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cressida-jayoungr · 9 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Blue Redux + Green Redux

I Have Found It (Kandukondain Kandukondain) / Aishwarya Rai as Meenakshi and Tabu as Sowmya

When I first designated the theme for July, I knew I had to include shots from this sequence, probably the most gorgeous riot of blue and green I've ever seen on film. I am including wide shots of most of the scenes to show the costumes of the chorus and extras as well. Note that when the two sisters are onscreen at the same time, the background characters divide themselves up so that those in blue are on Sowmya's side and those in green are on Meenakshi's.

(This is an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by the way. Sowmya is the equivalent to Eleanor and Meenakshi is Marianne.)

See the whole sequence here, because it's even more amazing with motion:

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twosquareroti · 1 year

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I’m not sure about this metaphor, but the moth in Qala that appears with Jagan after his suicide and then appears on Qala’s own face reminded me of the favorite metaphor of a moth drawn to the flame.

The moth is forever pulled to the all-encompassing intensity and beauty of the flame it loves beyond anything else. But to truly know and experience the flame, it must become one with it. The moth throws itself into the fire in a final, self-destructive act that inevitably kills the moth (the individual person) but makes it experience and burn indistinguishable from the beloved flame (in unity with god/ the divine.)

Qala’s entire life is driven by a deep compulsion to please her mother and impossibly win the kind of unconditional love of a mother for a child that she desperately needs. But it drives her to decide to add mercury to Jagan’s milk, destroying his voice and spirit, and ultimately leads her character to the self-destructive act of killing herself. Qala might not be a bhakti poet* whose music expresses a deep, moving need for unification with--or for the ultimate experience of--god, but her career in music itself and the early compositions she sings still reflect her seeking an endless love she craves. (*As far as I know, it’s Jagan who sings Kabir, not Qala.)

When Qala kills herself, she finally does “attain” the love of her mother, though not in a way she can ever experience. So unlike the moth that yearns to throw itself into the flame out of love and becomes flame itself, and so unlike poets like the 8th century Andal who walked into Srirangam temple to finally merge with her beloved Perumal/Vishnu, Qala’s death is not a unification with all-encompassing love, but an act, like Jagan’s, born of raw despair and deep mental/emotional torment. (It almost feels ‘wrong’ to compare them at all because of just how different they are.)

But whether the artist ultimately merges with or attains the ultimate experience of love/the divine they sought or not, we still have their work that embodies their search. Indeed that’s all that Qala’s mother has left of her daughter in the end as we see her looking through all of Qala’s dusty, unopened records. As Chandan tells Qala earlier in the movie, “sirf sangeet rehta hai. Hamesha.” (Only the music remains. Always.)

#Qala #Qala film #Bollywood #Indian cinema #Hindi cinema #Indian movies #Indian film #Hindi movies

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sadgirlroo · 4 months

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Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022) dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

#gangubai kathiawadi #alia bhatt #sanjay leela bhansali #indian film #bollywood #indian films #indian cinema #film #cinema

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celluloidrainbow · 11 months

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BADNAM BASTI (1971) dir. Prem Kapoor Sarnam Singh is a bus driver who moonlights as an outlaw. After he saves a woman, Bansuri, from being assaulted by another bandit, she falls in love with him right as Sarnam is jailed for a petty crime. Upon release, Sarnam searches for Bansuri but does not find her. He then meets Shivraj, a handsome young man who works in a temple, and hires him as a cleaner for his bus. The two become physically and emotionally intimate, but once Sarnam encounters Bansuri again, he is torn by his longing for her and his love for Shivraj. (requested by @thelunchbox2013, link in title)

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juniper-girl · 1 year

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Anushka Sharma's outfits in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Aditya Chopra, 2008)

#Anushka Sharma #Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi #Aditya Chopra #srk movie #phulkaris #phulkari #colors #patterns #aki narula #indian cinema #indian movies #indian film #indian movie #bollywood

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honeygleam · 1 year

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pather panchali (1955) dir. satyajit ray

#pather panchali #satyajit ray #subir banerjee #kanu banerjee #karuna banerjee #uma dasgupta #film aesthetic #film stills #film #vintage films #indian cinema #indian film #bengali film #50s vintage #50s films #50s film #black and white film #black and white aesthetic #film landscape

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cupidsbower · 11 months

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My premiere for this year’s VidUKon is a Shah Rukh Khan multi vid.

I loved making this vid so much!

Fandoms: Bollywood - Fandom, Shah Rukh Khan - Fandom, Anjaam, Billu, Dil Se, Happy New Year - Fandom, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Om Shanti Om, Paheli, Multi-Fandom, Bollywood RPF Audio: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Character Study, Dancing, Romance, Trains, Fanvids, Fights, Fast cuts, flashing lights, Film making, Meta Summary:

Maybe you can show me how to love.

Download: MP4 (152.67 MB), MP4 HD (575.28 MB), WMV (118.07 MB), WMV HD (154.52 MB), Subtitle file (SRT) Streaming: Vimeo, Ao3, Dreamwidth

#shah rukh khan #bollywood #indian film #songvid #fanvid #vidukon

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shihlun · 2 years

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Mrinal Sen

- Akaler Sandhane AKA In Search of Famine

1980

#mrinal sen #Akaler Sandhane #In Search of Famine #indian film #আকালের সন্ধানে #মৃণাল সেন #1980 #Smita Patil #photograph

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cloudtinn · 1 year

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Rockstar (2011), dir. Imtiaz Ali.

#movies #rockstar #rockstar movie #imtiaz ali #ranbir kapoor #nargis fakhri #indian cinema #Indian film #Films #Cineshots #Cloud_tinn

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astrictmachine · 8 months

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📷 [Robert Nickelsberg]

#indian cinema #desi #desi films #bollywood #retrobollywood #film posters #bollywood poster #indian film #indian movies #photography #street photography #Yash Chopra #Darr #A Violent Love Story #sharukh khan

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inmyworldblr · 17 days

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Aandhi (1975) | dir. Gulzar

[ Sanjeev Kumar and Suchitra Sen ]

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cressida-jayoungr · 10 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Jodhaa Akbar / Aishwarya Rai as Princess Jodhaa and Hrithik Roshan as Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar

Time for some gorgeous costumes from two of my "comfort characters"!

As far as I can tell, they go through both a Hindu wedding ceremony and a Muslim one. I assume the mask of flowers and beads that the emperor wears is a traditional thing, although I wasn't able to find much information about it--partly because I don't know what it's called. Can anyone tell me more? (ETA: Thank you, @celestesinsight, for letting me know that it's called a shehra!)

It's hard to say which outfit is more lavish, although Jodhaa clearly wins in the jewelry department. She even has ankle bracelets and toe rings! Her fingers and feet are dyed with a red substance called alta.

P.S. The movie is back on Netflix, yay!

#jodhaa akbar #wedding costumes #hrithik roshan #aishwarya rai #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #aishwarya rai bachchan #period film #indian film #indian movies #indian cinema #2008 films #2008 movies #more is more dresses

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ssj2hindudude · 2 months

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You know, the more I think about Kajol's "Tribhanga", the more I think

This old lady ain't s*** as a mother

Let me explain. Again, spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the movie and want to.

Tribhanga stars Kajol as the daughter of a famous writer who she just finds out is now in a coma. However, she hates her guts and the movie goes through a series of flashbacks telling us why. And even though it sorta justifies the woman's actions at the end, I can't help making a list of reasons why this lady's trash as a mom

The first thing we find out is this lady is obsessed with her writing, to the point where her mother-in-law took care of the house and kids more than she did. And before you say it, no, she is not justified for neglecting her house and family because she's a career oriented woman. The woman pushed her husband away at every chance of romance, didn't want to do anything in the house but write, and she even wanted to move out of the house because her mother-in-law complained that she's always writing and wouldn't even notice if her kids were dying. Like I get that's taking it extreme, but seeing how little she did in the flashbacks we've seen, the audience is kinda forced to think it's warranted. And when her husband said "The kids are happy here, we can't just up and leave", this lady looks him dead in the eye and says "What about MY happiness?" and proceeded to take the kids.

Yes, you read right, SHE took the kids. The same lady that had zero time for them when Dad and grandma were taking care of them just up and became a single parent. At first I was more forgiving because later when little Kajol called the dad and wanted to move back with him, he tried reasoning with her saying he'd be too busy working and grandma would be too old to take care of them. This sounded like the two of them at least talked a little and said "Oh yeah, it's best if they live with you" but you can tell by his reaction to her walking out with the kids that this was a spur of the moment thing and he had little say in it.

And let's not forget that she would spend the rest of the kids' lives letting them have the impression that dad is trash because he never came to get them when in reality he literally never stopped thinking of them to the point where this man was old with Alzheimer's and still had them on his mind 24/7. And did you notice that there's zero evidence that this man was a bad father? This lady alienated her kids from him because SHE was offended.

Oh and it gets worse. Remember how I said she would push this man away at every romantic opportunity? Yeah, the woman would justify it by saying she never had passion with him so she found it with her new boyfriend. Yeah sure, just brush the man off every time he makes an effort and blame HIM for the lack of passion in your life. But wait, we're not talking about bad spousing, we're talking bad parenting

Anyway, mother of the year here brought in a new boyfriend with little to no regard for her kids' safety and he ends up molesting little Kajol right under this woman's nose. Yup, her kid closed off from her when this dude showed up and she didn't even know her kid got molested in her house until years later when Kajol made a book about it. Seriously, tell me why Natural Guardianship, the concept that moms should automatically get sole custody of the kids, is still a thing when s*** like THIS happens?!?

And don't go saying it wasn't her fault. SHE took the kids when SHE wasn't happy, SHE brought this guy into the house, and SHE spent so little time talking to her kid that didn't feel safe going to her with this even though SHE should've been one of the first to know! If this isn't neglect, it sure as hell is endangering the welfare of her child

And it's not like it ended when Kajol hit adulthood. Tell me why this lady heard noises coming from her pregnant daughter's apartment and the first thing she does is check on the boyfriend? And lo and behold, Kajol was getting abused by this man and barely managed to get him out of there. When she threw the old lady out too, I wanted to get up and start clapping because she had that coming.

That ending high-key felt forced because even though this lady said she regrets everything, it doesn't justify anything she did. In fact, I can't even take the regret seriously after this narcissist said "I wish my kids were one of my characters, then I could write them as I wished."

The movie was alright to watch but this character makes Rose "I let my sisters try to kill everyone" Quartz look like a good mom. Not all moms are good ones, and this movie shows what happens when you let them get away with the s*** they do.

As a mom, this lady was not s***

#Tribhanga #bollywood film #bollywood movies #kajol #kajol devgan #bollywood #indian films #indian movies #indian film #hindi movies #hindi film #modern feminism

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neengareadynaaready · 2 months

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