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[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

how the mighty fall #india #cricket @bcci -#indiavsireland #t20

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

#2040 #football #worldcup - #India playing !!!! 🤞

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Anna —- this time … well .well … each has its liking 😇

[C E T Moorthy @CETMoorthy1]

Malliga the@best in Mango.
It scores way over imampasand .
Of course Alphonsa is over rated .
Avilanle only at few places .

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

And #teamindia lost in t20 to #ireland … well should not
have happened .. but then that’s about the game - cricket .

Each game is a new one … And no complancency … #lesson learnt ????? @BCCI

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Resonate . Steppney is only in the car

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

Fear loves a Plan B. Kill the backup plan. Take one irreversible action today about your dream. Buy the ticket (the non-refundable one). Pay the deposit. Send the invite. Publish the post. Open the company. When you cannot turn back, you move forward. #rearview

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Memories always with you. Your treasure only with you. ❤🙏

[Ashvek @ashvekambe]

Happy 15th to us, 5th one without you by my side.

#MyForever

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Victories & happiness don’t always bring peace - #Drishyam3

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Satya vachan !

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

One of the greatest gifts in a marriage is not that two people stay the same.
It’s that their thinking evolves together. Over the years, our opinions have changed, our priorities have shifted, and our understanding of life has deepened. We have questioned old beliefs, embraced new perspectives, and kept learning together.

रिश्ते एक जैसे बने रहने से नहीं,
एक साथ बदलते रहने से मजबूत होते हैं।

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

let not a rotten apple spoil the basket..

[TravelBluez @amarkedia]

A harsh lesson on why being the "good guy" and overly accommodating in the travel industry is a losing game.

This client just ditched our curated bookings worth ~₹23 Lacs after eating my brain for over 2 months (April 11 to June 16). 🧵

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

When in the groove .. #fannie was a delight . he looked like taking wickets every single ball …

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

aaiyee aapka intezaar hein !

[Sagar @Pixel_Stripes]

Hola Tadoba! Here I come! Hope the Tigers have blocked their calendar for the next 3 days :-)

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

@Pixel_Stripes has a permanent residency in #tadoba . any time walkin & checkout …. cool place .. at all times… + 1 hein kyaa 😇

[Sagar @Pixel_Stripes]

off to chennai tomorrow from banglore. bhagwan mujhe thoda rest dijiye plij. Friday off to tadoba 😭

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

why is that we get to know more about a person , only after he’s not there . We need to celebrate when alive & not have memories when at nether world….

Am I the only one here 🤔

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

You probably have no idea who Salim Kumar is, but every Indian should read all about him today.

Salim Kumar was a Malayalam actor who passed away on Saturday night in Kochi at the age of 56. If you don't watch Malayalam cinema, strap in because his story is one of the most remarkable careers Indian cinema has produced, and it deserves to travel beyond Kerala.

He came from nothing. Born in North Paravur, a small town in Ernakulam, into a family that struggled with money. Government school. Graduated from Maharajas College.

So, no film connections, no family wealth, no shortcuts.

He started as a mimicry artist with Kalabhavan, a performance troupe in Kochi that has been the launchpad for dozens of Malayalam actors. Stage shows, comedy routines, television spots.

He was funny in a way that was impossible to ignore, the kind of performer who could make a room laugh in an instant.

His first film was Ishtamanu Nooru Vattam in 1997, a small role nobody remembers. For years he played supporting parts & background comedy.

Then the 2000s happened. His role as Mattancherry Mammathu in Satyameva Jayathe gave him his first real recognition, and after that the comedy roles started coming fast.

Pulival Kalyanam. Thuruppugulan. Kunjikkoonan. Marykkundoru Kunjaadu. If you grew up in Kerala in the 2000s, his face was in half the films you watched. He became the comedian audiences showed up for, the one whose scenes people replayed and quoted at family gatherings.

What separated him from most comedians was precision. He did not rely on volume or slapstick. He used his face, his body, his pauses.

He could get a laugh from the way he blinked. Directors started writing characters specifically for him, because they knew he would take whatever was on the page and make it three times funnier than they imagined.

For over a decade, he was the biggest comic face in Malayalam cinema.

Then came 2010 and a film called Adaminte Makan Abu.

A quiet, small-budget film directed by Salim Ahamed. The story follows an aging Muslim couple in a Kerala village whose only dream in life is to go on Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

They save every rupee. Things keep falling apart. The film is about their dignity, their patience, and their faith through one disappointment after another.

Salim Kumar played Abu. The man who owns nothing except his wife and his belief, and holds onto both with everything he has.

There is no comedy in the role. No punchlines, no funny faces, no playing to the gallery. It is the complete opposite of everything audiences had ever seen him do.

The entire performance is built on stillness, restraint, and pain carried quietly behind the eyes.

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for it. That is the highest acting honour in Indian cinema. The film was also selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (Oscars) that year.

In one role, Salim Kumar went from "the funny guy from Malayalam films" to one of the most respected actors in Indian cinema.

He simply disappeared so completely into a character that you forgot you were watching a comedian at all.

He followed it with more serious work. Achanurangatha Veedu, which won him the Kerala State Award. Traffic, still considered one of the finest ensemble films in Malayalam cinema. Perumazhakkalam.

Each time, he proved the National Award was not a fluke. The man had range that most actors who only do drama cannot match.

Unfortunately, Salim Kumar suffered from liver cirrhosis, a condition he said was hereditary in his family and not related to alcohol. His brother had the same illness. He underwent a liver transplant a few years ago. He tried naturopathy. He talked about all of it openly, without shame, without self-pity.

He kept working between treatments. He kept being funny. He kept showing up, even when his body was failing him.

He was also fearlessly outspoken about politics and social issues, which in any film industry can cost you work. He did not care. He said what he believed and lived with the consequences.

He passed away Saturday night at a hospital in Kochi. He was 56. The Kerala government bore the funeral expenses and gave him police honours.

The Chief Minister paid homage personally. Mammootty, one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, mourned him publicly. Thousands of people lined up at the North Paravur Town Hall on Sunday to say goodbye.

350 films in three decades. A National Award for Best Actor. An Oscar entry. A career that started from mimicry stages and ended at the very top of Indian cinema.

The reason most of India does not know his name is because Malayalam cinema, despite being one of the best film industries in the country, still does not get the national attention it deserves.

Actors like Salim Kumar live and work in a language bubble, and their stories rarely cross over the way a Bollywood career would.

This is a loss for everyone who never got to watch him. A man who came from poverty, made millions laugh, then proved he could make them cry just as hard, and fought his own hardest battle with utmost dignity.

If you watch one film after reading this, make it Adaminte Makan Abu. It is a masterpiece.

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

#queue & #discipline - every single time, when the onboarding call comes - its a #melee and #crowding .

Why ?

A single queue and lo behold , it moves fast …

The #entitled folks believe, ‘they’ are from a different planet…

#time - these are also taught at school.

As for me - followed to the #tee - the queue & discipline.

Be the change you want to be !!!

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

@airindia - u cancelled the flight AI 2426 @7pm & handed option to fly @9pm AI816 .

You have a flight to same destination @ 7:30 pm & have seats available . thanks #sejalgangurde at the counter.

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

celebrity

[Sagar @Pixel_Stripes]

The whole PR system is attacking me now 🤦🏻‍♂️. Must have blocked about a 100 in the last one hour.

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Well like the Eagles no in ‘ Hotel California ‘ .. you can enter anytime but never leave ..

On a serious note_ we are living in interesting times .. the world order was never so fluid …

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

No amount of money can get you a flight out of Dubai right now.

Or Doha. Or Bahrain. Or Kuwait.

The richest cities on earth - and you can't leave.

Money buys you options. It doesn't buy you exits.

The world changed overnight. Again.

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

U bet.. I had forgotten this. The kids of today and even the teens have not experienced the pleasure.. And well it had to be exact... 'the triangle' ..

@DPrasanthNair - u have an uncanny way of making the simple pleasures more pleasurable.. the memories....

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

In school, did you use the same notebook for History and Civics with a triangular fold in between?

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

Ranji Trophy winners since 2016 -

Gujarat
Vidarbha ( 3 times)
Saurashtra ( 2 times)
Madhya Pradesh
Mumbai
Jammu & Kashmir

Well, the winners are not restricted to metro cities, as was the case in the first 5 decades....

Good to see first time finalists winning the trophy in Feb'26.

Sports is a pre-cursor many a times in how the nation is also progressing....

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

After the win by #southafrica …. how about a repeat of the 2024 finals ???!🤔

[Brijesh Damodaran @BrijDam]

shekchilli thought -

3 way tie in the India - SouthAfrica - WestIndies group #T20WorldCup2026 .

And #India tops the group with #WestIndies in 2nd place …

wow … well 😜