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Diamond show

Jaipur Jewels presents Solitaires, 18 k diamonds and gemstone studded jewellery in an exclusive show. There will also be a wide selection of designer beaded necklaces and jewellery that will range from the traditional and Victorian to Art Deco. The exhibition is from July 19 to 21 at The Residency Hotel, between 11 a.m and 7 p.m. For details contact 9363261303.

Inner Wheel Club of Coimbatore North is organising Kutty’s Kalakkal 2008 on July 26 and 27. On July 26 are Rangoli Kolam, Cookery (using soya), Fancy Dress, Painting and Music Competition. The first two events are open to all, and Fancy Dress is for students from Pre-KG to Class III. Painting is for students from Pre KG to Class XII, under different categories. They must bring their own materials. Music competition is for students from Class III to Class X. On July 27 is the Dance Competition (folk and western) for children aged between three and 18 years.

The competitions will be held at Nani Kalaiarangam in Mani Higher Secondary School, Papanaickenpalayam. For registration and details, call 94430-55819; 98422-21757.

Here is a chance to brush up on your Italian cooking skills, with some help from the chef de cuisine of Park Hotel, Bangalore. Called “Pesto”, the cookery show is brought to you by FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), Coimbatore chapter in association with Ideal Stores and Aran Kitchen World. The chef will demonstrate a variety of dishes right through the day. Registration fee is Rs. 1,000 per head. This includes tea, lunch, a recipe booklet and a gift hamper to all participants. The funds raised through this event will be used by FLO for women empowerment initiatives. The cookery show will be held on July 25 at Hotel Residency between 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. For details and registration call: 93450- 10101 or 0422-6611000 (extn: 443).

Two masterpieces — Citizen Kane ( 1941) and Touch of Evil (1958) from Orson Welles, Hollywood’s most acclaimed cinematic visionary, will be screened on July 20 at Coimbatore Cosmopolitan Club from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The screening is organised by Konangal Film Society.

In Citizen Kane, the complex and pessimistic theme of a spiritually-failed man is told from several, unreliable perspectives and points-of-view of several characters.

The film tells the tragic and epic rags-to- riches story. It is about a child who inherits a fortune and is taken away from his home and parents.

He is raised by a banker, to become a fabulously wealthy, arrogant, and energetic newspaperman. His political dreams are shattered after the revelation of his ill-advised ‘love-nest’ affair with a singer.

Touch of Evil is a crime thriller and a technical masterpiece. The story takes place in Los Robles, a seedy Mexican-American border town, a place of bars, strip clubs and brothels.

In the opening shot, the camera follows a car that has a bomb in its trunk. This lasts for three minutes and 20 seconds! This is considered one of the greatest long shots in cinematic history. The film was also regarded as a ‘rebellious, unorthodox, bizarre, and outrageously exaggerated’ affronting respectable 1950s sensibilities, with controversial themes including racism, betrayal of friends, sexual ambiguity, frameups, drugs, and police corruption of power.

An Academy Award-winning director, writer, actor and producer for film, stage, radio and television, Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. He went on to be voted the greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute’s poll of Top 10 Directors.

For details, call: 94430 39630 or visit http://konangalfilmsociety.

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Cinema Club of Coimbatore will screen ‘India Untouched’, a documentary on untouchability on July 20 at 3 p.m. at the Kasthuri Srinivasan Art Gallery, near Aravind Eye Hospital on Avanashi Road.

The documentary travels all over India to get more and clear pictures of untouchability in our society.

After the screening there is a discussion with people who are dedicated to the cause of working against this social evil in Tamil Nadu.

For details, call: 0422-4218161/ 94435-78887

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