#old bollywood

[aahanna]

Vyjayanthimala in Amrapali, 1966

[g0j0s]

you cut off women from dancing, because girls of good characters do not indulge in such lewd activities. if they become one with their swaying hips, how will you hold down their bodies and spirits?

you cut off women from reading, because books have so many vile ideas about freedom and humanity. hence, they may begin to spin ideas from the yarn of knowledge, jeopardising the conditional safety of your cage.

you cut off women from adorning themselves lovingly, because lest they begin to like the shape of their noses or the curves of their waist; they will stop caring about other people and conforming to your standards of beauty.

you cut off women from expressing because girls from good families do not raise their voices. you say the devil resides in their voice boxes and if they don’t watch their tongues, they may taint the name of their families.

you cut off women from being, so the only thing they’re left with is fear and misery. grinding that terror on the stone of fate like grains, they toil away their lives.

then you call them many many rotten things if any of them refuses to believe this. still, if they don’t comply, force is applied repeatedly.

they become a skeleton of their potential self, grieving in secrecy; because privacy is a luxury. what if in the empty silence they finally start thinking & questioning?

yet, you wonder why they’re exhausted and angry, fighting silent wars within and outside.

[inmyworldblr]

Devdas (1936) | dir. P. C. Barua

[waheedawolf]

girlies of indian horror pt.1 (part 2)

shobana in manichitrathazu//revathi in raat//urmila matondkar in bhoot//tripti dimri in bulbbul//vidya balan in bhool bhulaiya//juhi chawla in darr//waheeda rehman in kohraa//lima das in aamis//sadhana in woh kaun thi?

[soujjwalsays]

The Dying art of hand painted movie posters!

There's something oddly satisfy and cool about movie posters of old bollywood movies, The posters not only gave us a slite peek into film but also represented the art of artists and those painters who use to paint these posters by hand!

[g0j0s]

female friendships are so precious and beautiful. sisterhood is so inherent in women. there is a life force where many women are sitting together and conversing. their giggles reverberates through the deepest chambers of the even the coldest of hearts & softens them. when they take care of each other together from oiling their hair turn by turn by to putting henna on each other’s palms, everything is a sacred offering to some source unseen; but only felt. they spend hours talking about things unfathomable from the basis of love to the state of the world, the soul, beauty, last, present & future & many other philosophies. because when they’re sitting in a room together that’s where they’re easily allowed to ‘be’. here, they aren’t someone being smothered by alotted identities. they aren’t just someone’s sister or daughter or even lover, but just humans trying to make the most out of their freedom to breathe.

[inmyworldblr]

Pakeezah (1972) | dir. Kamal Amrohi

[radheshyam-tiwari-videocon]

Madhubala

हाँ, जो मैं टोकूँ, कहा ना मेरा माने

भवों को ऐसे ताने, बहस बेकार है

[g0j0s]

[inmyworldblr]

Pakeezah (1972) | dir. Kamal Amrohi

[g0j0s]

i am convinced that all of us are prayed for. somewhere in our ancestries a woman had grovelled in front of the sun god to send a light in her courtyard. a man had toiled the earth, searching for our spirits. he had sat with the mother earth as she held him gently. he wept and begged for a child like us so that we could tip the scales completely. a child had prayed to the stars before sleep with sleep in their eyes and dreams lingering by.

in a world of wonders where nothing is ever a coincidence our existence is a gift to our predecessors. we cannot just be without purpose. we were miracles that took up human forms to aid our lands and lineages. we are the keepers of hope. because the chances of us existing despite the suffering, diseases and probabilities of being birthed were never 100% to begin with. there is a reason. and it will be revealed to all of us each eventually. until then & even after that, live. because the cosmos needs us just as much as we need it.

[dosa-sambhar]

SRK said enough about men

ended patriarchy

[natkhat-sa-shyam]

Apur sansar (1959) - satyajit ray