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[Azad @chhinnamul]

@/ritwikian has been suspended once again, but the work continues. I've resumed activity here. Expect film criticism, notes, opinions, and occasional links to movies that seem worth seeing and worth sharing.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

Watching Satluj, I was struck by how closely Punjab's insurgency-era disappearances and extrajudicial killings echoed Bengal's Naxalite years. At the center of both stands Siddhartha Shankar Ray, first as Bengal's chief architect of state terror, then as Punjab's Governor.

[sidhupb02 @209sidhu]

My bhua's pind is Chabhal, where SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu, the character Sugga in the film Satluj, was in charge of the thana. The fear he instilled in that whole pind and nearby pinds cannot be described. Dad used to tell me that when kids reached 15 or 16, they were told not to leave the house, even to go to the market. Most were sent to out-of-state relatives because he would just have his staff pick them up and conduct fake encounters on a weekly basis. So much so that our bhua's khet would have two or three bodies picked up with all their blood all over the fasal and dumped in a nehar (canal) nearby #panjab95 ( devil's pic below) for more info read this https://t.co/0LKbUlhgKE

[Azad @chhinnamul]

If any Bengali film requires an immediate restoration and physical media release, it's Ajoy Kar's Saptapadi. Uttam Kumar's performance rivals Nayak, and he and Suchitra Sen remain one of the greatest screen pairings. @middlemanchette @shividungarpur @FHF_Official @SecondRunDVD

[Arko | অর্ক @films_and_life]

Posters for the iconic Bengali film Saptapadi (Seven Steps, Ajoy Kar, 1961), starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, based on Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay's novella. The poster shows an enactment of a scene from Shakespeare's Othello – when the two protagonists begin to fall in love.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@yooday Do you pay the full shipping and customs charges on every purchase, or have you found a workaround?

[Azad @chhinnamul]

"No worries, everyone's downloaded the film," @diljitdosanjh says about Satluj (or Punjab '95). The film's censorship, its brief uncut streaming release, followed by another removal — hard to imagine a better case for piracy as film preservation.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@pomniporn Aleksei German.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

Global round of applause for Cabo Verde 👏👏👏👏 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

[Azad @chhinnamul]

One of football's enduring pleasures is that it can leave you caring as much about the losing side as the winner. Cape Verde played with imagination, courage, and joy. Today, they've earned a lifelong supporter in me. 🇨🇻

[Holy YPJ The Invincible 🇪🇸 @01Hakimo]

thanks for making us believe in the football of this continent again grateful 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@01Hakimo I'm in love with this team. If Argentina had to lose, I wouldn't mind it being to them.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@jasonachristian Extraordinary match.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

Sidny Lopes Cabral's goal was a masterpiece. One of the pleasures of sport is that, even in rooting wholeheartedly for one side, one can still be astonished by the other.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@DODIYAKULDIP070 Shit!

[Azad @chhinnamul]

https://t.co/yUaenRVMuI

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@BootsRiley I'll do my part when it reaches India. @BootsRiley

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@mise_en_seer An all-time favorite.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@rogerkoza Followed you; great to see you on Letterboxd. @rogerkoza

[Azad @chhinnamul]

Yes, though not in Calcutta but in Paris, at UNESCO's cinema centenary celebration. Sen is photographed here with Melina Mercouri, Youssef Chahine, André Delvaux, Gaston Kaboré, Michel Piccoli, Fernando Solanas, and Jean Rouch. The photograph is from his memoir, Tritiyo Bhuvan.

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

@chhinnamul Mrinal sen met him, infact pictures are there.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

https://t.co/yUaenRVMuI

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@riddhadev Unfortunately, nothing that isn't already there. The only copy of Chinnamul available seems to be a rip from a VHS, that too in terrible shape, that you can find on YouTube. https://t.co/b3vd6hgYf7

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@/ritwikian is gone, but the films remain. Here are the last three links I uploaded before the account was deleted:
https://t.co/Hqj0Ah2EU0

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@robingoodpandey Yes, of course.

[Azad @chhinnamul]

https://t.co/v3q0ykVULu

[Azad @chhinnamul]

@srrahul288 Yes.