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A crime thriller in the digital age

Director Sajit Warrier on the making of his cyber crime thriller ‘Chakravyuh…’ streaming on MX Player

Director Sajit Warrier’s web series Chakravyuh — An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller that started streaming on MX Player on March 12, pitches the old world against the new digital age. Shot at various locations in posh South Mumbai, including trippy underground clubs, the series resonates with the youth, capturing their joys and inner struggles accurately. Based on Piyush Jha’s novel, ‘Anti-Social Network’, the cyber crime series is packed with twists and turns, says the director. Prateik Babbar essays the lead role.

Excerpts from an interview with Sajit Warrier.

Was Prateik Babbar the first choice as lead man in Chakravyuh? If so, why?

Prateik Babbar was always our first choice. He has an intensity in his eyes, which was perfect for this part…. This is rarely tapped and it was such a pleasure to work with him. From physically transforming himself for this role to creating a character with lot of pent up fury, this was a very challenging and he just rocked it totally.

Could you narrate your experience shooting for the series ?

The most wonderful aspect of this series was that everyone really connected with the story. So we got a great team to work together on this project. Applause Entertainment believed in this story and we had a wonderful cast and crew. It was an overall team effort and I am so happy I could work with all of them.

Your previous projects, Fired and Trial of Satyam Kaushik, were also thrillers. What attracts you to thrillers?

I remember the first movie I saw as a child was this wonderful mystery thriller Picnic At The Hanging Rock by Peter Weir. I think it affected me so much that I am totally drawn to mystery and thrills. Horror and comedy are the other two genres, which I get immense satisfaction from.

As founder of Warrier Films, could you describe your journey?

I started as a fine arts student in Vadodara and then moved to screenwriting and directing at UCLA, Los Angeles, where I worked with some really talented filmmakers in Hollywood. When I arrived in Mumbai, I set up Warrier Films and we just enjoyed doing branding and animations for MTV VH1 and other channels. Storytelling and experimenting in the visual medium began with short films and video art. I think there’s so much opportunity in the visual medium that it’s a great time to try out different genres and have a unique stylistic approach. For me, storytelling as a visual experience is an endless ride. This is just the beginning.

You are a director, writer and an editor. What role do you identify with the most?

For me, filmmaking is the ultimate visual art. As a director, I bring in a vision which I feel is unique and that’s what I identify with most. I think as a director, my strength is to keep an audience engrossed in the story viewing process. The social experience of keeping an audience engaged in a dark theatre is what makes me want to enhance my directing approach.

With the entry of OTT platforms, the canvas has widened for young filmmakers who want to experiment with the medium.

It is with the advent of OTT platforms that I am able to tell my stories. I have been in innumerable meetings where people have told me “The story is a little too out there”. Well this medium is all about being out there and telling stories and characters, which have a unique perspective. Stories are being attempted, which would have never been tried before. Also we can attempt stories in budgets that would not have worked before. Even COVID-19 quarantine has helped build this habit of binge watching in audiences. There’s no fatigue for watching content now, which should help us try unique stories. So these are exciting times.

You have your roots in Kerala. Where are you based currently?

I am currently settled in Mumbai, but I have strong roots in Kerala and Kolkata. However, in the era of Zoom meetings, it hardly matters where you are. We can be anywhere we want to be.

March 27, 2021
Hollywood actor George Segal dies at age 87, says his wife

Charming and witty, Segal excelled in dramatic and comedic roles and had a life-long passion for the banjo.

George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, romanced Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class and won laughs in the TV sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87, his wife Sonia said on Tuesday.

“The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” Sonia Segal said in a statement to entertainment outlets Variety and Deadline Hollywood.

Charming and witty, Segal excelled in dramatic and comedic roles and had a life-long passion for the banjo. He performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1981 with his group, the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band.

Segal’s acting career began on the New York stage and television in the early 1960s. He quickly moved into films, playing an artist in the star-studded ensemble drama Ship of Fools and a scheming, wily American corporal in a World War Two prisoner-of-war camp in King Rat in 1965.

Two years later he earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor in the harrowing, marital drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

March 24, 2021
At the age of 73, she keeps the traffic organized

E. Molly Elliot has kept the Nilgiri Police in good standing since the 1970s.

For more than 50 years, a resident of Coonoor e. Molly Elliot has assisted the Nilgiri Police in the regulation of traffic and other minor duties. Now 73, Ms. Elliott has been made an honorary traffic warden.

Ms. Elliot grew up in Coonoor and assisted the police in the 1970s. “When I first started helping the police, it was accompanied by minor police work, when there were very few women in the force. Therefore, I used to help keep the roads safe and help people going to Coonoor.

Ms. Elliott does not have her own home or job, but she reports for duty on time every day.

“She does not complain about the work assigned to her, nor does she expect anything in return. She prefers to work as a traffic warden.

Rajesh Kumar, who hails from Ottupattarai, has known Ms. Elliott since she was a child. “I’ve seen her around town for as long as I can remember, and she’s become one of the most recognizable people with her signature camouflage hat,” he said.

As she does not have a full-time job, Ms. Elliot relies on the kindness of strangers for food. “I don’t need a lot of food, but I like biscuits a lot,” she said. He is famous all over the city and people give him free food. “Nevertheless, I mostly turn them down and only receive food from those whom I consider my very close friends.”

Two badges

She gestures proudly at her two badges – an e. Molly Elliot, read social worker, and another read ‘Honorary Traffic Warden’. Working for the police gives Ms. Elliott a feeling of fulfillment and meaning.

“I really enjoy helping the police in their duties, especially during peak tourist season. I always participate in awareness campaigns that police and municipalities conduct.

The most prized photographs of Ms. Elliott are those with top IPS officers who have visited Eucalyptus.

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March 20, 2021
Parliament proceedings | Vardhan says that children between 0-14 years of age are less affected by COVID.

Infections among children are mild and most of them remain asymptomatic, says the Health Minister.

The analysis shows that children in the age group of 0-14 are less affected by COVID-19, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.

He said in a written reply that the infection in children is mild and most of them remain asymptomatic. “Therefore, to reduce the adverse effects of COVID-19 on such children, no specific action plan has been prepared in the current response phase,” he said.

A severe disease has rarely been identified as multi-system inflammatory syndrome, Mr. Vardhan said, adding it occurs three to six weeks after infection.

He said that the Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS is documenting the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection in children. The Minister was replying to the question whether the Government has prepared any action plan to control and reduce the adverse effects of COVID-19 in children aged 0-14 years.

For proper management of COVID-19 cases, a three-tier arrangement of health facilities has been implemented – COVID care centers with isolation beds for mild or pre-symptomatic cases, COVIDs dedicated to oxygen supported isolation beds for moderate cases. Health Center (DCHC) Dedicated COVID Hospital (DCH) with ICU beds for serious cases, he said. Guidelines on the clinical management of COVID-19 have been issued, Mr. Vardhan said. They also provide for the management of complications.

Has the government made any assessment of the adverse effects of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and provided psychological support through health professionals, Mr. Vardhan said that the Ministry of Education has initiated a program called ‘Menoderpan’, in which Widely covered activities to provide psycho-social support to students, teachers and families for mental health and emotional well-being. He said that there is a national toll-free helpline 8448440632 to provide tele counseling for students, parents and teachers in dealing with the situation.

The standard operating procedure for health and safety protocols for reopening schools issued by the Ministry of Education has included guidelines to promote emotional well-being of students and teachers. Shri Vardhan said that the Ministry of Health set up a 24/7 helpline on March 29, 2020 through NIMHANS, Bangalore to provide psycho-social support to people divided into various target groups.

To expand services in regional and local languages, services were also provided in various states and union territories including two Central Mental Health Institutions – namely LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur and Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. He said that guidelines and advice were issued on the management of mental health issues for various sectors of the society. Shri Vardhan said that all the guidelines, advice and advocacy material can be seen on the website of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under ‘Behavioral Health – Psychological-Social Helpline’.

He further stated that various media platforms were used for creative and audio-visual materials to manage stress and anxiety and to promote an environment of support and care for all. To relieve the burden of mental disorders, the Government of India is implementing the National Mental Health Program (NMHP), Mr. Vardhan said, adding that the government supports the implementation of the District Mental Health Program (DMHP) under NMHP in 692 districts of the country. Still working. .

To create awareness among people about mental illnesses, information, education and communication (IEC) activities are an integral part of NMHP, he said, and at the district level, awareness of up to ₹ 4 lakh per year under DMMP Is provided for. Generational activities, he said.

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March 19, 2021
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli dies at age 61

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli was one of Africa’s foremost COVID-19s

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic of Africa, whose populist rule often placed his East African country in a harsh international headline, died. He was 61.

Magufuli’s death was announced by Vice President Samia Suluh on March 17, adding that the president died of a cardiac arrest.

Magufuli had not been seen publicly since late February and top government officials denied that he was in ill health, even rumors online that he was ill and possibly incapacitated by the disease.

Magufuli was one of Africa’s most prominent sects of COVID-19. He said last year that Tanzania eradicated the disease through a three-day national prayer.

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March 17, 2021
Age did not stop his passion for the stage

Guru Chemnacheri Kuniraman Nair, who died at the age of 104 on Monday, was a veteran Kathakali actor and was instrumental in popularizing classical dances like Bharatanatyam in northern Kerala.

Remarkably, he continued to perform until a few years ago. Age did not stop his passion for the stage. He was indeed one of the most enduring performing artists of Kerala. After learning the Kalladikodan school of Kathakali from Guru Karunakar Menon, he started performing at the age of 15.

Someone remembers seeing that Parashurama was played with great vigor before a full house at the town hall here about seven years ago.

His contribution as a teacher of classical dances in North Kerala, where there were few practitioners at the time, was also considerable. She trained many youngsters, who later became dance teachers. Classical dance was not going to take much in those days in Malabar. It would be decades ago when the State School Arts Festival would turn it into a much hyped program.

Many accolades

Chamanacheri, who received Padma Shri as well as the Centers and the Sangeeta Natak Academy Award from Kerala, was, in fact, the first guru of actor-dancer Vineeth, one of the biggest stars of the school festival. It was a sheer accident – quite literally, too – that she became a disciple of Chemnacheri.

Vineeth once told, “My mother was working as a doctor in a government hospital in Koyalandi and one day, she was badly injured in a road accident.” Hindu. “He was one of three doctors who treated him; When they recognized that she was a dancer, they decided to stop by shaking one of their fingers, though it was badly damaged. How can one show a pose in dance without a finger?

Vineeth’s mother was looking for a dance teacher at the time. Chemnacheri thus became his guru. In 2015, he performed Bharatanatyam in a ceremony to celebrate his Guru’s 99th birthday.

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March 16, 2021
Bhumika Chawla on working in Telugu films ‘Seetimaarr’, ‘Paagal’, ‘Idhe Maa Katha’ and how there aren’t enough roles for female actors her age

Actor Bhumika Chawla will be seen in a bunch of films soon, but admits that not enough interesting roles are written for women of her age

There was a restraint and calmness with which Bhumika Chawla used to speak when she was one of the most sought-after leading women in Telugu and Tamil cinema a few years ago. The tide might have changed and she might be doing fewer films now, but the calm demeanour is intact even when she speaks her mind, without mincing words.

This summer will see her in two Telugu films; she has completed filming a third one. “I take up a film only if it is worth my time. I want characters that give me scope to perform and make some impact. Not every story or character needs to have the potential to change society; sometimes I can do a film for fun, but there has to be something in it for me. I don’t want to be standing next to the hero doing nothing,” she says, on what keeps her going after two decades in cinema.

Short but pivotal

First up is director Sampath Nandi’s Seetimaarr, releasing on April 2, in which she is cast as Gopichand’s sister. She is then filming for a cameo appearance in director Naresh Kuppili’s Paagal starring Vishwak Sen, which is scheduled to release on April 30. “Kabaddi plays an important part in Seetimaarr and I motivate Gopichand to do his best. In Paagal, I have very few scenes, but they are intense.”

Bhumika divides her time between Mumbai and Hyderabad. When she had to begin work for the new Telugu film Idhe Maa Katha in October, amid the pandemic, she approached it with trepidation: “I discussed it with my family and we agreed that invariably, we all have to step out. Film units were also working with all the necessary precautions. Any time I spotted someone without a mask, I wouldn’t hesitate to tell them. I would wash hands frequently, do steam inhalations and drink turmeric milk.”

She had spent the lockdown months near Nasik, with her father, and says it was the best thing that had happened to her in years. “It was a tough time for everyone. I am thankful to God that I could spend time amid greenery, and it had a healing effect on me. We all forget that we need to slow down. We have no time to stand and stare,” she says, quoting WH Davies’ poem ‘Leisure’.

Rider’s high

Bhumika Chawla