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For my
@NotebookMUBI
debut, I reported on the long-standing & recent systemic obstacles that limit Indian documentaries from realizing their vision & the price that a new crop of filmmakers pay to make politically charged Indian non-fiction right now:
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Karan Johar probably gets acidity if he doesn’t mention Alia Bhatt’s name once in every KWK episode
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I want to talk about something today:
@News9Tweets
owes me Rs 1,28,000 for 16 pieces that I've written for them in Sept and the first week of Oct. Two weeks after I raised my invoice, my editor informed me that the management wants to pay only 50% of what they owe me: Rs 64,000.
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Yes please, nominate a Telugu song but have non-Indian dancers perform it at the ceremony. Yes please, give an Indian film an Oscar but cut off the speeches of the two women who made it.
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can’t believe a 57 year old man can do internet content better than influencers
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if they don't have a buddy cop movie with Joe Biden and Obama, I'm going to be v v mad
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features.
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My sister just said she thought Lalit Modi was Sushmita Sen's grandmother in the first picture and now I can't unsee it.
Just for clarity. Not married - just dating each other. That too it will happen one day. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Mumbai still has internet, permission to protest, and a non-BJP government. Read up on your rights, take your friends, convince your co-workers, and show up at August Kranti Maidan at 4 pm today.
#IndiaAgainstCAA
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tell me you don’t know the definition of intellectual property without telling me you don’t know the definition of intellectual property 🤪
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not in india… happy election szn!!
Dev Patel’s directorial debut ‘MONKEY MAN’ debuts in theaters in less than one week.
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top five rahul kanwal diss of the decade. wish i could watch it on the big screen.
lost it when yogendra yadav began his byte with “thank you rahul for all the effort you have done with mathematics” 😭
#ResultsOnIndiaToday
| "All this talk about Mr Modi becoming the Prime Minister for third time is absolutely pre-mature": Swaraj India co-founder
@_YogendraYadav
#ElectionResults
|
@RahulKanwal
@SardesaiRajdeep
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Salman Khan's continued display of butthurt-ness at Priyanka Chopra "choosing" to drop out of BHARAT is a prime example of how incapable the Indian male complex is at processing "no" from a woman.
Immense respect for Katrina for trying to keep pC away this conversation!
But look at that 50+ years old Man-Child who has been stuck on the same line like a broken record nd commenting on pC's personal life!
He shamelessly accepts that he is using pC's name to promote his movie!
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going by this, neeraj chopra is a solid contender to play akshay kumar in a biopic in the near future
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33-year-old Indian actress claims moral superiority over a 22-year-old woman for not... masturbating????
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Deepika Padukone, an A-list star who was at the receiving end of the Karni Sena’s lunacy, standing behind Aishe Ghosh at JNU makes for a striking imagery that is bound to rattle Modi-Shah. Change venues of protest as much as you want but how do you make the country look away now?
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Ajay Devgn winning the National Award for Tanhaji makes me nostalgic for the time when Saif Ali Khan won Best Actor for Hum Tum
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CREW manages to do the one thing that most hindi films forget to: treat its actresses like the superstars they are
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wake me up when hindi film actors finally realise that the job of critics is not to *only* praise everything they do
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LOOTERA has the kind of frames that seem to somehow capture a very specific type of yearning
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What Young India Certainly Doesn’t Want is Chetan Bhagat—famous for coining the absolutely unnecessary term “Half-Girlfriend”—telling the country how to write.
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koffee with karan could just salvage the redundancy of this whole season by getting jaideep ahlawat and pankaj tripathi in the next episode
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Uday Chopra asking "Which accent should I do the interview in" and then proceeding to do his intro in a British accent anyway in THE ROMANTICS has made my day.
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My most fav DDLJ anecdote is a silly argument between Kareena Kapoor and Zoya Akhtar in which Kareena told Zoya she won't become a filmmaker if she didn't think DDLJ is the best love story in the world. They were at a party at SRK's house—he invariably ended up as the mediator.
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hoping NCB officers are having a blast reading the high court judgement for aryan khan's bail
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I would humbly request everyone to observe a minute's silence for Harsh Vardhan Kapoor and his nightmares. Tweet deleted but never forgotten.
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We could do with this being a trend: celebrities doing more than just donating money to the PM-Cares Fund & instead prioritizing holistic ways to offer help, especially for healthcare workers (SRK pledges 50,000 PPE kits) & daily wage labourers (meal kits & grocery promised here)
Whilst we stay safe at home,many r working for our safety & fending for themselves. Here's our little contribution to ensure their health & well being! Separate but together,we will overcome!
@iamsrk
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi
@OfficeofUT
@AUThackeray
@MamataOfficial
@ArvindKejriwal
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Love Hostel really proves that Shah Rukh Khan currently has a better — and riskier — eye as a producer than as an actor.
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Anushka Sharma and Sudip Sharma collaborations are becoming one of the defining creative actor-writer collaborations of the moment.
Review, PAATAL LOK:
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Is there any actor in recent times who has delved into irrelevancy as swiftly as Sara Ali Khan? (I don’t mean mediocrity — that’s a whole other thing)
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Favourite scene from Dil Se -- the interplay of colours, light, and noises elevate this private moment into such a public memory. As someone beautifully put it, "we've all experienced trying to be discreet when the whole world won't co-operate."
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With
#Rangoon
,
@shahidkapoor
once again gives his mentor Vishal Bhardwaj the gift of a phenomenal performance. 💯
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Sara Ali Khan has done *seven* films since debuting in 2018. She has been the weakest link in all of these films — that's not an attack, it's a fact. Her eighth film, AE WATAN MERE WATAN is another colossal misfire.
My review for
@TheFederal_News
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if you're offering to come drop me to the airport or pick me up from the airport, i would just like to gently inform you that we're now married
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dating in 2019 is basically not being able to tell whether the person you like is ignoring you or if they just have a vodafone connection
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Imagine an Imtiaz Ali tourism film but with a laser show. Imagine taking one of the most gifted actresses of our generation & reducing her to a damsel-in-distress trope. Imagine Ranbir Kapoor still playing a confused romantic hero at 40. That’s BRAHMASTRA:
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The reason being that my contract with
@News9Tweets
expired on Aug 1 & since it hasn't been renewed from their side, they can pay me 50% of what they owe me. Here I would like to add: I wrote 7 pieces for News9 in August after my contract was up. I was paid in full for them.
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Wrote about my favourite character of all time, & also my permanent state of feels: Akshaye Khanna Ko Dil Chahta Hai
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I wish I could mark myself safe from RAKSHA BANDHAN. But the wounds run deep.
Aanand L. Rai has done the impossible: made a film worse than ATRANGI RE
Review:
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At that point, no one from the management or the finance team told me anything about them wanting to pay 50% of what they owe me because my contract stands terminated. They paid me the full amount based on the honorarium per piece that was decided by the org & me a year back.
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exhibit 693539 of a country’s film certification board acting as a censorship body with fully impunity
BREAKING: Netflix to stream Indian films as censored by CBFC going forward. No more uncut or uncensored versions of Indian Films will be made available globally.
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From what I have been told in the past week, the management realized my contract was up only after I filed my Sept invoice & decided they could corner me into agreeing that I should accept Rs 50,000 less of what I should be paid. I am absolutely not okay with this. I'll list why:
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Couldn't tell if it was a Naatu Naatu performance or a Bridgerton episode
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i often think about how lost sanjay leela bhansali (and his bank account) would be if farah khan didn't launch deepika padukone in om shanti om
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The timing of this feels incredibly exploitative to me bc this was a decision that was made AFTER I have already written these 16 pieces for
@News9Tweets
& they are published on the website. If I was told that they would be slashing my rates by half BEFORE I wrote these pieces,
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“I don’t think I will be watching Sonchiriya now. It will be too much for me. That moment in the film where Lakhna has a vision of his alternate life, has taken a completely different meaning in my head.”
Abhishek Chaubey paying a tribute to the actor:
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he’s a weirdo but he’s OUR weirdo
To think of
#Oppenheimer
just as a film is a grave mistake ..Speaking for me it made me feel reborn and propelled me into a new horizon in my mind space ..I find everything I did extremely redundant and insipid ..I feel like going back in time to a school run by Nolan to get re
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I'm doing this not because I want my contract to be renewed. I'm very happy to not write for News9 anymore. But what I want out of this is a) hear back from
@ShankarV06
with a timeline on when I'll be paid and b) to be paid Rs 1,28,000.
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just played “yeh dooriyan” from love aaj kal (2009) and stared out of the window on my uber back home and even that had a better narrative than love aaj kal (2020)
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I would not only have had full transparency about the situation but I would have also been able to give my consent on whether that rate was okay with me. If this was told to me on SEPT 1, I wouldn't have written for News9 any longer & it would have been fair for both parties.
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One lowkey cool thing about having so much time to yourself is how your brain suddenly starts locating all the memories that it had otherwise slotted as inconsequential. For example, today I remembered that I learnt the word “irrevocably” from Twilight.
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rewatched TU HAI MERA SUNDAY today. gets better with every viewing.
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Let this be the last day I have to see white people fawning over RRR
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ok wait so modi just gave an entire country anxiety for a half hour speech that basically said “to be continued”???
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But by informing me about this after
@News9Tweets
has already benefited from my labour, they're essentially trying to leverage the situation against me where I have no option but agree with their demands. Or then, fight back.
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How is every ADIPIRUSH news I read wilder than the one that comes before
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I’ll say this: Ranveer Singh in ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI is channelling the peak of physical comedy + himbo energy that is possible in Hindi cinema right now
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Struggling to finish the opening episode of Mindy Kaling's NEVER HAVE I EVER but I gotta say this: the difference between representing Indianness and representing the performance of Indianness has never been this stark
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my father saw me tweeting and told me that i'm only allowed one hour of internet time now that i'm at home and when i told him i'm 27, i make my own rules, he said "theek ache, one and a half hours then" WITH A STRAIGHT FACE
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I fear nothing more than the epidemic of middle-aged Hindi filmmakers desperately trying to be the voice of the generation 20 years younger than them
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So that's what I have been doing for the past week: I've written the management an email addressing my concerns & informing them that I am not okay with being paid Rs 64,000 when they owe me Rs 1,28,000. I've conveyed it several times to my editor.
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Moral of the
#SanjuTrailer
: Rajkumar Hirani can't be trusted with wigs for Anushka Sharma.
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I know for a fact that
@ShankarV06
has read that email & discussed it but I have not heard back from him. Even his decision of paying me only half the amount wasn't conveyed to me by him directly. He made my editor tell me that without giving me an opportunity for a discussion.
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Right now, I have no clarity on when the management intends to pay me the full amount they owe me & whether they intend to at all. And trust me: I'm not the only person that they're not paying. They have similarly not paid several freelance writers across Ent & Culture.
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my favourite shah rukh khan contribution in the last decade is gauri khan and him producing hardik mehta's kamyaab.
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I’d happily go watch a movie with any actor who willingly includes “show up at protests against a fascist government” in their promotional strategies. Deepika Padukone isn’t only acting in CHHAPAAK that releases this week but also producing it, which puts her at even greater risk
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No one likes to do this publicly, least of all, freelancers whose jobs are anyway unstable. I'm taking this public knowing fully well that this thread could potentially risk my writing prospects with several publications in the future.
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I'm in
@vulture
making a case for my favorite cinematic medium: Indian nonfiction. I loved making this list of eight titles, which I argue, are worthy entry points to the remarkable slate of Indian docus — left out of mainstream discourse for far too long.
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transcribing interviews is where writing dreams go to die.
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I've been freelancing and working in journalism long enough to differentiate between a newsroom not wanting to pay the writers it benefits from & there being an actual logistical issue for payments being delayed.
@ShankarV06
is v aware that I would like to talk to him directly.
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But he chooses to keep me hanging. This is not the first time I have had to chase payments as a freelancer & I know it won't be the last. But what has really stunned me is the audacity of this org believing that they can take writers for a ride as per their own convenience.
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There's so much
#IrrfanKhan
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But I'll say this: the amount that News9 owe me is absolutely nothing for an org of their stature to pay. They know that they can get away with this & that they can arm twist most freelancers into settling. At the end of the day, this is one person against an entire organisation.
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“Don’t trust men in their 30s who are into fitness. It means they have nothing else going on.”
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if the point of WAR was to make all of us mass hrithik roshan converts in 2019, a job well fucking done YRF (his arms! his neck! his glare! his hamming! his flexibility! his stunts!)
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hrithik roshan treating his entire life like an episode of dance india dance is the most relatable celebrity thing i've seen in a while
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No Hindi film I have seen in the last six months has come anywhere close to the startling originality, provocation & ambition of FAIRY FOLK. If you didn't get to catch it during its limited theatrical run, you can pay as you like and watch the film here:
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I don’t say this lightly: Konkona Sen Sharma’s segment in LUST STORIES 2 is everything you expect from a second outing by a filmmaker who made a near-perfect first film.
Do you believe in lust at first sight? Because we’re going on a ride for the second time 👀
Brand new stories with a grand new cast -
#LustStories2
is coming soon, only on Netflix!
#LustStories2OnNetflix
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Akshay Kumar's cameo as a quasi-version of himself in Anirudh Iyer's AN ACTION HERO is mad fun. Doesn't quite surpass the manic energy of his iconic OM SHANTI OM cameo but is a great reminder of his underrated comic timing.
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I was willing to give
@News9Tweets
the benefit of doubt and dealt with it privately. I refuse to do that now bc a) I am yet to receive one single response from
@ShankarV06
b) this is a pattern of an org *believing* it can get away with not paying their writers.
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Earlier this year, my June payment (my contract was valid at the time) was delayed for two months & as in this case, I had no clarity. I was given 15 different excuses about when that payment would be credited to me and 15 different days on when I could expect the payment.
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It was only after I wrote
@ShankarV06
follow-up emails every day for a week in August despite him not replying to most of them and giving me vague timelines when he did reply to a few of them that I received the payment in SEPTEMBER. Irrespective of how frustrating that felt,
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A couple next to me in PVR for the 8 am show of Race 3 carried a blanket to cover themselves. At this point, even they've put more effort for the film than the makers of Race 3.
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To me, this entire thing is clearly not only an attempt at stalling from their end until I give in but also a clear display of power that two or three individuals hold in that organisation. They also have the power to change the way they work and treat writers they benefit from.
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Got to profile
@thevirdas
, who seems to always be running an entertainment marathon: this year, he's starring in Judd Apatow's new Netflix film, showrunning and acting in another Indian series, working on another special while doing comedy.
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absolutely incredible for a debut fiction feature and for a film which was initially selected under Un Certain Regard before being “upgraded” to Competition one night before the announcement. go payal kapadia!
#Cannes2024
Le Grand Prix est attribué à ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT de PAYAL KAPADIA.
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The Jury Prize goes to ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by PAYAL KAPADIA.
#Cannes2024
#Palmares
#Awards
#GrandPrix
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I have a similar story to tell about
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Kareena: If you don't think DDLJ is the best movie ever made, you will never become a filmmaker
Zoya: You're wrong.
This is when they started arguing and SRK had to step in to ask them to calm down. I find it hilarious.
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At the end of every year, websites and writers urgently declare the year as "the year of women in Bollywood". So I did a quick deep-dive on whether 2018 has *really* been the year of women on screen and behind it.
Allow me to break it down. (Thread)
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Might be too early (and hasty) to say this, but Hardik Mehta's KAAMYAAB is already my favourite movie of the year.
Quite enjoyed it, aur option hi kya hai? Review:
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Back when we read about revolutions in history books, I always thought bravery looked a certain way: That it involved a display of force & was effective only if it instantly wiped out evil. Today as we live through one, I realise that bravery means little if isn't compassionate.
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My 2019 Bollywood hot take: The excitement level that you have while watching a Ranveer Singh or Alia Bhatt performance/film is inversely proportional to what you feel while watching them give any interview.
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