How to stop/play a root mc from a mc that is inside another mc

This problem took a lot of time today and still i am unable to solve it :( It was very simple to handle in AS2 but in AS3 i totally screwed up.

I have a movie clip called mc_DancingLines on the main timeline.

I want to play and stop this movie clip from another movie clip called mc_menu.

mc_menu is located inside another movie clip called mc_heart. So this way mc_heart is loaded first from the root time line, then mc_menu is loaded. and I want to play/stop mc_Dancing lines from that location.

In AS2 i used to do _root.mc_Dancinglines.play(); But now i am stuck.

Any help will be highly appreciated!

Thanks for reading guys

This problem is now resolved with the help of

http://www.ultrashock.com/forums/act...ip-124192.html

Gash! It took my whole day to search this thing out!