Vibhu Prakash

Learning stuff here n there

[PS @dostoevesque]

Peter Jackson showed the world how to make epic fantasy twenty-five years ago with The Lord of the Rings, yet the makers of the Ramayana still seem not to have learned even the most fundamental lesson from him.

Characters in epic fantasy don't have to conform to the naturalism of real life. They can, and often should, be larger than life. In fact, they need to be. There is no epic without drama. But the world they inhabit absolutely must feel real. The locations, landscapes, textures, architecture, and geography need to convince the audience that this is a place that could truly exist. Spectacle without a believable world is just artificiality, not epic fantasy.

Forests don't seem real. India does not lack forests, and they could surely have paid their art directors well enough to build actual sets and then enhance them to achieve a larger-than-life feel, instead of creating everything against green screens. They need to ground the location into something tangible before elevating it to extraordinary. The trick is to make the impossible feel real, not to make the impossible merely feel impossible.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

People ask why England always hosts the final of the World Test Championship. This is not actually shameless bias on the part of the ICC. Rather, it is because they need a guaranteed neutral venue.

[mango chilli @risickah]

somebody’s phd thesis in a few years will feature “chhappan inch ka chhota bandar” and it’s etymology

[P. Chidambaram @PChidambaram_IN]

AK 47 is an assault rifle. It is usually deployed when police forces are fighting terrorists or extremists (like Maoists)

It is never -- never -- used to contain civilian protests

The AK 47 weapon should never have been issued by the armoury to a policeman who was deployed to contain a civilian protest

Not only the policeman who used the AK 47 weapon but also the armoury-in-charge who issued the weapon should be suspended and subjected to disciplinary action

[yash @stfujaadu]

dharmendra pradhan ko hata ke taylor swift ko education minister bana do, usne uski shaadi ka ek photo tak leak nahi hone diya

[Dr.Medusa @ms_medusssa]

I just saw sreecrashin on instagram's post. She said "your parents are scared of you going to the protest and something bad happening because they exactly know who they voted for".

My mind is blown.

[Ashok Kumar Pandey अशोक اشوک @Ashok_Kashmir]

हाँ तो आपको क्या लगा था? साहब आयेंगे और जूस पिलायेंगे?

क्या लगा था? प्रधान साहब इस्तीफ़ा लेकर आयेंगे और अनशन तुड़वायेंगे?

गया वह ज़माना जब प्रधानमंत्री जूस पिलाकर अनशन तुड़वाया करते थे।

[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

Trust cricket to keep inventing needlessly complicated formats.

And to do whatever it takes to humiliate the Associates. They are qualifying for the World Cup, so why do they have to qualify again?

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

First movie critic to cry on camera after KRK.

[Cricketologist @AMP86793444]

If you guys are blaming Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy for all these losses you are barking at the wrong tree. As they say, don’t miss the elephant in the room.

Whilst I agree Iyer’s captaincy hasn’t been great, bigger blame should go to the man who has completely broken this team of world champions. He dismantled the test team. We started getting whitewashed even at home. Now he is finishing this T20 team. I guess it’s the ODI team’s turn next.

This team looks confused, scared and jaded.

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

FIFA really thought they could beat a New York City real estate developer at corruption

[australian womens cricket with very little context @awcwvlc]

At 41, Ronaldo has finally tied with Ellyse Perry for knockout World Cup goals. In other news, Ellyse Perry is nominated for the Player of the Tournament in T20 World Cup.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Harry Brook ready to lead England in all three formats. That's nightclubs, beaches, and police stations.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Last night was also a wake-up call for people who make rude promos.

[Manika Batra @manikabatra_TT]

🙏

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Egypt against New Zealand

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

Credit to Portugal. They managed to cling on for a draw despite playing with ten men and without a forward for 90 minutes.

[cold viet man nascar guy fuotball (blue check) @maqwelll]

Expanding this World Cup to 48 teams was a mistake, now we got teams like Spain actively diluting this tournament for the worst

[Han🇳🇴 @HanDoesHisBest]

"there are months where no video games are played, and days where video games are played maybe 8 hours a day"

-Vlaimir Illich Lenin