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goku black stimboard (DBS)

rb appreciated!!

[beykhabarr]

I think life would be easier if we could stop segregating the world into good and bad people and accept that the world is not binary that people are not inherently good or bad, but are made of complexities and consequences. It would be easier if you could say to yourself, I know you love them but I think it's ruining your life, the bird that's bound to its nest for too long is no bird at all. If we can acknowledge that at times we get so attached to our sadness that crawling out of it feels wrong and feels like taking something that doesn't belong to you. If we can acknowledge that people who love us can be hurtful and sometimes what they do has nothing to do with you but what you do with that hurt is entirely your choice.

I think life would be simpler if we could acknowledge that life is not simple, or the same for everyone. If you'd stop beating yourself up for all the things you're not, if you'd just let yourself be loved and cared for and not be disgusted by vulnerability.

I think life is about putting a star up on a tree, and watching it in silence because the silence seems too sacred and entirely your own. It's about a spoonful of ice cream, something to drink for someone you care about.

Life is about little brothers who don't seem so little anymore. Life that's not what you imagined but thinking about it doesn't make your chest heavy anymore. Life is parks that smell of nostalgia and childhood. And bring back memories of three golu kids crammed on one frail black activa covered in mud.

I think life is both, an over priced shawarma that doesn't taste as good as it looks, and an ice cream that looks like cat poop but tastes amazing especially under the setting winter sun.

[fictionalitiesblog]

What times we live in? Can't call fat people fat, can't call black people black. Can't call the old 'old'. Scared to open my mouth. Can I call Chinese food Chinese? What if I am ordering Chinese? What do I say? Should I say yes sir, the place right of Himachal.. "Our neighbour! The corona guys?" Yes I want a crispy chicken. Now you'll say I can't say 'corona guys'.

Since I was a small boy, my grandma said," Drinking tea darkens the skin." Now i realised it's racist. No one told me some swear words are misogyny. They didn't tell me calling my sister golu was fat shaming. Talking like that felt normal. Never thought it was wrong. Never knew I'd be hurting someone if I used such words.

What would you call the words you have used to describe me? Rocky does not know how to turn on the stove whatta Shame! Rocky does not know men can aslo go bra shopping. Whatta shame! Rocky does not know men can dance kathak, whatta shame! And what's the biggest shame? Rocky does not know English. Whattabad !Whattaworst! All confirmed he's cancelled!

I no to talk but I'll say - if we keep cancelling each other, we'll never learn anything in life. I thought if I came here I could win your hearts. But what's with you all? No one will hug me or touch me You laugh at the way I speak. You are ashamed of introducing me to your friends. You think I'm blind to your attitude? That I can't feel? that it doesn't hurt? How can you shame me? I'm so ashamed of myself.

Did you know that dancing makes me happy too. But I don't have the guts to dance in front of my family. My father has a problem with me dancing. I could never challenge him. I have never fought for my own happiness. I'm a big loser.

- Rocky Randhawa

[ilyricshub]

#lilgolu #fullpower #grapewinemusic

[witchysolfan]

I do imagine that the Maulers and Lightbearers would begrudgingly come together to fight against the Hypogean threat. More of a uneasy truce until this threat is defeated then they go back to being at each other’s throats. Well of course tensions are high as the two sides try to work together and things come to a head between Golus and Estrilda who do not like each other and constantly butt heads. A challenge to a fight is set and it ends with a interesting outcome.

Look, I just wanted to draw Estrilda flying through the air to give the ultimate head butt to Golus during a fight, break his nose, give herself a black eye, and knock each other out.

There was no clear winner due to them being knocked out in the end. Lol.

[salesmandiary]

PAPPU AUR PAPA

Most of us have heard this story of Bill Gates & His Daughter visiting Restaurant.

The story is an exchange between a waiter and Bill Gates. Bill Gates tips $5 after his meal. The dissatisfied waiter said that his daughter tipped him $500 and he questioned why one of the wealthiest man doesn’t tip more. Gates answered that she is the daughter of a Billionaire; on the other hand he is a son of a wood-cutter.

Sadly it’s Fake Story. But we need to understand meaning of it which is ideological difference between Two generations.

I am sharing here with 2 real life story of my Life.

My father got married on 26th June, 1981 & someone gifted 6 Nos of Glasses (as per Pic) on his Wedding & Picture of this glass is taken today evening. We are still using these Glasses. So These Glasses are older than me.

            Whereas I don’t even remember the count of no. of Disposable Glasses I had used & throw in last few Years.

Second story in similar context

Now you all know that 26th June, 1981 He got married but  2- 3 Days back of marriage Date my father suffered with conjunctivitis & he had to wear Glasses & don’t know who suggested but my father wore Glasses which normally Blind Person wears.

In times like today where People spends thousands of lakhs rupees on his/ her appearance on marriage day here is one person who is wearing Black Glasses which Blind People wears (It was in 1981 but still it wass big thing) even later on I came to know that some of relatives from my mom side commented I don’t understand why Smita is getting married to Blind Person (just FYI there is nothing wrong in marrying specially abled person).

When I came to know about this story I asked my Dad why you wore that type of Glasses you could have wear good pair of Sunglasses. He relied, how does it matter? And I didn’t have any answer of his question.

I am sure we all have these types of stories with our Fathers where we have our difference of Opinions so let’s not start debate on who’s right & who’s wrong as both are right in their point of view.

Chanakya said something about relations with Father & Children which is still will always relevant even in future

पांच साल तक पुत्र को लाड एवं प्यार से पालन ��रना चाहिए, दस साल तक उसे छड़ी की मार से डराए. लेकिन जब वह १६ साल का हो जाए तो उससे मित्र के समान वयवहार करे.

                                                                    -         Chanakya

But not only with my Father but most of Father of my friends or around I have seen I have only one this complaint with them. They never treat their son or daughter as a Friend.

You will always see one invisible wall between them neither Father nor son/daughter shares transparently their feelings, problems with each other.

So on the Father’s Day I request all existing Father & going to be Father in future that after certain age start treating your Son/Daughter as a Friend. It is not necessary for you to always maintain that tough image of yours as all children are smart enough to understand you have soft heart but it’s just you are not showing.

Normally Father gives nick name to their children with love like Pappu, Lalu, Montu, Chintu, Pintu, Golu, Gonu, Monu, aur Munni, Chinki, Pinki, Tina, etc.

Wishing all Father’s Happieeeeeee wala Father’s Day.

And request from all Pappus to all Papas Don’t be hard on yourself start sharing your life with your Children.

[mst3kproject]

1107: The Land that Time Forgot

Watching the opening credits of this actually made me do a double-take – the name Colin Farrell appeared on the screen and I was like, wait, what the fuck?  Wouldn’t he have been like two years old?  Well, I looked it up and learned that I was wrong: The Land that Time Forgot was made in 1975, and the Colin Farrell I was thinking of wasn’t even born until a year later.  At least that woke me up.

It’s World War I, and a passenger ship is torpedoed by a German submarine.  The only survivors are a few sailors, Doug McClure, and a Dr. Lisa Clayton who serves as the movie’s designated pretty girl.  The nearest thing to rescue in sight is the submarine itself when it surfaces a few hours later – so they climb aboard, storm the hatch, and take over the ship.  At first it seems that all they have to do now is head for home, but they soon learn that the Germans have sabotaged the compass.  They’ve come ashore instead at the mysterious lost continent of Caprona. Naturally this is a land of cavemen and dinosaurs, and in order to escape the British and the Germans must put aside their differences and work together.  Only then will they be able to get back to the real world and resume shooting at each other.

While At the Earth’s Core comes across as a movie nobody gave a much of a shit about, there are places where The Land that Time Forgot is surprisingly artful and well-made.  In particular the first half-hour has several very nice moments in it, especially in the way it uses sound.  After the opening credits, the music totally vanishes for a third of the film.  The only background sounds are the lapping of waves and the creaking of the submarine, which makes gunshots and explosions all the more jarring when they happen.  It also makes this part of the movie seem very grounded and real, which contrasts with the more fantastical stuff that happens in Caprona.  The first sight of the Capronan cliffs is accompanied by the return of the soundtrack, which ushers us out of this more real world and into the fantasy beyond.

I feel like if Amicus had just set out to make a suspense movie about WWI submarines, a sort of early-20th-century Balance of Terror, they could have done a pretty fair job.  Several scenes, such as when the characters are all sitting in the dinghy waiting for the sub to surface, or when they’re diving to escape the British ship firing on them and aren’t sure if the hull will hold, are very effective indeed. The interior of the sub is an appropriately creepy and claustrophobic place, and details like the slight swinging of the lamp in the captain’s office remind us that we’re at sea.  The miniature sub surfacing, with water pouring off it, looks lovely.  The giant squid that passes by them un-noticed in the dark is my favourite ‘creature’ moment.

Unfortunately, there’s also stuff that sucks.  What ought to be the ‘action’ sequences are just a bunch of guys in very similar jackets and sweaters punching each other in the fog, and you can’t tell who’s who or which side is winning.  The conversation between the captain and Dr. Clayton attempts to make the point that when your country’s at war it’s impossible to ‘stay out of it’ no matter how much of a pacifist you, personally, may be, but it’s too heavy-handed to work properly… though I do like how the two of them are able to bond over a shared interest in biology.  I have no idea what happened in the tunnel that damaged the submarine, because the exterior shots are just blackness with a few rocks.

Then we hit the dinosaurs.  These are honestly fairly impressive for the time the film was made.  We don’t get a good first impression, as the first ones we get a good look at are three completely stiff pterodactyls circling like they’re hanging from a baby’s mobile.  The rest are puppets, stop motion, and animatronics, and the people who decided which technique to use for which shot had a good grasp of what each is best at.  The greenscreen work is sometimes crummy but there are some lovely matte paintings, and for the most part the effects here are good enough to tell the story without being distracting.  There’s even some attempt to portray the dinosaurs as animals with behaviours, rather than monsters that exist only to menace the humans.

So I actually have quite a bit of praise for this movie.  That’s not what my blog is about, though.  This blog is about movies that suck, so let’s look at the bad parts of The Land that Time Forgot.

Well, there’s the standard stuff.  The day-for-night is bright enough that it was obviously shot in the daytime while still being dark enough that you can’t tell what’s going on. The human inhabitants of Caprona are stupid cartoon Neanderthals with dark makeup on their faces but not their arms and legs, who become whiter and whiter as they move up the evolutionary scale. The motion of the dinosaurs may be pretty good but the design of them is ugly and lumpy, with far too many teeth even on the herbivores.  This is partly because we didn’t know nearly as much about dinosaurs in the seventies, but the movie’s fat carnosaurs with their lizard-like heads would have been ugly and inaccurate in the thirties.  Compare them, for example, to Charles R. Knight’s Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops from freaking 1927.

Many ‘lost world’ scenarios will simply present us with t-rex fighting a saber-toothed tiger and expect us not to question it.  The Land that Time Forgot gives us an reason of sorts for its mixing of geological eras, but not one that makes any sense.  From Om’s conviction that he will become a ‘Stolu’ and Dr. Clayton’s explanation of what’s going on in the giant coconut hot tub, we gather that each individual organism on Caprona evolves from a single cell to a complex being, following the entire history of its species’ evolution.  This appears to have been inspired by the fact that embryos ‘evolve’ as they develop, going through phases in which they have things like gills before losing them.  The phenomenon, called 'recapitulation', was considered one of the original pieces of evidence for evolution and I guess I can accept how they use it here.  The problem is that the movie refuses to state it clearly, which gives the impression that the writers were kind of embarrassed by the idea.

The biggest problem with two-thirds of The Land that Time Forgot is that once the characters reach Caprona, the story more or less comes to a screeching halt.  The parts set on the submarine were quite tightly-focused.  Now we are technically still seeing the same story, as they try to find fuel in order to get them back to civilization, but we also stop for long sequences of people climbing hills and dinosaurs wandering around in the dark, or pointless arguments between the British and German sailors.  In a dinosaur movie we obviously need a little bit of people standing around going oooooh and aaaaah, but they go about it all wrong here.

Then there’s the ending, which quite literally destroys everything we’ve seen so far.  The characters are on the verge of saving the damsel in distress, escaping the island, and celebrating the power of international cooperation, and then at the last minute the volcano erupts and it all goes to hell.  A volcano erupting at the end of a movie that is not about a volcano erupting will always be a deus ex machina, because there’s nothing characters can do to cause or prevent it – it’s never anything but a coincidence.  The need to escape prompts the Germans to turn on the British and try to leave without Dr. Clayton and Doug McClure, and their karmic punishment is to be cooked to death by volcanic gases in their own submarine.  Clayton and McClure are left behind on the shore while everything around them catches fire. This doesn’t feel like a conclusion to the story we’ve just seen.  It feels more like somebody just really hates happy endings, and ripped one out from under us at the last moment.

There are a few things in this movie that could have counted as thematic material if anyone had cared, but nothing is ever done with any of them. Om is a ‘bolu’, a lower order of cavemen, and he never seems to notice Dr. Clayton, nor do the slightly higher ‘stolu’.  It is the ‘golu’, the most human-like of them all, who attempt to kidnap and rape her. I doubt this was an attempt to say anything about human nature.  It seems to have been done that way just because it wasn’t yet time for Dr. Clayton to be in peril until the climax of the film.

Likewise, Jonah and the bots comment on the fact that this is a movie about Europeans coming to a new country, shooting the inhabitants, and generally making a mess as they search for petroleum.  Within the story this is not a colonial urge, as the characters have no plans to settle, but a matter of life and death, and again it seems like nobody thought very deeply about it.  It was just a thing that needed to happen to make the plot work.

Enough went right in this movie that the things which went wrong really do become a terrible shame.  A great deal of effort seems to have gone into just about everything, but a few poor writing choices mean that the result is not very good, yet not bad enough to be enjoyed on that level either.  If I were contemplating this as a potential Episode that Never Was, I honestly think I would have decided against it.  It just doesn’t have the kind of personality I associate with a good MST3K movie.

[theysaywhatasadsight]

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[gditrisha]

HEARTSEASE | PROLOGUE

SUMMARY: Dura’s Dawn: A glorious battle that led all Hypogeans to their demise — a victory to be remembered for generations to come — but with Esperia and its people still dealing with the damage, seeking solace is an afterthought for the kingdom’s valiant, war heroes. Amidst the unrest, Estrilda searches for hers.

CHARACTERS: Estrilda, Thane, Golus, and then some

TAGS: Post Hypogean War, Introspection, Angst, Tags & Characters to Be Added as Story Progresses. 

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Estrilda, a noble daughter from the House of Rayne, sat in her studio — a quaint room filled with all conceivable tools of the arts and fresh morning air flowing through the gigantic, glass window overlooking the estate's garden. The sky was bright, light blue in hue and the flowers she had tended in her spare time was now in bloom. It would have been a perfect subject to frame and, hopefully, hang on some wealthy curator's wall.

Auctioning the portrait for its worth in gold would not be enough though since her father's abode was to be reclaimed by the kingdom until the men of her once rowdy yet joyous house had returned or she, a frail woman, proved herself worthy of her clan's name, and the legacy attached to it. Eviction dawned and it was, in fact, soon.

 "Milady, it is time."

 Perhaps too soon.

Belta, Estrilda's lady-in-waiting arrives with a set of clean undergarments, traveling tunic, and footwear. She sets a ceramic bowl and pitcher on the floor then, with a sigh, fills it with warm water.

 "It's a shame. I won't get to see you nor your paintings anymore." She plucks the lavender from the stem with a swift pull, letting the buds wade in the water. She wrings the floral-infused washcloth until it was not as soaked. The dyes had stained Estrilda's lap, the brush's bristles now condensed and crusted with paint. A servant takes the once damp brush from her loose grasp while other abled assistants swiftly packed her dyes, easel, and her blank canvas. As soon as they finished packing, they gently closed the door behind them. Now bare and hair pinned up, Belta wipes her lady's body clean.

 "My lady, your ride awaits." A male servant informs eyes averted, keeping the door ajar.

 Both women make haste, Estrilda insists that she assisted in getting herself dressed much to Belta's dismay so she rushes to the other room. Estrilda quickly puts her undergarments and tighten her traveling tunic with a belt then buckles her footwear. Belta returns with a brush then gently yet thoroughly combs golden strands into sections for braiding. With fingers working like a loom weaving thread, Belta braids Estrilda's hair into plaits then tucks back any loose strands behind either ear.

 "All done. Is there anything you need?"

 "I would like to be left alone."

 “Yes, milady.” Belta carries the discarded dirty clothing on one arm and the lavender-infused water in another carefully treading a path that would not lead to spillage.

 "Wait."

 "Yes, milady?" She stopped in her tracks, a few droplets escaping.

 "You have served my father's household well. Do take care."

With a tinge of sadness in her eyes, Belta musters a smile, bows her head and takes her leave. The way the sound leaves a room sets the young woman in melancholy.

Estrilda walks towards the balcony, disbelief dancing on her face as she watches the flowers being harvested and dropped into round, wicker baskets. It was to be carried away perhaps some would make it to the marketplace to be sold for a reasonable price while the defects would be thrown away. What use is there of flowers when there will be no one left to care for their growth? Estrilda was no different.

 She takes a few steps back to stand dead center taking it all in one last time. Her beloved home was soon to be desolate and dust-ridden. The room and the remaining furniture had now been covered in musky coverings, the scent of lavender overpowered by something more...ominous.

 "Smoke?"

 The black fumes quickly slip underneath the door and into the room. Estrilda coughs while making her way back to the balcony only to see the garden in flames. She returns to the door only to find it locked. The metal knobs glowed as if it were being forged. Unbeknownst to the heat, she grabs hold of it only to bend from shock and pain.

 “SOMEONE? ANYONE? HELP!" She screams and gathers strength to barge the door open with the full force of her body but to no avail. She lies down, coughing profusely, lungs brimming with anything but oxygen.

 A distorted figure emerges from the smoke, looming from above and ensnaring her body in darkness.

 "Good Night." Its deep gurgled voice echoes as she struggles to stay conscious but she succumbs to suffocation.

 Alas, a gasp escaped her lips.

 Estrilda bolts up with an unsheathed dagger in hand. Eyes now opened and chest heaving for air, as if she had been submerged in an undertow. A familiar voice addresses her sudden wake.

 "Must be quite a dream, I presume.”

Thane, an extensively skilled one-armed swordsman who had taken upon himself the task of training the Knight of Valor at the tender age of ten, and with little to no experience had raised Estrilda under his wing being her legal guardian as of late, was rekindling logs in the fireplace. The embers blanketed Estrilda's quarters in a warm glow as the evening sky brought a rather untimely thunderstorm.

Estrilda sheaths her weapon then rubs the thudding in her temples. The bandage wrapped around her head was damp, her sweat mixed with the scent of lavender.

 "Thank goodness, you're awake!" Belta arrives with a wooden tray. Estrilda's mouth waters at the sight of cheese, sliced bread, and a bowl of piping-hot, hearty stew. She stands whisking it away from her then sets it on her lap. Manners out the way, she ate the meal with gusto.

 "Seems I will have to fetch another batch for you, Sir Thane. Would you still like to have your meal in here?"

 "The dining area will do."

Belta nods then steps out to prepare his meal with a slight skip in her step.

"Since when did you arrive?" She asks between bites, hastily dipping pieces of bread into the stew, staining her nightgown in the process.

 “Three days ago. You've been out for five. Why aren't you in the infirmary?"

 "You know I can't stand that place." Her words hang in the air as she nibbles cheese.

 "I am aware but I require you to visit the court physician first before the banquet." Thane sets the iron rod near the hearth then flicks rust from fingers before retrieving a scroll from his belt, a fancy invitation by the kingdom's beloved king to celebrate her eighteen years of age.

 "It says the banquet is tomorrow. Why is it tomorrow?" Estrilda skims through text and dreads the thought of celebrating amidst reclamation. This didn’t sit well with her and neither with Thane who worried more for her injured state than some soirée, however, this wasn’t just an ordinary occasion they could shelve and retrieve some other time. With a sigh, Thane peers out the window then draw the curtains to a close.

 "The court physician will be the one to decide if you're to make an appearance."

 "Sir Thane, I've prepared your meal. It's set in the dining hall." Belta returns to take the tray and, much to Estrilda’s surprise, a ceramic bowl and pitcher filled with water. Estrilda gets the cloth and wipes the crumbs and excess tomato puree from her mouth. The whiff of lavender sets her agitation at ease.

 “I shall take my leave. Do get some more rest.” Thane turns his heels and leaves Estrilda’s quarters, quick yet quiet footsteps make its way down the hallway then disappearing a flight of stairs. With her guardian out of site, she straightened her nightgown. Unrest settled in and she could not bring herself to lie back down. A little evening walk would have done her good but it would be too risky to evade Thane. With no other option in sight, she visits her studio. It'd been so long since she set foot there.

The marble floor was cold beneath her feet and the creaking noise caused by the doors made her wince. Standing dead center, a pang of sadness pools in her heart as she reminisces its prime. She knew where everything was despite the darkness and dust-ridden coverings. She relives her recent dream, piecing everything that had happened, and what it could have meant but the musky scent was too overpowering. With a little push, she opens the window to hear an oratorio of crickets and birds, the quiet drizzle of an ending evening storm, and the whirring of fresh air. The scent of petrichor signals her to go back to sleep.

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[friendrat]

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Film on Uttarakhand ‘ghost village’ makes it to MAMI Mumbai Film Festival – The Indian Express

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Written by Tanushree Ghosh | September 23, 2020 1:06:28 pm

Ek Tha Gaon has made it to the distinguished India Gold competitors class of the 22nd MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

The digicam paints vignettes of white mist towards darkish partitions, black soot on kettles as fires burn and die, with indoors as barren and chilly as the surface. Derelict homes entwined in overgrown foliage, cracked partitions, damaged picket doorways, a stray cat about, garments strewn throughout a ground – converse of habitation as soon as. About 800 years in the past, a village settled by one form of migration – by 50 households comprising kings from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal fleeing invasion and menace to life, and the Brahmins and Kshatriyas they introduced alongside – is at present empty due to one other form of palayan. If individuals make a village, what stays of it after they depart?

Srishti Lakhera’s Ek Tha Gaon (Once Upon A Village) is the story of Semla, one amongst 1,053 (the movie tells) ‘ghost villages’ in Uttarakhand. The Garhwali movie made it to the distinguished India Gold competitors class of the 22nd MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Others on this class embrace Arun Karthick’s hair-elevating Tamil movie Nasir on spiritual bigotry uprooting an extraordinary life, Ivan Ayr’s Meel Patthar (Milestone), Farida Pacha’s Watch Over Me, and Prithvi Konanur’s Pinki Elli? (Where is Pinki?). While COVID-19 has pushed the pageant to subsequent 12 months, MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) introduced the official choice earlier this month. Before this, the Visions du Reel Festival documentary pageant in Switzerland put Lakhera’s movie of their media library. The movie comes after one other comparable movie, Nirmal Chander’s Moti Bagh, on his farmer uncle in Pauri Garhwal, gained at IDSFFK (International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala) and was one among India’s entries to the Oscars final 12 months.

Director Srishti Lakhera’s Ek Tha Gaon is the story of Semla, Uttarakhand.

In 2019, Lakhera co-directed Ishq, Dosti and All That, a brief movie on queer friendship and love, with Bhamati Sivapalan and non-revenue Nazariya, however Ek Tha Gaon is her first full-size movie. Part-observatory, half-expository, it is poetic and private. For Lakhera, 34, who grew up in Rishikesh and graduated from Delhi, Semla is her father’s ancestral village, one she would go to to meet grandparents and kinfolk throughout holidays. Her father, like many others, migrated. He pursued medical research and a authorities job. Her mom’s facet, from Pauri Garhwal, had virtually totally migrated to Dehradun way back. “When I came here, our house was in ruins, amid overgrown bushes and grass. I saw the village road come up, but no public transport. There were seven locals, now just five remain, minus a couple who’ve returned owing to lockdown/joblessness,” she says in a telephone dialog from Semla, the place she and her mother and father are spending their days within the lockdown. Lakhera says that reverse migration is short-term. “Two men returned from South Africa and Taiwan, respectively, where they earned around Rs 50,000 per month working at hotels, that’s not the kind of money you’d make here,” she provides.

The movie’s two ladies – 80-year-outdated Leela Devi and 19-year-outdated Golu – really feel caught, however, ultimately, depart. Their personal lives additionally inform the story of the village’s misplaced previous, current limbo, and hazy future. “In 2014, I was going to my home in Semla, not really to make a film, but seeing the older woman go about her days, I saw a film there. Though she recalled my grandparents and parents, it took me more than two years to build a connection. Then, I met Golu, this young person who aspires for a job and a better life,” says Lakhera. In the movie, one sees Golu largely staring into nothingness, the pace with which she flips TV channels, iterates her restlessness and the fixed sense of feeling “unlucky”.

Leela Devi, 80, speaks of a time when “night never descended on the farms, brimming with people.”

Leela speaks of a time when “night never descended on the farms, brimming with people.” She as soon as grew ragi, jhangora, dal, 300 sorts of rajma (the vertical fields are rainfed, irrigation isn’t attainable regardless of shut proximity to India’s highest dam, Tehri), however now she uproots weeds and is spurned even by leopards. On trembling legs, one damaged, she has to stroll, to fetch water, and grocery 1 km away in Nyuli village, which has a health care provider-much less nursing unit. But the spunky Leela – who “refuses to take directions, or wear lapel mics” – equips herself with prepared repartee, to navigate life amid darkish ideas and “ghost-like humans.” Lakhera ensures the gaze and engagement aren’t distant. She forgoes handheld digicam for a heat, intimate and intuitive entry into the private house and worlds of the characters, Sivapalan’s succinct edits give the movie a felicitous medium tempo.

Another character, Dinesh Bhai, neither has a livelihood nor entry to deserted lands to until, which the out-migrated landowners would relatively let it waste than give to a Dalit. “People of our caste are landless,” he says within the movie. “If given a small plot, I’d have grown onion, potatoes, garlic, etc. Raja ke time hum logon ko dabake rakhte thhe, wohi abhi tak chal raha hai (We were oppressed under the kings, and remain so now).” Dalits, Lakhera says, have been within the state a lot earlier than the higher-caste individuals, and are way more indigenous to the land. The locals are dependent on the ration system and engaged in MGNREGA work – sustaining pagdandi (strolling trails), chopping grass/overgrown foliage. “Do your job today, get money later. That kind of delay is hard for the people,” provides Lakhera. Since April, the wages of all-India MNREGA staff, in accordance to the MNREGA web site, of round Rs 2,974 crore and counting, are but to be cleared.

The movie, nevertheless, isn’t populated with figures. For Lakhera, cinema is “emotion,” a glimmer of hope amid the gloom and despair. The ending exhibits Leela and Golu, sitting on the identical parapet the place the octogenarian had spent many a day in wistful sleep, fortunately sharing their city tales. Leela Devi, who now lives together with her daughter in Dehradun, is visiting the house she as soon as refused to depart, and Golu, who now stays with kinfolk in Rishikesh, coaching to be a yoga instructor, is visiting her mother and father, who’re among the many 5 villagers remaining in Semla.

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Hell, one of the most acclaimed Anime of all time, Dragon Ball, had been adapted from a Mamga who’s author barely planned beyond the next few chapters even in the more serialized sagas. For the most part, you would never have known that Golu’s Super Saiyan form was never planned even with Vegeta’s proclamations.If anything, I admire Korra for turning out as well as it did.

Hell, Book One did have the plan for Korra to hit her lowest point and be restored by Aang but that’s a case of a planned moment coming off as an unplanned moment in my eyes

So, I think one of the most interesting ways to look at writing is with this quote by George R.R. Martin:

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there’s going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don’t know how many branches it’s going to have, they find out as it grows.”

Now, architects certainly don’t lock into EVERYTHING, but the outline is there from the get-go, whereas with gardeners, it’s not like NOTHING is done, but past overall messaging or a general idea, it’s not done. 

I’m of the mind that Bryke were more architects with ATLA and gardeners with LoK. This is no knock on ATLA whatsoever, but those tight plot beats were always planned. I believe there were changes along the way (I’d be shocked if Azula’s character arc had been fully set, for instance), and we know for a fact there was originally supposed to be a Season 4. But there was a feeling of more narrative control and intentionality, which is why I’ve said before that it’s probably better written, like, as an artform.

Black Sails is another example of an architect-style show (it had to be…it was basically prequel fic for Treasure Island), but one where the writers left a good deal of latitude in how characters could change and develop. They had that level of planning, but it didn’t prevent them from exploring things that came up and surprised them, like Anne and Max’s relationship.

“All of the notes we wanted to play lined up as we got to the end. But I think the Max (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Anne (Clara Paget) relationship was something that became emotionally impactful in a way that we didn’t see coming. That was a lesson in if you’re not letting stories evolve naturally, then you’re missing all the good stuff.” (x)

So, it’s not like I’m going to say gardeners are always better writers, or produce a better end result.

However, I do think there’s something sort of inherently exciting with LoK about that, because the show ended up being guided by Korra, a character who I think was accidentally the most intersectional protagonist possible. I say accidentally, because Bryke’s process was “let’s just write the opposite of Aang” (who is not exactly a ‘typical’ protag either; he’s an east-Asian survivor of genocide), and that inherently pointed to a very transgressive, queer figure. I don’t mean sexuality, but specifically queerness. 

We do know the broader strokes of Korra’s spiritual journey were planned, but past that, there was so much room for how that would come into being. And to me the value of Korra is almost in the messiness of how it did. It was objectively poorly written at times, but it evolved into this super self-conscious kind of narrative, and one with a protagonist who had the unique ability to break down so many storytelling conventions and speak to a lot of people who hadn’t ever come across a character like that before.

I guess what I’m saying is that I think LoK’s lack of strict planning is why it turned out well, and why the series ending just with Book 1 would have felt like such a let-down. You’re right…that was designed to be her lowest point, but the quick fix was just something that sat in contention to the central themes of the series (finding inner balance and meaning in the journey). 

I’m just going to gush now. @gnelliswriter and I better write that healing arc piece soon O.o

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