45 PM,
7 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.30 PM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM, 4.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (ACTION): 6.30 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 9 PM
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (DRAMA): 11 PM
SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 5 PM, 7 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 9 PM
JURASSIC PARK 4 (3D) (ADEVENTURE): 11 PM
THE BAY II (THRILLER): 2.30 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 4.15 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 6.30 PM
CHASHME BADDOOR (HINDI): 8.30 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 11 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 2.45 PM, 5 PM,
7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 5 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 7 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 9 PM
JURASSIC PARK 4 (3D) (ACTION): 11 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 2.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (ACTION): 4.30 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 6.45 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 8.30 PM
CHASHME BADDOOR (HINDI): 11.15 PM
ROYAL PLAZA
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 5 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 7 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 9 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 11 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 2.45 PM, 5 PM,
7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
MELANCHOLIA (DRAMA): 2.30 PM, 9 PM
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (ANIMATION): 4.30 PM
TAKE THIS WALTZ (COMEDY): 6.30 PM
JACK REACHER (ACTION): 11 PM
Movie review
NOTICE: Timings are subject to change without prior notice.
Dead Man Down
NIELS Arden Oplev, the acclaimed director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, makes his American
theatrical debut with the new action thriller, Dead Man Down. Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers
who are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge. The film co-stars Academy Award
nominee Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper, from a screenplay by J H Wyman.
While the fine cast keeps Dead Man Down watchable throughout, the film is weighted down by absurd plot
twists and a slack pace.
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