Cigarette packs
will soon have
cancer warning
images. But the

approved here
are pretty lame
in comparison
with the ones
used by the
Arab and some

The ICAF is organising a Columbian Film
Festival from June 3 - June 6 at the South
Indian Film Chamber Theatre on Mount
Road. The seven movies to be screened are
Satana\u2019s, Maria Full Of Grace, El Carro, La
Gente De La Univeras, El Embajador De La
India, My Grandfather, My Father and I,
Confesion A Laurn
For details contact : 98401 51956

Alliance Francaise,
in association with
Musee Musicals
presents an evening
of enchanting
music with the
band \u2018Osher
Moosica\u2019 at the
Alliance Francaise
auditorium on
Friday, May 29 at
7.30 p.m.

Health & Glow, India\u2019s
health and beauty retailer,
offers 50% off on leading
brands of cosmetics, skin
care, herbal care, personal
care, oral care, medicine,
fashion accessories in
connection with the launch
of their new store at MSR
House Bearings, Pondy
Bazar, T. Nagar. The offer is
available for three days
starting May 29 to 31.

UTV World Movies brings the
best of World Cinema at the Indo
Cine Appreciation Foundation
located at Gemini Parsn
Apartments, Cathedral Garden
Road on June 1. The movies to
be screened are: The Galindez
File at 6.15 p.m. and The Apple
at 8.15 p.m.
For details call 9840151956 / 044-

Ecstasy at the Sathyam Cinemas
offers new range of ice cream,
the rich chocolate ganache and
meringue with crunchy sugar
bits, the fresh whipped cream,
the chocolate sauce, and the
macerated red cherries, the soft
and spongy juicy cake in never-
before textures and \ufb02avours
from 3 pm - 11 pm on weekdays
and 12 noon - 11 pm on

Watch the movies Good Morning,
Vietnam starring Robin Williams and
Abraham Lincoln - Preserving the
Union at the American library, U.S.
Consulate General on May 30. The
movies would be screened at 11
a.m. and 2 p.m. respectively.
Remember to take your ID card to
access the Consulate building. Some
of the valid IDs are passport, driver\u2019s
license, voter ID card, PAN card,
government employer issued IDs or
college/university issued ID.

The Earth Sync Festival this Saturday
evening at the Lady Andal School on
Harrington Road, Chetpet, promises
some varied fare with Isreali \u2018qawali\u2019
led by Shye Ben-Tzur and Group and
electronic world music groove by
Kartick n Gotham. Deepa Venkatraman
pro\ufb01les the two groups.

tions revealed that the number was the resi- dence number of one Sheikh Abdullah (22), who was the victim\u2019s neighbour.

During police inter- rogation Sheikh ad- mitted

have strangulated Neeti to death after being caught red-handed while stealing her belongings from her home on May 21. After this, Sheikh allegedly escaped to his house and found it locked from inside, whereby he dialled the residence landline number us- ing Neeti\u2019s mobile phone to ask his sister to open the front door.

J.J. Nagar police booked a case of murder against Sheikh, re- manded him to custody and sent him to Puzhal prison.\u25a0

n connection with the much sensational case of murder of an air hostess in J.J. Nagar

recently, city police arrested a youngster. Police said the ac- cused was the victim\u2019s neigh- bour who had killed her during a robbery attempt.

The deceased was 25-year-old Neeti Kumari, a native of Bihar who was working as an air host- ess with Air India Express. Police sources said Neeti, who was re- siding in a rented house in Gold- en

near Mogappair, had returned home from work on May 21 night and wasn\u2019t seen outside her home after that. Later on Saturday evening, Bhaskar Rao (49), Nee- ti\u2019s house owner, grew suspi- cious over a foul smell emanating from the block where

On Saturday night, J.J. Nagar police reac- hed the house and broke open the door, only to \ufb01nd Neeti\u2019s de- composed body in her room. Following pre-

liminary investigations police registered a case of suspicious death and formed a special team to investigate the case.

An investigating of\ufb01cer said the victim\u2019s belongings, includ- ing her laptop, two mobile phones and an iPod, were found missing from the crime scene. When police tracked her mobile phone call details they found that the last call was made to a landline number in the neigh- bourhood. Further investiga-

They were stranded in an airport\u2019s business lounge for three days without any passport, visa and identity cards and the best thing the musical duo felt was to record sounds of the natural envi- ronment in the airport. That was how K n G- Business Class Refugees was born four years back.

The album was the brain child of talented mu- sic producer Kartick (aka Patrick Sebag) and sound designer Gotam (aka Yotam Agam) who have fused world music and electronic into a cool groove with global appeal. The band comprises Mahesh Vinayak and Anuraradha Vishwanathan on vocals, Navin Iyer on \ufb02ute, percussionist Balk- rishnan KV, Eyal Mazig (Israeli) on bass and trumpet and many other artistes from all over the globe.

The album that has ten tracks is pleasing to the ear and has various instruments like saxophone, mridangam, sitar, sarod and drums from differ- ent countries. \u201cThe base is very much Indian and we have blended it with world music,\u201d says the

The group\u2019s maiden album will be launched on Friday at the Courtyard by Marriot Hotel. Ask them why they kept their stage names as Kartick n Gotam, \u201cWe have settled in India for music and while performing at various parts of the country, we realised that these names are very popular amongst the masses as against our similar sounding names - Patrick and Yotam and hence the change.\u201d

At nineteen, he was mesmerised after listen- ing to Pundit Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Ustaad Zakir Hussain in a concert held in Israel. This was the turning point for Shye Ben-Tzur who came down to India in the late 1990s to learn the nuances of Indian classical music.

\u201cI was new to the country but I soon got in touch with a Drupad artiste who taught me Hindustani music and I also did a course at Benaras. Later after moving to Ajmer, I was ex- posed to the qawali musicians and I was really inspired by Su\ufb01 music. That\u2019s when I collab- orated with them and began writing Hebrew

songs and composed them in the folk style. While interacting with them, I also learnt how to speak Hindi and this has really helped me feel the songs I sang.\u201d

Shye became popular after his \ufb01rst album \u2013 Heeyam in 2003 \u2013 and soon performed in Ja- han-e-Khusrau, the prestigious international Su\ufb01 music festival held in New Delhi and at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2008.

Now he is all set to release his second album \u2013 Shosham (\u2018rose\u2019 in Hebrew) that has collabora- tions of Hebrew and Indian folk and Hindustani notes. The album has a beautiful blend of his original compositions, Urdu couplets, Hindi poetries, su\ufb01 music and even a Meera bhajan \u2013 Daras Bin soulfully sung by veteran classical singer Shubha Mudgal.

\u201cAll songs in this album are devotional. When I composed the music for Daras Bin, I \ufb01rst thought of Shubha ji and when I approached her, she readily accepted to sing. The theme and lyrics of all the songs are inspired by my own life experiences,\u201d sums up the lyricist, \ufb02au- tist, vocalist and composer.