Faisal Farooque

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[Faisal Farooque @faisalspeaking]

#myphotography 📸 Wishing the living legend @SrBachchan a very happy birthday. Keep inspiring us and generations to come with your extraordinary body of work. (@ Sir J.J. School of Art Campus, Mumbai, Sep 2016)

#AmitabhBachchan #happybirthday

[Neeta Kolhatkar @neetakolhatkar]

While passing on JJ flyover.

[The Tribune @thetribunechd]

Yeh duniya ager mil bhi jaaye toh kya hai...

Bollywood filmmakers pick their favourite Guru Dutt film on his 101st birth anniversary today

Which Guru Dutt film is your favourite? Tell us in the comments.

@SubhashK_Jha
https://t.co/UWICQvSLVH

[Komal Nahta @KomalNahta]

I’m so so happy that I could catch ace photographer Atul Kasbekar’s photo exhibition at Jio World Plaza, BKC, Bombay this afternoon. It’s simply PHENOMENAL! Each of the 56 B & W photographs of reputed and top notch actors of Hindi Cinema is mesmerising. To use the tagline of the Honest exhibition: It’s unfiltered, it’s unscripted, it’s HONEST. Atul, thank you very much for insisting that I came to see your labour of love. It would’ve been my loss had I not made it today!

[Mohar Basu @MoharBasu]

For a film to release on OTT, it doesn’t need a censor certificate. CBFC clearance is mandated only for theatrical release.

Please correct me if I have got this wrong! Because in straight simple terms, the film has been banned and that’s it, that’s all.

[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

"Dada" will have the Lord's balcony scene. That scene will also have Rajiv Shukla. I hope they got Manoj Pahwa for that.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Meet Nazim Shaikh, the man holding the line between life and loss at Mumbai's shore.

"I am not afraid of the sea. I just do my job."

For nearly 35 years, Nazim Shaikh, the humble Jal JivRakshak (lifeguard) has selflessly saved over 300 lives, often before anyone else even arrives

No rewards and recognition, just unwavering goodwill.

Nazim rushes in when people slip into the rising tide, pulling strangers back to shore.

His courage isn't loud—it's quiet. Consistent. Generous. Every life he saves is a testament to everyday heroism that needs no spotlight.

#RealHeroes #UnsungHero #JalJivRakshak #Mumbai

[Mumbai lifeguard, real hero India, unsung heroes, positive news India, Gateway of India lifeguard]

[Rakhshanda Jalil @RakhshandaJalil]

Zindagi ke parche mein
Sab sawaal mushkil hain
Sab sawaal laazim hain

[sharmistha jha @sharmistha_jha]

'Across her fiction, journalism, and now her stirring new memoir, Arundhati Roy retrns to a single, urgent warning: a society that tolerates the oppression of its most vulnerable members eventually becomes captive to systems of violence that spare no one'-I write for @curaffairs

[Paushali Sahu @PaushaliSahu]

Sharing once again. Looking for singers and poets (who can recite Urdu/hindi poetry) in #Kolkata . Details below.

[Film History Pics @FilmHistoryPic]

“rim jhim gire saawan ... beautiful song, shot live during monsoons, no rain machines used, those were the days”

- Amitabh Bachchan

[Rana Safvi رعنا राना @iamrana]

"Live like Ali, die like Hussain"

[barnali ray shukla @barnalirays]

“Songs at midnight
prepare me for morning”

— Audre Lorde

[Pragyan Mohanty @PragyanM]

The great Vijaya Mehta is no more.

Her colossal influence in theatre and cinema aside, she was also behind the iconic medical drama Lifeline/ Jeevan Rekha on Doordarshan.

It was sort of our Grey’s Anatomy back in the day.

https://t.co/tnikaLtNKt

[Nistula Hebbar @nistula]

Excellent film

[Film History Pics @FilmHistoryPic]

Vijaya Mehta passed away aged 91.

Eminent theatre personality, film actor/director; seen here in film ‘Pestonji’ & Marathi play ‘Barrister’.

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah began their cinematic journeys almost around the same time (1974/75).

Five decades later, they're still landing the most layered, emotionally demanding roles. Longevity is one thing. Staying relevant for 50 years is legendary. 🫡 🙌

#ShabanaAzmi #NaseeruddinShah #Aawarapan2 #Batwara1947
#MadeInIndiaATitanStory #MainVaapasAaunga

[Ramki @ramkid]

Thanks to Doordarshan, we grew up watching top tier Marathi theatre, serials, and cinema. Even with our rudimentary knowledge of the language, my family was in awe of titans like Vijaya Mehta. RIP.

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

Main Vaapas Aaunga ending instantly reminded me of this.

[Shekhar Kapur @shekharkapur]

Main Wapas Aunga was an emotional
upheaval me. I saw on film the story of my own family. The having to escape with your life. The slaughter on the trains. Running between two Nations suddenly.

For years my parents refused to talk about it. The memories were too intense. Painful

Then slowly my mother narrated everything to my sister ,Sohaila. And everything unfolded on screen for me. Just as my mother had described ..

Like Diljit Dosanjh in the film, I too went back to Lahore to search for where my family lived .. what I found is yet another story ..

Thank you Imtiaz Ali, for bringing those memories alive for me. I can’t remember crying like this in a film for a long long time. ..

… for so much like the absolutely brilliant Naseeruddin Shah in the film, my father .. who was a very modern man, and a famous doctor in Delhi .. would say to me when he was in his 90’s

‘I hope I can see Lahore once again before I die ..

He never did ..

#MainVaapasAaunga #NaseeruddinShah
@naseeruddnshah