""'Sheesha " "'is a directed by Basu Chatterjee, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Moon Moon Sen, Vijayendra Ghatge, and Mallika Sarabhai.
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The holes allow the sheesha to be lit by the charcoal placed on top of the foil, and the foil acts as a screen to keep ashes from mixing with the tobacco.
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People rarely smoke the pipes at home, and because of the size of the hookah, usually about three feet high, sheesha is not a pastime to be enjoyed on the run.
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""'Sheesha " "'is a family thriller, featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen in lead roles and supported by Vijayendra Ghatge and Mallika Sarabhai.
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In Astoria, where sheesha cafe proprietors are typically Egyptian, the pipe is known as a hookah, as it is in Cairo and Alexandria, the home cities of the entrepreneurs along Steinway Street.
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It is clear from the sheesha situation in Astoria that the ancient hookah, which is believed to have first appeared centuries ago in India, carved out of coconut, is a bit of a craze.
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After giving a brief history of the hookah, Sayed, who keeps his own pipe in a corner of his restaurant and lights up whenever business dies down, explained that the sheesha experience is about communal ritual, not addiction.
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Sayed, who is from Alexandria and runs a tiny but popular restaurant called the Kabab Cafe across the street from a crowded sheesha cafe, stopped selling smoke a decade ago, after deciding that tobacco and genuine eating do not mix, he said.
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At night, the air is filled with smoke that smells like candy, escaping through the windows and doors of the growing number of sheesha cafes, where tobacco, dipped in molasses, blended with apple shavings or soaked in rose oil burns in water pipes as tall as the tables.
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Since Ali El Sayed, the self-described godfather of the sheesha cafe in New York City, opened a hookah place on Steinway Street 14 years ago, five others have opened on one stretch of Steinway Street, near 25th Avenue, several of them in the last few years.
