This project pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me a lot about visual storytelling, on-set teamwork, and the power of small details in every frame. IтАЩm truly grateful for the opportunity and the amazing crewтАФstay tuned, the full film is coming soon!
Presenting the teaser of KOOD тАФ our first short film from Slow Motion Pictures.
Featuring Neelesh Misra and Ketaki Kulkarni
Directed by Neelesh Misra
Written by Anulata Raj Nair
Executive Producer: Saumya Tandon
DOP: Abhishek Verma
Production Designer: Manu Upadhyay
1st AD: Ritam Nandy
Line Producer: Satish Mishra
Drone Pilot: Mohammad Salman
Produced by @GaonConnection
KOOD is the first part of Slow Talkies, a series of short films.
Teaser edited by Bhuvan Singh
Music by Anuj Bhatt
Inviting creative colleagues, investors and brands to collaborate on this and our future films.
From our films vertical, Slow Motion Pictures:
Casting call for Short Film 1 in our upcoming series of short films, called тАЬSlow TalkiesтАЭ.
Shortlisted artistes shall be mailed audition scripts.
Mukesh Chhabra, IndiaтАЩs pioneering casting director.
My next guest in Season 4 of The Slow Interview. Releasing this Friday.
Here are the episodes so far from this season:
Ep 3: Vikas Divyakirti https://t.co/spk5B8HVMA
Ep 2: Anubhav Singh Bassi https://t.co/xfHin1x3oB
Ep 1: Ashish Vidyarthi https://t.co/QslmGSuMMM
@MukeshChhabraCC@TheSlowMovement@GaonConnection@GaonConnectionE
I did a similar video last year to show how temperature drops drastically under a tree. Repeating it this year to reemphasise that trees are our best friends. Grow more trees people.
Last year it was 42.5- 27┬░C,
this year, see for yourself.
Between February 2023 and June 2023 kidney doctors at Aster MIMS Hospital, Kottakkal, in Kerala started getting a series of patients with a rare and strange type of kidney disease. They were baffled.
They called it Neural epidermal growth factor-like 1 protein (NELL-1) associated membranous nephropathy - a weird disease where the the body's immune system was attacking the filtering membranes of the kidney.
The disease was characterized by massive loss of protein in urine (>3.5 g/day) and clinically presented with severe leg and face swelling, high blood pressure, frothy urine, and clot formation in blood vessels of legs or lungs and sometimes strokes.
The first patient was a 14 year old girl, followed by her relative. Both their kidney biopsies were positive for NELL-1 kidney disease.
Then came a completely unrelated 29 year old man. The doctors were alarmed. And they looked at their records. There were five more such patients within the past 4 months.
They looked at published literature and found a common culprit among most NELL-1 cases recorded.
Mercury.
Blood levels of mercury in patients were checked and the doctors were stunned. Levels were 100 times more than normal limits of detection.
But what was common to all these mercury poisoned unrelated patients?
And a thorough clinical history in retrospect found the culprit.
Fairness creams.
All patients were using locally made fairness creams to lighten their "naturally-beautiful dark skin."
Fairness creams contaminated with mercury, causing chronic mercury poisoning and NELL-1 kidney disease is well known.
See this report from Akola and Mumbai - https://t.co/Z9zCZOIg7e
Another cause for Nell-1 kidney damage is presence of lipoic acid which can by itself cause membranous nephropathy. Lipoic acid is a common constituent of fairness creams and many oral antioxidant supplements - be wary of this.
Check your supplements.
See here https://t.co/hhyIPn15nP
Not only fairness creams, but traditional herbal medicines, especially Ayurveda & Siddha formulations which Indian "wellness gurus" such as Sadhguru so passionately promote, have been implicated in multiple cases of mercury-induced severe Nell-1 kidney disease.
See here https://t.co/QhSSU9pFji here https://t.co/0H3lWJcFUQ and here https://t.co/CR0Wzf7UKh
Be wary of locally made cosmetics, lipoic acid based oral supplements and Ayurvedic and Siddha herbal products. Know what is good for you. And more importantly, know what is not.
Avoid unwanted troubles. Use the knowledge from medical science as a shield to defend yourself against unscientific practices and bad science.
Sources:
2023 Kerala: Want To Become Fair? Beware Of MN Syndrome - https://t.co/GQzHOC29YN
2022 Mumbai: Mumbai doctors link fairness cream to kidney illness in family - https://t.co/o16zqVIcGN