Oliver Stone`s secret date with Kolkata

Kolkata: Hollywood legend and triple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone paid a quiet four-day visit to the metropolis in June. He was here to drop his daughter Tara at the Missionaries of Charity for a five-week voluntary service.

The 66-year-old Stone -- known for creating such celluloid masterpieces like `Platoon`, `The Doors`, `Born on the Fourth of July`, `Wall Street`, and `JFK` -- arrived in the city on June 19 and left June 22 morning. Three days later, he tweeted: "Travelled to Kolkata, India last week after Shanghai (China). My daughter Tara volunteered for the Mother Teresa Mission." Stone`s twitter page still carries a photo with his daughter with the landmark Victoria Memorial in the background. Stone reportedly wanted his 17-year-old daughter -- born of his third marriage with South Korean Chong Son Chong -- to have a reality check through exposure about the world at large, away from the cosy comfort of her home and daily life. She later stayed for five weeks working as a volunteer in the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa. Stone, who has in the past declared his admiration for the Indian cinema and studied Satyajit Ray as a film studies student, visited some lanes and by-lanes of South Kolkata`s Kalighat, which is home to a large number of sex workers. He also dropped in at the office of an NGO working in the area for uplift of children of sex workers. IANS