we command the pain to remain in the words. not in us. and now we change the order. how we your reconstruct face. [...] SAMEER SIDDIQUI [...] as effigiated by jude
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❛ and just when i thought i’ve been condemned to intolerable boredom, ❜ goes the way of his greeting: unorthodox, to be sure — but when was he ever not? there’s a glint in her eye that sameer tries his best to mirror, but he’s only just extricated himself from the most dreadful conversation with the usual industry brown-nosers who kept asking him about the themes to his work, the symbolism, the deeper meaning. sometimes, he would like to say, he just wanted to fuck shit up and film said shit being fucked up. there is no deeper meaning — aside, of course, from this: ❛ spare me the congratulations, ❜ sameer says. ❛ you were never one to do what everybody else is already doing. ❜ a smile mirrors her own: polite, cordial. ❛ i can’t step on the brakes even if i wanted to, ❜ he continues, which perhaps might be a pitiful confession if not for the sheer glee that the words are wrapped around in. ❛ did i ever tell you you’re practically my most favourite person in the world? ❜
VENUE 002. ・.・― OPERA HOUSE RECEPTION feat. @ivorylaid
"Well, well, well. Look who we have here at this beautiful reception." Emersyn spoke, her honeyed tones just that: overly sweet for the few cameras allowed in, to snap pictures of her cascading away to famed director, Sameer Siddiqui. One of her good industry friends, a friend of her father's as well - she couldn't resist a kiss on the cheek and a smirk on her lips. "A fabulous triumph at the festival, Sameer, you should be very proud. One couldn't keep their eyes peeled away from the screen. You must be in a daze." She smiled, politely, all with still a glint to her eyes. "Care to keep the party going, darling?"
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❛ congratulations, welcome to the rest of your life, ❜ sameer almost gleefully greets. ❛ and — yes, i’m in line, ❜ he admits. there’s no shame in it, of course, and he’s definitely not the only one here to excuse themselves for a bit of a pick-me-up. after all, there’s only so many movies and so many interactions one can get through sober — not that he ever even did any of these sober, seeing as he’s arrived here already tweaking on something — but the trouble with being just the same as everybody else is that he has to get himself stuck in a fucking line like a fucking pleb. thoughtfully, he regards the other: smile forming in his face as his brain hatches up a plan. ❛ how good are you at looking like you’re a second away from fainting? ❜ he asks — but doesn’t even wait as he’s already forcing a look of concern onto his face, bending over the other in mock-worry, as if worried that she might fall over any time now. ❛ hey! ❜ he half-shouts, words loud enough for other people to hear. ❛ are you sure you’re, like, okay? should we be getting you some air or something? ❜
to: anyone!
"You in line for the bathroom?" From what she was able to see, the line was massively long. She knew she should have jumped in the queue before it had gotten as long as this. Ana can already feel the instant anger at herself building up in the pit of her stomach. "This is..." The words get caught up within her. Letting out a frustrated sigh, she crossed her arms across her chest. "Ridiculous. Do these things have to be like this every year?"
The words were a weapon that could be used on herself. As a common visitor to events like these, Ana should have known better. Still, she would force herself to wait in what felt like an unending line. This truly had to be the ultimate discomfort she could be feeling now. Her feet ached, her dress was uncomfortably tight, and with the alcohol hitting, she could feel herself having a deep desire for a fan in her face just about now.
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it’s a dog eat dog world, and SAMEER SIDDIQUI has to learn how to bare their teeth without letting the cameras flashes catch anything other than a smile. with a face like SHAH RUKH KHAN, the world wants nothing from HIM except all that HE has to offer. SAMEER has had FIFTEEN YEARS in town to learn the rules of living it up on top. but at just FIFTY, will they try to make peace with the golden scale that’ll try to tell them their heart is in the right place or fight for what they want? with A VINTAGE FILM CAMERA'S SHUTTER SOUND, A STACK OF SCRIPTS COPIOUSLY WRITTEN OVER AND UNDERLINED IN VIVACIOUS RED INK, AND THE LOUDEST VOICE IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE TRYING TO BE REMEMBERED to make up their reputation, let’s hope the DIRECTOR won’t look for the saints in the city of angels to help them. there’s nothing holy about hollywood.
QUICK FACTS.
NAME: sameer siddiqui NICKNAME: sameer, sam AGE: fifty PLACE OF BIRTH: mumbai, maharashtra, india NATIONALITY: indian DATE OF BIRTH: 20 december 1973 GENDER: cisgender man PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: bisexual RELIGION: islam ( sunni ) PARENTS: talmiz siddiqui ( business magnate, diplomat ) & zarina siddiqui née rehman ( opera singer ) LANGUAGES: hindi, urdu, english ( fluent ) spanish, french ( conversational ) telugu, hindko ( half-forgotten ) EDUCATION: st. stanislaus, delhi university ( statistics ) OCCUPATION: actor, director, business magnate HOBBIES: investment, film, sports ( cricket, football, rugby ) CAREER CLAIM: shah rukh khan, robert downey jr. as iron man ( acting claims ) + robert eggers ( directing claim )
PARALLELS.
kendall roy ( succession ) rhaegar targaryen ( hotd / f&b ) tyler durden ( fight club ) patrick bateman ( american psycho )
SNAPSHOT
tw for maternal mortality, death, grief, drug use/addiction, mental health issues
tl;dr local area failson fails upwards because all that money has formed a safety net so high up that failure was quite literally made impossible — and he knows this not for a lack of trying, either, so fuck it, he might as well enjoy the show! aka kendall roy but if logan roy was a good father
let’s get one thing out of the way: you never really wanted this. then again, you never really wanted anything: you, who wanted for nothing ever since you were a child, silver-spoon scion of a politician’s lovelorn grief. you reminded him of his loss, and he treasured you for it, this persistent yet foolish hope that who we love persists in some form long after they are gone. you never knew your loss, poor child, and he never taught it to you either: your father, so loving yet so unwise, so caring yet so reckless. in his desire to make your world softer, he has made a monster out of you.
but we’re getting ahead of ourselves, aren’t we? you were a child, and you wanted like a child, and you felt things as deeply yet as fleetingly as a child only ever could. you made your father fire three nannies in a row, then didn’t speak to him for all of two days because the new nanny couldn’t make chiru dosa in a way you like. so then your first nanny was recalled, but you didn’t want to see your new nanny cry — and so your father decrees: then you shall have two.
that was your life: your father bending to your will, always ever to your will. he was so attuned to your state of being that he knew what you wanted before you yourself did, buying you your first wicket and bat, your first horse, then — when you got greedy, as children often are — a cricket team, a stable, a polo franchise… on and on and on the list goes, until there is so much love that you are drowning in it, so much stuff, so much money, so much of everything, everything, every—
what happens to a child who is never taught no? you never once learn: there is a limit one can go, and one day you’ll brush up against it, and you have to understand that the safest course of action is to turn back around.
yet here, now, a list of fuck-ups: a wrecked car, an accidental overdose, two, another wrecked car, a wrecked room and a wrecked house, a party where everything goes wrong and the police gets called and there’s an ambulance and you’re in the middle of a psychotic episode and you start to think this is it but then — no, your father makes a few calls and it’s all wiped clean and you realise this is it.
somewhere in the fucked-up breaking-down grey matter of your brain, something rewires. this is it. gets shifted: this is it. when you check out of the hospital, your father doesn’t even berate you, only says everything is taken care of. which makes your brain break again because you realise that this is it. this is you. nothing changes; nothing passes: everything lies still in perfect equilibrium, where you will never want for anything, not even success, not even failure, not even evolution, nothing but perfect voidness of conditions.
you had ambitions, when you were a child: cricket, mainly, then polo — but anything sports-related is too much work to juggle with your continued drug dependence, so you take the path of least resistance. you remember, once, the way people clapped at your so-so performance in the school play. you don’t delude yourself, of course. people clapped and cheered when you presented yourself in the roll call because they knew your dad was there but — that didn’t matter. you liked the attention. you liked the clapping and the cheers and all eyes on you like you’re a man just like you’re father. so: bollywood it is.
your father pays for it, obviously. if you had any scruples, you might have been ashamed, but there are no scruples because there are no limits. because this is it we’re talking about here. and so you get one role you did shit in, another where you’re kind of so-so, then another where you’re passable and — wonder of wonders — some roles where you discover that you’re actually good.
and so this is what life is, and so this is what life has become: an accident of meaninglessness where you planned for none of it, and yet you’ve made a miracle out of it. an interviewer once asks you what do you credit for your success? and you laughed at their faces. credit? you asked. what the fuck are you talking about? this is all me, baby. i’m it.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
if you see this, i’m still in the process of cooking em up so let us simply go w vibes for now
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