samay raina’s still alive is actually one of his finest shows. just observe him throughout that show, he’s funny, vulnerable, sobbing, crying, laughing, trolling, acting & holding up all at the same time but none of it feels forced, none of it feels like he’s trying to impress you or anyone in that hall.
it feels like he’s trying to not lie or filter himself for once. he could’ve beeped the abusive words but he didn’t cause that’s his habit.
he’s just addressing his insecurities in front of the world, not in a polished, inspirational way, but in a messy, raw, inconsistent & in a bit uncomfortable way. he’s letting all his wounds stay open, fully aware of the consequences, fully aware that once you say these things publicly, you don’t get to take them back.
and still, he says them.
there’s a constant undercurrent in the show, how every famous personality on internet are just playing a character, including him just to fill their bank balance and instead of pretending he’s above it or different than them, he admits he’s part of the same system.
that honesty is what separates this from any other show or any other comedian.
the bullying story doesn’t feel like a “look how far i’ve come” arc. it feels like something that never really left him. like parts of him are still stuck there, still reacting, still shaping how he behaves.
same with his childhood. he’s not narrating it for sympathy, he’s just acknowledging that whatever you carry as a kid doesn’t disappear, it just learns how to sit quietly inside you. i feel majority relate with him.
the kashmiri pandit part is handled without drama or any sort of over explanation or emotional manipulation. he just presented a blunt reality that people didn’t leave, they fled. it wasn’t bravery, it was survival & sometimes survival is the only story.
and then the bit about men, it’s not framed like a lecture about parenting. just the reality that most men aren’t emotionless, they’re just emotionally underdeveloped. they don’t know how to process things, so they either joke about it or suppress it until it shows up in other ways. he doesn’t offer solutions or doesn’t pretend to understand it fully. he just shows it first hand based on his experience in that phase.
the pauses, the cuts, the tears, the long breaths, the anxious expressions they don’t feel like performance to me. they feel like moments where he’s actually catching up with what he just admitted and what he had gone through during that controversy that’s why it feels different.
this isn’t him trying to sound cool.
this isn’t him doing the “i don’t care” act.
this is him dropping that act completely.
and once you’ve publicly admitted what you’ve been through, without filters, without trying to look strong, without trying to wrap it up nicely no one in this whole world can really take you down because there’s nothing left to expose.
no image left to protect or no insecurity left to weaponise because you’ve already done it yourself.
and that’s what still alive really is
not a comeback
not a peak performance
not even just a stand-up special
it’s him accepting that he’s not healed, not fixed, not figured out…
just still alive.
There is a consistent hit job on twitter against #Ramayana.
A person is putting in his entire life savings for such a massive scale project to bring an Indian epic to the world and all we can do is criticise.
If this is our attitude, no one will attempt to bring our history to the world in future.
Two things I appreciate the most about the movie:
1. Jaskirat avenging his father and sisters. Tatte shot is the only treatment rapists deserve.
2. Hamza's rage represents the rage all true Hindustanis have against the Pakistani terrorism.
I love how every marvel fans has just come out from the long vacation and started giving theories on the brand new trailer, ahhh Happy Days @SpiderMan#marvel
It’s so cool that this sequence takes place during the thunderbolts final battle love this !
I bet Peter had a vision. Remember when we heard a year back about aunt May returning? Also the whole organic webbings and stuff could be from this
We also know Yelena is supposed to be in the film and it’s 4 years after NoWayHome.
Do the math
Spider-Man's Organic Webbing CONFIRMED 🚨
This new clip shows Spider-Man's wrists generating webbing from his body not from mechanical web-shooters.
The first frame shows Peter's hand against glass/barrier you can see the biological webbing forming directly from his wrist. This is organic webbing, not tech.
The second frame shows the aftermath of the transformation - Peter in a destroyed environment, likely collapsing from the strain.
Peter Parker's body is mutating. He's evolving beyond the mechanical web-shooters and developing natural webbing glands.
Just like in the comics except it's painful, violent, and destroying him from the inside.
Granted that Bumrah is a colossus. Accepted that Sanju Samson touched towering heights.
But for me the unsung hero is Axar!! Contributes to the side in different departments - The quintessential modern-day cricketer. And then you also think of Dube.
We know everyone will remember Sanju Samson for this World Cup victory. Jasprit Bumrah will get the loudest cheers, and Suryakumar Yadav will be remembered as the World Cup–winning captain.
But you, Shivam Dube , your name might be forgotten because there was no half-century from your side. Yet we know you were the one who ensured India’s victory in the most important matches. Those quick-fire innings saved India from defeat. All those small knocks were actually the wall between victory and defeat.
You stood tall and unshaken to secure the win.
Well played, champion 🇮🇳🏆
Axar Patel is underrated in another way.
Bapu is probably the fastest runner in this World Cup Indian team, arguably faster than Pandya.
That Harry Brook catch yesterday, where he covered almost 30 mts in 3 seconds while looking up at the ball, proves this. The only thing that looked tough at the end was aiming for the ball while it comes from behind you. Because the other tough thing - reaching the spot on time - was made to look simple by his speed.
It reminds me of what Kohli said in an interview - Cricket is a game of margins. What you eat, how you train, when you sleep, how fast you recover - they determine how fast you can accelerate to reach a catch - whether you reach in 2 seconds and take a simple catch or take 3 seconds, dive and miss the catch. The 2-second catch wins you the match, and the 3-second dive gets you a 'great try' remark.
Both of Bapu's catches yesterday prove this point. He accelerated enough to cover lots of ground and converted two tries to two wickets.