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cinema experience SURVIVE CANCER
THE RAINBOW ACRES
A Vital Journey is more than just an essential
By Simrita Dhir; Om Books The book Cancer, Your Body and Your Diet:
Nothing can beat the cinema experience, guide for cancer patients and caregivers
says Supriya Pathak, who has worked Written by an academic brought up in Punjab and now based in IN CANCER, YOUR BODY and Your Diet, Dr Arati
California, “The Rainbow Acres” is a novel about migration, selfless
in all the mediums of storytelling. She • Do not compare love, fortitude, friendship, and the quest for land and Bhatia breaks down the latest research, and uses
believes Web is the strongest medium Janhvi, Sara: Karan identity. It is set against the backdrop of old Punjab, her own clinical and personal experiences to
currently as it has the ability to reach Filmmaker Karan Johar, early California and revolution-torn Mexico. In 1916, answer these, among other, pressing questions
out to more people and engage who has produced both Kishan Singh’s village Noor Mahal in Punjab (then about cancer. She explains the hows and whys
viewers with interesting and layered Janhvi Kapoor’s debut under the British rule) faced heavy rain, destroying of the cancer cell cycle, what to do after being
stories. “When TV came, it was a Dhadak and Sara Ali Khan’s the crop, triggering influenza and leaving behind diagnosed with cancer, and the crucial role that
very strong medium. It reached out second feature Simmba, says dead villagers. The devastated protagonist sets out food plays in the prevention and treatment of all
to so many people and it could have it is “unfair” to compare the on a life-threatening voyage across two oceans for types of cancers.
an unknown land. On the other hand, Sophia’s idyllic
The author, a medical doctor, is herself a
made difference but we got into two young actors. Janhvi, world in Mexico’s Guadalajara, falls apart in 1919 cancer survivor and later, was her husband’s
mundaneness of it. I think it will daughter of late actor Sridevi when she becomes a hapless victim to the ravages primary caregiver in his own fight against cancer.
not hopefully happen to this new and producer Boney Kapoor of the Mexican Revolution and battles hunger, poverty and near Drawing on these experiences, she takes readers
made her debut with the
medium. It has lot of scope. I hope Sairat Hindi remake, while prostitution before embarking on a perilous night journey across through every stage, from diagnosis to therapy
we keep the momentum alive and Sara, daughter of Saif Ali the border. Will their paths cross in the land of opportunities that is (chemo, surgery or radiation) to palliative care,
keep it going strong. We as actors Khan and Amrita Singh, has overrun with racial and class barriers? with a focus on the quality
can help. In cinema, there are two back-to-back releases — -------------------------------------------------------------------------- of a cancer patient’s life.
budget constraints and on TV, it Kedarnath and Rohit She applies her consider-
has become a sad situation, so this Shetty’s Simmba, which is THE LONG MARCH able medical training and
By Namita Waikar; Speaking Tiger
experience to advise cancer
medium has opened up new doors. co-produced by Karan. When patients, their relatives and
We have been given opportunity asked, who between the This novel, written by the managing editor of People’s caregivers, as well as the
two would get more awards,
to tell interesting stories,” a PTI Karan told reporters, “Two Archives of Rural India (PARI), weaves a story around general health-conscious
report quoted Pathak as saying. girls, who are 21-22 years Vidarbha’s farmer suicides, where yet another farmer public who want to avoid
The 57-year-old actor, however, does old, if at this stage we start commits suicide, and is survived by his son Vikram cancer.
not believe that digital medium “can comparisons then it’s not fair. Sonare. Vikram is, as he should be, devastated and The book is more than
overtake cinema”. “Cinema might have Both of them are wonderful, furious. His work with the Agricultural Technology just an essential guide
it’s share of ups and downs, it can’t go. It beautiful and they work very Centre and new-found knowledge of social media for cancer patients and
is a very major part of everybody’s life. It is a hard... Awards will never inspires him to build a network with youth across caregivers — “the first of
its kind in India”, as the
process like going to cinema halls, watching matter. The work they do, the India and start a silent revolt. He is joined by Mallika blurbs say. Broken into
Joshi, who works with an NGO in Mumbai, and meets
love they get from people is
films on the big screen.” She currently every award.” farming families neglected by the government and suffering under three distinct sections — What is Cancer? Cancer
features in Tigers. the weight of increasing debts. The book unfolds the “epic mission” and Nutrition; and Journey with Cancer — the
they undertake to draw attention to the plight of farmers and other book introduces to the reader, with deep per-
underprivileged sections of society, and finally mobilise millions of sonal knowledge but with clinical detachment, an
people to march into the major cities of India. After the success of almost taboo subject, even though, as she says,
“almost every family knows of someone afflicted
the march, the group transforms into a revolutionary political party.
• CONVENTIONAL GIRLFRIEND STILL ROCKS DON’T WANT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- by cancer”.
Beginning with the history and etymology of
TESSA THOMPSON IS NEITHER KEEN NOR READY TO PLAY ‘STEREOTYPICAL GIRLFRIEND’ ROLES TO BOX FREEDOM TO FAIL the word cancer, the author takes the reader
It is important for her to not surrender to MYSELF ’ By Shabnam, Aggarwal; HarperCollins through a very readable narrative of a “complex
the idea of a conventional girlfriend in the disease” on which billions of dollars have been
movies, says Actor Tessa Thompson. The Raised in an immigrant Indian family in the start-up hub of Silicon spent on global research but which still defies
35-year-old actor, who stars as Bianca Taylor Valley, Shabnam Aggarwal believed that every entrepreneur could a definitive cure, though considerable progress
in Creed franchise, said she was determined be successful. So she left her cushy job at Merrill has been made in stalling its devastating effect
to see her character ‘’buck convention’’, Lynch to take a risk, find her passion and make a on the human physical and psychological system.
reported Contactmusic. ‘’It was important to difference in the world. She moved to India to start In the US, it is said, there has been a 25 per cent
me, from the first film, Ryan Coogler (writer a company. In “Freedom to Fail”, she tells the story decline in cancer deaths over the last two dec-
and director of the first Creed movie) and I of her brush with success: Raising her first round of ades. The disease has even spawned a number of
had so many conversations about that, and venture capital; hiring a hardworking team of mil- weighty tomes such as Cancer: The Emperor of All
we really wanted to try to buck convention lennials; growing her start-up to multiple cities... and Maladies by oncologist Siddharth Mukherjee.
in that space,” Thompson said. The actor then finding it all come to a bitter end. Weaving each Practical, informative and complete with diet
reportedly said she finds the typical por- chapter into a lesson in overcoming expectations, fear advice and eating schedules, this is an accessi-
trayal of female love interests in movies to be Banita Sandhu and self-doubt, she shows why failure is important, ble and immensely useful handbook for fighting
• Creed breed Tessa wants consistency “obnoxious”. (In an interview) even imperative, in order to ultimately succeed. against cancer and leading a healthier, fuller life.

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