PREDICTIONS FOR JAN 2017

BYNANCYJADE ALTHEA

LIBRA Sept 23 - Oct 22

As usual, you willhave started this year with a lot of thinking and planning. You will be making sure you have arranged your next holiday, finances and affairs. The cards are indicating you will be able to take hold of opportunities with success and ease. There will be some interesting developments with an oldfriend you have reconnected with.Your partner may not be feeling very well, so it is a good time to go on that much needed break together.

SCORPIO Oct 23 - Nov 21

This month you will feel passionate, renewed and fullof energy. You will be feeling extremely loving and highly sensual. The cards are indicating you will want your love life to be sorted out and contentment to prevail. There will be successful negotiations at work and you will be able to obtain what you desire most. It will be a month of kindness and excessiveness at times. You will have to exercise restraint and make sure you do not spend unnecessarily.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 - Dec 21

You will be making some important resolutions with regard to your relationship this month.You may also have to make some difficult decisions with regard to financial aspects of the relationship.You have been working very hard lately and you will be at the point of feeling that you efforts are going unnoticed. The cards are indicating a time when you willspeak up and get what you desire and deserve.A good time to meditate on your issues.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 - Jan 19

This month you will be deciding what you would like to do with regard to your career.Youhave a mindful of ideas and plans. There willbe some dizzy spells of excitement and your head will be spinning. In your love life, you may be heading towards a more settled, committedphase of your union. The cards are indicating you need to think about your health more. Plan to walk and take some outdoor holidays to revive your motivation.

AQUARIUS Jan 20 - Feb 18

This month will start with bold plans and decisions.Your current job is very busy and hectic. There will be new superiors hired and there may be some upset around the workplace. Ideas and plans may be a little muddled but there is an indication that things will settle down. Finances will be healthy. The cards are indicating a time when you will want to get back in touch with people from the past and start the year with positive energy.

PISCES Feb 19 - March 20

You may be feeling a little up and down with your moods this month. There will be definite plans with regard to career and relationships, and you are determined to make everything work just how you want it to. There may be conf icts with colleagues as you're not in the moodforsoft words.You need to get your point across and you know how to do it.You need to look after your spending and not exceed your limits.

his daughters' destinyto a glory denied to a lot of women in this country. ls this his best performance? Can't say whatever hehasdoneearlierpales into insignificance.

Significantly, Dangal doesn't play the feminist card at all. There are no speeches tirades and pushy homilies on feminism. The men in fact are not shown to be excessively sexist for the sake of aggrandisingthe dramatic impact of girls' ultimate victory. While Aamir plays the epitome of gender equality, Aparshakti Khurrana who plays Geeta and Babita Phogat's goofykind-hearted cousin is a feministeven without knowing what the word means.

Dangal

in the expansivescript, this is clearly the other elder daughter Geeta s story, her blow-hot-blow-cold relationship with herfather and herultimatetriumphin the wrestling ring.Aamir andZarina Wasim/FatimaSana Shaikh (the two girls who play Geeta) play againsteach other withvivacious credibility.While we watch Geeta wrestle her way to the gold medal - and shefights her opponentsin the wrestling ring like a true pro - we also watch Geeta and her father wrestle in ways that are not manifested physically.

STARRING:AamirKhan,Sakshi

Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra DIRECTOR: Nitesh Tiwari ....,\

There are outstanding films. Then there is Dangat. A film so rich in the f avours of home-grown emotions you feel you are floating in afieldof aromatic sensation for close to three hours without feeling manipulated.You come away from this experience so moved andso much wiser that you wonder why cinema can't be so rewarding more often.

But then again, if every other fIm was a Dangal how would we know the difference?

There I go, raving about a flm which, let me state right away, will be rememberedby posterity as one of the landmarks of Indian cinema in the same breath as,say MotherIndia, Sholay or Lagaan.Yes, Dangal has that kind of an impact. Not because it has anything new to say. On the surface it is another rags-to-riches sportsfilm where a girl, GeetaPhogat,from a small dusty town of Haryana brings the gold medalin wrestling to India.

No. It is not the theme. It's in the heartbreakingdirectnessand artlessness, the absolute absence of artifice, in thenarrative that we discover that mysterious oft-abused entityknown as the Real India. These are places and people with real dreams and ambitions. These are characters whom we live with, sometimes within ourselves. It takes a Mahavir SinghPhogat and his mulish obstinacy to pullIndia's perverse patriarchy dragging kicking and screaming out of its heavily cordonedlair andto say, enough is enough.

It takes an AamirKhan to bulk up to the extent oflooking like a tired but undefeated has-been to play the I wrestler whose determinationsaw his daughtersbreak throughthe masculine bastion of wrestling to prove women can do anything men can. Aamir lives the role ofPhogat, sternly manoeuvring