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Following this case, my aunt has also started collecting spare phones from others in Goa and donating it to needy students. In case you can give any spare working phones, will connect you with my aunt who can take it forward!
#goa
This, by
@smitagnair
, is just heartbreaking. A young boy died because the phone screen broke, disrupting his online classes. The family didn't have the means to afford a repair.
The family - many such families - still needs financial & community support.
Seen it yet? My new short fiction film ‘Sadabahar’ is playing on Netflix India’s YouTube channel!
Link:
Film twitter, do your thing & help me reach this film to more people 😊
Since I was a month old, I have been partly raised by my mother and my maid. Both my parents used to work 9-5 and I had a maid who would be at home during those hours. She woke us up, made us do all the daily stuff, fed us(Made sure I had the sabzi's I hated)...
Only and only all the love to
@ach1nt
@varungrover
@Vasan_Bala
for the banger album of ‘Monica o my darling’. In both the saddest and happiest moments, this album strangely becomes the GO TO thing.
There was a shootout in
#Goa
recently which is now being identified as a gang war. The funny part being, names of the gangs are, ‘Boom Boom’ & ‘Bang bang’. And these are the major gangs in here!!
#justGoaThings
Seeing all the people cooking & going gaga over Rajma just makes me sad. These naive North Indians like Rajma just because they haven’t had alsande (google says black eyed peas but it’s not the same I think). Alsande is the rajma that attained enlightenment!
#GoanCuisine
@aliceinandheri
@RajkummarRao
@santoshsivan
@mrrajatkapoor
please take notice of our protest. We are asking for a reduction in application fee which ranges between 4000 to 10000, perhaps one of the costliest in the country. Your faces are being used to advertise this thuggery!
Currently at home:
2 varieties of jackfruit (kaapo/rasaal), jackfruit cake(dhonas), jackfruit barfi (saath), boiled-salted jackfruit seeds, jackfruit seed curry, jackfruit sabzi, jackfruit Chips(ghare). Goans take their jackfruit obsession to impossible forms!
#beingGoan
@appadappajappa
Vihir, deool, highway (everything Umesh Kulkarni has made, especially his short films), Killa, Fandry, Shaala, Balak Palak, Jogwa, Harishchandrachi Factory, Natarang, Shwaas, Pune 52, Elizabeth Ekadashi.
Giving postcards of images I shot in Kolkata for every donation you make to any fund related to
#amphan
. 3 postcards for every 500, up-till 2500 (and above) gets all of them. Have 17 images to choose from. Send screenshots of your donation & your address! Spread the word :)
Except for work opportunities, everything in Goa is better than Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore. Despite having a house in Goa one still can’t enjoy the luxuries of the lifestyle because sustenance and ambition is a bitch 😭
I have been trying a new cafe each morning in Goa for the last couple of weeks. And I must say, Goa is doing its coffee much better than most cafes in Bombay, Delhi or Bangalore. Very impressive if you're a coffee fan ☕
‘Monica, O my darling’ is such a banger of an album. Full homage. ‘Love you so much’ is such a great hat-tip to Goan music as well.
@ach1nt
@varungrover
ne maze dila diye! (Sarita Vaz nails ‘What nonsense Rider provider what you provide is only stress’ 😅)
My new short docu 'Written in the Corners' will be playing at a small sidebar section at
@IFFIGoa
featuring Goan films! Come see if you are attending! :)
We Present to you, Suyash Kamat - director, filmmaker and now a TakeTen Finalist.
As a student of cinematography, Suyash aims to unravel the beauty that lies hidden in plain sight.
Hear from him on what inspires him and what being a TakeTen finalist means to him.
It’s finally out! My new fiction short ‘SADABAHAR’ made for
@NetflixIndia
&
@FilmCompanion
’s TAKETEN initiative. Please watch and let me know what you think.
From blocking to final frames 🙌 In pre-production, we decided to to arrive at precise frames and blocking. Most of it remained same. 😊
Watch ‘Sadabahar’ now on Netflix India YouTube channel:
‘Nasir’ physically moves beautifully, perfectly quiet, perfectly subtle, nudging, stopping, looking into, away and the end....Somo Sahi’s articulates the idea of a pan beautifully here: (full interview: )
Thank you
@alfonsocuaron
. Roma made me revisit and rethink my entire life through the standpoint of somebody who was so integral yet lived only peripherally in our minds/hearts.
‘Ghar Wapsi’ fills that exact void a lot of us felt in terms of finding a narrative that captured the anxieties of leaving behind our homes from smaller cities to pursue dreams & ambitions elsewhere. Such a well written, performed show! Kudos
@nagrathnam
@PocketAcesHQ
& others!
Current government is like an extension of the Indian families that have voted for them. Live in denial about their internal issues & no matter what try to look presentable/sankari to outsiders. Till something drastic happens and the facade breaks down!
Still digesting this but yeah. Nominated for Best Director at the
@CCSSAwards
2023 🥹 thank you to all the critics from
@theFCGofficial
who thought the film was worthy of this honour.
The Critics' Choice Awards 2023 nominations for Short Films are out. Here are your nominees for Best Director. Stay tuned!
#CriticsChoiceAwards
@theFCGofficial
Both the winners of
#MAMI
Eeb Allay Ooo & ‘Aise hi’ are shot by the same DOP Somo Sahi! A silent star who is the soul behind so many successful films over the last few years including Belakempa, Ghode k Jalebi KLJRH etc! His own directorial docu ‘Remembering Kurdi’ is great too!
Kya aapke showcase mein Dadasheb Phalke International Film Festival ka award hein? Kya apne uss scam award ko asli maan k honoured to receive wale tatti posts dale hein?
What a delight it is to walk through the lanes of
#fontainhas
. Modern architecture and planning in the pursuit of efficiency has lost out on creating beauty and charm. Aah!
#goa
Mr. Chandan owns Book World, a 30 year old bookstore on F.C.Road. He is planning to shut shop owing to similar reasons because of which book shops all over the world are shutting down. I want to document this & talk to people who’ve been associated with this shop.
Hearing multiple accounts of students, activists etc protesting In Panjim for
#SaveMollem
being detained by police. Is protesting or showing concern for issues not allowed in a ‘liberated’ Goa?
#GoaLiberationDay
@Apurvasrani
Why not agree to putting meters then? Not fair to resort to victimisation as well! They aren’t agreeeing to any form of regulation and honestly, that isn’t beneficial to the ‘eco system’ as a whole given the lack of accessible options for public transport.
Collated a bunch of advices from people who've cleared JET and wrote my opinion as well. Share with whoever you know is applying for
#FTII
&
#SRFTI
this year! There's no one way to go about this exam but a few general points help. So yeah, please share!
What a lovely Sunday morning ride to Salmona spring followed by a visit to Goa Brewing Co. And tasting their fantastic new beer! Highly reccomend all their beers if you’re new to them!
#cycling
#Goa
Arya Rothe's extremely beautiful docu 'A rifle and a bag' is streaming here: Its about Somi, a former Naxalite who has surrendered to the Indian state in exchange for a better life for her family. If there's one Indian docu you should watch, make it this!
My final farewell gift to her was that I shot her wedding. In retrospect, wondering whether we were fair/unfair to her. Definitely sensing guilt. My parents looked after her though, funded her wedding partly, helped her save money over the years.