J&K flights

have an operational role too and house fighters.

“Keeping deployment under wraps i s a c hall enge with increased use of smartphones. Therefore flights carrying civilians are perhaps taking off and landing with the window shades pulled down,” the MOD official added. “This procedure is not limited to the Leh airport, but for all military airports that have an operational role and could used for operations at short notice.”

For instance, some critical air strips are allowing “minimum use of the Instrument Landing System for non-military flights.”

Aviation safety experts say the procedure compromises safety guidelines. “Window shades are kept open so that in case of rejected take off or crash landing, the crew knows which side of the plane the rescue teams are and evacuation is to be done to which side. Also, in case of fire, the rescue team positioned outside will know which side to break in from. It is a safety guideline and if airlines are not doing it then it is a violation,” said Mohan Ranganathan, an aviation safety expert.

There is a moment in Milan Talkies when the electricity goes off in the middle of Mughal-e-azam. The film is playing in an Allahabad theatre — we are eight years away from Prayagaraj — called Milan Talkies and the audience is miffed about missing the electric face-off between Akbar and the lovelorn prince.

Ali Fazal as a wannabe director jumps in with gusto. Backlit by cellphone screens, he mimics both Dilip Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor and the audience applauds, both in real life and in the makebelieve Milan Talkies.

This Tigmanshu Dhulia film is a collection of such moments — mining our love of movies and a love story well told. The love story of Annu (Fazal) and Maithili (Shraddha Srinath) has its guardian angels: a Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol poster here, a Shammi Kapoor song