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Munna Mange Memsaab (Drama/Comedy) ★1/2Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Jordiya Anna Direction: Shareeph Mansuri SaranawalaDuration: 2 hours 7 minutesLanguage: Hindi (U/A)58888 code: mun

■ The title pretty much sums it up. A simple-ton runs from pillar to post seeking a gori mem to be his bride.

Naïve and jobless, Munna (Peepli Live’s Omkar Das Manikpuri), a small-town guy, gets mocked for being ugly, right

from his childhood. His mother consoles him by leading him on to believe that he is ‘sundar’ (good-looking). She also tells him that one day he’ll marry a pretty ‘memsaab’ (by pointing to a poster of Rani Mukerji).

However, the very next minute, she explains her interpretation of ‘memsaab’ by showing her son another gori mem (tourist) passing by. “Someone like her,” she says. He says, “Main aisi hi memsaab se saadi karunga.”

Munna grows up but continues to nur-ture his dream of getting married to a gori mem, just to make his mother happy. He leaves his village and lands up in a city to fulfil his dream. With great audacity, he proposes marriage to random urban women but his requests get turned down. However, there is light at the end of every tunnel. He eventually bumps into a Katrina Kaif-like firang memsaab. Do they fall in love?

Ample Hindi films with a similar con-cept have been made before and they were much better if not remarkable. For in-stance, Govinda-Aishwarya Rai starrer Albela (2001) was a light-hearted romcom that made us smile.

While the intentions are noble here, tacky execution spoils everything. Forced humour fails to amuse and funny sounds used as background score do not compen-

sate for the poor script. The point that the director intends to make does not come across either. His attempt at exposing the shallowness of our society that prefers ‘good-looking’ people fails to register.

Also, performances are forgettable. The gori mem is the best actor here! Songs have no relevance to the story. There is no ‘beau-ty’ in this film…literally and otherwise.

—Renuka Vyavahare

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Feisty Vidya cracks Bobby Jasoos!Vidya steals the show!

Vidya Balan is a live wire in Bobby Jasoos, bubbly and innocent at the same time. The supporting cast is equally endearing—but a detective story needs an intelligent story which is sorely missing here. Still, watch it for the feisty Bobby! IMANNIK SHARMA

Vidya Balan’s acting is just so good—she’s proved again that she is full-on entertainment, entertainment, entertainment! I NIRAV PATEL

This is a good attempt to make a different movie on the unusual subject of detectives. And Vidya’s performance truly stands out. I PRIYANKA BAGARIA

Bobby Jasoos with Vidya Balan as lead is a very special film! As a detective drama, Bobby Jasoos is filled with delights—and a city and heroine that never sleep! I SACHIN DHONDGE

It’s Vidya Balan all the way! It’s difficult to imagine anyone else carrying off this role so admirably. But the movie occasionally meanders while the music fails to stir one. I ASHOK GOSWAMI

Vidya Balan has shown different shades of her skill in this movie. It’s definitely a must-watch for her superb performance. The story is also quite engaging, especially post-interval. I AKRITI

This film will definitely catch your attention! Vidya Balan has acted superbly. However, the ending was not so good—it could have been more gripping. But all in all, Bobby Jasoos is a good film and a must-watch. I RAJEEV NARAYAN

The jasoosi wasn’t that engaging!

The movie is quite interesting—but the climax didn’t have a much-needed hard impact! I TANWIRUL HAQUE

Bobby Jasoos holds audience interest till the end but the climax really failed to entertain. I TEJA PENUMALLI

Vidya Balan is certainly a good actress but here, her acting is served in extra-large portions, so it is a bit difficult to digest all at once. I S MONTE

The movie is a one-time watch. It becomes quite clear from the very beginning what is going to happen next—but yes, the climax was different from what we expected. I NAVEEN K

The movie was pretty underwhelming due to inept direction and a haywire script sans a meaningful finale. Vidya did try her best but the supporting cast failed to impress. The ethos of Hyderabad’s old city was captured very well though. I TARUN SHARMA

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THE TIMES OF INDIA, AHMEDABADSATURDAY, JULY 12, 20144 TIMES CITY

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat governmenthas accepted on the floor of the state as-sembly that 66 lions had died in the pastone year and, of these, 55 had died of nat-ural causes.

In reply to a question of Una MLAPunja Vansh, the forest and environ-ment minister Ganpat Vasava, said thatbetween May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014, atotal of 66 lions had died in Amreli, GirSomnath and Junagadh districts. Ofthese, 55 had died natural deaths.

The minister further stated that ofthe 66 lions which had died, 29 were cubs,16 were lionesses and the rest 21 were li-ons. The maximum number of liondeaths – 33 – had occurred in Amreli. GirSomnath was next with 19 deaths and thethird was Junagadh where 14 big catshad died. Of the 33 lions which had diedin Amreli, 14 were cubs and 13 male lions,said the minister.

Meanwhile, officials in the forest de-partment said that the 29 lion cubs which

had died were in the age group of 0-2years. They had lost their lives eitherduring fighting within a pride, while thebig cats were capturing territory or hadbeen devoured by other lions. Citing astudy, he said that only around 56% cubssurvive till the age of three when theyleave their pride in search of new territo-ry and pride.

The next lion census will be conduct-ed in May 2015.

State lost 66 lions in 1 yrTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: Speaking at thepanel discussion on the UnionBudget at AMA on Friday, for-mer IIM-A director and economyexpert Dr Bakul Dholakiastressed that finance ministerArun Jaitley in his maiden bud-get had made clear statement ofintent with a credible action planand roadmap to meet the chal-lenges faced by the Indian econo-my.

Dholakia said that the FMhas clearly laid down his priori-ties including bringing backeconomy on the growth track, re-viving the investment cycle, con-trolling inflation, and generat-ing employment along withconcrete action for fiscal consoli-dation.

Jaitley in his Budget speechon Thursday made a commit-ment that by financial year 2016-17, fiscal deficit will be broughtdownto

3% ofGDP

and all-out efforts will be made toraise the real GDP growth toaround 8%. “There is a degree ofrealism in the estimates present-ed in the Budget,” said Dholakia.“All the Budget proposals of theFM are focused on industrial andmanufacturing sector. The in-dustrial sector growth has beenat a record low at 0.1% whichneeds to be revived to attain GDPof 6% by the end of current fi-nancial year.”

Says Expert On Economy,

Bakul Dholakia

‘FM has credible action plan, roadmap’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: Developing un-manned vehicle navigationsystem for all kinds of roads,project to develop applicationsto use eye movement of a per-son with neurological disor-ders like cerebral palsy and de-signing a remote controlledfireproof robot for firefightingwere some of the futuristicprojects displayed at Indian In-stitute of Technology Gandhi-nagar (IIT-Gn) on Friday. Theprojects, which were carriedout by students from across thecountry during their summerresearch internship pro-gramme (SRIP) at IIT-Gn, weredisplayed in the form of posterpresentations.

Prof Shanmuganathan Ra-man, one of the coordinatorsof SRIP, said, “We are excitedwith the kind of work and re-sults the students have pro-duced during their internshipin just a little over two months’duration. Therefore, we decid-

ed to provide them a platformto showcase and share theirprojects with the researchcommunity. We have plans toextend the summer researchinternships at IIT-Gn to morestudents from top universitiesof the world in future.”

Kapil Soni, a BTech stu-dent of Charoter University ofScience and Technology inAnand, said, “Our projectaims to develop a system ofnavigating cars through anykind of roads with the help ofGPS. We install a device on thevehicle which keeps it connect-ed to the satellite. Any obstaclethat comes towards in its way,potshots and speed breakersare detected by the satelliteand the vehicle is maneuveredautomatically.”

The SRIP also had interna-tional participants. CatherineWargo of University at Albany,State University of New York,was researching to under-stand the Indian context of ‘ac-tive aging’.

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Futuristic show byinterns at IIT-Gn

Ahmedabad: Gujarat highcourt has directed the Kutch dis-trict collector to prepare a reporton whether the Adani Port andSpecial Economic Zone (AP-SEZ) had been removing sanddunes from the seashore near asmall village, Tunda Vandh, incontravention of the law.

In response to a PIL, thebench of Chief Justice BhaskarBhattacharya and Justice J BPardiwala has also asked the col-lector to place before it photo-graphs of the area where the in-dustrial group had allegedlybeen flattening sand dunes toshow that the land had been re-claimed, said N L Jain, lawyer ofthe petitioner PraveensinhChauhan. The high court also is-sued notice to the state revenuedepartment, the Union ministryof forests and environment andministry of commerce and in-dustries, as well as the APSEZand asked them to file a reply by July 24.

HC seeks reporton clearing of

sand dunes TIMES NEWS NETWORK

PRIDE ENDANGEREDDistrict Deaths

Natural Accident Others ➤ Amreli 15 03 07➤ Gir Somnath 24 00 00➤ Junagadh 16 00 01District Deaths

Cub Lioness Lion➤ Amreli 14 06 13➤ Gir Somnath 10 06 03➤ Junagadh 05 04 05

Ahmedabad: Noted tax ex-pert Mukesh Patel said thatthe maiden budget of fi-nance minister Arun Jaitleywas marked by hits and mis-ses on the tax front, includ-ing personal tax. Speaking atthe panel discussion on theUnion Budget at AMA on Fri-day, Patel said that though hewelcomed tax reliefs, theFM’s announcements left alot to be desired in the case ofexemptions in view of thecost inflation index.

“Taxpayers have beengranted the increase in de-ductions of Rs 50,000 each, inrespect to savings under sec-tion 80C and interest onhousing loan under section24 of the Income Tax Act af-ter a span of almost 15years,” said Patel. “Even onthe basis of simple cost infla-tion index, these cuts shouldhave been raised almostthree times.”

Patel said that the FMneeds to be complimentedfor instantly raising the lim-it of investment in PPF fromRs 1 lakh to Rs 1.50 lakh,aligning the same with thelimit of Section 80C with ef-fect from the current finan-cial year 2014-15.

“It may be recalled thatwhen the last limit of Sec-tion 80C was raised from Rs70,000 to 1 lakh in 2001, it took10 years to make the corre-sponding revision in the PPFrules,” he said.

He pointed out that FM

has been considerate to-wards foreign portfolio in-vestors clarifying that theirgains on security transac-tions shall be treated to con-cessional tax treatment ascapital gains. He said it issad that no such relief hasbeen granted in the case ofresident investors who havebeen a victim of I-T depart-ment’s treatment of taxingtheir gains as business in-come chargeable to tax. “Taxreforms is one area where itis a win-win situation if theFM shows the will to take itup,” said Patel.

Hits and misses on taxfront: Mukesh Patel

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

(From left) Mukesh Patel, Jay Narayan Vyas and Bakul Dholakia

Ahmedabad:Former state min-ister and management consult-ant Jay Narayan Vyas believesthat the major initiatives takenby the Union finance ministerfor the manufacturing and in-dustrial sector will aid growthof the economy. Speaking at thepanel discussion on the Budget,Vyas said that attracting FDI in-fusion was a welcome step in var-ious sectors but he had reserva-tions about the 49% FDI indefence through the FIPB route.

Vyas said that for the firsttime in history, time-bound com-mitment for reducing fiscal defi-cit and accelerating GDP growthhad been given in the Union bud-get. He also said that the incon-sistent monsoon may affectgrowth but if the industrial sec-tor gets on to the growth rate of5%-6%, the target of 6% GDP

growth was achievable.“Rs 37,880 crore of invest-

ment for constructing roads willspur demand for raw materialand clear transport bottlenecksapart from creating employ-ment,” said Vyas. “Also the 10%tax holiday for companies gener-ating, distributing or transmit-ting power till March 2017 willlead to affordability of qualitypower.”

Vyas also pointed out that Rs5,000 crore of investment in in-creasing warehousing capacitycoupled with setting up of coldstorage facilities by railwayswill avoid wastage of fruits andvegetables worth Rs 45,000 crore.He said that the reduction in cus-toms duty in ship-breaking from5% to 2.5% along with the an-nouncement of setting up eighttextile clusters including two inSurat and Kutch will help Guja-rat to a great extent.

Infra initiatives will aidgrowth, says Vyas

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

➤ Parking for participants at the Sabarmati Riverfront will be available between 4:30 am and 5:15 am from the Vallabhsadan entrance

➤ Exit before 9:30 am from the riverfront will be from the Nehru Bridge side only

➤ Participants reporting at later time will have to park their vehicles inside the riverfront at 6:30 am

➤ 15-minute gap for parking will be given for the next lot. After this no parking will be available at the riverfront

Age Bib no. Start group time

1 8-13 100-250 5:45 am

2 8-13 All bibs 6:00 am

3 14-19 1110-1260 6:15 am

4 14-19 All bibs 6:25 am

5 20-29 2000-2061 6:35 am 30-39 3000-3043 6:35 am

Mile please! Stage’s set

Your chance to run into glory is here! The arena for TOI Adani Rain Miler Run, the first-of-its-kind in India, is ready to welcome participants for a feat involving passion and physical prowess. The event is scheduled for July 13, Sunday, at the Sabarmati Riverfront from the Vallabhsadan. The city’s enthusiasm has been extraordinary, with people — from kids to senior citizens and from couples to corporate honchos — registering early.

Parking will be allowed from 4:45 am to 5:15 am. No vehicle will be allowed in the parking area after 5:15 am. Waves starting at 7 am should report to the venue by 6:30 am. If you miss your wave, the chip gets automatically deactivated

PARKING ESSENTIALS

Wave

6 40-60+ 4000-6009 7:00 am

7 Couples All 7:10 am

8 Family All 7:20 am

9 Corp 1 7001-7160 7:35 am

10 Corp 2 7161-7400 7:50 am

There will be a gap of 15 minutes for parking (6:35 am to 6:50 am) for those starting 7 am onwards

SATURDAY, JULY 12VADODARA | 9.30 AMAt ‘Vasvik Hall’, Race Course Organized by: Central Gujarat Chamber

SURAT | 4.30 PMAt Veer Narmad SGU AuditoriumOrganized by: South Gujarat Chamber

SUNDAY, JULY 13RAJKOT | 10 AMAt Atmiya College AuditoriumOrganized by: Rajkot Chamber

BHAVNAGAR | 5 PMAt Chamber Hall NakubagOrganized by: Saurashtra Chamber

MONDAY, JULY 14GANDHINAGAR | 6.30PMAt Kadi Kelavni AuditoriumOrganized by: Rotaray Club, Gandhinagar

TALK SHOW

Mukesh Patel’s Budget lectures