#bombay rose

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Bombay Rose (2019) dir. Gitanjali Rao + spring | inspo

Sometimes, it is good to let your tears flow. Or else, as they say… “Little drops of water make the mighty ocean.” If the sea fills the heart, why go to the shore?

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Mood Board if Disney ever makes an epic musical inspired by India

I know a few of these references are influenced by 19th century India (and only one of these was an Indian film), but I'm not saying they have to set it in that specific time period.

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Has anyone else watched this?

Bombay Rose 🌹

By Gitanjali Rao

Watched this animated movie today and it was so beautiful and thoughtful. I am a romantic at heart but it's so rare to find good unconventional lovestory revolving around the... Common normal people with their daily struggles.

The Story!! I loved the story!

I was crying at the end because of Salim and his story. And the song was being translated as don't cry, don't cry.

Oh and the songs!! I loved the Rewa and the Persian songs. Absolutely marvelous!

Kamala was strong, so strong and beautiful. So was Ms. D'Souza. And the film had a happy ending for Kamala and her family as they deserved.

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I just found out Bombay Rose is on Netflix and oh man am I excited to watch it again.

I watched it during lockdown when it was playing on MIFF and I loved it so much. Such a beautiful movie!

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Bombay Rose // La rosa de Bombay

Film // película

Netflix

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09-03-2012

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Life´s too short for weird music Tagesempfehlung 02.03.2024

Bombay Bicycle Club / Willow (feat. Lucy Rose)

Die aktuelle Bombay Bicycle Club EP Fantasies ist zwischenzeitlich vollständig auch auf den Streaming Portalen eingestellt. Die EP umnfasst vier Stücke – allesamt Kollaborationen – die im Umfeld des letzten Albums My big day entstanden sind. Alle vier Stücke haben es nicht auf das Album geschafft. Dass es aber gut ist, die Stücke im EP Format noch freizugeben, beweißt neben dem ersten Taster Fantasneeze auch , eine Zusammenarbeit mit Lucy Rose. Willow knüpft im Sound so ein bisschen an älteres Material des Fahradclubs wie etwa Luna an.

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Bombay Bicycle Club - Willow

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Bombay Bicycle Club | Willow ft. Lucy Rose

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Bombay Crush

Bombay Crush IngredientsMilk Jelly250ml water125ml milk1 tbsp china grass powder/agar agar Bombay crush4 cups vanilla ice cream, plus extra for serving1.5 cups milk1-2 tbsp rose syrup, or more if needed1/2 tsp ground cardamomPinch nutmeg1 tsp basil seedsCrushed pistachios, for serving, optional MethodMilk JellyAdd the water, milk, and china grass powder, and whisk into a saucepan. Place on…

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Flashback: Nobody Else - Tex Pistol & Ricki Morris

9th October 2023.

Another week at #1 for Doja Cat - people really do be loving to 'Paint the Town Red'.

We'll flashback thirty-five years this time to 1988 when the #1 single was 'Nobody Else' by Tex Pistol and Ricki Morris.

I'm fairly certain I've never heard of this song before, but let's have a listen:

Hmmm, it's maybe vaguely familiar, so I might have heard it once or twice before without realising it. It's an okay song, but I guess I struggle to see what exactly made it #1 worthy? The chorus is a belter I suppose? But the lyrics are a bit questionable...

"Nobody else that comes within a country mile"

isn't exactly something I expected to hear in a love song. I just don't really get it. 'Nobody Else' didn't exactly have a lot of strong competition for the top spot, but it was up against Guns N' Roses 'Sweet Child of Mine' which only peaked at #5 if you can believe it. Sorry, Tex, but you ain't better than Guns N' Roses.

Tex Pistol, whose real name was Ian Morris, had actually had a previous #1 single a year earlier in 1987 with 'The Game of Love' which I am equally not a fan of. It was a cover of a 1965 song by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders which reached #1 on the US Billboard charts. For 'Nobody Else' Pistol paired with his brother Richard, or Rikki (who wrote and performed the song) and achieved the impressive feat (for a homegrown Kiwi artist) of scoring two back to back #1's.

Tex Pistol was also a member of the famous New Zealand band Th' Dudes alongside kiwi music legend Dave Dobbyn, and later acted as an engineer/producer for a lot of other well known local bands including Hello Sailor, DD Smash, Southside of Bombay, Greg Johnson, and When The Cat's Away.

Sadly, Pistol took his own life in 2010. He was posthumously inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame as a member of Th' Dudes. He had a pretty incredible career, and there's only a few Kiwi artists who've achieved multiple #1 singles so mad respect to him for that, even if I'm not a huge fan of the songs themselves.

See you next week, when we'll find out if Doja Cat can sustain a ninth week at #1!

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Hob Gadling - A Queer Romantic?

I have been listening to The World's End chapters of The Sandman on Audible lately and just finished Hob's Leviathan. I didn't pay this story much attention when I first read the comic, as I tended to read through the stories quickly and put more focus into the stories where Dream had a larger role. But one of the reasons I like listening to the Audible book is because it allows me to absorb each story more thoroughly and take my time thinking about each one and the (usually multiple) meanings behind them.

Hob Gadling is a character that fandom has fallen in love with. I think this is clear to anyone that takes even a partial glance at Sandman fandom. This isn't a criticism - Ferdie's performance as Hob in the Netflix show has done wonders for Hob's character. He has made his version of Hob very easy to fall in love with!

But the truth is that in The Sandman comics, Hob is a minor character who we only get to know very little about. The story Hob's Leviathan appears in The Worlds End Sandman book. We only meet him twice before this, once in The Doll's House, where we are introduced to him in Men of Good Fortune, and again in Season of Mists when Dream comes to let him know that he may miss their next meeting. In both these issues, Hob is introduced via the narrator, and therefore I like to think that we are given a fairly honest representation of the kind of person he is. We watch him grow and learn throughout the centuries in MoGF, but one of the major takeaways from this I believe is that he tends to always be on the wrong side of history. He makes bad choices and can be a bit narrow minded. He is rude and selfish and also rather self-absorbed. I actually think that the performance of the voice actor who plays Hob in the Audible book emphasises these character flaws making him even more unlikeable in many ways, though I am aware that this could just be my own experience and opinion.

But Hob's Leviathan takes a different view of Hob. Literally. The narrator of this story is a young boy of 16 called Jim. Jim met Hob on a ship travelling from Bombay to Liverpool in 1914. Jim was working on the ship as a cabin boy and Hob had bought his passage back to England - though it is revealled at the end of the story that Hob actually owned the ship they were travelling on. It is clear that at this point in time, Hob is extremely wealthy.

Jim attends to Hob throughout the journey, and grows very fond of him. In Jim's tale, Hob is a good man, who is kind and thoughtful and cares about others. He saves the life of a stowaway (who turns out to be another immortal). He is shown to be patient, and funny, and very intelligent. Jim waxes poetic about how smart Hob is, and how much he impressed him. It is particularly clear in the Audible book that Jim is taken with Hob, to the point that it could arguably be a crush.

It is fascinating how much more likeable Hob is when narrated from the viewpoint of someone with a crush on him, whether this story is exaggerated through rose tinted glasses is of course something to consider. All the tales in World's End are just that, tales. There is a constant undercurrent of exaggeration and make believe to them where even the other patrons of the inn question elements to each of the stories. We are not supposed to take these stories as absolute fact, rather they are supposed to reveal to us more about the narrators as well as their own experiences existing in this magical and strange world.

When it is revealled that Jim is actually a girl called Peggy in disguise so they can get work on the ships, the quite obvious crush makes more sense to a heteronormative audience, but what I particularly like about this story is its queer potential. See in the comic, it isn't really clarified if Jim goes by Jim because they feel more themselves as a boy, rather than a girl, or if they are disguising themself as a boy just to get work as a means to an end. I would argue that the latter is the more obvious interpretation. Jim tells the other World's End patrons that they are getting too old to keep up the disguise and will eventually have to stop working in shipping, and that when that happens, they will take on a new name, a new identity and do something else, but that for now, the patrons can keep calling them Jim.

*for a lack of clarity around the point in the comic, I am going to use gender neutral pronouns for Jim going forward*

Now from Hob's POV, he figured out that Jim was a girl, and they talk about it briefly along with the sea serpent they saw. I think that at this point, Hob is impressively progressive compared to the previous times we have met him. Now whether or not this is biased storytelling from someone who has a crush on him remains to be seen, but if we take Jim's word as truth, not only is 1914 Hob a fair and honest man who is willing to pay the way of a stowaway and fully respect the secrets of a young girl disguised as a boy so they can work on ships, but he's also totally comfortable flirting with them.

I like that he calls Jim the "handsome cabin boy". I like that this version of Hob, whether real or an exaggeration skewed by Jim's feelings for him, respects Jim's identity. Jim may be a girl in disguise, but Hob doesnt call her pretty, he calls him handsome.

It's all just a bit subtly queer and I like that for Hob (But then I would do, I'm a Dreamling shipper HA)

When Jim finishes their story, they state that they didn't see Hob again after that, but the comics later do give us a possible outcome to Jim's story...

We next see Hob in The Kindly Ones where he is mourning the death of his girlfriend Audrey. He briefly reveals that Audrey was the first person he had loved since Peggy, who was his lover until her death during the Blitz. Whilst it isn't made clear that Hob's lover Peggy is the same Jim that we meet in World's End, it is a bit too much of a coincidence. The timing adds up. If Jim was 16 in 1914, they'd be in their early 40s during the Blitz. Hob remains forever in his early 30s so I'd say its a safe bet that Jim eventually found Hob again and they were together. Hob loved them enough that he wasn't with anyone again until Audrey in the 80s. That's 50 years worth of mourning. A long time not to be with anyone, even for an immortal.

It's funny because we know so little about Hob, but one thing that I have seen commented on here a lot is that comic Hob is deemed to be as Straight as an arrow. Now I admit that the voice actor in the Audible book plays him very straight, but that is still only one interpretation.

All this is to say that I am fascinated with how the Netflix show will adapt this, since Hob in the show already comes across much kinder and more selfless than his comic counterpart. He already has an entire fandom viewing him as queer, and the comics certainly don't outright shut down such interpretations. There are moments in the comics that you have to wonder on. He does call Jim handsome rather than pretty, and when he talks to Audrey's grave he mentions his wives and loves as separate groups. He talks about finding it easy to get sex if you want it, and he talks about it in generally gender neutral terms. In Sunday Mourning Gwen reveals that she thought he was gay when she first met him, though her reasonings were that he knew so many dead people (a dark reminder that these comics were published at the height of the Aids epidemic). He reacts very badly to the news of Morpheus' death. He states on several occassions just how much he liked Morpheus, and he is one of the few people to wake up from the Wake with tears running down his cheeks. I would arguably state that its between Hob and Matthew as to who had the worst reaction to Morpheus' death, showing just how much both Hob and Matthew cared about him, and placing Hob on par with Matthew in the comics is a big deal. He seriously considers accepting Death's gift when she offers it, simply because Morpheus is dead. He doesn't, because at the end of the day, its just not in his nature to do so, and given he then dreams of Morpheus, I like to think that it was a test, that he passed.

When it comes to how the show will adapt all this, I genuinely think it will take a new approach with Jim/Peggy. I think they will be either a trans man, or at least non binary. But I think having Jim be a trans man is the better option. In the comics, Jim's tale is only very subtly queer, Jim clearly likes being Jim, but it seems like its a means to an end, a convenience in order to get work on the ships, rather than being something that is core to Jim's feelings on their gender. Besides, if we assume that Jim is indeed the Peggy Hob talks about in The Kindly Ones, then we know that Jim goes back to being Peggy when they get older and apparently continues living as a woman whilst they are with Hob, otherwise I doubt Hob would have referred to one of his greatest loves by a name they themselves rejected and only used she/her pronouns when talking about them. Nevertheless there is no reason for the show to take this approach, and if they DO decide that Jim should be a trans man, then their relationship with Hob is canonically a queer one. Trans men are men and if one of Hob's greatest loves is a trans man, then Hob is a queer man himself. I genuinely believe the show will take this route and I can't wait to see it.

Going back to my point about narrators bias, if MoGF, SoM, tKO, and TW are all narrated by a neutral third party, then this must be the true Hob. A not overly likeable rather selfish man. He has his good points, and he has certainly grown and changed over the centuries, and carries a lot of guilt for his past mistakes, but he is still quite self absorbed. Jim paints a picture of a rose tinted Hob that is far more the dreamy romantic older gentleman that took a young person under his wing. Which is fair enough.

The show is of course its own adaptation, with changes from the comics as it sees fit, but I do feel it's my duty to remind you that the show also has a narrator guiding the audience through its many stories. Dream of the Endless, Lord Morpheus, King of Nightmares and Prince of Stories himself. Take from that whatever you will.

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