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PIX will telecast the action, adventure and sci-fi film “Outlander” on September 27, 9 p.m. Directed by Howard McCain, the film stars James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston and John Hurt.

The film begins when a space craft crashes onto planet earth. The ship lands in a lake situated around the local creek of ancient Norway in the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier- Kainan and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen.

Man and monster both seek revenge for violence committed against them.

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Mogra presents a discount sale by designers Karuna Khaitan (wild Orchid), Taurus, Jyothi Jain and Mayank Modi.

Venue: Diamond District, IBC Hotels, Old Airport Road

Date: September 26 and 27

Contact: 41152457

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Bangalore is a hospitable and friendly city feels Ari Bloch, the Israeli entrepreneur

EVOLVING The city has matured says Ari

He had never planned to move to India but just packed his bags and landed here! Ari Bloch who shifted to Bangalore from Israel a decade ago says: “Being an entrepreneur all my life, I liked what I saw, both the country as a whole as well as theabundance of business opportunity, and I decided to stay.” This was a decision he made when he took up an assignment for a client to set up a software development centre and little did he realise that this was going to be home.

Having lived in Mumbai and Madurai prior to settling down in Bangalore, Ari has also travelled extensively around the country. Not only has he been to all the metropolitan cities but has even visited the smaller towns. He recalls coming to Bangalore when “the city was at the height of the dot-com bubble and was buzzing with activity mostly focusing on IT. I vividly remember banners for IT training courses literally hanging from every tree and lamp post. Of course, there was less strain on the infrastructure (not a single flyover in sight!) and the retail scene was much less developed.”

Bangalore as he sees it now has undoubtedly expanded. He explains: “There are a lot more shops, brands, and entertainment options. The workforce has also matured to a great extent and has become more professional and less opportunity driven, at least to some extent. Of course, there are also more expats in Bangalore these days.” However, he adds: “Personally, I feel the city has not changed much, at least not in spirit. Perhaps it has matured.”

What doesn’t come as a surprise is that he, like most other expats, loves the climate here. He lived in Mumbai earlier and was also in Bangalore…More

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Zimson, a luxury watch boutique, is holding an exhibition of Hublot watches.

Venue: Zimson, UB City

Date: Till October 5

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The Hindu : y>Nimirta Lalwani loves designing evening wear, though she doesn’t like making them too dressy,she tells SHILPA SEBASTIAN R.

Photos (cover and centre spread): Murali Kumar k.REACHING THE TOP Nimirta Lalwani: ‘I want everyone to recognise my work’

You have to climb three flights of stairs to reach the Nimirta Lalwani Design Studio. The place is overflowing with fabric of all kinds. Nimirta Lalwani, the pretty, tall and lanky designertakes you around the very, very busy studio.

She first shows you her completed works that hang on the stands. The clothes are bold in their cuts and lines. She is more into evening wear. “I do make day wear but you will find plenty of feminine wear. I don’t like to use much embellishments and am not too much into colours. I like to work on offbeat shades. Creating evening wear is my passion,” she explains.

Then she takes you into her office, which again is flooded with fabric. We sit down to talk while the sound of the sewing machine and the scissors snipping and snapping act as the background music.

“Earlier I was working in a small workshop. It’s only now that I have set up my own studio. It is a bit larger and I meet my clients here before I start designing for them. My work is more like 80 per cent retail and 20 percent for clients,” says Nimirta, who adds that she retails her designs at Fuel, Hatworks Boulevard and at her studio in Bangalore.

Nimirta, born and brought up in Hong Kong, made Bangalore her home only after her marriage. Having always had a fascination for clothes she decided that it was good to start her own unit named after her. That’s how Nimirta Lalwani Design Studio was born.

She has had no formal training as a designer. “But I have been trained in pattern making. So I am good at technical…More

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Tazad presents a weekend folk nite with leather puppetry, singers and musicians. Tickets are priced at Rs. 200 per head, and Rs. 600 for a family (two adults and two children).

Venue: Vaderahalli, a small village near Kanakapura

Date: September 26, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Contact: 9886606324/ 9886532684, contact.tazad@gmail. com

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Manoj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Jayant, Shashikala

A doctor wanting to serve the needy in remote areas is a theme that would appeal to few in these times. But more than four decades ago it took the shape of a film that won accolades for Manoj Kumar and Jayant for their restrained performance in “Himalay Ki Godmein”. There was nothing extraordinary about this film that revolves around Manoj Kumar but then it was a clean offering from Vijay Bhatt.

Those were times when cinema was the biggest source of entertainment and filmmakers looked too pleased to come up with subjects that appealed to the society as a whole. Films carrying a social message were guaranteed success and “Himalay Ki Godmein” was produced with a mission that urged the medical fraternity to explore avenues and reach out to the ailing in secluded places.

Sunil Mehra (Manoj Kumar) is one such doctor who lands up in a village at the foothills of the Himalaya. An encounter with a dacoit leaves him injured and he is treated by a simple villager Dayal Singh (David) and his niece Phulwa (Mala Sinha).

The petite Phulwa happens to be the daughter of the dacoit Lakahan Singh (Jayant) but is brought up by Dayal. Circumstances lead Phulwa to the city for treatment of her uncle and compel the doctor to return to the serene surroundings when he learns the plight of the poor villagers. The doctor falls in love with the village girl but confronts all kinds of challenges before he is happily united with Phulwa.

The movie has some strong and weak moments. It is strange when the doctor fails to recognise a dacoit and asks in a silly tone, “Aap log kaun hai?”

It is also silly when a simple village girl matches the doctor in the duet “Oe Tu Raat Khadi Thi Chatt Pe”. The stand-out performance comes from Jayant in…More

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Tasveer and Midday have come together to present an exhibition “India 9 to 5”, which is a visual tour of India. There are 100 images.

Venue: Tasveer, Sua House

Date: September 28 to October 8

Time: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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The traditional six yards are being re-invented like never before

SENSATIONAL The sari in its transformed avatar

Cut work on the pallu and border of a traditional Kanchipuram sari. Hand block printing on sombre, golden tussar silk. Stones, sequins, feathers and chords making up the pallu of a net sari. Designers in Bangalore seem to have gone to town with the good old sari, giving it a contemporary twist, using traditional fabrics with a creative slant at every fashion show in the city.

A symbol of grace, the sari is also gaining popularity for the freedom of interpretation that it offers, both to the wearer and the designer. And seemingly, with this creativity unleashed, the cash registers are ringing out loud and clear. The sari has never been more in fashion, than it is today.

A ‘designer sari’ in the 80’s was the zipped up wonder Zandra Rhodes created for the international ramp and which died an almost shock-horror instantaneous death.

In 2008 Jean Paul Gaultier revamped the sari for the fashion house Hermes, in his Spring/Summer Collection. But it has taken our own Indian designers to use dying art forms and traditional embroideries from across the length and breadth of rural India to finally change the face of the traditional sari. Change it just enough to appeal to the modern Indian woman.

Ramesh Dembla sings odes to the sari in every one of his Krishna Dembla fashion shows. “For me the sari is the most feminine garment to drape an Indian woman in. My clients want ‘head-turners’ and my designs with the sari do just that,” he says.

Using a combination of chords, lace and feathers on a pallu, Ramesh matches the body of the sari with metres of embroidered net. Then he uses a white and silver brocade sari skirt, which shows through the net, for the final genteel, yet glitzy overall appearance.

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Varsha, a student of Jyothi Pattabhiram, will perform her Bharatanatya Rangapravesha.

Venue: A.D.A. Rangamandira, J.C. Road

Date: September 26

Time: 6.15 p.m.

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