#nasir the film

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Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai (1961) | dir. Nasir Hussain

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T-Boz & Nas

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-watched 7/12/2023- 2 stars- on Pluto Tv (on demand) free

Not much of a movie in my opinion, and it didn't really have an ending.

Zola (2020)

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My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen!

The Second Round lists have all concluded

Except... that they haven't. Not quite.

This round consisted of 37 tilts, which means we have 37 victors. Therefore, in order to continue into the next round with an even number of contenders, one must be eliminated.

Therefore, we have taken the two contenders who won their polls by the narrowest margins and they shall be pitted against each other in a final tie-breaker tilt. The Winner will continue into Round Three of the tournament, the loser will be eliminated.

Choose your champion wisely:

Sir Guy of Gisbourne, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) VS. Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Propaganda

Sir Guy of Gisbourne, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Portrayed by: Basil Rathbone Defeated Opponents: - Nasir [Mark Ryan], Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986) - Finan [Mark Rowley], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022) - Will Scarlett [Harry Lloyd], BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009)

“Justice for Basil Rathbone's superlative Hot Villain Energy, his incredible fencing calves, his smirk, his sneer, and his really quite distractingly hot hands.”

Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Portrayed by: Cary Elwes Defeated Opponents: - Jaskier [Joey Batey], The Witcher (2019-) - Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan [Antonio Banderas], The 13th Warrior (1999) - Caspian X [Ben Barnes], The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010)

"I saw this movie when I was about 10, didn't understand most of the jokes but fell in love with Robin. I love a silly guy! (especially when he's this hot)"

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

For Sir Guy:

“The fencing in this movie is SO GOOD and that’s mostly because Basil was an Olympic pro and made everybody else look so good. I’ve never seen faster fencing than Guy and Robin Hood in the final sequence!”

“Although Prince John and the Sheriff are the leading antagonists, Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy is the perfect foil for Errol Flynn’s Robin. Sir Guy is an archetypal hot aristocratic villain, with charisma, sword fighting skill, and a hard, arrogant edge.”

"Here is my argument for Guy of Gisbourne (besides: everyone in this tournament should respect Basil Rathbone.) In this film, Guy of Gisbourne is attracted to both Robin and Marion, and who can blame him? Unfortunately, he is absolutely incapable of not making this everyone else's problem as well.

"That's Sir Guy getting up (and holding Robin's gaze) after Robin has just returned his sword (ahem.) Tell me that look is not baffled lust.

"And here he is talking to Lady Marion about treason. Why is he shifting his weight? Why is he folding his arms unless he is trying to very definitely not do anything else with his hands?

Poor guy. If those two only had eyes for each other, I too would be experiencing baffled lust."

"That smooth, sneering, suave baritone really needs to be heard. The clip focuses on Marian's speech, but you get Gisbourne's at the beginning, and ooh, the diction! Delicious."

For Robin Hood:

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From Mischief to Morse

A combined Mischief and Moustache Monday. I don't know how long there was between these two photos but I love the way they appear to be able to move seamlessly from giggling to being in character and fully immersed in the scene.

The Endeavour set always looks like it was a great place to be. I'm so sad that I only started to watch after it had finished so missed the chance to go and see them filming.

Also... bonus pic... because how can anyone not adore THAT FACE - moustache or no moustache...

... looking at you @librawritesstuff

Photos by Nasir Hamid from Simply Oxford

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I FINALLY DREW TESSALLY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

The story here is while they were out in the snow they found a rock that looks like hunter's necklace so they made snowman lookalike and Ally's filming Tess' impression of him. The line she's saying is from Nasir Mcgill's disventure camp voiceover series. My little brother is a big fan of the videos and he made me watch most of them so I added in one of Hunter's lines. Anyway they're gonna send the video to Hunter then go inside and make hot cocoa cause they're in love.

I love these two so much they're one of my favorite ships. They're silly girlfriends, silly girlfriends who comfort each other when things get rough. Tess draws Ally a lot, I'm deciding it's canon now. That sketchbook is full of Ally and Ally definitely knows. Ally, in turn, has a sims world of her and Tess and their sims are living in a cute house and the Grim reaper is their roommate. Also she made Hunter and he's their neighbor became those three are BEST FRIENDS AND YOU CAN'T SEPARATE THEM THAT'S THEIR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT STRANGE GUY. I love the dynamic the three of them have. I loved how happy Hunter and Ally were to see Tess again in All Stars like they love her so much I miss those three.

I think my list of favorites from the disventure camp cast right now is Jake, James and Tess in that order. They're my top three, my favorite diva, my president and the love of my life. Still in that order.

Also I love the idea of Ally having a raccoon tail dye in her hair it suits her.

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James Bradshaw filming Endeavour Series 4 film 3 (deleted scene)

© Nasir Hamid

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what are your favorite watches this year?

Hey Anon, I am probably the worst person to ask this question to, because I watch so little visual media. I am constitutionally unable to casual watch, so it takes great effort to watch something in the first place, and then obsess about it for a while (or gripe about it for a while).

I think We Are Lady Parts is my absolute favourite piece of media in years - its the one I've been reccing to all and sundry. (Interview with the Vampire is the show I'm obsessed with, but I would not go around reccing it to anyone without massive caveats about it being, well, about vampires.)

I think I watched Nimona this year? (Googles, nope, it was last year. Time is soup, anon.) Anyway, I love Nimona with great love.

Oh, I watched Coco and Moana this year, thanks to spending some time with young kids, and I loved them both. (I also watched Raya and the Last Dragon, and while I loved the visuals, I would have liked the writing to be more specifically situated in particular South East Asian traditions.)

I really wanted to love All We Imagine As Light but, unfortunately, it didn't quite move me the way it did everyone else.

I finally got around to watching Nasir (2020), which was really really good. It's hard to call movies like that favourites, because I probably won't want to watch them again, but yes, high quality cinema.

Oh, and also, for my sins, I watched Rocky and Rani Ki Prem Kahani a few days ago (I was trapped! I had no choice!) and... I actually enjoyed large parts of it? Unironically?!

I know, I know, me actually saying something positive about a KJo film. Ghor Kaliyug etc etc

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Remembering Prakash Mehra, a remarkable filmmaker in Hindi cinema, on his birth anniversary (13/07).

He was among the trailblazers of masala films, alongside Nasir Hussain and Manmohan Desai. His collaborations with the actor Amitabh Bachchan resulted in numerous sensational hits and timeless masterpieces.

Mehra commenced his journey in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he helmed Haseena Maan Jayegi, featuring Shashi Kapoor in a captivating double role. Then, in 1973, he ventured into production and direction with Zanjeer. This exceptional collaboration with Amitabh Bachchan marked the beginning of a long-lasting and fruitful partnership, spanning seven more films. Among them, six emerged as blockbuster sensations: Hera Pheri, Khoon Pasina, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Lawaaris, Namak Halaal, and Sharaabi.

Their final joint project, Jaadugar, unfortunately faced a setback, concluding their streak of triumphs. Zanjeer holds the distinction of launching Bachchan's career as a leading actor, while Jaadugar was released during a transitional phase in Bachchan's illustrious journey.

Prakash Mehra also stood as one of the early Bombay directors who aspired to explore Hollywood. In the late eighties, he embarked on a collaborative endeavor with Frank Yandolino to bring The God Connection to life. This ambitious project aimed to include acclaimed Hollywood actors like Charles Bronson, among others. Despite substantial initial funding, the project ultimately remained unrealized.

Today, we remember Prakash Mehra's invaluable contributions to the world of cinema, his pioneering spirit, and the indelible mark he left on the industry.

Prakash Mehra (L), with Amitabh Bachchan (M) and Manmohan Desai (R). Photo Courtesy- Raghu Rai.

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Grizzlies point guard Nasir Simmons is set to make his 2023-24 debut as early as Dec. 20 after serving a 30-game suspension issued by the ABA. Today, Simmons reflected on being away from the team and his journey back to eligibility in his first public press conference since the summer. 

"It was tough, I won’t lie. I had some horrible days," Simmons told reporters. "It was hard, but with the support that I had throughout this process, it helped me a lot. Obviously, basketball is something I've been doing my whole life. Taking that away, it makes life tougher, you know, a little bit harder. But I had the right people around me, from my family to the organization. They all helped me along in the process."  

In June, Simmons was suspended for the first 30 games of this season for repeatedly brandishing firearms. The first instance occurred in March when he was seen holding a gun at a strip club outside of Grove City. Simmons was suspended for eight games and went to a counseling program in Florida. On May 13, after his team was eliminated from the playoffs, Simmons again displayed a gun on a social media livestream.

The dynamic point guard says he has been keeping up with his team by watching footage on what they've been doing without him in the fold. 

"It's like film study for me," Simmons said. "Obviously, I've been with the majority of the players for a while now, obviously we've got some new pieces, so me being the point guard, there are guys I have to learn and find out where they want to be on the floor. As far as where we stand, I'm not worried at all."

The two-time All-Star has a point to prove with his return and acknowledged that there's a chip on his shoulder ahead of his first game back. 

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Gunga Jumna (1961) // dir. Nitin Bose

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Shipper Tag Game

thanks so much to @godotismissingx for tagging me again!

1. What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care anymore?

i'll be honest LOL i was oblivious in stuff like this when i was a teenager. yes, i'd drool over celebrities and characters, but i never knew shipping was a thing.

2. Which ship would you consider your first one?

i got into the fandom culture very late, so my first ship was joseph chandler x emerson kent from whitechapel

3. Your first fanfic belonged to which couple?

i honestly don't remember. i got into fanfic pretty late too. maybe whitechapel as well?

4. Do you remember the first couple you saw a fanart over?

nope

5. Did you ever get into ship discourse?

i don't really do discourse most of the time.

6. Did you used to have any no-otp or have it currently?

i don't know how you define no-otp. like is it just something you don't ship, or you hate? there are ships that i don't like, and i just don't mention them at all on my blog. if you know that i've watched a show or film, but i never mention or reblog a popular ship from the show/film, that's probably my no-otp...

7. Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

LOL i'm predictable, shi qiang x wang miao (shiwang) from three-body. i'm especially into reading fanfic recently. one of the first things i check every morning is if there's new shiwang fic.

8. Currently, do you have any OTPs?

shiwang has been living in my mind rent free for an entire year now, and i haven't gotten tired of them yet...probably never will...

recently i'm into cheng bing x pan dahai from the lonely warrior and tang chuan x shi hong from the devotion of suspect x.

and just to name a few other otps: guang hongfeng x zhou xun in day and night, lee joongyeop x cha jaehwan from chimera, lee chang x youngshin in kingdom; cheng fengtai x shangxirui from winter begonia, agron x nasir from spartacus, jack x ianto from torchwood, and my first whitechapel ship is always very important to me.

9. Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

i'm used to not having ships be 100% canon. what can you do? sigh!

10. Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

can't really think of anything

11. Do you have any ship that, in the past, was considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?

can't think of anything either...

12. What was your favorite crack ship?

i don't really have one...xD...

13. Who is the couple you read more fanfics of?

definitely shiwang...i kinda stopped reading fanfic in early 2019 due to the original sin/原生之罪 drama and a family incident...i might have tried some fanfic occasionally, but i generally wasn't in a mood for fanfic until three-body aired in 2023.

another reason is back then, most chinese fanfic writers don't really use ao3, so lots of fanfic for day and night and original sin was on lofter and weibo instead of ao3. and it's a pain in the ass trying to track fic on those sites. but now, most of the shiwang fic would be on ao3. and because shiwang is very loved in cfandom, new fic never stops coming.

i do read western fandom fanfic too, but definitely not as much as the chinese ones ever since i got back into cdramas in 2017.

14. What most of your ships usually have in common?

give me all of the dilfslove or dld (dilf loves dilf) LOL.

enemies to lover is something i always like. though how you define "enemy" would be very different in different ships. i also tend to ship work partners (detective duos; cop & some kind of consultant; villain duos)

15. What you absolutely hate in a ship?

maybe the lack of chemistry? if i can't feel the chemistry between the actors, no matter how romantic or hot the plot is between them, i probably won't ship them.

tagging @bahoreal @xinxiaojie @yohankang @zhivchik @a-very-fond-farewell @randomingoftherandomness only if you haven't done this and want to do it; also tagging any followers who want to do this.

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50: Do you have a favourite version of Robin Hood for film or telly?

Only homemade ones when I was a kid. Would be interesting to try out a professional one now, though I hear it's a lot more physically demanding than most people expect.

The greatest Robin Hood is still Errol Flynn from back in 1938. I've also a soft spot for Sean Connery as the aging Robin in Robin and Marian (1976), and the Disney animated version from 1973. I have very faint but fond memories of the TV show Robin of Sherwood, made in the 80s, with Michael Praed in the lead, which was a lot more mystical than any other version I've seen, but I'd expect it doesn't hold up so well today and will look very cheap. Ray Winstone was good in it as Will Scarlet and best of all was Mark Ryan as Nasir the Saracen.

Many folks would probably plump for Kevin Costner in Prince of Thieves, but it doesn't really sit right with me to have an American playing (a live-action) Robin Hood any more than it would be to have one playing James Bond or Gandalf or Harry Potter. It is a well-made and entertaining film, but I think people rate it just because of what a hit it was and how comparatively recent it is. Didn't think much of the Ridley Scott version with Russell Crowe, though I was accidentally present for some of it being filmed, somewhere by the sea down south (I forget where), when the boats coming ashore scenes were being filmed. I sat up on a cliff and watched them shoot it while having a picnic.

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i know this is random, but i ask bc you're a KoH expert: i never understood the choice to have Imad appear as the servant when he and Balian first meet? i guess it makes for a surprise when he returns (tho tbh would the scene be significantly different if we already knew Imad's true status?) but what even was the point of it narratively? was it just a misunderstanding on the christian side? did Imad himself promote the idea?? why?? for fun?? for the drama?? any ideas?

Honestly I can only speculate here as well. I mean, the script is easily the worst part of KoH, and much as I love Imad as a character, he doesn't make much sense (or any at all) narratively.

Anyways, I did some digging and found this horrid little movie tie-in book on archive.org. The two measly paragraphs dedicated to Imad give no reasons for his weird game of hide-and-seek whatsoever, and, in my opinion, only make his character more contradictory:

"Another character invented for the story's purpose is the young Muslim knight Imad, Saladin's confidant and commander of his cavalry. He serves as a kind of Arab counterpart to Balian: similar in age, intelligent, honorable, and humane. He is the first person Balian encounters after the shipwreck that lands him on the shore of Palestine, and Imad escorts the Frenchman into Jerusalem. Although he hides his true identity from Balian then, it's revealed when they meet later in the story. While Imad is fictional, his name (and to some extent his character) is an homage to the eloquent Muslim chronicler Imad ad-Din, who accompanied Saladin on his expeditions and reported on the Battle of Hattin. In the screenplay Imad is described as 'scholarly' in appearance, and we might imagine that he will one day set down his own history of Saladin's campaigns."

What I gather from this is that Imad was mainly there for plot convenience reasons, both to provide a little narrative twist and to drive home the fact to sceptical Western post-9/11 audiences that such people as honourable Muslims do exist. *audible gasp*

So I'd say that in Imad's case, the features of the character and the film's ideological undercurrent probably took precedence over logic or narrative cohesion. Like, how would Imad even know that there was a Christian guy on his land when Balian, the way the movie frames it, only arrived via shipwreck perhaps a day ago? Do people report back to him that quickly so that he can think of unnecessarily elaborate ways to disguise himself? It's alllll for the drama, baby.

I suppose the whole thing was meant to show how crafty Imad is and how much foresight he possesses. But the levels of foresight needed to act like he did in that scene would probably equal prophetic powers, which is not what I imagine they were going for, lol. Like so many things in this film, this could have been handled much better.

But then again, the entire Imad character is just a baffling creation to me. I never understood why they didn't just make him entirely fictional, call him Nasir or Imad or some other cool name and keep the allusions to the historical figure out of it completely. Historical Imad ad-Din wasn't exactly a paragon of nicety, after all. Homie wrote about the mass rape of women and girls and made it sound like an achievement, so - dear Ridley Scott, my dude - I'm not sure this is the sort of guy one should be paying homage to in this day and age. On top of that, he was born in 1125, which means that by the time the events portrayed in KoH occurred, he would have been so old it would have made Salah ad-Din look like a spring chicken in comparison.

So yeah, the way I see it, logic really took a bit of a holiday here. As did historical accuracy (not that that is anything surprising in this dear trainwreck of a movie).