As chairperson of the ongoing Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival, Priyanka Chopra flew to her home city for the opening of the event, which is being held at various locations across Mumbai. The festival's hub, though, is the recently opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, with Ambani and her daughter Isha joining Chopra as board members of the film festival.
More than 200 movies will be screened over the next 10 days, until November 5, with the Kareena Kapoor Khan-starrer The Buckingham Murders screened on opening night on Friday.
Kapoor Khan, who was in attendance along with her sister Karisma and husband Saif Ali Khan, called Buckingham one of her “career-best roles”.
Also spotted on opening night were prominent personalities from the South Indian film industry – Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam, Bollywood's grande dame Shabana Azmi, actress Sonam Kapoor, looking suitably stylish, plus Konkona Sen Sharma, Vijay Varma, Rajkummar Rao, Randeep Hooda, and filmmakers Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar.
Some films being screened this year include The Rapist, starring Sen Sharma and directed by her mum Aparna Sen; Kennedy directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhat; as well as Varun Grover's directorial debut All India Rank.
While Hollywood continues to work its way through the Sag-Aftra strike, Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival will showcase a number of international titles, including Bradley Cooper's Maestro; The Sweet East directed by Sean Price Williams; and Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.
Other movies being shown in the World Cinema category include: South Korea's In Our Day; Fallen Leaves by Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki; Japanese thriller Monster; and Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani's Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.
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Pre-school (three - five years)
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Replace the money bank with three jars labelled ‘saving’, ‘spending’ and ‘sharing’. Have the child divide their allowance into the three jars each week and explain their choices in splitting their pocket money. A guide could be 25 per cent saving, 50 per cent spending, 25 per cent for charity and gift-giving.
Middle childhood (nine - 11 years)
Open a bank savings account and help your child establish a budget and set a savings goal. Introduce the notion of ‘paying yourself first’ by putting away savings as soon as your allowance is paid.
Young teens (12 - 14 years)
Change your child’s allowance from weekly to monthly and help them pinpoint long-range goals such as a trip, so they can start longer-term saving and find new ways to increase their saving.
Teenage (15 - 18 years)
Discuss mutual expectations about university costs and identify what they can help fund and set goals. Don’t pay for everything, so they can experience the pride of contributing.
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Discuss post-graduation plans and future life goals, quantify expenses such as first apartment, work wardrobe, holidays and help them continue to save towards these goals.
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