• Priyanka Chopra is the chairperson of the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival. All photos: AFP
    Priyanka Chopra is the chairperson of the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival. All photos: AFP
  • The festival opened with Kareena Kapoor Khan's The Buckingham Murders
    The festival opened with Kareena Kapoor Khan's The Buckingham Murders
  • Also in attendance were Karishma Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan
    Also in attendance were Karishma Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan
  • Kamal Haasan
    Kamal Haasan
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
    Konkona Sen Sharma
  • Karan Johar
    Karan Johar
  • Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam
  • Zoya Akhtar
    Zoya Akhtar
  • Sonam Kapoor
    Sonam Kapoor
  • Vijay Varma
    Vijay Varma
  • Rajkummar Rao and Patralekha
    Rajkummar Rao and Patralekha
  • Fatima Sana Shaikh
    Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Randeep Hooda
    Randeep Hooda
  • Riteish Deshmukh
    Riteish Deshmukh
  • Aditi Rao Hydari
    Aditi Rao Hydari
  • Richa Chadda and Ali Faizal
    Richa Chadda and Ali Faizal
  • Sunny Leone
    Sunny Leone

Priyanka Chopra joins Bollywood stars at Ambani-backed Mumbai film festival


Panna Munyal
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As chairperson of the ongoing Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival, Priyanka Chopra flew to her home city for the opening of the event, which is being held at various locations across Mumbai. The festival's hub, though, is the recently opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, with Ambani and her daughter Isha joining Chopra as board members of the film festival.

More than 200 movies will be screened over the next 10 days, until November 5, with the Kareena Kapoor Khan-starrer The Buckingham Murders screened on opening night on Friday.

Kapoor Khan, who was in attendance along with her sister Karisma and husband Saif Ali Khan, called Buckingham one of her “career-best roles”.

Also spotted on opening night were prominent personalities from the South Indian film industry – Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam, Bollywood's grande dame Shabana Azmi, actress Sonam Kapoor, looking suitably stylish, plus Konkona Sen Sharma, Vijay Varma, Rajkummar Rao, Randeep Hooda, and filmmakers Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar.

Some films being screened this year include The Rapist, starring Sen Sharma and directed by her mum Aparna Sen; Kennedy directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhat; as well as Varun Grover's directorial debut All India Rank.

While Hollywood continues to work its way through the Sag-Aftra strike, Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival will showcase a number of international titles, including Bradley Cooper's Maestro; The Sweet East directed by Sean Price Williams; and Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.

Other movies being shown in the World Cinema category include: South Korea's In Our Day; Fallen Leaves by Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki; Japanese thriller Monster; and Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani's Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.

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Director: S Shankar

Producer: Lyca Productions; presented by Dharma Films

Cast: Rajnikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Sudhanshu Pandey

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

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4pm Maratha Arabians v Northern Warriors

6.15pm Deccan Gladiators v Pune Devils

8.30pm Delhi Bulls v Bangla Tigers

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Asia Cup Qualifier

Final
UAE v Hong Kong

TV:
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ESSENTIALS

The flights 
Emirates, Etihad and Swiss fly direct from the UAE to Zurich from Dh2,855 return, including taxes.
 

The chalet
Chalet N is currently open in winter only, between now and April 21. During the ski season, starting on December 11, a week’s rental costs from €210,000 (Dh898,431) per week for the whole property, which has 22 beds in total, across six suites, three double rooms and a children’s suite. The price includes all scheduled meals, a week’s ski pass, Wi-Fi, parking, transfers between Munich, Innsbruck or Zurich airports and one 50-minute massage per person. Private ski lessons cost from €360 (Dh1,541) per day. Halal food is available on request.

Barcelona 3
Messi (27’, 32’, 87’)

Leganes 1
El Zhar (68’)

Nepotism is the name of the game

Salman Khan’s father, Salim Khan, is one of Bollywood’s most legendary screenwriters. Through his partnership with co-writer Javed Akhtar, Salim is credited with having paved the path for the Indian film industry’s blockbuster format in the 1970s. Something his son now rules the roost of. More importantly, the Salim-Javed duo also created the persona of the “angry young man” for Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan in the 1970s, reflecting the angst of the average Indian. In choosing to be the ordinary man’s “hero” as opposed to a thespian in new Bollywood, Salman Khan remains tightly linked to his father’s oeuvre. Thanks dad. 

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Rafael Nadal's record at the MWTC

2009 Finalist

2010 Champion

Jan 2011 Champion

Dec 2011 Semi-finalist

Dec 2012 Did not play

Dec 2013 Semi-finalist

2015 Semi-finalist

Jan 2016 Champion

Dec 2016 Champion

2017 Did not play

 

'THE WORST THING YOU CAN EAT'

Trans fat is typically found in fried and baked goods, but you may be consuming more than you think.

Powdered coffee creamer, microwave popcorn and virtually anything processed with a crust is likely to contain it, as this guide from Mayo Clinic outlines: 

Baked goods - Most cakes, cookies, pie crusts and crackers contain shortening, which is usually made from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Ready-made frosting is another source of trans fat.

Snacks - Potato, corn and tortilla chips often contain trans fat. And while popcorn can be a healthy snack, many types of packaged or microwave popcorn use trans fat to help cook or flavour the popcorn.

Fried food - Foods that require deep frying — french fries, doughnuts and fried chicken — can contain trans fat from the oil used in the cooking process.

Refrigerator dough - Products such as canned biscuits and cinnamon rolls often contain trans fat, as do frozen pizza crusts.

Creamer and margarine - Nondairy coffee creamer and stick margarines also may contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Dubai Bling season three

Cast: Loujain Adada, Zeina Khoury, Farhana Bodi, Ebraheem Al Samadi, Mona Kattan, and couples Safa & Fahad Siddiqui and DJ Bliss & Danya Mohammed 

Rating: 1/5

SERIES SCHEDULE

First Test, Galle International Stadium
July 26-30
Second Test, Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
August 3-7
Third Test, Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
August 12-16
First ODI, Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
August 20
Second ODI, Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
August 24
Third ODI, Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
August 27
Fourth ODI, R Premadasa Stadium
August 31
Fifth ODI, R Premadasa Stadium
September 3
T20, R Premadasa Stadium
September 6

Mane points for safe home colouring
  • Natural and grey hair takes colour differently than chemically treated hair
  • Taking hair from a dark to a light colour should involve a slow transition through warmer stages of colour
  • When choosing a colour (especially a lighter tone), allow for a natural lift of warmth
  • Most modern hair colours are technique-based, in that they require a confident hand and taught skills
  • If you decide to be brave and go for it, seek professional advice and use a semi-permanent colour
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UAE: Thunder Snow/Saeed bin Suroor (trainer), North America/Satish Seemar, Drafted/Doug Watson, New Trails/Ahmad bin Harmash, Capezzano, Gronkowski, Axelrod, all trained by Salem bin Ghadayer

USA: Seeking The Soul/Dallas Stewart, Imperial Hunt/Luis Carvajal Jr, Audible/Todd Pletcher, Roy H/Peter Miller, Yoshida/William Mott, Promises Fulfilled/Dale Romans, Gunnevera/Antonio Sano, XY Jet/Jorge Navarro, Pavel/Doug O’Neill, Switzerland/Steve Asmussen.

Japan: Matera Sky/Hideyuki Mori, KT Brace/Haruki Sugiyama. Bahrain: Nine Below Zero/Fawzi Nass. Ireland: Tato Key/David Marnane. Hong Kong: Fight Hero/Me Tsui. South Korea: Dolkong/Simon Foster.

Sole survivors
  • Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
  • George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
  • Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
  • Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
Updated: October 28, 2023, 6:27 AM