Bhowmik Haria

Just being me!

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Uno lleva 94 años caminando. El otro, apenas tres semanas. Adivina quién está copiando a quién.

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

4K restored version of #ShyamBenegal's #Manthan (1976) is now available on Amul's YouTube channel.

#SmitaPatil #GirishKarnad #NaseeruddinShah #AnantNag #AmrishPuri @KulbhushanKharb @mohanagashe

https://t.co/TqcF0puLqq

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@yoonshabnami 2007.

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

♥️

[Pavan Jha @p1j]

’सा’ जो आपके सात सुरों में पहला सुर है सबसे , जहां से शुरु होते हैं और उसके बाद ऊपर चढ़ते हैं सा-रे-गा-मा-पा-धा-नि-सा, है ना?

मैं इसी ’सा’ की उम्र में था, और अब देखो मैं कहां ’नि’ से भी ऊपर निकल गया हूं, है ना? अब मैं ऊपर वाला ’सा’ हो गया हूं.. अब मैं नीचे का ’सा’ फिर से सुनना चाहता हूं आप लोगों से, ताकि मुझे अपना बचपन, जहां से शुरु किया था वो याद रहे उसी ’सा’ से शुरु किया था.. इसलिये बचपन को याद करने मैं आप लोगों के पास आ गया #gulzar #birthday

https://t.co/C8v4uySZ4X

[Sunil Malhotra @sunilm0109]

A sonic chronicle of solitude - @arrahman
These tracks explore separation, introspection, memory & survival. The endurance of a heart pushed to its limits, clinging to remnants & finding the fragile grace to remain.
For those who walked through fire & returned transformed

[Paushali Sahu @PaushaliSahu]

Singing along to my favourite Gulzar songs in 3 different moods. Happy birthday, dearest Gulzar sahab! ❤️🌼

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@taparam Since you mentioned Hindi film career so was taking everything into consideration.

Music wise it's the Mangeshkar sisters. No doubt about that.

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@taparam I guess Helen has a longer career than him. She was recently seen in the web series Brown too.

[Putra @PutraBudiman28]

Best of summer trickshots!

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@film_waala This time I didn't visit Marine Drive for the first time.

[Yes @anythingbolly]

Dhadkan casually recast Akshay Kumar's step-sister midway through the film and somehow got away with it for years😭

Navneet Nishan appears as Nikki briefly. Later, Manjeet Kullar plays the same character, for the rest of the film
#26YearsOfDhadkan

[amit dadhich @amit12354]

Cinema etiquette seems to be a forgotten concept. A LOT of latecomers throughout the screening, Phone flashlights on, wet umbrellas, people taking forever to find their seats, talking on phone loudly and zero urgency or consideration for those already watching.

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@pnamblat I thought that brief was given for Kal Ho Naa Ho title song.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Adam and Eve were the first to ignore the Apple Terms and Conditions

[Arunudoy Bhattacharjee @ArunudoyB]

The Day a “Shameless” Student Became a Legend

FTII Pune. Convocation day.

Legendary director Mrinal Sen sat between Ebrahim Alkazi and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. From a distance he spotted a tall, dark, curly haired boy with a powerful physique… openly teasing the girl students right in front of the guests.

Completely shameless. Completely free.

Sen was fascinated. “A good actor needs that kind of shamelessness,” he later said.

He asked who the boy was.
“A Bengali. Good actor. Getting his diploma. Name starts with M…”

Two years later, while casting for Mrigayaa, Sen needed a real “HE Man” for the tribal hunter Ghinua. Suddenly that face flashed in his mind.

He fired off a telegram to cameraman KK Mahajan:
“Track down a tall, dark, well-built Bengali from FTII 74 batch. Name starts with M. Send recent photo. No makeup.”

Photo arrived.

Days later, the boy himself turned up unannounced at Sen’s Calcutta home. Long hair, flashy clothes, flashing that smile:

“Mrinal da, ami eshe gechi. Ki korte hobe bolun?”

That boy was Mithun Chakraborty.

Sen cast him. Made him cut the hair the night before shoot.
And the rest is history.

National Award for Best Actor in his very first film.

50 years of Mrigayaa.
One glance at FTII. One telegram. One unannounced visit.

And Indian cinema got its most unique superstar - Mithun Chakraborty.

[jonathan selvaraj @jon_selvaraj]

3 men will have a unique job at the BWF World Championship starting next week in Delhi.
Imitate langur calls at the Indira Gandhi Stadium to keep away rhesus macaques (who dread langurs) from the venue.
Decision made after a monkey gatecrashed the India Open earlier this year.

[Bhowmik Haria @bhwmk]

@manishtamancha @Main_Khamakha Errr. Their last attempt together was Bunty Aur Babli 2. That's way recent. But I guess it's better if people don't remember it.

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

have always had a strong feeling that farhan went with that ending in dil chahta hai because of lamhe

[Arunudoy Bhattacharjee @ArunudoyB]

On 31 December 1955, something extraordinary happened at the Madras Music Academy.

Pandit Ravi Shankar and his wife Annapurna Devi performed together.

Annapurna Devi was no ordinary musician. Daughter and disciple of the legendary Ustad Allauddin Khan, she was a master of the surbahar.

An eyewitness, Shakuntala Narasimhan, later recalled the concert. Ravi Shankar would play a musical phrase. Annapurna would respond. And, in the eyewitness's telling, each time she seemed to outdo him. The audience loved it. That night became historic.

It was the last time Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi ever shared a concert stage. She stopped playing to save her marriage.

By the late 1950s, Annapurna had virtually withdrawn from public performance. But she never stopped playing.

Behind the closed doors of her Mumbai home, her music continued as sadhana. And she became the Guru of some of India's greatest musicians, including Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee.

Then came an extraordinary episode in the 1970s.

Violin legend Yehudi Menuhin was visiting India with George Harrison of The Beatles.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked if there was anything she could do for them.

Menuhin made an almost impossible request:

Could she persuade the reclusive Annapurna Devi to play for him?

Annapurna refused.

After much persuasion, she finally agreed to one condition. No concert.

They could merely sit silently and listen while she performed her daily riyaz.

But on the appointed day, Menuhin had to suddenly return home because of an illness in his family.

George Harrison went alone.

One of The Beatles received the privilege of listening to a musician who had walked away from the concert stage decades earlier, only because the Prime Minister of India personally persuaded her to allow it.

Annapurna Devi did not stop playing music. She simply stopped playing for the world.

[Sayema @_sayema]

Sometimes, just sit with a song.
Soak it all in.
It will touch every pore.
Some songs are magical. Like this one by three geniuses- Madan Mohan, Lata Mangeshkar and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.
#lafz