IndianCinemaClassics

Bollywood reviews & thoughts on the rest of Indian Cinema. #blogger

[Adil hussain @_AdilHussain]

Awww... Amul Loves the Golden Arrows... #OperationSafedSagar on @Netflix

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Sid crushes on older lady & throws tantrum when she says no.
Sam walks away from a loving girlfriend for his buddies, goes for arranged marriage.
Akash pursues engaged woman, lands up at her wedding to disrupt it.

Dil Chahta Hai was creepy men in Mercedes.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

I was 20 when I watched Dil Chahta Hai & loved it.

I was 30 when I watched it again and was creeped out by each of those 3 guys. In each case, it's about lying, belittling women, throwing tantrums, & the same old Bollywood trope that a man deserves any woman he wants.

[Sann @san_x_m]

On the fifteenth of June 2020, a young reporter in Uttar Pradesh wrote to the state authorities to say he was being threatened. He named ten people.

Four days later, two men on the road shot him six times.

His name was Shubham Mani Tripathi.

He was twenty five, a local correspondent for a Hindi daily called Kampu Mail. Not a national newspaper, not a television face. A small paper in a small district, covering illegal sand mining and land grabbing in Unnao.

His reporting had worked. On the fourteenth of June he wrote on his own Facebook page that an illegal construction put up by what he called the famous land mafia had been demolished because of a report he had filed.

In the same post he wrote that they were enraged, and had filed a fake complaint against him with the district magistrate. He had also told people around him, plainly, that he thought he was going to be killed.

The next day he wrote to the authorities and named the men he was afraid of.

On the nineteenth of June, riding home on a motorcycle with a friend, he was shot near the milk market in Unnao. Six bullets, three of them to the head. He died shortly after.

Police later said the killing was arranged in retaliation for his reporting, and that four hundred thousand rupees had been paid to two shooters. Arrests followed.

Reporters Without Borders describes Uttar Pradesh as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, and says the ones most at risk are those who try to cover the sand mafia. The United Nations cultural body condemned his killing by name.

Sand is not a glamorous subject. It is dug illegally out of riverbeds at night, it is worth an enormous amount of money, and the people who control it in parts of India are effectively untouchable.

A twenty five year old at a small Hindi paper decided to write about it anyway. He told the state exactly who was coming for him, and the state did nothing, and they came.

[Adil hussain @_AdilHussain]

Thank you @anandmahindra for appreciating the hard work of all the people who contributed to the this series #OperationSafedSagar streaming on @Netflix as number 1 most watched show . I am very proud to be a oart of it. 🙏

[Film History Pics @FilmHistoryPic]

(1967) British actress Hayley Mills (left), Shashi Kapoor & his wife, actress Jennifer Kendal, at Raffles Hotel in Singapore, during the shoot of film ‘Pretty Polly’

[Damayanti Datta @DattaDamayanti]

Fifty-six years after Satyajit Ray shot Aranyer Din Ratri (1970), someone revists the forests of Palamou and finds that more things change, more they remain the same. At least, on love, loss, longing and things in between. A ‘rare, wistful movie that somehow proves it’s good to be alive' (NYT.) Planning to watch it again over the weekend...

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

Saffron is the colour of sacrifice. Worn by actual yogis. Whatever this is, this is not pilgrimage. These aren't devotees. These are youths who have got a free pass for a month to act reckless knowing state will look the other way

[punished yuki @ruicharadrius]

the fact he managed to make the mask vanish in an instant means that hes well trained and knows the secret of the mechanics behind sichuan opera masks. he must have lived in china for a while. its nice to see people share cultures.

[Manimugdha Sharma @quizzicalguy]

Do you remember the Sikh police officer in Uttarakhand who stood like a wall between a mob and a Muslim man and saved his life?

[Woke Eminent @WokePandemic]

Jaipur : Deaf and Mute students protested against lack of proper facilities in their school
These students can't even raise slogans of their demands
Irrespective of your political leanings such protest should get wide support.

[let it go. @stayaway_002]

She was only 15 years old. She endured horrific r@pe before she was murdered, her skull was smash£d, items were found in her vagin@@ and the injuries she suffered were beyond imagination. Yet, for most people, she's just another headline another girl whose story will soon be forgotten.

In this country, no girl knows when, where, or how her life could change forever. Crimes like these keep happening because the fear of punishment is too weak....

[Lokesh Bag @lokeshbag67]

Any kind of casteist joke should never be normalized. Abhinav Mishra is openly mocking the Dalit community and provoking them. The authorities should take immediate action under SC/ST act before this escalates further.

@Uppolice
@NCSC_GoI

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[Sudarshan Shaw @Sudarshanshaw93]

9 Tigers 9 Folkarts 9 States 🐅

[Dr Omar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian]

Excited to have programmed a strand on the Indian Western for this very special edition of the much anticipated Widescreen Weekend in September. More info and tickets in the link:
https://t.co/4Siv8c2fza

[Adil hussain @_AdilHussain]

Here is one of the first reviews of our Series #OperationSafedSagar on @netflix an Indian Airforce epic story about Kargil War of 1999.

[MrsG @Marvellous_MrsG]

They messed with the generation that listens to no one..
here’s some more creativity for those crying.. Maa ko gaali diya

[VishwaGuru_Ghantal @Vishwaguru2026]

A 15-year-old girl was a raped, tortured, and murdered inside her own home in Assam's Hailakandi 😖💥💥🙏

Three accused have been arrested. An SIT has been formed. Now the country will watch whether justice is swift or just another headline that fades away.

No child should suffer this. No family should endure this.

#JusticeForHer #Assam #Hailakandi #POCSO

[زماں @Delhiite_]

Married as a Teen, Ran Away with Boyfriend, Found Dead in a Suitcase at 20

📍Daman & Diu

Chhoti Kumari (20), was allegedly murdered by her live-in partner, Rishabh Kumar, in Daman.

Chhoti from Nawada, Bihar had left her husband 02 years ago and moved to Daman to live with Rishabh.

The case came to light after the landlord reported a foul smell from their rented room. Police broke open the door and found her body stuffed inside a trolley suitcase. Rishabh Absconding.

[Annie ༉‧˚ @puspailuvtears]

A woman who was raped twice was made to lick spit off the ground, for reporting the crime. A 15y/o girl was gangraped, mutilated with a rod and her skull was smashed open. But such horrors won't elicit the same kind of outrage like women making reels and using profanity.