Hijack the movie: Revisiting Kandahar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new Bollywood film about a plane hijacking involving a separatist militant outfit echoes the real life hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999.
But "Hijack", directed by Kunal Shivdasani, will focus on a rescue operation conducted by lead actor Shiney Ahuja inside the aircraft -- something that did not happen in the Kandahar case.
"It may seem similar to that of the Kandahar hijacking case but 'Hijack' is a purely fictional film," Shivdasani told Reuters.
"We are not pointing fingers at the Kandahar hijackers or which group was responsible behind the incident."
Five armed men hijacked the Airbus A-300 carrying 189 passengers and crew between Kathmandu and New Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1999. The plane touched down in western India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates before landing in Kandahar in Afghanistan.
The hijackers killed one passenger early in the week-long stand-off, but the remaining passengers and crew walked free after India released three Kashmir separatist militants from jail.
India said the hijackers, who were never caught, were all Pakistani and accused Pakistan's government of complicity in the hijacking, charges it denied.
British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the freed militants, was later convicted and sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for his role in the murder in 2002 of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
"My film is thoroughly commercial and if people come to watch my film due to similarity of the film's plot to that of Kandahar incident, (it's) good for us," Shivdasani said.
Ghosts of Christmas
I came across this blog titled "Sepia Mutiny", he talks about his personal life and how Christmas was part of it with a lot of references to older days i found it really interesting.
Ghosts of Christmas (and other times) past is a must READ!
Christmas myths /legends
Superstition and folklore about the Christmas flavor appears timeless. Here is a illustration:
- ~animals will all kneel down as the Holy Night gets in,
- ~bees buzz the '100th psalm' on Christmas Eve,
- ~a breezy Christmas will bring good fortune,
- ~a person born on Christmas Day can see the Little People,
- ~a cricket on the fireplace brings good luck,
- ~opening all doors of the house at midnight allows evil spirits to take leave,
- ~you will have one auspicious month for each Christmas pudding you taste,
- ~the tree must be removed down by Twelfth night-time or ill luck will accompany,
- ~'if Christmas on a Sunday be, a blowy winter we shall ascertain',
- ~'hours of sun on Christmas Day, so many icings in the month of May',
- ~the Twelve Days of Christmas will forecast each month's weather for the following year,
and so on.....
LEGEND OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE
One frosty Christmas Eve, Martin Luther was journeying home by the forest. It was a clearly, starlit night time, and the stars scintillated through the limbs of the predominating evergreen trees.
Martin Luther was bewildered by the great thing about the view, and wished well his wife and children could see it. So he cut knock down a young fir tree and took it into his house. And then he put wax light on the tree branches to gleam like stars.
And then he called his wife and children to see it and told them; "This is how the stars gleamed down on Bethlehem long ago, when Jesus was born."
And that was the very first Christmas tree.
Santa Claus
Santa comes on your roof top and makes sure that his list is set and that all the gifts are in his bagful. As he begins down the lamp chimney with his bag of presents on his shoulder joint, he slips down the chimney and makes sure that he fire is not ablaze as to not hurt him. As he reaches the bottom and ascents out of the open fireplace, Santa makes sure that everyone is asleep and he is rather as a mouse as he put the gift under the tree and fills up the oodles.
If your house does not have a open fireplace don't worry Santa is jolly cunning, he finds a way in, because Santa is chill.
Santa Stockings
Santa hands over presents to all good youngsters and in conformity to custom. The legend of the traditional hanging of the Christmas stocking began when Saint Nicholas dropped gold coins down a hapless household chimney and the coins landed in stockings hung by the fire to dry.
When Santa is out he also takes care of the animals at Christmas time. As legend has it, the animals are also visited by Santa to make sure that their are being taken care of. Even the Polar bears at the North Pole are waiting for Santa's arrival.
Just alike the clever cat, who knows that Santa will come as soon as they are asleep, is at rest early. However, this not trick for cats because as everyone knows that cats don't have a trouble with going to sleep because this is their favored past time.
Christmas; an occasion to be joyous.
Christmas, the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ, is celebrated by Christians all over India with enormous passion.
People decorate their houses, put up Christmas trees with branches hung with gifts and decorations, make cribs with figures of baby Jesus, Mother Mary, Joseph, the three kings who come to visit the baby and shepherd boys and their herds grazing around depicting the scenes of Jesus's Birth in the Bible. They decorate the Christmas tree, hang stars and enlighten them.
The celebrations starts on 24th evening with carol singing and the Santa Claus visiting houses. There is a mid night mass followed by the pealing of the Church bells to usher in the day of Christmas. On the Christmas day, people enjoy a spectacular Christmas lunch. Christmas cakes and wine are served to visitors and exchanged as gifts among friends and relatives.
Christmas celebrations vary in different parts of India. All the major Indian cities wear a festive look. Shops and bazaars are decorated for the occasion and offer attractive bargains.
Carol singing, get-together's and the exchanging of gifts enhance the Christmas spirit. Christmas parties launch off celebrations for the New year, thus retaining the merry atmosphere for at least a week.
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