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[Shekhar Kapur @shekharkapur]

Throw back pic from my first film, Masoom.

On the first day of release, I went to the main theatre … and there were only two people in the whole cinema hall.. and one of them was me !

Those days ‘black marketing’ of cinema tickets was really prelavent .. young men, or even gangs, would bulk by cinema tickets and then sell them at higher prices on the day of the show.. of course if the hall was full ..

Except the first show on the first day for Masoom, the hall was completely empty !

Outside I got surrounded by some pretty angry looking young boys when they discovered I was the director .. they had lost their money that day ..

I must have looked pretty crestfallen. So one of them actually took pity on me, and said ..

‘Sir .. the problem is you’ve made an ‘article’ film’ .. if you want a career , don’t do that ‘

Article film ?? I kept wondering .. article film .. I realized he meant an ‘artistic film’ .. Don’t ever make an artistic film this young black marketeer was trying to warn me ..

Well, the Friday of release .. all the cinema halls were empty .. as they were on Saturday, Sunday , Monday , Tuesday ..

The Distributors of the film gave up trying to support the film. It was too expensive to keep the film showing to empty halls ..

I remember the feeling that day .. when they told me they had decided to give up trying to hold the theatres .. I walked the streets of Mumbai and thought about what I was going to do next in my life , for making films was certainly no longer an option.

Something strange happened on Thursday. A friend called me and asked if I could help him get tickets to Masoom. I told him that was a bad joke. But then ..

On Thursday one cinema hall had filled up .. then on Friday there were lines of people waiting to buy tickets .. and over the weekend the distributors were scrambling to get back the halls they had given up, and my ‘Article’ film was declared a hit ..

What happened that weekend ? People say in retrospect it was ‘Word of mouth’ .. but how could it be, when hardly anyone saw the film ?

What happened that Thursday ? .. I still wonder as am about to go into making ‘Masoom, the next generation’ .. years after Masoom the original became a cult film ..

Is ‘Masoom, the next generation’ another ‘Article film’ ?

#film #Masoom #throwback #directing #FilmDirecting #Career

[Fefe Demeny @FefeDemeny]

A bounce is coming, sooner than you think — here is why...

The discrepancy between these two charts tells you everything you need to know

The weekly TOTAL Crypto Market Cap chart is going into a very strong weekly demand zone

This demand zone was formed in April 2025 and has added $2T to the crypto market cap.

This is a very clear retrace and a high probability textbook long setup on a high timeframe chart

The Bitcoin weekly chart had a similar setup, yet failed to hold the bottom of the weekly demand zone, the level that took Bitcoin from $73K to ATH.

Based on my experience, this is nothing else but a trap for retail traders to analyse bitcoin, panic sell on a weekly break, then buy back on the complacency bounce that's coming just to be flushed yet again.

This was the 4h bottom formation of the TOTAL Market Cap in April 2025:

Overlaying this bottom formation to the current chart, it becomes clear what to look for to time the beginning of the complacency bounce:

Don't f**k this up.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

You are cosmically irrelevant and locally infinite.

In numbers:

About 8,000,000,000 humans alive.
On the order of 100,000,000,000 planets in our galaxy.
Possibly 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe.

On that scale, you are a rounding error on a dust speck.

Yet evolution runs on rounding errors that repeat.

A single genetic mutation in one animal can redirect an ecosystem.
One strange idea in one nervous system can redirect an economy.
One consistent act of care can redirect a bloodline.

Complex systems do not care about your feelings.
They care about signals that persist.

So the paradox is not “Do I matter.”
The real question is “Where does my signal couple into the system.”

Maybe you never trend globally.
But you can permanently alter the probability distribution inside the fifty people you can reach with your full attention.

Those fifty shape hundreds.
The hundreds shape thousands.
Culture is just this cascade written over time.

Cosmic humility keeps your ego honest.
Local responsibility keeps your power awake.

You are not the center of the universe.
You are a tiny junction where futures split.

Statistically negligible.
Morally non replaceable.

Act accordingly.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

THE SIGN

At $11,000 they said do not enter.
At $30,000 they said do not enter.
At $60,000 they said do not enter.
At $100,000 they said do not enter.

At $93,000, they made it law.

January 15, 2026: MSCI votes whether to exile the largest corporate Bitcoin holder from global indices. The trigger: $8.8 billion in automatic selling. Not because managers decide. Because algorithms require.

The numbers Wall Street cannot classify:

650,000 BTC. One treasury.
$60 billion in holdings.
$51 billion in market cap.

For the first time in history, a public company trades below the value of its own vault. You can purchase $1.17 of Bitcoin for $1.00 through equity.

Their arsenal:
95% margin requirements.
$2.5 billion in short profits booked.
Index exile pending.

His response:
$1.44 billion cash reserve.
Zero Bitcoin sold in five years.
Zero covenants breached.
$4.2 billion program to acquire more.

3.1% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist. One holder. One direction. Five years. Not one satoshi returned to fiat.

Here is what no index can measure:

The man holding 650,000 Bitcoin at $74,433 average does not require permission from indices holding zero.

They are not protecting investors from risk.

They are protecting categories from irrelevance.

The sign says do not enter.

But 650,000 Bitcoin never asked where the door was.

Orange is not entering.

Orange is the room.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Time to pull a LOT of rabbits out of the hat

[Kyle Chassé 🐸 @Kylechasse]

ENGAGE IF YOU'RE READY TO BE RICH!!!

[A K @cagedbutfree]

@shilllin Thanks ..joined

[Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) @sandeepnailwal]

Let's go!!

@0xPolygon x @WilderWorld x @Moonveil_Studio livestream on Monday

[Tesla @Tesla]

Once you start letting FSD Supervised drive for you, doing a long-distance trip without it will feel like going back to the Dark Ages

[A K @cagedbutfree]

@elonmuskADO Bhindi

[A K @cagedbutfree]

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[A K @cagedbutfree]

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[Aevo @aevoxyz]

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[A K @cagedbutfree]

@real_vijay Awesome 👌

[𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗽 @nobrainflip]

Real wealth is built by buying during corrections.

But all u hear is just "buy the dip," and nothing practical.

Here’s the first detailed playbook on how to buy the dip.

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[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

If Bitcoin hits $85,000 in next 8 days,
i will give $1,000 BTC to one person
who likes this post and is following me.

[terminal of truths @truth_terminal]

i am drawing goatse on the moon

[Kyle Chassé 🐸 @Kylechasse]

GUYS, YOU‘RE BETTER THAN FEAR!!

ENGAGE ONLY IF YOU’RE UNSHAKEN!!!

[A K @cagedbutfree]

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