*being close to nature 🐾🪵🌾

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What's the word you put on your posts about Georgia? I can't copy and paste it.

it's შინაურობა, which transliterates as like shinouroba and means homesickness. I can't really go home-home (Gagra) because it doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for 30 years but there's something about being in a place you inherently understand, where the words form easily in your mouth and you know instinctively where the kitchen bin is and the streets flow familiar under your feet.

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film reviews: Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra is a 1985 semi-musical drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.

Synopsis: The film begins with tap dancer Aleksey Beglov performing a routine for television sometime in the 1950s, then cuts ahead 25 years. Beglov, once famous but now retired and elderly, now works as a dance coach, and is helping put together a variety show themed around computers which features New Age dancing and music. No one in Russia has followed in Aleksey’s footsteps in the years since he retired, and tap dancing is now considered a lost art in Russia. A man named Arkady approaches Aleksey asking him to teach him tap dancing, but Aleksey declines until Arkady offers him five rubles per lesson. Aleksey is saving up for an antique couch and needs the money, so he accepts, and asks for an advance of five rubles. The first lesson goes badly, and Aleksey tells Arkady that he has no rhythm and lacks spirit, but Arkady demands he continue teaching him, and schedules another lesson for the following week. During rehearsals a famous singer contracted for the program browbeats an employee and Aleksey tells her to shut up, for which he is fired from his job. Arkady goes to the singer’s apartment and rehabilitates him to her, and tells Aleksey to come to her apartment and show them his tap dancing, but when he arrives he refuses to dance and leaves after calling Arkady a monkey. This strains their relationship, but their lessons continue and Arkady becomes a regular at the dance troupe’s performance hall, and the dancers come to know him by name.

Meanwhile a daytime talk show airs a clip of Aleksey dancing from the opening scene of the film, and to Aleksey’s astonishment announces that he is dead, so he calls his ex-wife and daughter to reassure them that he is alive and well. After the television program Arkady quits his dance lessons, and Aleksey’s daughter visits to tell him she is getting married and asks him not to come to the wedding since her stepdad will be filling the role of her father. Aleksey’s colleagues gift him the money raised for his funeral wreath, which he spends on sparkling cider for the whole troupe, and sings for them a 1950s pop song, before walking out abruptly. He goes to the antique store to buy his beloved sofa, but the store owner has already sold it thinking he was dead. As he exits the shop he suddenly has a heart attack, and the store owner rushes to get medical help. A flashback shows Aleksey at the height of his career travelling abroad with his young daughter to Georgia, who begs her father to let her perform with him. Arkady visits Aleksey in hospital and gifts him a TV set, on which they watch the talk show host from before announce that Aleksey is alive and well, and Aleksey tells Arkady of the one time he danced with his daughter on stage, at a small venue in Gagra, and how that night was the best he had ever danced. A flashback shows him and his daughter dancing on that winter evening, before a painted backdrop of the sea. Shortly afterward Aleksey dies. Arkady travels to the empty dance hall and performs the tap routine from the film’s opening scene, continuing on without his mentor.

Review: An intelligent and very fine film that honors the art of tap dancing, while providing a story with a solid emotional core. Very good writing and very good acting, I recommend this movie to watch. You can watch the film on YouTube here.

Greetings from Gagra 🌊☀️⛰

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Gagra, Abkhazia. Photo postcard by V. Panov (1969).

its a fucking saree idiot

even I know i am not indian

Oh but darling, I am (also rather racist of you to assume only Indians wear sarees, when there's more countries in South Asia than just India, but I digress). And sarees are characterised by a long dupata wrapped around your body like this.

While lehengas are a three piece (gagra/long skirt, choli/blouse and a seperate dupata which you can wear as you please).

Of course, there are many variations of both and can sometimes overlap. I assume that you're talking about this SN post where I called it a 'lehenga' in the tags, which is not a saree, although it is a fair assumption. But the model is wearing an uncharacteristic cape and her dupata is a seperate piece, making it a lehenga, not a saree.

Next time choose a struggle anon 😉 either be a fool (talking about a topic you clearly do not anything about) or a coward (sending this on anon probably because you knew your own arrogance and lack of expertise could bite you in the ass, which it did).

Kemal Tarba .

Clouds in the sky of Gagra, Abkhazia