Zulfakar Sadriwala

Documentary Filmmaker | Producer from "The Big Forkers" | Cinema Marte Dum Tak | Hunt for the Indian Mujahideen

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

My first docu-series as a director will be out on 20th Jan 22 on @PrimeVideoIN . Got to witness the other world of cinema which exists on the periphery of Indian Cinema. Kyuki Cinema Marte Dum Tak ❤️.
#CinemaMarteDumTak #amazonprime #vice #vasanbala

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[peeleraja @peeleraja]

You know what else is regressive? The term "guard bhaiyya."

Terms like bhaiyya and didi are exclusively used by privileged people for working class people.

Nobody says startup founder bhaiyya or manager didi or angel investor didi or professor bhaiyya.

It is always guard bhaiyya, auto bhaiyya and beauty parlor didi.

[Veena Jain @Vtxt21]

Brijbhushan Sharan Singh : Pretending to be religious is just a Drama

Modi also does the same, but he never says it openly. But Brijbhushan said it, that’s the only difference 🙌

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Going home to see my parents, it’s been more than a year since I last met them. They've suffered a lot over the last 15 days and had to leave home because of threats. Will be taking them back to home.

FYI, today’s protest was just a trailer. Thank you for showing up in such huge numbers! ❤️

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Bengalis, especially liberal ones, have a very xenophobic term for outsiders. "Non-Bengali."

You will not hear even the staunchest ethnonats use terms like Non-Kannadiga, Non-Marathi, Non-Tamilian etc.

Before Non-Bengali, it used to be Hindustani and Madrasi. There were also explicit racist terms for Marwaris and Odias. Now it is just Non-Bengali. Like Non-veg.

Bengal was built not only by Bengali speakers but Mughals, British, Gorkhas, South Indians, Marwaris, Punjabis, Biharis, Chinese, etc.

Non-Bengali is simply a racist catchall term that the South Calcutta Bhadralok should avoid. Dont be as racist as the racists you claim to fight.

[Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) @dibakardutta_]

Rich influencers in India often pretend to be 'middle class' to sound relatable!

They frequently share sob stories (most of which are fabricated) of 'humble beginnings' to appeal to the masses.

Comedian Vir Das has recently claimed that he came to Mumbai with 'very little' and made it big in life. Wow, a beautiful story of introspection!

For those who don't know, Vir Das is the grandson of India's first ambassador to Bhutan. Brajbir Saran Das was a politician, diplomat and an IPS officer.

He served in top positions at Air India and the Airport Authority of India.

His grandson Vir Das went to 'The Lawrence School in Sonawar', where the annual fees are over ₹10 lakhs (as of 2026).

This comedian went to the United States for his bachelor's degree in the 2000s. Of course, he had 'very little' when he came to Mumbai.

Vir Das once did a comedy special about '2 Indias.' I come from the other India.

My grandfather fled East Pakistan to escape religious persecution during Partition and lived as a refugee in India.

After losing centuries of generational wealth overnight, my family worked tremendously hard to go from a refugee rehabilitation camp to having our own house.

The upbringing I received was starkly different from my grandfather's lived reality. I was privileged to study at an English-medium convent school, pursue higher education at DU without taking an educational loan or worry about living costs in Delhi.

This is a privilege which is still not available to millions of young men and women in this country. I understand this perspective and so have never claimed to have 'very little' of anything.

Do you think a socially aware comedian like Vir Das doesn't understand this? He does and still tells you sob stories of his 'humble beginning' at Bandra studio apartment.

But he isn't the first one. I have seen one of my favourite YouTubers, Ranveer Allahbadia (who went to Dhirubhai Ambani school), talk deeply about his 'struggles'.

We have all watched the infamous interview of Ananya Pandey deliberating about her 'struggles' in the film industry.

I know some people would now tell me that everyone has their own set of challenges, despite a privileged background. And I totally agree with it.

But the upfront disclosure of privilege is important. In the absence of that, you are trying to convince the masses that you are one of them.

You are not.

[AIKS @KisanSabha]

No to War! Nationwide Anti War Peace Meetings and Rallies!

Samyukta Kisan Morcha

[Amit Behere @_amitbehere]

I have said all religions including Islam are garbage, I have said all prophets (including Mohammad) are liars, I have said there is no Allah, no God, I have said Islam has to evolve or it will die (it is already dying in the parts of the world that matter, growing only in toilets like Africa and subcontinent). I have said Burqa and Sati are semantically similar (patriarchal impositions).

In spite of that, I have Muslim friends because all my Muslim friends know that my views are based on my ideology as an atheist since a very young age,

and NOT out of specific, unique hate for Islam/Muslims (which I did carry for a long time in my life).

And also that I have harsher views on Hinduism.

I reject and hate all religions (including Sikhism) and that makes me an atheist, maybe a militant atheist, but that does not make me an Islamophobe.

I have always been willing to lose (religious) friends over this position of mine but I have found that most religious people (Muslim *and* Hindu) are very OK with my position and understand where am coming from.

PS: My religious friends also believe am going to burn in hell forever for being a naastik/kaafir and I don't hate them for that either. 😛😛😛

[Mayur @beastboymayurr]

One more slab is about to fall from mulund metro. this one is from opposite indian oil petrol pump somewhere close to the Saturday incident @MMRDAOfficial @mybmc @MulundPS @Dev_Fadnavis @Devendra_Office @mihirkotecha

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

I am not against Blink-it alone all of them are abusing the unfair advantage they have over the unemployed.

If you guys can give us aggregate data of biryani, condoms & biggest orders while tracking them live…

Just release the below aggregate data so we either end the conversation or start one…

No of Delivery agents in 2024

No of hours they put in 2024

No of kilometres traveled in 2024

No of deliveries made in 2024

Money annually paid to per rider/ driver in 2024

The accidents/death at work & compensations given.

(We can calculate the money spent on petrol, electricity, CNG & know exactly how much they’re are paid)

If you can’t disclose this under the garb of data privacy, just a reminder sensitive customer data was stored in CHINA’s Alibaba by “some” of you before you grudgingly moved it to AWS…

Is anyone working in these institutions @LabourMinistry & @MCA21India

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@mahanagargas your customer care executive on emergency line called Pushpa disconnects the call without hearing what the customer has to say. Is this an emergency helpline or a joke?

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@HitchhikerQ He is the bigger jumlebaaz than our PM

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@missmaddenstein Fair enough

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@missmaddenstein Individual brilliance apart, there has been a lot of rookie mistakes when it comes to captaincy. Fielding placements, body language and wrong Drs call. Maybe he will learn and do better in future tests

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@kisankonnect_in placed the order last night. Couldn't cook in the afternoon because it is 5pm and there is no update on the order. Multiple calls to the service centre is also not helping. Pathetic service. Didn't expect this from a trusted brand like you.

[The Dalit Voice @ambedkariteIND]

Congratulations 🎉 🎉 A Rajeshwari, a 17 year old tribal girl has cleared the JEE Advanced exam securing 417 rank, a student of Government Tribal Residential Higher Secondary School, Karumandurai, her father is deceased, mother is a daily wage agricultural labourer. #Tamilnadu

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

For anyone who wonders why it is almost impossible to make a good and truthful Hindi film, what is happening with the Phule film is an excellent example. 

Ananth Mahadevan directed the Hindi biographical film Phule, which focuses on the lives of social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule. 

The film, which stars Pratik Gandhi and Patralekhaa, is set to be released in April 2025 and will highlight the Phules' fight against caste and gender injustice in nineteenth-century India, as well as their pioneering work in education, such as creating the first school for females in Pune in 1848.

However, as soon as the trailer was out, Brahmin organizations in Maharashtra started raising their voices, claiming that the film defames their community. 

I mean, sincerely, the film is literally about Brahmin atrocities against oppressed castes. 

How they were denied schooling for hundreds of years and persecuted. These are known and accepted facts.  

Specifically, critics contend that the famous scene in which Brahmin children throw garbage at Savitribai Phule is factually false and encourages casteism by portraying Brahmins as uniformly nasty. (And these are all true incidents, accepted by historians).  

To handle the outcry, the filmmakers delayed the release by two weeks from its initial date of April 11, 2025 (Jyotirao Phule's birth anniversary).

To make matters worse, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has again played it's dictatorial role by omitted several portions illustrating caste-based discrimination, which weakens the film's message about the systemic oppression the Phules battled against. (List of Scenes in the Picture)

I've also attached a list of the censor board members; look at their surnames and castes.

How can anyone tell truthful and sincere stories in India? Seriously, how?

[Prof. Varsha Eknath Gaikwad @VarshaEGaikwad]

Manual scavenging. In Bandra. In 2025.

Over a decade after India passed a law banning this inhuman practice, and despite multiple Supreme Court judgments demanding dignity, safety, and protective gear for sanitation workers—we are still here. Watching a man enter a manhole with no safety harness, no protection. Just his body. His life. At stake.

I'm being told that this is private work being done in a residential society and not part of any civic project.

This underlines the harsh truth; our society never really wanted to end this cruelty. We want clean drains, but we look away when a human being is made to crawl into filth. We pride ourselves on AI and automation, but can’t seem to automate dignity.

This is not just illegal, it is a stain on our collective conscience.

I urge the authorities to crack down on private contractors indulging in this practice. Book them. Penalise them. Make an example out of them.
And to citizens; do not hire such contractors. You are not just breaking the law, you're breaking a human soul.

Machines exist. Technologies are available. What’s missing is our will.
Let us be clear—manual scavenging isn’t just a job, it’s a human rights violation. We are the richest civic body, surely we can find a way to ensure residents have access to automated solutions and are encouraged to go for the same.

We must end it. Not tomorrow. Not with another policy but with collective responsibility, now!

#ManualScavenging #EndTheInjustice #HumanDignity #BanManualScavenging #RightToLife #Mumbai #SanitationWorkers #StopThisCruelty
📸 @ALM_Khadeshwari
@INCSCDept @DalitCamera @ambedkariteIND @BezwadaWilson

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@Johanna_Deeksha This is so true. Suffered a horrible internal amputation because the doctor thought it was a routine infection.

[Zulfakar Sadriwala @Xulfee_92]

@missmaddenstein Fariyas at Apollo Bunder or grand hotel in Ballard estate for the vibes.