SAI PALLAVI in Shyam Singha Roy (2021)
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just saw someone say 'rrr is bollywood'
PLEASE STOP, LET TOLLYWOOD GET THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES. ITS BEEN UNDERRATED FOR SO LONG.
Anonymous asked:
ok. rrr is the first and only indian movie i have seen in my life. do you have any recs for movies like it? or just movies you like? i trust your taste and my summer is long.
Ofc! Here's a list of some of my favorites:
Telugu
Magadheera (2009)
- One of SS Rajamouli's older works and Ram Charan and Kajal absolutely stole my heart in this one. The music is still the loml and it actually also had MM Keeravani directing music
- Harsha is falsely implicated for killing Indu's father and she too is kidnapped. But Harsha and Indu share a bond from a previous life, and when he realises this, he sets out to set things straight.
Jai Lava Kusa (2017)
- This is one of my all time favorite NTR Jr. movies and he actually plays a triple role (identical triplets)
- Identical triplets, Jai, Lava and Kusa, get separated at a young age and follow different paths in life. Jai becomes an evil criminal, Kusa becomes a small-time crook and Lava becomes a bank manager.
Dear Comrade (2019)
- TW: sexual assault
- This is a movie I hold rly rly close to my heart A) cuz Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika are love and B) the plot was so important especially near the climax.
- A hot-headed student union leader falls in love with a state-level cricketer; but soon, his anger issues become a roadblock on his way to unite with her.
Shyam Singha Roy (2021)
- If I were ever to marry anyone, Shyam is my template for that person. I absolutely loved Nani's depiction of Shyam and Sai Pallavi's Rosie. Also reincarnation but there's a twist
- Vasu is a director who left his former job to make films. His girlfriend is set to play the lead role, but when she is molested and Vasu is accused of committing plagiarism, the young couple's fortunes take a turn for the worse.
EDIT: I'm dumb. I forgot to add Baahubali 1 and 2 (2015 and 2017) which is a must watch and one of the first major modern Pan-India movies
Hindi
The Kashmir Files (2022)
- If you're going to watch a Hindi movie, make it this one. This tells the unheard story of the genocide of millions of Kashmiri Pandits by Islamic Terrorists and this genocide has taken place time and time again with absolutely zero media attention.
Shush Mangal Zyaada Saavdhan (2020)
- I couldn't have left a list of Indian movies I made in Pride Month without mentioning this movie could I? Ayushmann Khurrana is one of my favorite Hindi actors and the representation in this movie was solid imo. Tbh I live for the song Mere Liye Tum Kaafi Ho in this movie
- When two men, Kartik and Aman, fall in love with each other, they face opposition from Aman's family but they attempt to win them over.
3 Idiots (2009)
- This one is a classic and works to reverse the mindset a lot of Indian students have to deal with where life = studying and parents' expectations without real time for themselves. As a student it was relatable to me and again, it was fucking hilarious.
- In college, Farhan and Raju form a great bond with Rancho due to his positive and refreshing outlook to life. Years later, a bet gives them a chance to look for their long-lost friend whose existence seems rather elusive.
Shershaah (2021)
- A biopic of the real life Vikram Batra, I absolutely fell in love with this movie and rediscovered my love for Siddharth Malhotra (the main actor). The music for this movie >>>>
- The life of Indian army captain Vikram Batra, awarded with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for valour for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War.
Tamil
Heads up: I don't actually speak Tamil (not well anyways) so I'm just listing movies I saw and liked but I haven't actually seen as many as w telugu/hindi
3 (2012)
- I think this intensified my love for Dhanush by about 10000. The music is why Anirudh Ravichander is one of my absolute favorite Indian singers
- Ram and Janani are high school sweethearts who eventually get married; however, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death.
Theri (2016)
- And the other love of my life, Vijay Thalapathy. I think this is the first movie of his that I saw with my friend and I honestly got pissed at her for gatekeeping him for so long so that should tell you a lot
- When his daughter's life is endangered by a local gang, a man will do whatever it takes to stop them; however, at the same time, his dangerous past slowly resurfaces.
Wow ok this is a lot longer than I intended and I was just getting started lmao but hopefully you find something interesting. If anyone else wants to add other movies feel free to rb, comment and obv feel free to add more languages.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, can you tell me what exactly is wrong with RRR? /gen
here is an article written by a writer from the Gond community about the dehumanising portrayal of their community by Rajamouli
It's behind a paywall so i can't read most of it, but what I've gathered from my own viewing of RRR is that the story is basically historical rpf about two real-life revolutionaries who never actually met. One of them was upper caste (don't remember if he was Brahmin or Kshatriya) and the other was Gond. The film is made by an almost entirely upper caste team and the writer and director + both lead actors belong to dominant castes. Rajamouli especially is known for his ultra-hindu epics like the Baahubali movies and Magadheera (all wonderful films) and he is obsessed with coding every single character in this film as a mythological character from the various hindu epics. So Alluri Sitarama becomes the Ram from Ramayana and Komaram Bheem becomes the Bheem from Mahabharat.
This feeds into the forced-hinduisation of indigenous Indian communities. The Gond people are portrayed as stereotypical tribal caricatures. They are shown to be "innocents" who only care about their own community and do not have any real interaction with the rest of the world. Even the way the actor talks about his role is, honestly, very infantilizing (along with the director ofc). Komaram Bheem was a literate man and in the movie, he is shown to instead be an illiterate simpleton who needs an upper caste saviour to "teach" and "educate" him. Even the famous slogan he coined, "jal, jungle, zameen" (the water, the jungles, and the land) is attributed to Alluri Sitarama Raju. Komaram Bheem was also most likely named after a Gond deity and not the Hindu Bheem, so to picturise him exclusively as a Hindu deity is extremely harmful.
The movie also has a problem with whitewashing Non-Hindu and non-UC involvement in the freedom struggle. The most apparent way they do this is through the portrayal of Bheem and the other way is by making it seem like only Hindus (or people they appropriate in that category i.e. Sikh, Gond) were fighting for independence. The end credits song is a hilarious piece of propaganda where they glorify Indian political leaders and leave out all Christian, Muslim, Buddhist etc figures. They even feature, like, Shivaji? Who wasn't even alive when the Independence struggle took place??
But yeah, RRR is a masterfully made but deeply flawed piece of work. I hate how it's being universally praised while almost no one is talking about its really horrible politics.
their canon platonic relationship is also incredible i love them
something about an indian princess and her knight being star crossed lovers and dying together but then reincarnating 400 years later just to be together and have a happy ending is so dear to me
Ram Charan: *rides a horse*
Me, crying: Poetic cinema.
As I loved RRR, I've been watching more Tallywood films, in specific with Ram Charan and Tarak as main stars. Unfortunately not together, as their only movie together is RRR when seriously, they have the power and chemistry to be India's Terence Hill and Bud Spencer (To the fetuses in the audience, they were a pair of actors who made a ton of Buddy movies together, where something happened at the beginning that made them have to solve the problem by hitting everyone who got in their way. My personal favorite is Look out, we're mad. The extra twist was that Bud, the fat, hairy one, was usually the level headed one, and Terence, the blonde, blue eyed, traditionally handsome, was chaos in a bottle)
ANYWAY, I've watched so far Magadheera (Adorable romance, Ram Charan does a double role as Harsha, a biker, and Kala Bhairava, his reincarnation), Yamadonga (Funny as hell, where Tarak plays Raja, a thief who falls in love, but also ends up in hell where he steals the God of the Dead's power before getting sent back to earth), Rangashtalam (which I can't describe without spoilers but has one hell of a twist and also portrays a side of India that is not seen in Hollywood movies without being racist, and ALSO has amazing deaf representation in the shape of the lead play by Charan, without being disability porn), and finally, Jai Lava Kusa (A rollercoaster of emotions where Tarak plays not one, but THREE roles and each of them is wonderful)
Each of their roles is so different from Ram and Bheem, you can tell how amazing actors they are even if some cultural references go past you.
That said, Lava Kumar, from Jai Lava Kusa, is SO, SO gullible, that I am almost sure he's single handedly keeping Nigeria's economy afloat. On the other hand, Chitti Babu from Rangashtalam has my award for most human looking chicken, winning over Chickity Boo by a landslide.
I know it’s been said before by south Asian bloggers (which I am not: disclaimer), but Imma say it again! Rajamouli’s films are NOT Bollywood, they are Tollywood! His films seem to be some of the very few Tollywood films that wider western audiences (including myself) have heard of/have maybe watched, and I understand the confusion because Netflix only has the Hindi dubs, but they were written, filmed, and produced in Telugu originally! So if you enjoyed Baahubali/Baahubali 2, or RRR, that’s great! If you found it through Netflix and watched it in the Hindi dub, that’s still good! It’s good to see south Asian films and filmmakers getting recognition on a worldwide stage! But please don’t call it Bollywood, because it’s not!
Bollywood is the North Indian film industry, with movies made in Hindi, and has enjoyed some level of commercial success in the west for quite a while now! But there are many other film industries in India, specifically in the south, and those are NOT Bollywood. The north and south of India has some pretty significant linguistic and cultural differences. They are very proud of their heritage and their culture and traditions, and they have every right to be! And they also have every right not to see it lumped in with north India’s own culture and traditions, because those are different!!!
Attention: just because Netflix only has the Hindi dubs of some South Indian Films, that doesn’t make it Bollywood!!! If it was made in south India, it’s a South Indian film and should be referred to by the name used for films from its respective location/language, ex tollywood, sandalwood, etc.
#Also I highly recommend watching these movies in their original language if you can find them with subtitles in your language.#or a language you speak#I’ve seen both the OG Telugu version of Baahubali 2 and the Hindi dub and the Hindi version takes hella liberties with the dialogue#mind you I’m judging by the subtitles but yeah the Hindi version was definitely different#even if you don’t speak the languages and are relying on subs w#either way#I’d recommend the OG#baahubali is tollywood not Bollywood#Netflix only having the Hindi dub doesn’t make it Bollywood
baahu : look uncle…those beautiful birds. side by side. what does it mean, to y—
kattappa : we should fucking eat them
baahu :
Realized I forgot to post it here but Bahubali as Vines Part 1 ✨
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Did you ever just feel so lucky for knowing someone you met online? Like.. I was one click away from not following you. I was one second away from never even knowing of your existence.I would never have been this happy!!!...
Oh lots of people, but especially the one I'm sat next to right now as we drive to our first home together.
Bumi II with his fav uncle Sokka
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been going insane over Bruce in his eating dome for 24 hrs now
There is so much story telling here. A person got this pacific parrotlet named it Bruce which in and of itself is amazing but then this person went here my little bird friend a raspbebe for you to enjoy and Bruce said hell yeah and went cataclysmicly and irreversible ape shit ham on that berry. And that probably happened more than once. So instead of never again allowing this little dinosaur the joy of the succulent flesh of the delectable raspberry they went what can we do for our little baby boy. and then boom they got some kind of cake cover type deal and cut a door into it so that Bruce would Not Be Trapped in a fruit prison (altho truely it is the berries who are trapped in there with Bruce but none the less) and so he may go to his pent house and freak it as crazily as his little bird heart desires.
Anyway i love pets they are each distinct little guys who are carred for by the funniest ape to ever exist bc we love animal so much
I'm in this group and Bruce's human posts eating dome updates when he's done a particularly good job!
And also when he gets up to other mischief
However, THIS is my favorite Bruce photo
I lost it at this:
It’s always important to ask kids “what do you mean?” before potentially getting offended. Like the time a kid told me, dramatically, that he was homophobic. When asked what he meant, he told me he couldn’t breathe in crowded places.
its-dandy-mack
Oh bless he tried real hard with words there