#and a great actor ☝🏽

[riboism]

forgot about how down bad I am for taron egerton

[srbachchan]

DAY 5499

Jalsa, Mumbai                    Mar 7/8,  2023                Tue/Wed  12:26 AM

languishing in the environs of the home and the prevention from all kinds of physical activity .. the inability to partake in the festivities of the day .. and the gaiety of Holi that was celebrated with such vigour and in such fine fettle , has gone amiss .. has been so for years now .. 

The open house .. the celebratory welcome to all .. the hundreds that drenched themselves with music and dance and camaraderie .. starting early in the day and in a never ending mode till the dawn of the next .. 

those times may never come again .. I hope they do .. but it looks difficult .. at least for the present .. 

when in time and in the time of contemplation .. get back to the words of Babuji .. and pick those gems those elements that reflect his mind  .. as in the ☝🏽 above ..

In the response to a letter written to him , there is talk of one of his poems “ jeevan ke pahiye ke neeche “ .. under the wheels of life .. 

he expresses his gratitude to the correspondent for the appreciation he gave for the poem , and then expresses a gem :

‘tell me what the mistakes and dislikes of my work are .. tell others of the ‘khoobiyaan’ खूबियाँ , the brilliance and the good of my work .. ‘

then another comes :

‘they that call me Maha Kavi .. the greatest Poet ..महाकवि , the great the best .. i feel they be sarcastic towards me .. what evil have I done to be given sarcastic reference’ 

And the spirit has ever rubbed off on me too  .. I dislike being referred to in the glorious epithets that are constructed in my introduction or in a reference .. sadi ke mahanayak , the greatest actor of the century .. no .. no such adjectives please .. just a simple name will do .. 

the genes have rubbed off .. on to me .. 

and what else has rubbed off on to me is my immense inadequacy .. on many aspects as a human .. so the references on me are not valid and not appreciated ..

Love and care ❤️

Amitabh Bachchan

[ireallydontcare5]

☝🏽 Exactly. Were gonna get a bunch of "well, I always hated him and he's mediocre". I admit Buffy and Angel were my shows, I loved the Avengers movies he directed but he's an asshole. I can separate work from a person. I read and have seen material I have enjoyed but have came assholes. Just like you have actors that are great and you like to watch on screen but are assholes behind the cameras.

I don’t really think the take-away from the Joss Whedon news should be people saying the didn’t like him all along and never liked his work and his work wasn’t that great anyway (although there are certainly flaws and many valid criticisms). Unless they really were never fans in which case, fine. But I did like his work. When I binged Buffy in 2014 I loved it and recc’d it to everyone I knew for like a year. Then I read about how he treated Charisma Carpenter and some other stuff and backed away.

The point is that we shouldn’t put people on pedestals and our love for things shouldn’t make us look the other way when the people who’ve made them are guilty of heinous things. Joss Whedon has created things that have made people happy and he’s also a terrible person who abuses the people who work under him. Those statements can co-exist.