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Drumbeat: Ad Buzzaar
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Wednesday, May 20, 1998
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Titanic a runaway hit in Tehran too
Titanic, the Hollywood blockbuster about the doomed luxury liner, has sailed into thousands of homes in the Iranian capital, where the film's star Leonardo DiCaprio has become a teenagers' idol. Available in mediocre quality after being taped illegally with a hand-held videocamera from big screens abroad and repeatedly copied for distribution, the movie directed by James Cameron is the most popular film on the black market.
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The making of a goddess
At strategic public locations in Madras, often dominating the skyline, are a series of spectacular, if controversial, hoardings and cut-outs that totally overwhelm the first-time visitor to the city. These forms of popular art play a pivotal role in disseminating and regenerating the power of politicians in Tamil Nadu.
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Lifeline of a painter
While a layman may find it nothing more than abstract geometrical figures, the lines on the paper are more like lifelines for Pradeep Nerurkar. An abstract painter out with his first exhibition, Nerurkar employs the use of lines and blocks to fathom space. Painting for this 41-year-old artist, is a journey through space and time.
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Expressions
A regeneration -- The sun burns sharply, base but brief,the deers shed horns, the ungrateful drop friends,water pleases, like sages the wise,and mud starts drying up, like lust in poverty. So wrote Bhasa, one of the most celebrated names in classical Sanskrit literature. His play, Vasavadatta, translated in English, is being staged in Mumbai. Surely, as The sun burns sharply... the cultural activities are `drying up' along with mud, not to mention lust!
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