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Film journalist R M Kumtakar passes awayR M Kumtakar, film journalist and photographer with Screen for 32 years, passed away at Virar on ...

Film journalist R M Kumtakar passes away

R M Kumtakar, film journalist and photographer with Screen for 32 years, passed away at Virar on Saturday. He was 79. Kumtakar joined Screen in 1954, after a stint in All India Radio. His photographs of film celebrities used to feature on the cover page of Screen from the 50s to the 80s till he retired as assistant editor in 1986. Kumtakar was a music lover and had a keen ear for Hindustani classical music, having been a student of Pannalal Ghosh. He also pursued wildlife photography after his retirement.

Traffic on Agra highway restored

Rail and vehicular traffic between Mumbai and Nashik was restored at 8.25 am today following the removal of the LPG tanker that had overturned at Kasara Ghat in Thane district on Sunday. However, the Central Railway cancelled two upcountry trains and rescheduled five others today.

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The 1440-Up Nagpur-Dadar Sevagram Express, scheduled to have left Nagpur today, and 1439-Dn Dadar-Nagpur Sevagram Express, Dadar(Tuesday), have been cancelled. The 2859-Dn Mumbai-Howrah Gitanjali Express was rescheduled to 19.50 hrs from 06.00 hrs today. The 2137-Dn Mumbai-Ferozpur Punjab Mail has been rescheduled to leave at 00.30 hrs on Tuesday instead of 19.10 hrs today. The 2105-Dn Mumbai-Nagpur Vidharba Express will leave at 22.40 hrs instead of 19.35 hrs. The 8001-Dn Mumbai-Howrah Mail (via NGP) will leave at 00.10 hrs on Tuesday instead of 20.15 hrs today. The 5217-Dn Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Muzaffarpur Pawan Express will leave at 23.55 hrs instead of 11.25 hrs.

Film fete on November 20

The second International Film Festival of Mumbai will be held at the Y B Pratishtan and the National Centre For the Performing Arts from November 20. The week-long festival will focus will on Asian films but other sections will include World Cinema, Retrospective (Indian and Foreign) and Romance Mumbai Style in which love stories from Mehboob Khan’s Andaz to Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge will be screened. Fifty of the70 films will be foreign.