Chandigarh Carnival enthrals cinema buffs

A police control room named 'Dabbang' and tableaux depicting Bollywood characters are attracting cinema buffs at 'Chandigarh Carnival'.
The Carnival with the theme '100 years of Indian Cinema', which began on Friday at Sector 10, has been drawing huge crowds especially youngsters.
The entrance of the Carnival has been designed as a gramophone while there is a movie screening hall named 'Bombay Talkies', a stall which offers customised T-shirt painting, a police control room named 'Dabbang', joy rides for all in tastefully-decorated cycle rickshaws and tableaux depicting Bollywood characters.
The stalls have been named after popular Indian films in the three-day mega event organised by the Tourism Department of the Union Territory.

One of the stalls offering a chance to "triple money" is drawing huge crowds.
On one side of the stall, two persons hand over coupons to the customers on payment, which then have to be presented before the main stall, handled by three young women.

After making the payment for the coupons, people are handed over two dice (each having numbers from 1 to 6) and asked to choose any number below 7 or above seven, before they can throw the dice on a sheet of paper.
Once the choice has been made and if one gets it right, the money returned is doubled and paid on the spot. If one calls for number 7 and if the sum total of the two dice show the same number, then the money is tripled.

The festivities at the Carnival also included clowning acts, a vintage car show, cultural troupe performances and a quiz on cinema.