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@MVijay88

11 months

The amount of Delhi in Virat is just

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@manmarziiyaan

11 months

one stare is all it takes

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I can’t believe the Pakistani floods aren’t bigger news in India. We share a border, we are so similar geographically. What’s happening there today could just as easily have happened here.

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9 months

Just the amount of talent in this 2 minute clip (and Sid Malhotra)

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9 months

dysfunctional middle class families half an hour before they have to leave for an event:

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11 months

No film industry in India will be able to match Malayalam cinema for the stuff the MAINSTREAM actors/producers churn out. The issues they dare to touch upon. The roles they don't "mind" doing. The kind of stories that they churn out. Just remarkable

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

@Advaidism

11 months

In the age of modern cinema, a 72-year-old legend is consistently reinventing himself as an actor, and with each movie, he is striving to break new ground in Malayalam cinema. His name is Mammootty, who plays a gay man in #Kaathal . One of the best Malayalam movies of 2023.

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3 months

She's an elected Member of Parliament not a Karan Johar heroine

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3 months

Ek poora photo folder ban sakta hai on how Dimple Yadav looks at her husband in Parliament 😊

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7 years

Passive aggressive book store in Luxembourg.

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B'wood has spent the last two decades making movies in Hinglish - as a result of which we have a whole generation of actors who can speak neither language properly, nor dialogue writers who pay attention to uhm language- and then you seek to make a CSM with these very actors

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6 months

Love that Shahrukh came back in 2023 to save Bollywood and then took 2024 off to make sure they all realized it

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2 years

One of the things I took away from the Romantics is how prevalent Urdu was until just a few decades ago - Uday Chopra talks about how all movie scripts during Yash Chopra’s time were written in Urdu- and how it’s waning use is the result of deliberate and systematic decisions.

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I don't want to hear ANY election analysis from liberal commentators who- 1) Mocked the Bharat Jodo Yatra as useless 2) Said "decency has no place in politics" 3) Said the INDIA bloc was "formless" and bound to fail 4) Wondered why Congress + allies were acting "revolutionary"

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I hope someone writes about the gentle masculinity of Bollywood's romance heroes- SRK and Ranveer. Both of them display the same kind of vulnerability in love, don't mind being the butt of the joke and aren't hung up on looking or acting like a "hero".

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7 months

Discovered yesterday that Erwin Schrodinger would've been the head of the physics department in Allahabad University if WW2 hadn't broken out

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3 months

At that stage of Indian democracy where the Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math is fact checking a reporter while he peddles fake news. The media in this country is irredeemable, shameless and without a single scruple.

PuNsTeR™

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The reporter tried to get a statement against Rahul Gandhi from Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Sarswati ji. Unfortunately for godi media and BJP, not everyone can be misled by them.

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As a general FYI, Palestine is a colonial issue, an imperialist issue, a basic human rights issue. Those on the left trying to turn it into a religious issue, I hope you know that you’re squarely playing into the narrative set by the imperialists.

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@NabiyaKhan11

4 months

Before u rush to celebrate Kani Kusruti for her statement of carrying a watermelon bag at Cannes, let’s talk about problems surrounding her films like "Biriyaani." Tired of seeing people hero worshiping artists who contribute to the vilification of Muslims in their own homes. 1/9

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2 years

Julia Roberts’ parents ran an acting school- the only one in Atlanta which allowed young black kids in the 60’s- where Martin Luther King sent his daughter. She was cast in a play opposite a white actor which led to a car being blown up (in the parking lot of the theatre?)

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2 years

Today is Julia Roberts birthday! 55 years ago MLK and Coretta Scott King paid for her parents hospital bill after she was born. Can’t stop thinking about this since I read it. Here she is talking about it with @GayleKing

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2 years

It is racist to expect Indians to be on time has to be my favourite excuse yet

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2 years

Some player from Sweden got angry & left because Karnataka CM was late to some event And BBC is mocking it This is racist nonsense Instead of Karnataka CM, suppose it was some unemployed loser like Queen Elizabeth or King Charles Would the Swedish player still have left?

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9 months

Bilkis Bano, may this country be worthy of you some day.

Live Law

@LiveLawIndia

9 months

#BREAKING Supreme Court asks eleven convicts in the #BilkisBano case to surrender back to prison within 2 weeks. Says "Rule of law must prevail"

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10 months

Ever so often I remember, unprompted, that Katrina Kaif is the government appointed ambassador for the promotion of Urdu. Wonder how that's going

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2 years

Excellent serve and counter serve. Well done to both sides

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10 months

Was rewatching Dil Chahta Hai after a long time last night - a movie I've always loved and find difficult to analyze "objectively"-but I was struck by how much better Farhan is at writing fleshed out women characters than Zoya. But before that, how well done is the core conflict?

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What a star- Payal’s first statement after her Cannes win is to come out swinging for public universities (and all public education) to be better funded, and asking for support for other filmmakers like her. May her star rise, may she always retain this spirit

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From Payal Kapadia's official statement

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7 months

Always strikes me how in Shahrukh's early movies his love rivals were stereotypically handsome men- tall, fair, traditionally masculine - and Shah's dusky skinned, skinny, shorter, utterly charming self was *always* more desirable, and not just in the way the character is written

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10 months

Love that Deepika Padukone is in her “tujhko mirchi lagi toh main kya karoon” era. Long may it continue

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1 year

Things that have aged badly

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One of my favourite "facts" about Balakrishna is that after he shot a producer in 2004, his title (all Telugu movie stars have titles "Prince" Mahesh Babu, "Victory" Venkatesh etc) went from Yuvaratna Balakrishna to Shooting Star Balakrishna

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1 year

Feels important to add that Saroj Khan is not only (almost single handedly) responsible for what people the world over understand to be "Bollywood dance" today, but Filmfare instituted the Best Choreographer award for her. Icon and institution

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1 year

Remembering ace choreographer #SarojKhan on her 3rd death anniversary (03/07/20). In this clip, she is seen performing on "Ek Do Teen" before receiving her #Filmfare award for Best Choreographer. @MadhuriDixit

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11 months

If you, like me and many of my generation, have been permanently scarred/put off of desi tv by what Ekta Kapoor unleashed, may I recommend this progressive, charming Pakistani show called Fairytale? It is technically a romcom/coming of age - but so so much more

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2 years

@WrittenByHanna @offbeatorbit She HAS to be trolling, right?

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8 months

About 90% of marriages in rural India and 70-80% of marriages in urban India aren't registered, fyi

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The #Uttarakhand #UniformCivilCode wants couples who live together to register their relationship or face jail / a fine. So, let's invite the police into our bedrooms, right. Except when it comes to criminalizing marital rape that is. Absurd. Invasive.

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Thank you KJo for giving us Rocky Randhawa- in the midst of all these aggressive, angry, hyper masculine "man of the masses" heroes we've been inundated by, you dared to give us this rasmalai of a male character- embodiment of so many qualities we want to see in the men around us

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5 months

Bollywood literally doesn't have actors who can deliver dialogues in the LANGUAGE OF THE MOVIES THEY WORK IN. There was an interview with Abbas Tyrewala post Pathaan (he wrote the dialogues) where he talks about what a pleasure it is to write dialgoues for someone like Shahrukh

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6 months

@moniza_hossain @ashleysreads I think her point was she’s a 37 year old who convincingly played a teenager

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4 months

I hope all the Delhi liberal galaxy brains who called Mallikarjun Kharge - a former union minister, a NINE TERM MLA in Karnataka and an MP for two- a “stooge” of the Gandhis and predicted the Congress’s downfall under his Presidency, are feeling ASHAMED of themselves

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9 months

Snow has ceased to fall on the ... Himalayas. Don't have words to express the horror of this

Nidhi Jamwal

@JamwalNidhi

9 months

Whereas the media is busy focusing on the one big story, another critical story is unfolding — snowless winter in the Himalayas — a serious threat to the region’s economy & ecology. To understand more, I spoke to climate scientists. Read in @third_pole

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PSA- exploiting women sexually for jobs, favours or any reason is coercive and *rape* and not a sex scandal. Do better, media

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8 years

Booklovers, if you are passing through Hyderabad don't forget to visit this absolute gem of a store. Haziq & Mohi is a shop for rare books.

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1 year

Rocky Randhawa is so much the better for embracing who Ranveer is off screen- comfortable with his feminine side, his androgynous dressing sense (one of the things I like most about Ranveer) and his very unabashed open heartedness. All all of this without sacrificing desirability

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Who can actually deliver dialogues. What a pity that it's come to this. It's not just the fault of the actors, so many of the director-script writers don't know how to write dialogue in the language. How is this not a valid criticism to be raised

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2 years

Instead of wasting time and energy discussing what the elevation to Presidency of one individual means for the community (it doesn’t mean much)- makes more sense to focus the spotlight on Adivasis facing police action, jail or those whose mere existence is being criminalised.

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@moniza_hossain @ashleysreads As someone who's closer to 37 than to 25, I don't think 37 year olds look (or need to look) 20's young

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9 months

I would’ve loved to see Fawad and Naseer play father and son. So many things we’ve been robbed of

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Hemant Soren in jail while Jharkhand votes tomorrow. Depraved, shameful- a blot on the judiciary

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2 years

We have compressed the entire politics of representation and inclusion into token gestures, ignoring systemic progress and that is the curse of identity politics on social media.

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9 months

Naseeruddin Shah in conversation with Mira Nair oh my god this is DELIGHTFUL

Mira Nair in conversation with Naseeruddin Shah (monsoon wedding)

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2 years

No one like Agatha Christie, for damn good reason

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@moniza_hossain @ashleysreads Not sure I could pass off for a teenager, but okay :)

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6 months

I've always wondered- why has the opening up of publishing in India not resulted in better/world class fiction out of India? (referring only to Indian writing in English, not translations). There hasn't been another Vikram Seth/A Roy despite many more books getting published-why?

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10 months

The raw pain of realizing you need to step away from your friends to grow into who you're supposed to grow into. DCH was ground breaking in many ways- and the fact that the conflict was a coming of age one rather than romantic rivalry ala ZNMD was one of them.

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MUJHE MALOOM HAI MERA PHONE BAJ RAHA HAI The writing 😭🤣😭

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10 months

2022-23 making it clear that Shah is not just the last of the superstars, he is the *only* superstar left

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1 year

Justice Bhat is a fine judge and an even finer person- widely respected for good reason. But you can't seriously act like the marriage equality judgment deserved no blowback. People are rightfully hurt, and criticizing his judgment is not an act of "terrorism". FGS

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1 year

In celebration of the Karnataka verdict and in the spirit of South Indian solidarity, I have decided to not make fun of sweet sambar for one whole year 🙏🏽

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7 months

It’s not “straight baiting”, it’s just ACTING . Openly queer actors were long relegated only to queer roles onscreen because the studios wouldn’t hire them as “straight romantic heroes”. It’s taken decades for the Jonathan Baileys, Andrew Scotts to become mainstream leads

rocky

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his straightbaiting should be studied in schools

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2 years

To thank the Roberts for standing by their daughter, the Kings paid the hospital bill when the Robert’s daughter Julia was born. What an incredible story- this serendipity made all the more remarkable by the fact that Julia Roberts doesn’t come from a famous/well known family.

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who are very much second class citizens to the white Peruvians. In Shahrukh they see a hero who looks "just like them" but isn't the sidekick or the villain but the hero, the object of desire.

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10 months

The only other time I've seen a dynamic like that in Bollywood is Shefali and Roshan Mathew's lovely equation in Darlings. Anyway, Farhan Akhtar, why would you not give us Jee Le Zara?? And PLEASE get back to writing and directing more- your singing and acting can wait.

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He literally steals the show and the girl from right under their nose (most notably Sunny in Darr, Kuljeet in DDLJ, Apoorva Agnihotri in Pardes). And the girl never falls for him *despite* his looks - his looks are very rightfully part of his charm.

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@amritaIQ Remember that every alpha is a woman’s beta (sorry)

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11 months

My favourite Shahrukh story for his birthday- In the 90's, when a pint sized floppy haired actor from Delhi came and out-acted/outshone established stars in Bollywood, set up home in a heritage building in Bandra- the underworld grip on the industry was at its strongest

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10 months

Coming to the women- I loved how Deepa and Tara were treated. Deepa was set up as comic relief, but she's more than just a punchline. That conversation she gets to have with Akshay- even though I guess the scene is focussed on showing HIS sensitivity/maturity, also redeems her.

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5) Questioned the Buddhist and Periyarist leanings of leaders like Kharge and Udhay 6) Told the INDIA bloc to spend less time being obsessed with "social media likes" You have proved who is truly out of touch. Hint- it's not the alliance with more than 40% of the vote share

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7 months

In Fatima Bhutto's book "New Kings of the World" while discussing Shahrukh's unprecedented global popularity for a South Asian celebrity, she writes particularly about Shahrukh's popularity in Peru- the country with the largest surviving indigenous population in South America but

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1 year

“By not changing, despite the barrage of politics to reduce him to being a 2nd citizen in his own country, Khan evokes the persistence of the complex reality that is India, one where somebody like him can do what he wants and people will applaud it.”

Shah Rukh Khan Is Not Your Martyr

The political load that the Indian star is being forced to carry is not his to bear. Allow him to be free to be himself.

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11 months

It's also the *way* the stories are told - casually showing us domestic violence, bureaucratic incompetence, dark family secrets- all without being preachy

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How lucky we 90s kids were to grow up with Shahrukh symbolizing romance. In a conservative country, where in popular imagination, "romance" was the realm of a) lafangas b) people who had failed to do anything in life- he breathed new life and respect into the genre.

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This is the real swag, none of that Tere Naam- Kabir Singh incel nonsense.

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2 years

Does anyone remember how the GoI appointed Katrina Kaif as the ambassador of Urdu? What in the …

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1 year

What I love about PS-2 is that the Cholas don’t let minor things like a civil war with a cousin, unrest among their enemies- the Pandyas, the Rashtrakutas, their chieftains rebelling against them- get in the way of a little river side romance. Priorities 🤌🏾

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Unprecedented heat waves, rising majoritarianism, crushing of dissent across the world and new articles every day on polyamory. How much more of this do we have to take @ God

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1 year

There's an entire generation of 20 something Pakistani actresses- Sehar Khan, Iqra Aziz, Yumna Zaidi- who have fantastic screen presence and can out act most of the current Bollywood starlets. Such a pity we can't see them in movies here

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Now that #Pakistani cricketers are officially here, can we also invite Pakistani actors to act in our films ? Or Musicians to perform?

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The show's main leads- Sehar Khan and Hamza Sohail are as superbly talented as they are distractingly beautiful. The supporting cast is also really good. This show is well worth your time!

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The fact that people are inventing reasons to praise Aditi Rao Hydari’s “acting” and defend her from allegations of … micro blading (?!)- and everyone is completely ignoring Richa Chadha- a MAGICAL performer who doesn’t get the roles and credit her talent deserves. So telling

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Have so many thoughts on Prashant Kishor and Sadanand Dhume- may I sum all of them up into- STOP GIVING THESE CHARLATANS ANY ATTENTION THEY DO NOT ACT IN GOOD FAITH

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1 year

“In this format, social issues exist less for exploration and more for liberal cred and authority. They become a mask for privilege rather than a thinking through of the idea of liberal elite privilege via a narrative.” @parodevi you are BRILLIANT

Angrezi wala Indian accent

But Made in Heaven comes aquiver with #BoreMatKarYaar lecturebazi, that’s hard to accept.

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9 months

Extremely enamoured of this picture of Meena Kumari in front of a portrait of Meena Kumari (Credit- Khalid Mohamed on Instagram)

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Tara- played by the divine Dimple Kapadia (I assume the teenage fantasy of all the Bollywood/Bandra boys of that generation)- is allowed to have her flaws, without that once taking away from her loveliness or desirability. I'll always dislike the fact that they conveniently

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@NabiyaKhan11 You wouldn’t have needed to tweet this if you understood my quote tweet

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1 year

Dear @BuzzFeedIndia , stop sharing tweets without blurring out handles on Instagram. A public feed doesn’t mean it’s yours to put on blast.

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10 months

killed her off at the end, but Akshay's love for her- just wholeheartedly, selflessly given minus any expectation was so lovely to see. He's in love with her but also a great friend to her, the only one with her in the end (despite her rejection of him).

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2 years

Thanks for the many DMs I got saying “oh was she wearing earrings?” “who looks at earrings when there’s Deepika Padukone in the picture” and “why do you want to wear snakes in your ears” with absolutely no help about where I can get the earrings. Thanks guys

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The heart of the story is the female lead- Umeed Pasha- born to a not very rich family, lost her mum young, brought up by a strict/borderline emotionally abusive father who makes it very clear that she and her future are always second in importance to her brother's life and plans

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@apparitionnow Really need a Deepika Ranveer non-SLB love story/ rom com

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@mooomriver1011 Both her parents are smiling? What am I missing here

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Was just reading the Caravan’s (excellent) piece on Mata Amritanandamayi- and discovered that one of the two whistleblowing major accounts by ex disciples (that is also the basis for this piece) had its Malayalam translation stayed by the Supreme Court. Quelle surprise

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1 year

The thing about India- we are fundamentally a people who accept and believe in bullying. We don't believe in inherent dignity of the individual- it is why ragging is so normalized, why police brutality barely merits attention and other injustices don't get more than a shrug.

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1 year

No other country takes pride and rejoices police brutality (encounters etc) like we do. It's not about gangsters or dreaded criminals. Once the society starts heading towards brutalization it's impossible to turn back the clock and justice becomes subservient to anarchy.

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8 years

Orwell couldn't have scripted this.

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Loathsome despicable rag

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3 years

Why, hello NALSAR :)

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8 months

Meanwhile acclaimed feminist Zoya Akhtar’s female characters - Laila (manic pixie dream girl), Kalki in ZNMD (shrew), Priyanka in DDD (sanskari ever suffering good girl). The only decent female character in her movies is Safeena from Gully Boy, who was written by Reema.

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Even though Farah makes masala films, a genre that is fully male dominated, all her films have iconic female roles, Miss Chandni, Shanti Priya, Mohini and Sheila (Anya), one of the most important filmmakers of our times.

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None of the anti fascists employed him so he HAD to go to the fascist for employment is, you have to admit, a genius argument

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@slugcharmer Outacted, outperformed, outshone her in every scene

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How people like Dhume and Komireddi continue to get prime real estate in international publications for consistently writing rubbish I will never understand

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Forgot to add- show has beautiful portrayals of sisterhood, and healthy and supportive female friendship. Such a win

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