every time it appears on FC videos, it gives me a high!
in aug 2015 i attended a three-film (a fun, a mediocre, a flat-out masterpiece) retrospective of his in the museum of the moving image, NYC. this was the last day, he obliged, and it happened.
yet to recover from the ram charan-raamam raaghavam-alluri forest choreography.
haven’t been stunned more by a sequence of images and sound in the recent times.
should they release (unlikely!) this episode on iTunes for purchase, it is surely going into my library.
@saturnsbarz_
@GeorgeMcCaul
@softerhardleft
sorry, was too blinded by the Uconnect® 4, featuring an 8.4-inch touchscreen, Android Auto™, Apple CarPlay® support, integrated Voice Command, Bluetooth® Streaming Audio and SiriusXM® Satellite Radio. 😀
(i don't miss forest for the trees! 😋)
@sashiwapang
whoa! now imagine a band of saree-clad women just killing it. maybe if the indian coke studio were mature enough to look beyond the mainstream stars.
veturi sundararama murthy — the finest పెద్ద బాలశిక్ష one could ask for. take all the mainstream, fringe and niche lyricists ever, he’s all that combined and then much much more.
undoubtedly, the greatest of them all.
అప్పుడు appudu
ఇప్పుడు ippudu
ఎప్పుడు eppudu
అలా alaa
ఇలా ilaa
ఎలా elaa
అలాంటి alaanti
ఇలాంటి ilaanti
ఎలాంటి elaanti
అందుకు anduku
ఇందుకు induku
ఎందుకు enduku
am chastunnav అం/ఆమ్ చస్తున్నావ్
em chestunnav ఏం చేస్తున్నావ్
అక్కువ akkuva
ఎక్కువ ekkuva
#తె���ుగుభాషాదినోత్సవం
with true bhakti in their DNA, telugus did it in very very very organic, and inclusive ways.
not belittling one community, no one’s beliefs. nothing.
it’s been a silently secure industry for ages.
great language, actors, writers, technicians, lyricists, singers only helped.
No offense
@vivekagnihotri
ji..but Telugu film industry is something where you cannot claim any credit for Indic Renaissance.
TFI literally made these epics since 1940s at a scale you couldn’t even imagine..Mayabajar, Lava kusa, Bhakta kannappa, Annamayya, Ammoru, Anji..missed
@PWNeha
while raising babies, and managing in-laws! once all is set, maybe he can aspire to higher education too. most importantly, one hopes kaif’s fans too are okay with it.
@angrybirddtweet
- 99% there is no lens cap on. lens caps are never so smooth. they have a slightly protruding pinch-grip to remove them by.
- in the pic below, it’s a nikon body and cannot have a canon lens cap on. it’s clearly been photoshopped (edited) in.
@adarshahgd
@RishiSunak
@SmtSudhaMurty
very strict high-school math teacher vibes.
“if you read languages and all, beggggars only you will become at the traffic signal. do trigonometry fushhht.”
the meet-the-parents. 2006. whitefield, bangalore.
f-i-l said his family wouldn’t agree to this. m-i-l said she trusted her daughter and her choice. god willing, this could easily happen.
the best 15 years of my life. being married to one’s best friend is a blessing. thank god!
young* carnatic singers should be made to go through a bootcamp for telugu and the telugu alphabet.
ka/kha/ga/gha/ha, and tha/dha are distinct, beautiful sounds and are not interchangeable.
(*the oldies are too arrogant in their entrenched ways to effect any meaningful change)
2016.
i’d bought this pair of jeans for him. at 73, he rebelled endlessly. he’d never worn one! i didn’t give up. he did. finally. we travelled to the west coast.
how nice he looked. ❤️
i can’t touch him anymore. he took away, as they say, a nice chunk of me. devastated.
on our last trip to virginia beach we were furiously debating names for him.
exactly a year later on this trip to virginia beach this rascal 🐈 is travelling with us.
(oh btw, someone told my wife that this rascal in his past life was a disciple of gautama buddha)
nicknamed ‘sea elephant,’ this marine creature surfaces when it has had a lot of milk.
may lack eyes. uses its unique yellow tentacles now for solids. boiled carrots. avocado. millets.
the east coast. loves sounds. makes funny noises. mildly dangerous. do not touch with bare
sandeep chowta - ramgopal varma - seetarama sastry could have been an evergreen trio. if only!
sandeep chowta could have really married 'new age' with telugu cinema's glorious past while nicely blending in its traditional ethos and wisdom.
they landed here last night.
TMI alert
ఒకరు కన్న తల్లి (71), ఒకరు పెంచిన తండ్రి (79). ఇద్దరు అన్నా-చెల్లెలు.
మగబిడ్డ కావాలి అనుకొని* కన్న నన్ను రెండు నెలలకే తన సొంత అన్నకు ఇచ్చేసిన తల్లి ఈ తల్లి.
(కన్న తండ్రి, పెంచిన తల్లి వచ్చేసి మళ్లీ అన్నా-చెల్లెలే — కుండ మార్పిడి)
you had to be in the telugu states around ‘95/‘96 to have known what a SENSATION this video was.
each musical high at regular intervals was upped by a visual high from rasool ellore, and
@director_kv
.
“an a r rahman musical” is a clear liability to a movie of late.
it does absolutely nothing; doesn’t elevate the movie, doesn’t take it forward, and worse, doesn’t work as a standalone album.
i want to go back to the july of 1992.
the cassettes are out. the buzz is high. most people don’t know what to make of it. they don’t know what hit them. but they like it. they want to share the joy with others.
i want to go back to the july of 1992.
#30yearsofarrahman
@emkburke
if only i had a penny every time i heard someone utter OCD as a substitute for their preference for visual symmetry/order/cleanliness, i could have retired long ago!
throwback to a nicer time in early '07. a 'papa raazi' experience of a different kind was around the corner. 🙂 a few months down the line i'd move to the US for research, get engaged, and a few further, married. surreal! super grateful, and i count my blessings almost every day.
30 glorious years of a r rahman and santosh sivan.
if you are going to assault senses, assault all of them.
idea, location, costume design, music, lensing, performances.
@Kvell4ever
one of my favourite shots.
finally so close yet so far ‘cos separated by a bridge.
beautifully added to by the use of a telescopic lens. santosh sivan ❤️
the son was on the chest.
impulsively i played ‘వటపత్రశాయికి.‘
instant, endless tears flowed.
the same song you have grown up listening to is something else now.
(ilaiyaraaja here could as well be talking of himself. or, c narayana reddy 🙏)
@Salandthebadpun
all that’s missing from the third pic is a hairy-chested raj babbar in silk-satin robes (with or without a cigarette) but with surely a glass of whiskey trying to calm a sullen poonam dhillon down in an oversized streak of vermilion.
my wife and i attended our first class together (not married as yet then) in our 1st grad school in '03.
as a married couple, we were in a class for a semester in our 2nd grad school in '08.
and from tomorrow we will be in an in-person class for almost 5 months.
#smallthrills
my wife’s pregnancy was confirmed exactly a year ago on 10th march, 2023.
my son will be 6-months-old in two days and he got his first solids today. :)
@Samanthaprabhu2
@AllrounderSoul
you are wrong. we buy a ticket for ₹150, we own you. we will patronize you. we will dictate every inch of your lives. we will give you conduct/character certificates. there’s no escape. remember we buy a ticket for ₹150.
@NavalGeekSingh
@sidvee
kiwis have always looked like senior university grads/scholars who come out to play good, tough game in sunshine, beer and at the end of it have nice wives and kids to go back to. who could hate them?!
a couple of minutes and a few steps down this path you'd be literally in my backyard to the point of trespassing. a train path right next to my window is unimaginable. surreal!
either i am as half-decent as i think i am, or as usual, americans know how to make me feel i’m the best in the whole worrrlllldd.
interviewed for a staff photographer position (my second/parallel job) at the workplace today. 🤞
unsolicited:
if you are in a foreign land, do get a life insurance policy. more so if you are married and have dependents.
~$50 per person per month shouldn’t be considered a burden. it shouldn’t be an option.
“మనకేం అవుతుంది లే/నాకేం కాదు లే” is a very bad attitude to have.
“ఇన్నాళ్లు ఎక్కడో దూరంగా ఉన్న తను ఈరోజు ఇక్కడే ఎక్కడో దగ్గరలో ఉన్నది. ఏమి ఆలోచిస్తూ పడుకుంటోందో, నన్ను చూడగానే ఎలా రియాక్ట్ అవుతుందో, ఏమి అనుకుంటుందో…ఇదంతా ఆలోచిస్తుంటే గుండెల్లో దడ దడ”
such a tender thought and conversation exists in a modern rajinikanth movie? lovely! :)
go well, dear ramoji rao sir!
i owe a lot to you. a lot. i have had immense respect for you from a distance. for years.
above all, thanks a lot for the peerless, and incomparable ఈనాడు.
this is truly the end of an illustrious and dignified media era in the telugu states.
i looped this for the entire length of my 1-hour office commute and each time i looked forward to these lines. ❤️
"వెచ్చనైన ఈడుకున్న వేవులెంతులో
రెచ్చి రాసుకున్న పాటకెన్ని పంక్తులో
విచ్చుకున్న పొద్దుపువ్వు ముద్దు తోటలో
కోకిలమ్మ పాటకెన్ని కొత్త గొంతులో
ఫాక్సుట్రాట్ బీటు..."
So many but I choose “Aditya 369” as it is an encapsulation of diversified songs
Centurylu Kotte - Youthful
Rasaleela Vela - Romantic duet
Jaanavule - Folk cum teasing
Suramodamu - Classical
Chilipi Yatralo - Fantasy
Padyaalu is a bonus 🥳