Samar Gupta

Filming, always. Storyteller. Everything work in progress.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Gyanu has to go.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

A few years ago, Ashu had a high-paying corporate job in London, earning millions. Saurav was writing about the country’s legal system and living a great life. Both had successful careers, financial security and every reason to continue living the lives they had built for themselves.

But they chose to give it all up in the hope of making this country a better place. They had absolutely no reason to leave behind their comfortable lives, take to the streets, face uncertainty and eventually end up in jail. Yet they did.

What I admire most about these two is that despite coming from privileged backgrounds, they chose to fight for those who aren’t as fortunate. They could have easily looked the other way, enjoyed their lives and never bothered about the struggles of people they had never even met. Nobody asked them to make these sacrifices. Nobody expected them to. But they did, because they genuinely care about people beyond themselves.

And to me, that is the greatest quality a human being can have. To stand up for people you don’t know, to fight battles that aren’t your own, and to risk everything you have so that someone else might have a better life.

That’s the kind of people Ashu and Saurav are.

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@princexsol Lemme see

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Naseeruddin Shah 🔥😅

[Akshit @CaptainGzb]

😂😂😂😂

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

“56 inch ka chota bandar
Bhag Narendra, Bhag Narendra” 🤣

Gen-Z is not hesitating bro 😭🔥

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Hello @SrBachchan, Uth jao, Subah ho gayi Maamu!

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Actually Wangchuk was inspired by the film and decided to do some good work in Ladakh.

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

I have plenty of work, Gaurie. In May, I did my job & yours 😊

Have a great weekend.

[Pratim D Gupta @PratimDGupta]

I have a favourite Aamir Khan story that should have absolutely been the crown jewel of my Bollywood book, if I ever get around to writing one. And given that I spent 12 years in the trenches as a Hindi film journalist and critic for The Telegraph, believe me, I have quite a few stories.
But this one. This one is different.
Dhobi Ghat had just released. I reviewed it for t2, the entertainment supplement of The Telegraph. I wrote that while Monica Dogra, Prateik Babbar, and Kriti Malhotra slipped into their characters like second skin — effortlessly, organically, exactly what Kiran Rao's debut needed — Aamir Khan stuck out like a sore thumb. He hadn't found the sur of the film. He was, in my honest critical opinion, miscast.
The review ran on Saturday.
Monday evening. Late. My phone buzzes with a text from an unknown number.
"Hi Pratim, when can I call? Aamir."
I went cold. I knew what film people do when you don't align with them creatively. They get vengeful. They get vindictive. They have long memories and longer grudges. And this wasn't just any film person. This was Aamir Khan. The perfectionist. The man who doesn't do anything without a reason.
With slightly unsteady fingers, I typed back: "Hi Aamir, we can speak now."
He called immediately.
In that inimitable style of his — measured, unhurried, punctuated with those trademark pauses that make you hang on every single word — he said he had read my review.
I braced myself.
He said he completely agreed with me.
I'm sorry — what?
Aamir Khan had called me, a film critic, to say I was right about his performance being off. I couldn't process it. Here was one of the biggest stars in Indian cinema, a man with nothing to prove to anyone, voluntarily picking up the phone to validate a critic's assessment of his own shortcomings. The silence on my end must have been deafening.
And then he said it. The line I will never forget: "I was the worst of the four."
He ended the call with four words that have stayed with me ever since: "Keep writing what you feel."
Years later, when I heard that he had auditioned for Kiran Rao's second film — Lapataa Ladies, which he was producing — and that she had ultimately gone with Ravi Kishen for the role instead, something clicked into place quietly inside me.
No ego. No entitlement. Just a man who understood his own limitations well enough to let go.
Nothing had changed. He was still that guy.

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

30+ artists including me were summoned by authorities for being on Latent.
The whole comedy fraternity took a hit because of how stupid you’re. Shows were canceled, Venues pulled out, Judgements made, the pathetic shadow of your stupidity still continues to make lives of funny comedians difficult. You didn’t even care to understand that side.
Stop pretending to be the nice guy you’re not. Take your cheque’s,
lower your gaze & be very ashamed.
You’re a contraceptive for creativity,
stop milking this & go back to what you do best which is being a hurdle for upward social change while FraudCasting & clout chasing…

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@narly @grok No free money is wrong. Bring it on!

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@Ariwodo_ Congratulations Samar ❤️

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 A good opportunity to direct the top most star!

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@IndiGo6E I have sent you a DM, detailing the concern, along with sharing the PNRs. I need an immediate senior intervention on this please.

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

@IndiGo6E there’s a reason I actually never travel with you. Had to book because to that destination nobody else operates. First you changed my flight timing, then you cancelled the second flight, then you rebooked me on wrong date. No resolution, only long holds! Worst airline

[Samar Gupta @500daysof_Samar]

Kudos to Mr. Swanand & his team - Priyanka, Sonia, Neelam - counter staff for @airindia @ Goa @aaigoaairport to accept my arrival 15 mins late past checkin close but still making an exception as a gold member & business class ticket. A loyal @airindia customer for life. Thank you

[syd//🦑 @catts101]

A pedophile got more screen time than half the cast. That about sums up the season

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

“Three laps is a lifetime.” #F1TheMovie

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Still Thinking About #F1TheMovie