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[lovecalcuttaindia]

Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho will visit Kolkata and unveil a Messi statue at the Durga Puja pandal

Brazil’s World Cup footballer Ronaldinho will make his lady visit to Kolkata in front of Durga Puja and meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to gift her a jersey. The three-time Ballon d’Or victor will likewise initiate the puja at Sree Bhumi Brandishing Club, where a 75-ft sculpture of Argentine World Cup champ Lionel Messi has been developed as a feature of the mandap. The previous Brazil…

[randomlyblue]

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[bibleofficial]

met a VERY drunk welsh boy trying to find his way back into town & im SO happy for him as a person bc he’s … we were on the same page …. ENGLAND HATERS FOREVER

[familythings]

Saint Teresa of Calcutta: The Saint of the Slums

I am deeply emotional when it comes to talk for a great woman like Mother Teresa. Not only because she is Albanian like me, but because I’ve experienced myself the tremendous influence and love Catholics around the world had for her figure. In one of my visits in Malawi in Africa, I participated in a gathering of clients of a microfinance bank there. As I was a guest the speaker introduced me as…

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[lifeonhighway99]

Familiar sights all across this city... Seems the phuchka wale bhaiya and dada.. Is very popular among the janata.. #kolkata #kolkatadiaries #calcutta #ig #kolkatabuzz #kolkatagram #kolkataphotography #kolkatablogger #india #igers #bengali #kolkatasutra #photography #instagram #bong #love #thekolkatabuzz #calcuttacacophony #city #instagood #lanes #bangladesh #kolkatafoodie #westbengal #calcuttadiaries #bengal #storiesofkolkata #kolkatabloggers #kolkatafashionblogger #calcuttacanvas (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClBn9nxSyyI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[abhisaini]

(via Haunted Places in Kolkata India)

[greenjaydeep]

#bagbazarsarbojonin #durgapuja #navratri #kolkata #durga #india #maadurga #durgamaa #festival #photography #durgapujo #love #instagram #jaimatadi #maa #calcutta #k #bagbazar #kolkatadurgapuja #devi #ig #diwali #bengali #indianfestival #dussehra #pujo #instagood #navratrispecial #kolkatadiaries #puja (at Baghbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjScJ5SvIGm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lovecalcuttaindia]

Hotel Malari Inn will be demolished first as part of the "important" Joshimath demolitions.

Joshimath demolitions 'essential', Hotel Malari Inn will be torn down first

Hotel Malari Inn: The Central Building Research Institute in Roorkee will conduct the demolition once all occupants have been safely evacuated from “unsafe” areas. Today, the Hotel Malari Inn and Hotel Mount View in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, as well as other homes with fractures from soil subsidence, will be demolished. Malari Inn would be destroyed first and “step-wise,” according to Manikant…

[13soumyoh]

Subho Nabami West Bengal #durgapuja #navratri #kolkata #durga #india #maadurga #durgamaa #festival #photography #durgapujo #love #instagram #jaimatadi #maa #calcutta #westbengal #indianphotography #mumbai #kolkatadurgapuja #devi #ig #igersofindia #bengali #indianfestival #kolkataphotography #pujo #instagood #kolkatadiaries #kolkatabuzz #ig_calcutta (at Sonarpur,West Bengal,India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQZAQhru8P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pdajaysharma]

Durga Puja Chaturthi 🌺🌺🌺 #durgapuja #navratri #kolkata #durga #india #maadurga #durgamaa #festival #photography #durgapujo #love #joymaa #jaimatadi #maa #calcutta #k #maa #mumbai #kolkatadurgapuja #devi #ig #diwali #bengali #indianfestival #dussehra #pujo #instagood #navratrispecial #kolkatadiaries #puja 🙏🏻 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGCOpJpsrA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[phenakistoskope]

There is a difference between Bollywood and Bombay cinema?

listen, subcontinental cinema began in bombay; the very first exhibition of the lumieres' cinematographe was held there in 1896, a few months after its debut in paris, 1895. this event predates the discursive existence of bollywood and hollywood. shree pundalik and raja harishchandra, the films that are generally considered the very first subcontinental features were also exhibited there first.

subcontinental cinema under british colonialism was produced in certain metropolitan centers such as lahore, hyderabad, and calcutta; bombay was just one of them. in 1947, when the indian nation state was formally inaugurated, the idea of a "national cinema" began forming, but given the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the indian union, this was quite untenable. regional popular cinemas flourished well into the 1950, 60s, 70s, and 80s and various art cinemas began taking shape alongside.

under the economy that i'm going to completely elide as "nehruvian "socialism"" bombay cinema focused on broadly "socialist" themes, think of awara (1951), do beegha zameen (1953), pyaasa (1957), all of which focus on inequality in indian economy and society from different perspectives. these films were peppered in with historical dramas, and adaptations from literature, but the original stories tended towards socialist realism. reformist films centering the family generally waxed poetic on the need to reform the family, but i haven't seen enough of these to really comment on them.

the biggest hit of the 70s, sholay (1975) was about two criminals, posited as heroes fighting gabbar singh who was attacking village folk. deewar (1975) also had two heroes, and the stakes were the two brothers' father's reputation; the father in question was a trade union leader accused of corruption.

"alternative cinema" included mani kaul's uski roti (1969) and Duvidha (1973) both of which were situated away from the city. then there's sayeed mirza and his city films, most of them set in bombay; arvind desai ki ajeeb dastan (1978), albert pinto ko gussa kyun aata hain (1980), saleem langre pe mat ro (1989) which are all extremely socialist films, albert pinto was set in the times of the bombay textiles strike of 1982 and literally quotes marx at one point. my point is that bombay cinema prior to liberalization was varied in its themes and representations, and it wasn't interested in being a "national cinema" very much, it was either interested in maximizing its domestic profits or being high art. note that these are all hindi language films, produced in bombay, or at least using capital from bombay. pyaasa, interestingly enough is set in calcutta, but it was filmed in bombay!

then we come to the 1990s, and i think the ur example of the bollywood film is dilwale dulhania le jayenge (1995) which, in stark contrast to the cinema that preceded it, centered two NRIs, simran and raj, who meet abroad, but epitomize their love in india, and go back to england (america?) as indians with indian culture. this begins a long saga of films originating largely in bombay that target a global audience of both indians and foreigners, in order to export an idea of india to the world. this is crucial for a rapidly neoliberalizing economy, and it coincides with the rise of the hindu right. gradually, urdu recedes from dialogue, the hindi is sankritized and cut with english, the indian family is at the center in a way that's very different for the social reform films of the 50s and 60s. dil chahta hai (2001) happens, where good little indian boys go to indian college, but their careers take them abroad. swadesh (2004) is about shah rukh khan learning that he's needed in india to solve its problems and leaves a job at NASA.

these are incidental, anecdotal illustrations of the differences in narrative for these separate eras of cinema, but let me ground it economically and say that bollywood cinema seeks investments and profits from abroad as well as acclaim and viewership from domestic audiences, in a way that the bombay cinema before it did not, despite the success of shree 420 (1955) in the soviet union; there were outliers, there always have been.

there's also a lot to say about narrative and style in bombay cinema (incredibly diverse) and bollywood cinema (very specific use of hollywood continuity, intercut with musical sequences, also drawn from hollywood). essentially, the histories, political economies, and aesthetics of these cinemas are too differentiated to consider them the same. bombay cinema is further internally differentiated, and that's a different story altogether. look, i could write a monograph on this, but that would take time, so let me add some reading material that will elucidate this without sounding quite as fragmented.

bollywood and globalization: indian popular cinema, nation, and diaspora, rini bhattacharya mehta and rajeshwari v. pandharipande (eds)

ideology of the hindi film: a historical construction, madhav prasad

the 'bollywoodization' of the indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena, ashish rajadhyaksha

the globalization of bollywood: an ethnography of non-elite audiences in india, shakuntala rao

indian film, erik barnouw and s. krishnaswamy (this one's a straight history of subcontinental cinema up to the 60s, nothing to do with bollywood, it's just important because the word bollywood never comes up in it despite the heavy focus on hindi films from bombay, illustrating my point)

[srbachchan]

DAY 5926

Jalsa, Mumbai May 9/10, 2024 Thu/Fri 12:22 AM

Birthday Greetings for May 10th , 2024

Saddened to hear the news of the passing away of Shri Ratan Lal Bhutoria , Father of our dear Ef Rohit Kumar Bhutoria .. Rohit's Father met with a road accident this morning and unfortunately could not survive .. as informed by Ef Sanjay Patodiya .. 😔🙏🏻 .. deeply shocked and grieved .. our very sincerest condolences to you , Rohit .. we hold your hand .. be strong .. the whole Ef Family with you .. in prayer and support .. 🙏🏻

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Hard to put anything after this 💔 .. but the occasion for it's greatness I think it deserves a mention .. 🙏🏻

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A bit of historic ”gyaan” today .. 🙏🏻

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10 May In Indian History :

.. 10th May 1857 .. the great Indian rebellion .. the 1st war of independence against the British at Meerut .. the rebellion began in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut ..

Meerut is situated between the holy rivers Ganga and Yamuna ..

Thanks to its geographical importance, the fertile Ganga-Yamuna doab had been an important centre of human activities since the very early times of Vedic Civilisation.

From the medieval period onwards, the proximity of this city to Indraprastha (present day Delhi) helped it play an important role in the affairs of India.

With the capture of power by the British, Meerut became a major military centre. The aggrieved Indian soldiers of the British Army began their fight against the imperial powers in this soil on 10th May, 1857. They captured the control of the city in one day and marched to Red Fort in Delhi, which was considered to be the symbol of control over the whole of India. On their way, they were joined by the common people who shouted patriotic war cries. By the next morning, Red Fort had fallen into the hand of the freedom fighters.

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Few pictures of India from 1857 ..

Lucknow .. 1857 ..

Calcutta .. 1853 ..

Taj Mahal .. Agra .. 1857 ..

Jantar Mantar near Delhi .. 1858 ..

James Outram's Camp at Alumbagh, Lucknow .. It was occupied by Outram and his 4000 Soldiers After the 1857 Mutiny ..

Humayun's Tomb in Delhi .. 1858 ..

See how the change has taken place .. this is the same location where we shot the song from UUNCHAI, the film of Sooraj Barjatya, pictures of which had been put up here at the Blog

A Sikh cavalry .. Illustrated Times .. 1857 ..

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Jai Hind .. 🇮🇳🫡🕉️🙏🏻

Love .. ❤️🙏🏻

It has been a bit of a history lesson .. and after which it would be too severe to write anymore .. but simply to say , that the time at the Studio Saptaswar was visited after many an hour and days .. and the sonorous sounds for an upcoming film of Abhishek .. and of my own Section 84 , was I felt , in keeping with the moment and the story and the emotion ..

Amitabh Bachchan

[octuscle]

I met this man at a bar recently and he was absolutely gorgeous. He’s here shooting a movie but otherwise wasn’t into me at all. Could you possibly make me into an even bigger hotter more muscular movie star so that he’ll notice me and want to get together?

Well… You're not particularly good-looking or charismatic now… No wonder the first contact wasn't particularly successful. But what do you expect with your baggy sweatshirt and ill-fitting jeans?

After the nasty rebuff you received, you're sitting alone at the bar again, looking into your… Whiskey? When did you order a whiskey? You notice that two girls in the corner keep looking over at you, whispering, looking and giggling. One of them gets up and walks towards you. You straighten up, smile at her, she turns bright red, giggles and asks if she can take a selfie. She has an adorable Indian accent. And you reply in Hindi that it would be a pleasure and an honor. She takes the selfie, gives you a kiss on the cheek and runs to her friend, giggling. You finish your whiskey and wave the bartender over to pay. He replies that it would have been an honor to serve you and that the drink is on the house, of course. And a second one if you like. Your crush looks at you questioningly. You accept the second whiskey with thanks and toast the actor. He toasts back and frantically thinks about how he knows you.

It's getting warm in the bar. You unbutton two buttons on your shiny shirt. Like the trousers, which are made of a similar fabric, the shirt fits like it was painted on your body. The bar is getting fuller. Of course, many guests are whispering about your crush. But even more stare at you, want a selfie or ask for your autograph. Many of your fans are glowing-eyed and black-haired. Lots of Indians. Your crush asks you if you're an actor too. The Indian beauty who is taking a selfie with you, pretending to give you a kiss, almost collapses with laughter. She opens Instagram and shows your crush an Instagram account. Your Instagram account. 58 million followers! He turns pale. Very pale. Your skin turns a deep brown. You answer his question with a heavy Indian accent. Yes, you're an actor too. Bollywood is productive. And you are one of the biggest stars. Four to six films a year. And each one is a box office hit. Your fitness videos? Top sellers! Your own fashion collection? A must-have in Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta. And now also in London and Berlin. You smile your hundred-million-rupee smile. It leaves him speechless. But the bulge in his pants speaks its own language…

For the two young men who ask for a selfie, you throw yourself back into the cool macho pose that half of India loves you for. You give the bartender a 100-pound note as a tip, put on your leather coat and tell your colleague "Savoy, Charlie Chaplin Suite. Ask for John Rolfe". You don't need to look around to know that he's rushing to pay and grab his jacket. Tonight will be a close exchange between Hollywood and Bollywood.

Pic found @maxx-magnum

[mybeingthere]

Students of the textiles department in the Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, India have recently come out with a lovely project called Da Vinci Notebooks. Using natural dyes and kalamkari technique they designed a very attractive collection of clothes. Here they are, demonstrating their creations.

[lifeonhighway99]

#durgapuja #navratri #kolkata #durga #india #maadurga #durgamaa #festival #photography #durgapujo #love #instagram #jaimatadi #maa #calcutta #k #mumbai #kolkatadurgapuja #devi #ig #diwali #bengali #indianfestival #dussehra #pujo #instagood #navratrispecial #kolkatadiaries #puja (at Hyderabad) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjV7RW3vHCk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=