New Delhi: Tend to get sweaty on the dance floor. It's all for good reasons. The shimmies, the shakes, the pirouettes, and the backflips burn a lot of calories and do a lot of other amazing things for your body. Dancing is one of the greatest pleasures. It comes with music, beats, and synced motions to express the unsaid emotions. Whether it's a party or just spending time with yourself, there is always an undeniably irresistible reason behind moving to a good beat. While dancing is just plain fun and moving, there are some good reasons to do it every day. Increases the Calorie BurningWalking burn:&nbsp;100 to 200 calories in 30 minsDancing burn:&nbsp;200-400 calories in 30 minsRunning burn:&nbsp;200-400 calories in 30 minsSwimming burn:&nbsp;200-250 calories in 30 minsCycling burn:&nbsp;200-300 calories in 30 minsYou may anticipate burning 100 to 200 calories by vigorously walking for 30 minutes. If you opt to run or swim, the quantity may be greater. When you choose continuous dancing, though, you may burn up to 400 calories in the same amount of time. Even a gentle or simply coordinated movement for 30 minutes can burn the same number of calories as swimming or cycling. On the internet, there is a popular saying that if running is like driving on a freeway, dancing is more like driving through a bustling city. Dance has such great results because it involves voluntary movements in all directions. In running, walking, or swimming, there is constantly an accelerating force; yet, in dancing, there is always synchronised deceleration and acceleration.Positive impact on Flexibility, Endurance &amp; StrengthTorching calories is not the only upside of dancing; it impacts the flexibility, endurance, and strength of your body. Unlike straight-up running, which aids up-down and side-to-side motions, dancing activates even the lower-body joints, muscles, and tendons. The omnidirectional movements train and activate many tendons and small muscles. A comparative study on Balance &amp; Flexibility between Dancers and Non-Dancers shows that dance has put a positive impact on fitness variables balance and flexibility. There is another conclusive report that says an Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is less common among dancers than among other sports players.Mood and Mind benefitsDancing, like any other physical activity, appears to improve your mood and mental wellness. According to a UCLA health research study published in 2021, free-flowing dancing motions resulted in good mental health effects for individuals who chose to dance. A total of 1,000 patients suffering from anxiety, depression, and trauma took part in the study. Almost 98 percent of dancers' mental health improved after they practised and let their bodies move with the flow. Dancing helps with improved energy, a buoyed mood, and lowered stress.Influence on the White Matter of the BrainA study published in the journal 'Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience' compared the effects of walking, stretching, and dancing on the white matter of ageing brains. The study connected dancing to increased 'white matter' integrity in elderly people's brains. White matter in your brain is made up of connective tissues that might deteriorate over time. The deterioration causes issues with processing speed, reasoning, and remembering. Unlike walking and stretching, the synchronised movements of dance-choreography must be memorised via your body and mind. The white matter of elderly people who participated in dance improved after 6 weeks of hard choreography.Psychological Benefits of DanceA dance may do great things for your psychology. For many years and decades, therapists have recommended dancing as an excellent treatment for social anxiety and fear of speaking in public.The rationale for proposing dancing is to relax before performing a backflip in front of strangers. If you can perform a backflip in front of an audience, you will be less self-conscious when it comes to public speaking.Dance promotes socialising and building relationships with others. The synchronised movements you do with others in a dance class blur the lines and allow you to connect with your fellow dancers.Boost physical connectivityLast but not least, dancing improves physical connectedness. When it comes to dancing with a partner, there is always a touch factor that brings distinct benefits. Holding hands, touching waists, and other dancing gestures to help maintain and improve a human-to-human physical connection. Salsa's sensuous touch or ball dance's romanticism, each part relieves tension and anxiety and aids in the maintenance of good relationships. Put all of this together, and there is nothing that can't persuade you to put on your dancing shoes.—IANS

Tend to get sweaty on the dance floor. It's all for good reasons. The shimmies, the shakes, the pirouettes, and the backflips burn a lot of calories and do a lot of other amazing things for your body.

6 reasons why dancing is great for your body

Seoul: A new study is one of the first to provide experimental evidence that people learn from incidental exposure to things that they know nothing about and aren’t even trying to understand.The study was published in the journal Psychological Science. Exposure to new objects makes humans “ready to learn,” said Vladimir Sloutsky, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at The Ohio State University. “We often observe new things out in the real world without a goal of learning about them,” Sloutsky said. “But we found that simply being exposed to them makes an impression in our mind and leads us to be ready to learn about them later.”Sloutsky conducted the research with Layla Unger, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at Ohio State and the lead author of the study.The study included five different experiments with 438 people, with all experiments showing similar results. In the studies, participants first took part in an “exposure phase” in which they played a simple computer game while seeing colourful images of unfamiliar creatures. The game did not provide any information about these creatures, but for some participants, unbeknownst to them, the creatures actually belonged to two categories – Category A and Category B. Similar to real-world creatures such as dogs and cats, Category A and Category B creatures had body parts that looked somewhat different, such as different-coloured tails and hands. Control group participants were shown images of other unfamiliar creatures. Later in the experiment, the participants went through “explicit learning,” a process in which they were taught that the creatures belonged to two categories (called “flurps” and “jalets”), and to identify the category membership of each creature.The researchers measured how long it took participants to learn the difference between Category A and Category B in this explicit learning phase. “We found that learning was substantially faster for those who were exposed to the two categories of creatures earlier on than it was in the control group participants,” Unger said. “Participants who received early exposure to Category A and B creatures could become familiar with their different distributions of characteristics, such as that creature with blue tails tended to have brown hands, and creatures with orange tails tended to have green hands. Then when the explicit learning came, it was easier to attach a label to those distributions and form the categories.” In another experiment in the study, the simple computer game that participants played in the exposure phase involved hearing sounds while seeing the images of the creatures. Participants simply hit a key whenever the same sound was played two times in a row.“The images were randomly attached to the sounds, so they could not help participants learn the sounds,” Sloutsky said. “In fact, the participants could completely ignore the images and it would not affect how well they did.”Still, participants who were shown the images of Category A and B creatures later learned the differences between them more quickly during the explicit learning phase than participants who were shown other unrelated images. “It was pure exposure to the creatures that were helping them learn faster later on,” Sloutsky said. But was it possible that they had already actually learned the difference between Category A and B creatures during the early exposure, without needing the explicit learning? The answer is no, Unger said. In some of the studies, the simple computer game in the exposure phase involved first seeing a creature in the centre of the screen. Participants were then asked to hit one key if the creature jumped to the left side of the screen and a different key if it jumped to the right, as quickly as possible. Participants were not told this, but one type of creature always jumped to the left and the other always jumped to the right. So if they learned the difference between the two creature categories, they could respond faster. Results showed that participants did not respond faster, suggesting they didn’t learn the difference between Category A and Category B creatures in the exposure part of the experiment.But they still learned the difference between them more quickly in the explicit learning part of the experiment than those participants who were exposed to images of other creatures during the earlier exposure phase. “The exposure to the creatures left participants with some latent knowledge, but they weren’t ready to tell the difference between the two categories. They had not learned yet, but they were ready to learn,” Unger said. Sloutsky said this is one of few studies that has shown evidence of latent learning. “It has been very difficult to diagnose when latent learning is occurring,” he said. “But this research was able to differentiate between latent learning and what people learn during explicit teaching.”&nbsp;—ANI

A new study is one of the first to provide experimental evidence that people learn from incidental exposure to things that they know nothing about and aren’t even trying to understand.

Study finds being exposed to new things makes people ‘ready to learn’

Washington: Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviours with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is associated with enhanced psychological well-being and larger social networks.
Notably, the researchers also discovered that adolescents who explored their natural environments more also reported a greater number of risky behaviors.
"While adolescent risk taking is typically seen as a problematic behavior, we found that heightened exploration was also linked to greater social connectivity and emotional well-being," says Catherine Hartley, an associate professor in New York University's Department of Psychology and the senior author of the study, which appears in the journal Psychological Science. "This suggests that risk taking may have an adaptive function during adolescence."
Previously, Hartley and the University of Miami's Aaron Heller reported that new and diverse experiences are linked to enhanced happiness and that this relationship is associated with greater correlation of brain activity. Those findings, which appeared in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed a connection between our daily physical environments and our sense of well-being.
In the new Psychological Science work, Hartley, Heller, and UCLA doctoral student Natalie Saragosa-Harris sought to better understand teens' and young adults' exploration of their environments, how it relates to behaviors we tend to see as "risky," and what the psychological significance of these behaviors might be.
Earlier studies have suggested that, compared to children and older adults, adolescents and young adults tend to engage in more exploratory and novelty-seeking behaviors -- whether it's trying out new hobbies, sampling new friend groups, or visiting new places.
However, most studies of adolescent exploratory behaviors have relied on self-report or behavior in controlled laboratory environments, leaving open the question as to whether heightened adolescent exploration is evident in the real world -- when participants are in natural daily settings.
To better capture these phenomena, the scientists measured the everyday lives of 58 teenagers and adults (ages 13 to 27) in New York City, using GPS tracking to measure how often participants visited novel locations over the course of three months. From these measurements, they were able to capture daily exploration based on movement. Based on these GPS data and self-report, the researchers found several notable patterns:
There was an association between daily exploration and age, with individuals near the transition to legal adulthood (18- to 21-year-olds) exhibiting the highest exploration levels.
Regardless of age, people reported better moods on days when they explored more, supporting the notion that exploration is linked to psychological well-being.
People who had higher average levels of exploration also reported larger social networks -- measured by the number of unique individuals the subjects interacted with via phone calls and direct-messaging platforms.
Adolescents who explored their natural environments more also reported a greater number of risky behaviors (e.g., gambling, heavy drinking, illicit drug use, etc.) -- an association not evident in adults.
"These findings point to an important role for exploration in sustaining adolescent well-being and establishing social connectivity," observes Hartley. "And while risky behaviors undoubtedly pose challenges, a healthy amount of exploration is important, particularly as individuals become adults, gain independence, and form their identities." —ANI

Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is associated with enhanced psychological well-being and larger social networks.

Teens With Diabetes Should Be Screened For Depression With Greater Caution: Study

Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviours with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is associated with enhanced psychological well-being and larger social networks.

Dehradun: Psychological evaluation has been made mandatory by Government Medical College in Haldwani, Uttarakhand in the admission process this year.
Earlier, for admission to MBBS and MD-MS courses in the college only general health tests were conducted.
The general health test included nasal-ear-throat (ENT), ophthalmology, medicine radiology and pathology examination of all candidates. The girl candidates also had to go through a gynaecological examination.
However, this year, the psychological evaluation of candidates has been made mandatory for admission in medical colleges. Public Relations Officer of Government Medical College in Dehradun, Alok Upreti said with the help of a psychological test, the behavior, personality and working ability of the students will be estimated.
He said, “The purpose of this test is to provide timely treatment to the students suffering from depression or any other mental problem so that their studies are not affected in any way.” According to sources, three-four such students have been taking admission every year to Haldwani’s Government Medical College who suffer from some kind of mental health problem.
Due to this, such students are not able to complete the syllabus on time and some of them take five to six years to complete their MBBS studies, they said. Many students also suffer from mental health problems due to a tendency to take drugs.
Haldwani Medical College has a total of 100 seats for MBBS and MD-MS courses, for which the admission process is going on. There are four government and three private medical colleges in Uttarakhand. —PTI

 Psychological evaluation has been made mandatory by Government Medical College in Haldwani, Uttarakhand in the admission process this year.

Psychological Test Must For Admission In Uttarakhand’s Medical College

New Delhi (The Hawk): The well-being of a child with a delicate mental mind must be prioritised in light of the unavoidable long-term ramifications of childhood sexual abuse, according to the Delhi High Court.
The court made the remarks as it denied the appeal of a physics instructor who was accused of sexually harassing and molesting a Class 9 girl at a private school in 2006.
Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad's division bench made the following declaration: "Therefore, sexual harassment has the ability to leave a youngster with mental trauma and may shape how they think for years to come. The child's natural social development may be hampered, and it may also result in a number of psychosocial issues that may call for professional help."
The instructor had appealed a decision by a single judge that upheld the Delhi School Tribunal's orders from December 13, 2011, and the Disciplinary Authority's decision to punish him with mandatory retirement.
The teacher argued that the Disciplinary Committee member who also imposed the penalty was not a member of the school's teaching staff.
The judge, however, dismissed the claim and stated that the lady was an employee of the school and was simply sent on deputation. The judge further stated that the instructor was not prejudiced by the woman's membership on the Disciplinary Committee because she was an employee of the school.
The court upheld the decisions of the single judge, disciplinary authority, and tribunal and stated that the appellant had provided "nothing cogent on record to substantiate that the finding of the Inquiry Officer, as upheld by the Tribunal and the learned Single Judge of this Court, is perverse which would warrant interference from this court."
(Inputs from Agencies)

The well-being of a child with a delicate mental mind must be prioritised in light of the unavoidable long-term ramifications of childhood sexual abuse, according to the Delhi High Court.

Sexual harassment in childhood can cause psychological problems: Delhi High Court

The health and wellness of students in schools have become increasingly important, especially in the post-covid era. The National Curriculum Framework for School Education emphasised that guidance and counselling can support the attainment of educational aims by contributing to creating an ethos of overall well-being and teaching individuals an ethic of care and mutual respect.

According to the NCF, physical health, and wellness are crucial needs for growing up and require careful addressing by schools. “Designing programs that contribute to good health and physical fitness for all students across the stages in their school life is a central goal.

Not just physical, there is a need to prioritise psychological health and wellness as well. With a primary focus on students, guidance and counselling work must teach strategies for emotional regulation and positive motivation. While mild to moderate challenges with mental health can receive counselling support within the school, it would be necessary to direct students and families to more qualified professionals outside the school system for clinical diagnosis and support,” the report stated.

Regarding the reasons for introducing health and wellness, the draft stated that the classroom and the school were sites for emotional learning, growth, and expression, which were probably the most occupying for teachers at this stage. “Students themselves go through unpredictable mood states and energy fluctuations, often grappling with a sense of unexplainable wellness or not-so-wellness. Middle Stage pedagogy must allow for some amount of engagement with emotional experiences through quiet discussion and reflection. Curricular areas can be used as contexts in which individual responses can be parsed. The teacher will have to find a balance in the approach to students’ emotions - an approach that is neither intrusive nor indulgent, but reasonably firm, rationally clear, and emotionally caring towards students of this stage,” the report said.

<h2>Importance of games</h2>
The NCF emphasises the importance of exercising the mind just as exercising the body is crucial to maintaining good health. Encouraging children to play games that involve strategy, logic, word puzzles, and recreational mathematics is an excellent way to spark their interest in mathematics and foster their logical thinking skills.

Spatial reasoning can be developed through activities such as solving jigsaw puzzles, playing with blocks, and solving mazes. Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills can be enhanced through playing games such as tic-tac-toe and chess.

Playing games such as Chaupad, Snakes and Ladders, and Ludo can be a fun way to teach counting, strategy, collaboration, healthy competition, and bonding with peers.&nbsp;
—Vijay GarG / The Hawk

The health and wellness of students in schools have become increasingly important, especially in the post-covid era

Health & Wellness Belong in Classrooms

Mumbai: Actor and casting director Abhishek Banerjee, who is known for 'Stree' and 'Patal Lok', released his short film 'Sex, Likes &amp; Stories' on Thursday. The 12-minute-long psychological thriller poses the question: "In the world of social media are you the consumer or are you getting consumed?"

The short story is directed by Keith Gomes and has been shot entirely on iPhone. It also stars Mokshda Jailkhani and Shruthy Menon who are seen dealing with their over-obsessive about their social media presence.

The film has been produced by Emmy nominated Girish 'Bobby' Talwar, Oscar academy member Sandeep Kamal, Keith Gomes, and Suresh Jagasia. The film is available to stream on Keith Gomes' YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, on the work front, Abhishek will be next seen in 'Dream Girl 2'. The film is a sequel to the Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer comedy film 'Dream Girl' which was released in 2019. IANS

Actor and casting director Abhishek Banerjee, who is known for 'Stree' and 'Patal Lok', released his short film 'Sex, Likes & Stories' on Thursday. The 12-minute-long psychological thriller poses the question: "In the world of social media are you the consumer or are you getting consumed?"

Abhishek Banerjee's 'Sex, Likes & Stories' exposes how social media 'consumes' users

Actor and casting director Abhishek Banerjee, who is known for 'Stree' and 'Patal Lok', released his short film 'Sex, Likes & Stories' on Thursday. The 12-minute-long psychological thriller poses the question: "In the world of social media are you the consumer or are you getting consumed?"


Lucknow: The Lucknow police wants Vijay Yadav, the main accused in the murder of gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva, to be psychologically profiled by forensic and medical experts. The police are apparently not convinced by the replies of the 24-year-old regarding the motive behind the murder. The accused, who has two criminal cases registered against him including one related to kidnapping of a minor girl for which he spent six months in jail, has told investigators that "an unidentified man" had promised to pay him Rs 20 lakh for killing the gangster. He spoke no further on the subject. "Psychological profiling will help investigators understand Vijay's thought process before the police decide to go for other options to question him. During interrogation, Vijay started panting all of a sudden and stopped talking. The doctors attending him denied the permission to interrogate him further," said a senior police official. Vijay told interrogators that he was just given a photograph of the target (Sanjeev Maheshwari) and promised Rs 20 lakh, while he was given a petty sum of Rs 5,000 before coming to Lucknow and executing the crime. Questioned on the motive, he said that "the person who had come to give him the money had told him that he was humiliated," but he could not elaborate further. "The replies given by the accused are highly unconvincing and it is clear that he is tryinh to hide the truth," said the police official. Meanwhile, the accused's call detail records and mobile details are being scanned while police are profiling the antecedents of all those with whom Vijay Yadav kept in touch. A senior officer added that Vijay will be taken on remand for questioning after medical approval. He was sent to jail on Thursday night after being discharged from the hospital. —IANS

The Lucknow police wants Vijay Yadav, the main accused in the murder of gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva

UP Cops Seek Psychological Profiling Of Jeeva's Murder Accused

New Delhi: Commencing arguments on the Centre’s behalf, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta on Thursday said that the judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, going either way, will be ‘historic’ and would end the ‘psychological duality’ which existed in the minds of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.   “Though, since inception of the Constitution, it (Jammu &amp; Kashmir) became an integral and inalienable part of India. There remained a psychological duality, whether induced or otherwise, would end. Judgment going either way -- that position would end,” SG Mehta said.   He said that this ‘psychological duality’ resulted because of confusion arising out of the nature of Article 370 as to whether the special provision was temporary or permanent.  Defending Centre’s action, the top law officer said that Article 370 functioned as a detriment to development of people of J&amp;K as they were deprived of the welfare schemes and constitutional rights flowing from the Union government.   He said that a large number of fundamental rights and other rights will be conferred upon the people of J&amp;K. “They will now fully be a part of the rest of India,” said Mehta, adding that people in the valley were deprived of their privileges from the last 75 years.  “Large number of fundamental rights and other rights will now be conferred upon residents of J&amp;K, fully at par with the rest of the country,” he told the Constitution Bench.  SG Mehta questioned the argument raised by the petitioner that J&amp;K was the only state that had its own constitution in 1939 and therefore, should get a special treatment. He said that this argument is “factually not well founded".   “There were 62 states that were having their own Constitutions -- whether named as Constitution or instrument of internal governance,” he said, adding that another 286 states were in the process of framing their constitutions in the late 1930s.  He said that once accession is complete, the state's sovereignty is lost and gets subsumed with the larger sovereignty, while relying upon provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935.  “As a matter of fact, some of them (princely states) made their Constitutions and thereafter immediately signed the accession also! The draft accession agreement was common to all. Everyone signed the same draft,” he contended before the Supreme Court.   On Thursday, arguments were opened by Attorney General R. Venkataramani followed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.   Senior advocates Harish Salve, Mahesh Jethmalani and Rakesh Dwivedi, Additional Solicitor General K.M. Natraj, amongst others, will also advance oral arguments on behalf of the Centre.  Earlier on Wednesday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Constitution Bench that the Union government has absolutely no intention to interfere with the special provisions of the Constitution applicable to northeast states or any other part of the country.  Notably, a 5-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Chandrachud is hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the 2019 Presidential Order taking away the special status accorded to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation into two Union Territories.  The Constitution Bench, also comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, B.R. Gavai, and Surya Kant, will continue hearing the matter on August 28. —IANS

Commencing arguments on the Centre’s behalf, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta on Thursday 

Judgment on Article 370 would end psychological duality of J&K residents: Tushar Mehta in SC

Eluru: Extramarital relations led to murder of a married woman while her lover ended his life by jumping under a running train. The shocking murder and suicide came to light in Eluru town on Monday.
Upset over the woman trying to distance herself, the man murdered her and later killed himself. D. Satyanarayana (40) died by suicide by jumping under a running train near Nuzvid. Railway police recovered from his pocket a piece of paper on which he had written his name and address. After receiving the information from police, his family members went to his house in Eluru and were shocked to find a woman’s body lying in a pool of blood. The woman was identified as U. Sujata (30), a resident of another area in the same town. Police took up investigation and learnt from the neighbours that she was friends with Satyanarayana and used to visit him often.
Police recovered a suicide note from the house. Satyanarayana wrote that they were in a relationship and that he had even tied ‘tali’ (sign of marriage) to her. She was trying to distance herself for some time and was even insulting him. Angry over this, he planned to kill her. He called her to his house on Sunday night and cut her throat with a knife.  After the murder, Satyanarayana locked the house with Sujata’s body lying inside. He then left on his two-wheeler and after parking the bike under a bridge near Nuzvid, he jumped under a running train.  According to police, Sujata was married to a truck driver and they had two children. Satyanarayana was a friend of her husband and that was how they came to know each other. They used to meet at his house whenever Sujata’s husband would go out of the town on duty.
Satyanarayana, a painter, was living alone after a marital dispute with his wife. Police investigations revealed that he and Sujata were in a relationship for the past four years.

—IANS

Extramarital relations led to murder of a married woman while her lover ended his life by jumping under a running train. The shocking murder and suicide came to light in Eluru town on Monday.

Andhra man dies by suicide after killing paramour

Bengaluru: A class 10 student in Bengaluru committed suicide by jumping from the 12th floor of her apartment building, police said on Wednesday, adding that her parents have demanded a probe into the tragic incident.  The incident occurred on Tuesday at the Classic apartment in the city’s Bellandur locality.  According to the police, the 15-year-old victim Jessica took the drastic step after returning home from school.  Jessica’s parents — Dominic and Devi — who are originally from Tamil Nadu, had moved to Bengaluru to provide better education to their two children and got them admitted to a prestigious school.  The police said that Jessica had been preparing for examination and it was also found that she had attended school only seven days in the last three months.  On Tuesday morning, the school administration called her parents and informed them about it.  After this, Dominic, a software professional, called his wife and asked her to check on Jessica, the police said.  Devi, a school teacher, called up Jessica and told her that she was coming to her school to visit her.  About 20 minutes after the call, Jessica jumped to her death, the police added.  Devi, who used to teach in the same school, had changed her workplace last year following which Jessica’s behavior changed drastically.  She bunked classes and spent time at home.  Jessica used to come out of the house in the morning wearing her school uniform and after her parents would leave for work, she would return home and spend time with her dog, the police said.  The police have recovered Jessica’s iPhone and are trying to gather information on what conspired before her death.  The phone is however completely damaged as she jumped along with it.  The police are also examining her call list.
—IANS

A class 10 student in Bengaluru committed suicide by jumping from the 12th floor of her apartment building, police said on Wednesday, adding that her parents have demanded a probe into the tragic incident.

Class 10 student commits suicide in B'luru, parents demand probe

Mumbai: 'Lord Curzon Ki Haveli', which stars Arjun Mathur, Rasika Dugal, Zoha Rahman, Paresh Pahuja and Garrick Hagon, has been selected as the opening film at the International South Asian Film Festival in Vancouver.
It will also serve as the closing film at the Chicago South Asian International Film Festival 2023.
For actor Arjun Mathur, it’s the fastest feature film that he has ever filmed.
The film marks the directorial debut of actor Anshuman Jha.
Talking about the film, Arjun said: “I was immediately drawn to ‘Lord Curzon Ki Haveli’ when I read the script, primarily because I could not slot it within any single fixed genre and secondly because inspite of that, my director Anshuman had an extremely clear vision for it. And I'm happy to say that the film has not at all strayed from that vision and what has emerged is an exciting chamber-film which I now like to call a ‘psychological black-comedy thriller’. These are genres that I find to be rarely explored in Indian Cinema. The character I portray in this film -- Rohit -- is really some of the most fun I’ve ever had with a character."
"Not only is the fastest feature film that I have ever filmed but it is also a rare film - to have been shot completely on a single 35mm lens. We had our world-premiere at IFFM 2023, to a fantastic audience response that exceeded any of our expectations, and it’s made me doubly excited for the North-American premiere as the closing-film at CSAFF ‘23 and the Canadian premiere as the opening-film at ISAFF ‘23 in Vancouver. I can’t wait for audiences all over the world to watch this film. It is truly a unique piece of work," he added.&nbsp;
—IANS

'Lord Curzon Ki Haveli', which stars Arjun Mathur, Rasika Dugal, Zoha Rahman, Paresh Pahuja and Garrick Hagon

'Lord Curzon Ki Haveli' to open International South Asian Film Festival in Vancouver

Washington [US]: Makers of the psychological horror film 'The First Omen', which is a prequel to the classic horror film 'The Omen' unveiled a new trailer. The official page of 20th Century Studios India took to Instagram on Monday to share the new trailer and wrote, "Watch the new trailer for #TheFirstOmen. Experience the most terrifying movie of the year, only in cinemas April 5."
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4YYGbgPOqj/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_self">https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4YYGbgPOqj/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading</a>&nbsp;
The trailer shows more unseen footage from the psychological horror film and teases what is promised to be a terrifying movie. The story revolves around a young American lady who is brought to Rome to begin a life of devotion to the church. She discovers a darkness that forces her to doubt her faith and uncovers a horrifying plot that seeks to bring an evil incarnate into the world. The star cast includes Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson and Bill Nighy. The film is directed by Arkasha Stevenson and based on characters created by David Seltzer, with a story by Ben Jacoby and a screenplay by Tim Smith, Arkasha Stevenson and Keith Thomas. The producers are David S. Goyer and Keith Levine, and the executive producers are Tim Smith, Whitney Brown, and Gracie Wheelan. Gregory Peck played an ambassador who believes his little son is the living essence of the Antichrist in the original 'The Omen'.
—ANI

Watch "The First Omen" trailer – the terrifying prequel to "The Omen." Experience unparalleled horror in cinemas April 5.

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