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RIP Irrfan Khan: Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Mano Ya Na Mano: Top TV shows of the actor

RIP Irrfan Khan: Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Mano Ya Na Mano: Top TV shows of the actor

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RIP Irrfan Khan: Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Mano Ya Na Mano: Top TV shows of the actor

Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday leaving his millions of friends and fans in shock and tears. But his remarkable work in the TV and film industry will live on for ages. The global actor started his television career with numerous TV shows such as Chanakya, Bharat Ek Khoj, Sara…

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LGBT writers from India

Ritu Dalmia

Ritu Dalmia (born 1973) is an Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is the chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi, which she established in 2000, with co-founder Gita Bhalla under partnership firm "Riga Food".

Gazal Dhaliwal

Gazal Dhaliwal is an Indian screenwriter who recently wrote the screenplay and dialogues for Vinod Chopra Films’ Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, starring Rajkummar Rao, Anil Kapoor and Sonam K Ahuja. Previously, she has worked on Alankrita Shrivastava's critically acclaimed Lipstick Under My Burkha as the dialogue writer and she wrote the dialogues and co-wrote the screenplay for Qarib Qarib Singlle, directed by Tanuja Chandra, starring Irrfan Khan and Parvathy. She also wrote additional dialogues for Wazir that starred Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar.

She is also a public speaker and LGBTQ+ activist, who has spoken openly about being a transgender woman in several talks and in the media – most famously in an episode of the Aamir Khan-led talk show, Satyamev Jayate.

Saagar Gupta

He has written screenplay and dialogues for independent films like The Pink Mirror and Evening Shadows as well as dialogues for several TV episodes of Rishtey, Gubbare, Kagaar and TV shows like Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, Left Right Left, Radha Ki Betiyaan among others.

Harish Iyer

Harish Iyer, also known as "Aham", hiyer and "Harrish Iyer" (born 16 April 1979) is an Indian equal rights activist. Iyer engages in advocacy for a number of causes, including promoting the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, children, women, animals, and survivors of child sexual abuse.

Firdaus Kanga

Firdaus Kanga (Born in 1960, age 61) is an Indian writer and actor who lives in London. He has written a novel, Trying to Grow a semi-autobiographical novel set in India and a travel book Heaven on Wheels about his experiences in the United Kingdom where he met Stephen Hawking. Trying to Grow was later turned into a film, Sixth Happiness, for which Kanga wrote the screenplay, and in which he starred.

Ashok Row Kavi

Ashok Row Kavi is an Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist.

Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik is an Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author, known for his writing on Hindu sacred lore, legends, folklore, fables and parables. His work focuses largely on the areas of religion, mythology, and management.

Akkai Padmashali

Akkai Padmashali is an Indian transgender activist, motivational speaker, and singer. For her work in activism she has received the Rajyotsava Prashasti, the second highest civilian honor of the state of Karnataka, and an honorary doctorate from the Indian Virtual University for Peace and Education.

Onir

Onir (born Anirban Dhar, 1 May 1969) is an Indian film and TV director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film My Brother…Nikhil, based on the life of Dominic d'Souza, starring Sanjay Suri and Purab Kohli Nikhil was one of the first mainstream Hindi films to deal with AIDS and same-sex relationships.

Onir won the National Award for his film I Am. He has won 16 total film awards.

Suniti Namjoshi

Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941 in Mumbai, India) is a poet and a fabulist. She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with English writer Gillian Hanscombe. Her work is playful, inventive and often challenges prejudices such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. She has written many collections of fables and poetry, several novels, and more than a dozen children's books. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Hindi and Turkish.

Ismail Merchant

Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman (25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included Director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Hoshang Merchant

Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant (born 1947) is a poet from India. Most of his writings are in English. He is best known for his anthology on gay writing titled Yaarana.

Maxim Mazumdar

Maxim Mazumdar (27 January 1952 – 28 April 1988) was an Indo-Canadian playwright and director. He is known for his one-man show, Oscar Remembered, which tells the story of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde as seen from the perspective of his lover and nemesis, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Anand Mahadevan

Anand Mahadevan is an Indian-Canadian writer, who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2013.

Born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India, Mahadevan moved to the United States at age 17 to study. He moved to Canada in 2002, and teaches science at the University of Toronto Schools and creative writing at the Humber School for Writers.

The Strike, his debut novel about a young Tamil man's gay sexual awakening, was published in Canada by TSAR Publications in 2006.[4] Its publication in India followed in 2009.

His second novel, tentatively titled American Sufi, is slated for future publication.

He has also been an active supporter of the campaign to strike down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalized homosexuality in India.

He subsequently served on the jury for the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, selecting Alex Leslie as that year's winner.

Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli

Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli is an Indian transgender activist, RTI activist, singer and motivational speaker.She intervened in the “Suresh Kumar Kaushal & Other vs Naz Foundation & Others” Case in the Supreme Court in 2014 in which she highlighted the deleterious effects of conversion or reparative therapy on queer people through her affidavit.

Vijayarajamallika

Vijayarajamallika, known as Daivathinte Makal, is a transgender poet in Malayalam literature, She is a writer, teacher, social worker, inspirational speaker, and activist.

Vasudhendra

Vasudhendra is an Indian author in Kannada language known for his short stories and personal essays.

Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.

Manil Suri

Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. Since then, he has published two more novels, The Age of Shiva (2008) and The City of Devi (2013), completing the trilogy.

Gopi Shankar Madurai

Gopi Shankar Madurai (Tamil: கோபி ஷங்கர் மதுரை, born 13 April 1991) is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist. Shankar was one of the youngest, and the first openly intersex and genderqueer statutory authority and one of the candidates to contest in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. Shankar is also the founder of Srishti Madurai Student Volunteer Collective. Shankar’s work inspired the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) to direct the Government of Tamil Nadu to order a ban on forced sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants. In December 2017 Shankar was elected to the Executive board of ILGA Asia. In August 2020 the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed Shankar as the South Regional representative in the National Council for Transgender Persons.

Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon.

Nibedita Sen

Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali-born writer of speculative fiction. She has been a finalist for the Astounding, Nebula, and Hugo Awards.

Vida Dutton Scudder

She was born in Madurai, India, on December 15, 1861, the only child of David Coit Scudder (of the Scudder family of missionaries in India) and Harriet Louise (Dutton) Scudder. After her father, a Congregationalist missionary, was accidentally drowned in 1862, she and her mother returned to the family home in Boston. Apart from travel in Europe, she attended private secondary schools in Boston, and was graduated from the Boston Girl's Latin School in 1880. Scudder then entered Smith College, where she received her BA degree in 1884.

A. Revathi

A Revathi is a Bangalore-based writer and an activist working for the rights of sexual minorities. She is also a trans woman and belongs to the Hijra community.

R. Raj Rao

Ramachandrapurapu Raj Rao (born 1955) is an Indian writer, poet and teacher of literature who has been described as "one of India's leading gay-rights activists". His 2003 novel The Boyfriend is one of the first gay novels to come from India. Rao was one of the first recipients of the newly established Quebec-India awards.

Sridhar Rangayan

Sridhar Rangayan (also spelt Sridhar Rangaihn or Sridhar Rangayyan; born 2 April 1962) is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects. His queer films, The Pink Mirror and Yours Emotionally, have been considered groundbreaking because of their realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the largely closeted Indian gay community. His film The Pink Mirror remains banned in India by the Indian Censor Board because of its homosexual content.

Rangayan was born in Mandya, Karnataka. As a gay activist, he has been one of the front-rank leaders in the LGBT movement in India and has contributed immensely towards the growth of awareness about sexual minorities in India.

He is a Founder Member and Trustee of The Humsafar Trust, the first gay NGO in India, along with Ashok Row Kavi. He served on its board till January 2013. He also designed and edited India's first gay magazine Bombay Dost between 1999–2003.

Bindumadhav Khire

Bindumadhav Khire is an LGBTQ+ rights activist from Pune, Maharashtra, India. He runs Samapathik Trust, an NGO which works on LGBTQ+ issues in Pune district. He founded Samapathik Trust in 2002 to cater the men having sex with men (MSM) community in Pune city. He has also written on the issues on sexuality in fictional and non-fictional forms including edited anthologies, plays, short-stories, and informative booklets.

Saleem Kidwai

Saleem Kidwai (7 August 1951 – 30 August 2021) was a medieval historian, gay rights activist, and translator. Kidwai was a Professor of History at Ramjas College, University of Delhi until 1993 and thereafter an independent scholar.

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Irrfan Khan’s life and career: Everything you should know

Irrfan Khan’s life and career: Everything you should know

By: Entertainment Desk | New Delhi | Published: April 29, 2020 6:18:08 pm

Irrfan Khan in a still from Rog (2005). (Photo: Express Archives)

One of the most talented actors of contemporary Hindi cinema, Irrfan Khan breathed his last on Wednesday, after a long battle with cancer.

Here is a fact file of Irrfan who passed away at the…

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In The Memory Of Irrfan Khan

On April 29th, 2020, the well-known actor Irrfan Khan passed away due to a colon inflammation. This was unexpected even when he disclosed his condition on Twitter in 2018. This is a sad occasion for everyone, so I thought instead of mourning his death, we should celebrate his contribution to the industry.

Long Story Short

Born in Rajasthan to a Muslim family, Irrfan Khan was from a generally low class family. Although he was talented in cricket, he had to opt out for acting instead because he didn’t have that much funds. He did his MA in Jaipur and joined the National School of Drama in 1984. After graduation, he was given minor roles in TV shows with little to no acknowledgement. Soon enough, he was given a slew of feature length films that gave him critical success and recognition, such as Rog, Maqbool, and Haasil. In 2008, he appeared in Slumdog Millionaire as the cop interrogating Jamal ruthlessly and he gained international recognition from there. After some more movies, he recieved a National Film Award for best actor for his role in Paan Singh Tomar. During this time, he recieved the fourth-highest civilian award, Padma Shri Award. He got a taste of commercial success with movies like The Lunchbox, Piku, and Hindi Medium, which eared him Filmfare Award for Best Actor. His career seemed to be going stable with movies like Karwaan and Angrezi Medium, but little did we know that the latter will be his last film appearance.

Notable Performances

Miyan Maqbool in Maqbool

Ranvijay Singh in Haasil

Ashoke Ganguly in The Namesake

The Police Inspector in Slumdog Millionaire

Paan Singh Tomar in Paan Singh Tomar 

“Pi” Molitor Patel (adult) in Life of Pi

Saajan Fernandes in The Lunchbox 

Rana Chaudhary in Piku 

Raj Batra in Hindi Medium

Champak Bansal in Angrezi Medium

Legacy

In his 35 years of acting, Irrfan has grown a cult following with very devoted fans. Coming from a low class family, his inspiring story to stardom is the best example of hard work and perseverance. He was a role model for an entire generation of film lovers and showed how far true dedication can get you. Truly a humble talent Bollywood didn’t deserve, his death has left a gaping hole in the industry. May he rest in peace and may his memory and legacy live on forever.

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I was tagged by @thot-for-gendrya thank you, so much!!!

rules: answer these 85 questions and tag 20 people

— what was your last…

1. drink: tea

2. phone call: my mom

3: text message:  my friend 

4. song you listened to: she-wolf SIA

5. time you cried: I think at the very beginning of this month 

— have you ever…

6. dated someone twice: nope

7. kissed someone and regretted it: nope

8. been cheated on: nope

9. lost someone special : yeah

10. been depressed: hell yeah. Depression is my old friend 

11. gotten drunk and thrown up: I don't drink 

— fave colours

12. blue

13. maroon

14. black

— in the last year have you…

15. made new friends: yes

16. fallen out of love: yes

17. laughed until you cried: nope

18. found out someone was talking about you: yes

19. met someone who changed you: nope

20. found out who your friends are: oh yes definitely. Like you have no idea

21. kissed someone on your facebook friends list: lolol I don't have a facebook account 

— general

22. how many of your facebook friends do you know irl: see above

23. do you have any pets: i dont have any pets 😭😭 I would like to have a cat though

24. do you want to change your name: nah...I like my name 

25. what did you do for your last birthday:i stayed home and celebrated with my friends 

26. what time did you wake up today: 9:00am

27. what were you doing at midnight last night: tumbling around on tumblr

28. what is something you can’t wait for:to be finally done with my projects

30. what are you listening to right now:sorry not sorry by Demi Lovato

31. have you ever talked to a person named tom: nope

32. something that’s getting on your nerves: my cold

33. most visited website:tumblr

34. hair colour: jet black 

35. long or short hair: i prefer shoulder length hair

36. do you have a crush on someone : yup

37. what do you like about yourself: i am loyal. Despite what some people might believe,  I am loyal.

38. want any piercings:  nope

39. blood type: O+

40. nicknames: Sukan, Mam

41. relationship status: single

42. sign: Leo

43. pronouns: she/her

44. fave tv show: lol none actually 

45. tattoos: none

46. right or left handed:right

47: ever had surgery: yeah

48. piercings: just my ears pierced

49. sport: love cricket 

50. vacation: need them

51. trainers: no

— more general

52. eating: cream rolls

53. drinking: nothing 

54. i’m about to watch: dance videos on YouTube 

55. waiting for: the Sunday

56. want: more money

57. get married: I don’t think so 

58. career: i just want a respectful job that is well paid

— which is better

59. hugs or kisses:  hugs

60. lips or eyes: eyes

61. shorter or taller: taller

62. older or younger: older

63. nice arms or stomach: stomach

64. hookup or relationships: relationships

65. troublemaker or hesitant:a bit of both

— have you ever

66. kissed a stranger: no

67. drank hard liquor: no

68. turned someone down: no

69. sex on first date: I don't date 

70: broken someone’s heart: yeah

71. had your heart broken: yes

72. been arrested: no

73. cried when someone died: yes

74. fallen for a friend: nope

— do you believe in

75. yourself: nope lolol

76. miracles: yes

77. love at first sight: no

78. santa claus: no....um...nah

79. angels: yes

— misc

80. eye colour: black 

81. best friend’s name: Adrija 

82. favourite movie: too many

83. favourite actor: Irrfan Khan

84. favourite cartoon: none

85. favorite teacher’s name: Angelina Bara

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Sushant Singh Rajput (21 January 1986 to 14 June 2020) was an Indian entertainer. Who is most popular for his include Hindi cinema. Rajput began his job with TV serials.

His presentation show was Star Plus’ emotional (showing something in a movie or play) Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil (2008). Trailed by a featuring function in Zee TV’s sequential Pavitra Rishta (2009–2011).

Rajput made his film debut inside the pal dramatization Kai Po Che! (2013). So he at that point featured inside the light-hearted comedy Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and in light of the fact.

That the nominal investigator inside the activity spine chiller Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015). His most made higher-earning discharges went with a supporting part inside. the funny imitation PK (2014), trailed by the nominal function inside the game’s movie about someone M.S. Dhoni the Untold Story (2016).

For his presentation inside the last mentioned, he got his first selection for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Rajput proceeded to star inside the financially effective movies Kedarnath (2018) and Chhichhore (2019). his last film, Dil Bechara (2020), was deliver after death on Hotstar.

Early Life

Sushant Singh Rajput was conceive in Patna in the territory of Bihar to Krishna Kumar Singh and Usha Singh. He was the most youthful of five kin and had the epithet of Gulshan.

One of his four sisters Mitu Singh would turn into a state-level cricket player. He went to the St. Karen’s High School in Patna. his family moved to Delhi following his mom’s passing in 2002. Where Rajput finished his tutoring in Kulachi Hansraj Model School.

Rajput was allegedly an energetic peruser who was profoundly keen on astronomy and won the National Olympiad in Physics. He made sure about a confirmation in the Delhi College of Engineering (later renamed to Delhi Technological University).

Career

To seek a Bachelor of Engineering qualification in mechanical engineering. According to Rajput, he didn’t have any enthusiasm for designing yet. His family gave him no choice which left him disappointed.

He rather needed to turn into a space explorer and later a flying corps pilot. But on the other hand was keen on Bollywood, being a fanatic of Shah Rukh Khan.

During his course at the Delhi College of Engineering, Rajput enlisted himself in Shiamak Davar’s move classes. Soon thereafter, he additionally started going to acting classes under the theater chief Barry John.

Rajput later expressed that he discovered the experience to free and needed to keep doing it forever. He remarkably highlighted as a foundation artist in the Dhoom Again tune of Dhoom 2 and in Aishwariya Rai’s presentation.

At the end function of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2006, he dropped out of his designing course. His fourth year to start a vocation in expressions and performance.

In Mumbai, Rajput joined Nadira Babbar’s auditorium bunch called the Ekjute where he stayed for more than two years.

Acting career

TV (2008–2011)

Rajput was spott by a projecting group of Balaji Telefilms while he was working at the Prithvi Theatre. He was in this way require a tryout and cast as a second lead. In the TV arrangement Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil in 2008.

He had made sure about the part of Preet Singh Juneja, the progression sibling of the lead named Harshad Chopda. And entered the show in its seventh episode. the character was killed from the get-go in the show, however, because of ubiquity among watchers was brought back.

In the arrangement finale as a soul looking on as his family praised emerging from troublesome times. The presentation had established a connection with the maker Ekta Kapoor.

Who vouches for him to be given a role as the lead in another arrangement Pavitra Rishta. Apparently against the desires of the facilitating station, Zee TV.

Film (2011–2020)

In 2011, Rajput was spott by Mukesh Chhabra, the projecting overseer of Kai Po Che!, who welcomed him for an audition. He was enlisting for a course in filmmaking at Stanford University yet chose to acknowledge the offer.

He was hence project in the function of Ishaan Bhatt, a locale level cricketer. who are a casualty of governmental issues in the determination organization and one of the three leads? Alongside Rajkumar Rao and Amit Sadh.

The film which was coordinate by Abhishek Kapoor and dependent. So on the Chetan Bhagat tale called The 3 Mistakes of My Life, managed. The life of three companions affect by the 2001 Gujarat seismic tremor and the 2002 Gujarat riots was delivered.

In 2013 and turned into a business and basic success.

Rajput remarkably got a selection for the Filmfare Awards in the classification of the best presentation entertainer. For his exhibition in the movie.

His subsequent film was Shuddh Desi Romance, close by Parineeti Chopra and Vaani Kapoor. Coordinated by Maneesh Sharma and created by Yash Raj Films. Because the film manages the subject of life seeing someone and was totally record in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama applauded Rajput’s presentation, saying. “Subsequent to having an enormous impression. In his first Hindi excursion, Sushant Singh Rajput carries a great deal of newness with his simple and unconstrained act.

“Sukanya Verma from Rediff expressed: “After a powerful introduction in Kai Po Che!. Rajput channelizes his bountiful vitality to pass on the uncorrupt awkwardness of a man. Who wears his heart on a sleeve.

“Sushant’s next job was in Rajkumar Hirani’s 2014 film PK. In spite of the fact that his job was moderately minor. The film allowed him the chance to work with Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma. Upon its delivery, the film ends up being one of the most elevated earning Indian films.

In 2015, Rajput’s sole delivery was Dibakar Banerjee’s puzzle spine-chiller Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), in which he depicted criminologist Byomkesh Bakshi, made by Bengali essayist Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

The film was deliver mutually by Yash Raj Films and Banerjee’s own film creation organization Dibakar Banerjee Productions. Set in Kolkata in the 1940s, the film was deliver on 3 April 2015.

Sushant Singh Rajput with Kriti Sanon advancing Raabta in 2017.

In 2016, he showed up in Neeraj Pandey’s personal games film M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, in the lead function of Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The film was a basic and business achievement, getting one of the most elevated earning Bollywood movies of 2016. Rajput’s exhibition was generally adulated by critics and earned him his first designation for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

In 2017, he showed up in Dinesh Vijan’s Raabta, co-featuring Kriti Sanon. In this film, he play the character of Shiv, a warrior ruler who gets resurrect. After hundreds of years to seek retribution and to get his affection back.

In 2018, he showed up in Kedarnath, a romantic tale set. In the scenery of the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand, co-featuring Sara Ali Khan. He assumed the function of Mansoor Khan, a youthful Kashmiri man.

In 2019, he showed up in Abhishek Chaubey’s Sonchiriya inverse Bhumi Pednekar. He showed up in Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore inverse Shraddha Kapoor that delivered on 6 September 2019. Soon thereafter, he features in Drive close by Jacqueline Fernandez, which was deliver on Netflix.

In 2020, he featured in Mukesh Chhabra’s redo of The Fault in Our Stars named Dil Bechara.

The film was schedule to be deliver in May of that year yet was defer because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It delivered on Hotstar and turned into the most seen film. For that stage, with 95 million watchers inside 24 hours.

In 2016, it was declare that Rajput would show up in two movies. Chanda Mama Door Ke, a sci-fi space film, alongside R. Madhavan; and Takadum, a melodic dramatization, inverse Irrfan Khan and Parineeti Chopra, expect to be coordinate by Homi Adajania.

Later pulled back from the previous, referring to date conflicts. He was likewise going to star in Shekhar Kapur’s venture Paani which was retire because of creation issues by Yash Raj Studios.

Sushant Singh Rajput was additionally set to paper 12 genuine characters, including political tactician Chanakya. Writer Rabindranath Tagore and previous Indian president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a biopic arrangement on Stories of India.

Personal Life

Sushant Singh Rajput with Lokhande at Kai Po Che’s debut

Rajput was in an expose relationship with his Pavitra Rishta co-star Ankita Lokhande for six years They separate in 2016.

Rajput adored space science and astronomy, and bought a Meade LX-600 16″ telescope, setting it. In a window of his home to watch the rings of Saturn. In anticipation of his function as a space traveler in Chanda Mama Door Ke.

He was allow the chance to prepare at NASA. He propose to return and complete the testament of educator preparing, seeking to be a pick for the 2024 Artemis program. In 2017, he subsidized the excursion for two understudies. To the US Space Camp Center, under his instruction program called Sushant4Education.

In May 2018, Rajput helped to establish Innsaei Ventures, a mechanical startup. In September 2019, he began another tech organization called Vividrage Rhealityx Pvt Ltd. He filled in as one of the three overseers of the organization.

Alongside entertainer Rhea Chakraborty and her sibling Showik Chakraborty. In January 2020, Rajput began a social work organization Front India. For World Foundation where he again filled in as one of the three heads of the company.

On 16 July 2020, over a month after Rajput’s passing, Rhea Chakraborty distinguished herself via online media as his girlfriend. On 26 August, the Narcotics Control Bureau, India’s public medication law requirement organization.

Enlisted a first data report (FIR) against Chakraborty and four others after the Enforcement Directorate. India’s public finance law authorization knowledge office discovered. That medication had been provide to Chakraborty and Rajput. In particular, the FIR summoned areas of India’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act managing cannabis.

See More: Teachers Are Spending Their Own Money On School Supplies Due to COVID-19

Death (14/06/2020)

On 14 June 2020, Rajput, aged 34, was found dead, hanging from the ceiling fan. In his range in Bandra, Mumbai. He had reportedly been affect by depression. The Mumbai Police start an examination, expressing that the passing was being treat as self-destruction.

The postmortem report stated that the explanation for death was “asphyxia thanks to hanging,” and called it. A “clear case of suicide.” The autopsy doctors placed the time of death at 10 to 12 hours before. Autopsy on 14 June at 11:30 p.m.—meaning between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (Indian Standard Time).

No evil was found. The viscera report likewise ruled out evil. On 25 July, Rajput’s family lodged a primary information report with police in Patna. Where his father lives, accusing Rhea Chakraborty and five others of abetment of suicide.

On 19 August 2020, the Supreme Court of India permitted. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Indian public government’s top exploring organization. To require control of the examination and ordered the CBI to seem.

Into any future cases registered in reference to Rajput’s death. The CBI was later joined by the Enforcement Directorate and therefore the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). To research the cash laundering and drug peddling angle respectively.

On 8 September, Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the NCB during a drug case linked. To the investigation of the death probe. Before the arrest, 9 others were arrested by the NCB within the drug case including Rhea’s brother, Showik Chakraborty.

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Bigg Boss 13: Sidharth Shukla, Asim Riaz, Shehnaaz, Rashami or Paras, who should be the winner? Vote here - tv

Salman Khan’s reality show Bigg Boss 13 is all set for the finale that will be held on Saturday, February 15 and the show has seven finalists left in the game. Sidharth Shukla, Rashami Desai, Mahira Sharma, Shehnaaz Gill, Asim Riaz, Arti Singh and Paras Chhabra are in the race for the trophy of Bigg Boss this year. Ahead of the Bigg Boss 13 finale, we ask our readers to vote for their favourite contestant and tell us who should be the winner this year.  Take the poll here: Who should win the Bigg Boss 13 trophy? Here is a look at the Bigg Boss 13 contestants and their journey in the house: SidharthShukla One of the strongest contestants on the show, Sidharth has been an aggressive player throughout. Be it his fights with Rashami, Paras, Asim or even close friends Arti and Shehnaaz, he has always been abusive and often physical during his altercations. However, fans of the TV actor advocate him as a genuine person who has been playing the game logically. Of late, Sidharth began showing his softer side, as he got close to Shehnaaz. He has even said he cares a lot for her and loves spending time with her. Will the clever mastermind win hearts? Asim Riaz Model Asim is one of the most oft-seen faces on the show. After being the closest friend to Sidharth, Asim turned his biggest rival and has shown his violent and abusive side during his fights inside the house. Asim also displayed his romantic side when Punjabi singer Himanshi Khurana entered the show as a wild card entry. ShehnaazGill Punjabi singer Shehnaaz has the image of an innocent, who can often be irrational. Often claiming to be a child at heart, Shehnaaz has brilliantly stayed in the game, switching sides and loyalties. She began her journey with Paras and announced her love for him but later switched preferences and declared Sidharth as her new love. Will her innocence be rewarded? Also read: ‘Irrfan, waiting for you’: Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor’s heartfelt messages after Angrezi Medium video ParasChhabra The reality TV star has been one of the most innovative players during most of the tasks. However, his innovations were lost in trying his best to get the tasks cancelled, eventually getting a scolding from Bigg Boss. Paras has had a rather controversial journey inside the house, with his closeness to Mahira creating trouble with his girlfriend Akanksha Puri outside the house. Will his real life affect his game or will he be seen as a person true to his feelings? RashamiDesai TV actor Rashami journey began on a quieter note but she soon gained momentum. Her altercations, mainly with Sidharth and later Mahira, have kept audiences entertained and engaged. Will that be enough to win the show? Arti Singh One of the underdog success stories on the show is that of Arti. A comparatively lesser known face and with lower confidence than most contestants, Arti soon emerged as a clear voice - one that stands with whosoever she feels is right at the moment. However, she has been criticised for taking Sidharth’s abuses and even justifying him. Will she win the game? Mahira Sharma Though she is still seen on the show, Mahira Sharma will reportedly be evicted during a mid-night eviction that will be announced by Vicky Kaushal. Vicky will visit the house to promote Bhoot that hits theatres on February 21. Mahira has often been blamed to be a shadow of Paras and not playing the game on her own. Paras, on his part, has declared he wants more than friendship from her but she has drawn the line at friendship. Follow @htshowbiz for more Read the full article

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Hindi Medium Review - Hindi Movie Hindi Medium Review

Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar are childhood sweethearts from Chandni Chowk. He has a large clothing store and she takes care of their home and their child Pia who is now ready to be sent to school.

She's fun to watch, with her character finicky about the child eating right, not watching too much tv, playing right (you laugh out loud when you see her sanitise the slide in the park!). But she has ambitions for her child. And the ambitions include getting the child admitted to the best school in Delhi.

Irrfan Khan plays the loving husband, drives the wife to the schools that look more like fancy hotels rather than schools. But at her insistence he moves bag and baggage to a fancy neighborhood so they fulfil the residential requirement that will enable the child's admission to a fancy school.

Now Irrfan Khan is a good actor, but you see red flags go up when he begins to overdo the 'acting' as they leave Chandni Chowk and he laments over Kulche Chhole. The script takes us to the travails of this wealthy but very clearly 'Hindi Medium' family attempting to fit into 'posh' society. Your jaw drops as the madness to get the child into a good school is pushed further and further and you like when Deepak Dobriyal shows up on the screen as neighbor. The humanity and the way of life is fun up to a point, but you are exhausted by things like 'kill the Dengue mosquito by humming like female mosquito' which are meant to be funny.

By the time the lessons are learnt and the hearts transformed, you as audience is exhausted. Hindi Medium Review - Hindi Movie Hindi Medium Review of how poor kids deserve a good school too is tiresome. Sabah Qamar is beautiful and unlike TV actors who have not really made a mark on the big screen, she actually shines. Irrfan Khan starts out as a fun guy but tends to ham, ham and ham some more. Deepak Dobriyal is as good as ever. Tillotama Shome hammers home the role of a supercilious prep school head and you shudder because such people exist and terrify new parents as they get desperate to get their kids admitted to good schools.

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August: First Week

Over the last 14 weeks, I’ve acquired a new addiction… analyzing. Since I started studying media I can't seem to see things how they used to be. Nowadays it happens quite often that whenever I’m watching a movie I automatically start analyzing it,  although not like professional but more like layman and it annoys my brother so much that he stopped watching movies with me as frequently as he used to. Before I opted for media the only things which I wanted in a movie to be were it should be light hearted, without too much action and a happily ever after.

Now I can watch movies of any genre and can give honest review too but......their are side effects that I face like if I don’t get a clear ending I’ll keep thinking about it for days or If someone did something foolish even after knowing it’s going to lead him to an unfortunate life I start thinking about ifs and buts this sometime gives me a headache.

If it were up to me, I would like to watch a movie without facing any after-effects.

Anyway, so this week we revised what we previously learned and some new key media terms.

There is an acronym developed for the key media concepts. It is called MIGRAINE.

M- media

I- institution

G- genre

R- representation

A- audience

I- ideology

N- narrative

E- environment

Key media terms:-

Anchorage

Where the meaning of a media text is fixed or stabilized by a caption, shot type, costume or so on. Often, the elements of a media product, for example pictures in a newspaper, a camera angle in a TV programme, or a setting in a videogame tell us very little. Without the producer anchoring the image into a particular ideology, an audience could interpret a text in any way they choose.   However, producers often have a point of view that they wish to disseminate to the audience, so they choose to fix a particular meaning. The most pertinent example of anchorage is where meaning is anchored by newspaper captions.

We also learnt about connotations and  denotations.

Connotation

connotations are the meaning that the sign has and is derived through the audience’s cultural experiences. For example the color black has a lot of meaning, it means the absence of color. Black is a mysterious color that is typically associated with the unknown or the negative. It also represents strength, seriousness, power, and authority. Black is a formal, elegant, and prestigious color.

Denotation

Denotations are what an image actually shows and is therefore immediately apparent to the audience. Literal definition of a word in a dictionary.

Clip Analysis

We even did some clip analysis so that before we start studying this topic in detail we have a idea how we have to write the answer in notes and after we are done with that we can go for the big answer.

 Bypass - 2003

The first film which we analyzed was a 17 min Indian short film, titled Bypass. Directed by and written by Amit Kumar.

A bypass somewhere in Rajasthan, two violent bandits and one of them is a mute desperado. These two fleece frequently rob people and ultimately strip them off there life. specially the ones who travel by that road. There is one more character which although in the eyes of people is their knight in the shining armor but in reality his armor does not shine, a corrupt police officer. A knight who does not hesitate before cutting the wrist of the damsel in distress only for a mere watch. “Bypass" is a beautifully shot short film based on a simple premise. This dark tale of life in the desert takes no prisoners, life is shown as cheap and the director delivers an uncompromising story in a stylish manner. This short is also considered a work of art as it uses no dialogue or subtitles, instead it relies on the performances of its small cast to deliver the story which  includes   legendary actors like Nawaz Uddin Siddiqui and Irfan Khan. 

Fight Club - 1999

For this movie we only analyzed the airplane sequence. This was an adaptation from Chuck Palahniuk Novel of the same name directed by David Fincher.          As far as I could understand. It was about an unnamed narrator who attends several support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. And also needed a fantasy to escape from his deadly mundane life, however the only thing they do in the group is cry into each others chest, which actually helped him a lot for he was having some peace in his life. But then he is on a plane on his way back from what a viewer would assume is a business trip. and that was it, I’ll be honest I haven't watched it till now maybe someday I might watch the whole movie. Although some of my friends who are crazy fan of this film warns me...….God might not give me any place in the heaven if I won't watch this movie before dying (it's not like I’m dying tomorrow...…🤷‍♀️ .fine who have seen the future).

Meghe Dhaka Tara  - 1960

Although we analyzed the opening 4 minutes of this film, but as I’m a curious minded person, I had to watch it completely and I did exactly that. As we all know one curiosity leads to another that is director Ritwik Ghatak. An active Marxist who began his career in the Communist People's Theater, Ghatak's films never achieved widespread popularity but he is now considered to be one of the top Indian directors of the last half of the 20th century. His best known film Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star),The independence of India in August 1947 resulted in the partition of Bengal, a trauma etched in the minds of the people whose lives were changed forever. Nowhere is this upheaval better portrayed than in this films. It was the first in a trilogy examining the economic effects of partition, is a powerful story about a young Indian women who sacrifices her education and marriage in order to hold her family together.   Ghatak's inspiration for the character was a woman he saw at a bus stop whose beaten down appearance struck him as being typical of Bengali refugees. This movie was not a perfect movie and definitely not a flawless one but as we look at the time 1960′s, things can be ignored. This was definitely a work of art which is worth admiring. Ok, there is something I want to confess I’m not used to watching B&W movies so it was quit a task for me. Especially the sound which I can't seem to understand not only in this movie but in any other old B&W though I didn't needed that as I can’t speak Bengali and I would have still asked for subtitles. Overall it is a movie that should be watched before arranging a dinner date with Yama.

 That’s all for this week!

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Virtual meetings, Wonder Woman, WarriOrb & Austism Studies

Welcome, to the World of TOMOROOOW!

What does listening to a podcast have to do with listening to your boss? Science is now showing benefits to virtual meetings. Which means one day, even your boss might be replaced by a voice over the wire. This still doesn't mean you can get out of wearing pants.

Wonder Woman's director thinks DC shouldn't follow the tried and true MCU formula. Sure, it worked for them, but can it be pulled off twice? Let us know if you have a good argument for there being room for two comic cinematic universes.

WarriOrb is a new game that's just been released on Steam. But following a highly popular demo, WarriOrb's initial sales have been disappointingly low. The devs have posted their own analysis on Reddit, and they're understandably confused.

Wrapping up, we have a discussion about scientific studies involving Autistic people.

We played Crysis and Legends of Runeterra this week. Professor's computer didn't melt playing Crysis, and DJ isn't any better at counting cards.

Wait around to hear from us next week with another great episode.

Scientists love virtual meetings

            -https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/457

            - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/368/6490/457.extract.jpg

Wonder Woman Director: Do Not Copy the MCU

            -https://www.gamesradar.com/wonder-woman-director-patty-jenkins-marvel-had-such-success-doing-a-shared-universe-but-that-shouldnt-be-the-status-quo/

The Story of WarriOrb

- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/gbgg6t/over_16k_wishlists_we_were_listed_in_popular/

Autistic people take the helm of studies

            -https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/460

            - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/368/6490/460.extract.jpg

Games Played

Professor

– Crysis - https://store.steampowered.com/app/17300/Crysis/

Rating: 4.75/5

DJ

– Legends of Runeterra - https://playruneterra.com/en-us/ 

Rating: 4.5/5

Other topics discussed

Doctors trapped in cruise ship off Chile during Coronavirus

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/coronavirus-covid-19-australian-doctors-dentists-stuck-cruise-ship-coast-chile

Apple iPhone 4 presentation fail

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7809941/Apple-iPhone-4-technology-fails-Steve-Jobs-during-presentation.html

Birds of Prey : Harley Quinn movie…a box office risk

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/04/06/box-office-birds-of-prey-harley-quinn-sequel-margot-robbie-ghostbusters-solo-alita/#4f474e367274

Studio Interference ruined 2015 Fantastic Four movie

- https://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/its-a-mess-details-of-studio-interference-emerge-in-behind-the-scenes-fantastic-four-debacle-261010/

WarriOrb (action platformer game)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/790360/WarriOrb/

List of Renaissance artists (Renaissance artists ended in the late 14th century and includes famous painters and sculptors.)

- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Renaissance_artists

Walking Simulator (An adventure game focused on gradual exploration and discovery through observation, with little in the way of action.)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214280/Walking_Simulator/

Crysis Remastered coming to Nintendo Switch

- https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/16/21223384/crysis-remastered-nintendo-switch-leak-website

Crysis Minigun Scene

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCrLBTR0ay0

Kizuna AI (Japanese virtual YouTuber and self-proclaimed artificial intelligence)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizuna_AI

2002 Spiderman : upside down kiss scene

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBpwrORhKWU

Irrfan Khan filmography

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrfan_Khan_filmography

Royal Flying Doctor Service (The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctor) is an air medical service based in Australia. It is a non-profit organisation which provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia who cannot access a hospital or general practice due to the vast distances of the Outback.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia

Lego Masters (Australian reality television show based on the British series of the same name in which teams compete to build the best Lego project.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Masters_(Australian_season_1)

Lego Masters ((stylized as LEGO Masters) is an American reality competition television series based on the British series of the same name.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Masters_(American_TV_series)

Felix Baumgartner (Austrian skydiver,daredevil, and BASE jumper. He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, USA as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner#Main_jump

Flight altitude record (This listing of flight altitude records are the records set for the highest aeronautical flights conducted in the atmosphere, set since the age of ballooning.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record#Balloons

Grand Moff Tarkin (Governor Wilhuff Tarkin is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, first portrayed by English actor Peter Cushing in the 1977 film Star Wars.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin

An Assemblage of Grandiose and Bombastic Grandiloquents (TNC Podcast)

- https://thatsnotcanon.com/grandiloquentspodcast

The Mistholme Museum Of Mystery, Morbidity, And Mortality (TNC Podcast)

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Shout Outs

30th April 2020 - Scrubs co-star Sam Lloyd passes away at 56 - https://ew.com/tv/sam-lloyd-scrubs-actor-dies-at-56/

Character actor Sam Lloyd, who played recurring character Ted Buckland on the sitcom Scrubs, has died at the age of 56. The nephew of Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd appeared in more than 60 films and TV series during his three-decade career, including Seinfeld, Modern Family and The Middle. He was also a talented singer who was a member of the a cappella group the Blanks and Beatles tribute band the Buttles, although right-handed, he learned to play bass left-handed like Beatles bassist Paul McCartney to maintain authenticity. He died from an inoperable brain tumor and metastatic lung cancer that had spread to his liver, spine, and jaw in Los Angeles, California. His death was not announced until the 4th of May this year.

03 May 2020 - Kizuna AI Hosts #StayHomeWithAIchan Project - https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/05/02/kizuna-ai-hosts-stayhomewithaichan-project-streams-first-concert

With everyone looking for a creative way to have fun at home, Kizuna AI is here to help. The virtual idol has officially kicked off the #StayHomeWithAIchanproject, highlighting her desire for everyone to have more fun at home. It all started with a live stream of Kizuna AI's first live concert, "hello, world," which is now available to watch in its entirety for free for one day. The two-day solo concert was held on December 29 at Zepp Diver City in Tokyo and on December 30 at Zepp Osaka Bayside. The second part of the project is a new lineup of goods themed after "Matching with Kizuna AI."

03 May 2020 – Sam Raimi’s Spiderman turns 18 years old - https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/05/03/spider-man-succeeded-batman-failed-marvel-box-office/#254383ad2b3e

The well-reviewed Marvel adaptation rode a wave of anticipation, buzz and post-9/11 populism to become the first movie to A) earn $40 million in a single day (after a $39 million Friday) and B) gross over $100 million in its Fri-Sun domestic launch. It followed up that $114 million weekend debut with a $71 million (-37%) second weekend, also a record at the time, legging out to $403 million domestic (the fifth-biggest grosser ever in 2002) and $821 million worldwide on a $130 million budget. Spider-Man ushered in a new wave of big-budget, present-tense comic book superhero movies that featured characters whom audiences wanted to see.

Remembrances

29th April 2020 - Irrfan Khan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrfan_Khan

Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan known professionally as Irrfan Khan or simply Irrfan, was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema as well as in British and American films. Cited in the media as one of the finest actors in Indian cinema, Khan's career spanned over 30 years and earned him numerous accolades. Khan made his film debut with a small role in Salaam Bombay!, which was followed by years of struggle. He had supporting roles in the Hollywood films The Amazing Spider-Man, Life of Pi,Jurassic World, and Inferno. His other notable roles were in Slumdog Millionaire and, New York among other movies. Khan was described by Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian as "a distinguished and charismatic star in Hindi and English-language movies whose hardworking career was an enormously valuable bridge between South Asian and Hollywood cinema". He died from neuroendocrine tumour at the age of 53 in Mumbai,Maharashtra.

4th May 1938 - Kanō Jigorō - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C5%8D_Jigor%C5%8D

Japanese educator and athlete, the founder of Judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport.Pedagogical innovations attributed to Kanō include the use of black and white belts, and the introduction of dan ranking to show the relative ranking among members of a martial art style.

In 1915, Kanō gave this definition to judo:

“Judo is the way of the highest or most efficient use of both physical and mental energy. Through training in the attack and defence techniques of judo, the practitioner nurtures their physical and mental strength, and gradually embodies the essence of the Way of Judo. Thus, the ultimate objective of Judo discipline is to be utilized as a means to self-perfection, and thenceforth to make a positive contribution to society.”

In his professional life, Kanō was an educator. Important postings included serving as director of primary education for the Ministry of Education from 1898 to 1901, and as president of Tokyo Higher Normal School from 1900 until 1920. He played a key role in making judo and kendo part of the Japanese public school programs of the 1910s. Kanō was also a pioneer of international sports. Accomplishments included being the first Asian member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) (he served from 1909 until 1938); officially representing Japan at most Olympic Games held between 1912 and 1936; and serving as a leading spokesman for Japan's bid for the 1940 Olympic Games.

He died from pneumonia at the age of 77 aboard MVHikawa Maru.

4th May 2008 - Fred Baur - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur

Fredric John Baur, Americanorganic chemist and food storage technician notable for designing and patenting the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970. His other accomplishments included development of frying oils and freeze-dried ice cream. Some of Baur's ashes were buried in a Pringles can at his request. Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to one of Baur's grandchildren. He died at the age of 89 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Famous Birthdays

4th May 1655 - Bartolomeo Cristofori - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco, Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano. During the remaining years of the 17th century, Cristofori invented two keyboard instruments before he began his work on the piano. The spinettone, Italian for "big spinet", was a large, multi-choired spinet (a harpsichord in which the strings are slanted to save space), with disposition 1 x 8', 1 x 4'; most spinets have the simple disposition 1 x 8'. This invention may have been meant to fit into a crowded orchestra pit for theatrical performances, while having the louder sound of a multi-choired instrument. The other invention was the highly original oval spinet, a kind of virginal with the longest strings in the middle of the case. It was thought for some time that the earliest mention of the piano is from a diary of Francesco Mannucci, a Medici court musician, indicating that Cristofori was already working on the piano by 1698. The first unambiguous evidence for the piano comes from the 1700 inventory of the Medici mentioned in the preceding section. The entry in this inventory for Cristofori's piano begins as follows:

Un Arpicembalo di Bartolomeo Cristofori di nuova inventione, che fa' il piano, e il forte, a due registri principali unisoni, con fondo di cipresso senza rosa..." (boldface added)

An "Arpicembalo" by Bartolomeo Cristofori, of new invention that produces soft and loud, with two sets of strings at unison pitch, with soundboard of cypress without rose..."

The Medici inventory goes on to describe the instrument in considerable detail. The range of this (now lost) instrument was four octaves, C to c″″′, a standard (if slightly small) compass for harpsichords. He was born in Padua,Republic of Venice.

4 May 1852 - Alice Liddell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell

Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, was, in her childhood, an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the children's classic 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On 4 July 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on the Isis from Folly Bridge,Oxford, to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Alice asked Charles Dodgson (who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll) to entertain her and her sisters, Edith and Lorina, with a story. As the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed the boat, Dodgson regaled the girls with fantastic stories of a girl, named Alice, and her adventures after she fell into a rabbit-hole. The story was not unlike those Dodgson had spun for the sisters before, but this time Liddell asked Mr. Dodgson to write it down for her. He promised to do so but did not get around to the task for some months. He eventually presented her with the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864. The extent to which Dodgson's Alice may be or could be identified with Liddell is controversial. The two Alices are clearly not identical, and though it was long assumed that the fictional Alice was based very heavily on Liddell, recent research has contradicted this assumption. She was born in Westminster, London

4 May 1966 - Jane McGrath - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McGrath

Jane Louise McGrath, England-bornAustralian cancer support campaigner, and the wife of former Australian cricket fast bowler Glenn McGrath. In 2005 Glenn and Jane McGrath founded the McGrath Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to raising money to fund breast care nurses in rural and regional Australia, and to increase breast awareness in young women. As of December 2018, 120 McGrath breast care nurses have been placed in communities throughout Australia, supporting over 67,000 Australian families experiencing breast cancer. The third day of the first Sydney test cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground each year is now known as Jane McGrath Day, where money is raised for the McGrath Foundation. Spectators at the SCG wear pink to show their support and sponsor logos in various places are also recoloured pink for the match. On 5 January 2013, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced an $18.5 million donation to the McGrath Foundation from the Australian Government. The funding allowed all 44 existing McGrath breast care nurse positions to continue and expand the program by 10 full-time equivalent places. She was born in Paignton, Devon.

4 May 1970 - Will Arnett - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Arnett

William Emerson "Will" Arnett, Canadian-American actor, comedian and producer. He is best known for his role as BoJack Horseman in the Netflix series of the same name and George Oscar "Gob" Bluth II in the Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development, receiving a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He has appeared in films such as Blades of Glory, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. His performance as Devon Banks in 30 Rock earned him four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nominations. His deep, smooth baritone voice has landed him prolific roles within animation, including Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ratatouille, Horton Hears a Who!, Monsters vs. Aliens, Despicable Me,The Nut Job, and as Batman in the Lego Movie franchise. His involvement with The LEGO Group continues as Fox Network announced him as the host of their show LEGO Masters, which premiered on February 5, 2020. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Events of Interest

2nd May 1970 - 50th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman at the Kentucky Derby - https://theathletic.co.uk/1783460/2020/04/30/an-inside-look-at-how-sports-shaped-hunter-s-thompsons-gonzo-journalism/

“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" is a seminal sports article written by Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, first appearing in an issue of Scanlan's Monthly in June of that year. Though not known at the time, the article marked the first appearance of gonzo journalism, the style that Thompson came to epitomize through the 1970s. The genesis of the article has been described by Thompson as akin to "falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids." Accompanied by Ralph Steadman's sketches (the first of many collaborations between Thompson and Steadman), the resulting story, and the manic, first-person subjectivity that characterized it, were the beginnings of the gonzo style of journalism. The article is less about the actual race itself – indeed, Thompson and Steadman could not actually see the race from their standpoint – but rather focuses on the celebration and depravity that surrounds the event. Thompson's depiction includes the events in Louisville (his home town) in the days before and after the Derby, and Steadman captured the debauched atmosphere in his surreal drawings. Thompson provided up-close views of activities in the Derby infield and grandstand at Churchill Downs, and a running commentary on the drunkenness and lewdness of the crowd, which he states in the article as the only thing he was focusing on with the work. The narrative ends with a bittersweet anagnorisis, somewhat common in Thompson's work; after several days of immersing themselves in raucous partying and alcoholism to get a sense of the event, Thompson and Steadman realize that they have become exactly the type of people they originally planned to caricature.

4th May 1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km). - https://www.patriotspoint.org/news-and-events/world-record-balloon-flight-set-by-navy-at-113739-9-feet/

On 04 May 1961 Navy balloon pilot Commander Malcolm Ross and flight surgeon Lieutenant Commander Victor Prather (MC)  ascended to the world record height of 113,739.9 feet above sea level in their open gondola Strato-Lab. This record still holds today in 2011 for manned balloon ascent. The record-setting flight on 04 May 1961 from the USS Antietam was scheduled to test the new Navy Mark IV pressure suit. The Mark IV suit’s performance impressed NASA scientists and a modified version was selected  for use by the Project Mercury astronauts.  Strato-Lab remained in the air for 9 hours 54 minutes, and covered a horizontal distance of 140 miles during its flight.  The research goals of the flight were successful, unfortunately LCDR Prather drowned when he slipped into the water and his pressure suit filled with seawater.

4th May 2013 - Dr. Who And The Daleks enjoyed a rare theatrical re-release - https://www.scifihistory.net/may-4.html

On this day in 2013 (in the United Kingdom), 1965's Dr. Who And The Daleks enjoyed a rare theatrical re-release.  The feature starred Peter Cushing as the signature Timelord, and here's the plot summary as provided by IMDB.com:

"An eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks."

It was followed by Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Filmed in Technicolor, it is the first Doctor Who story to be made in colour and in a widescreen format. The film was not intended to form part of the ongoing story-lines of the television series. Elements from the programme are used, however, such as various characters, the Daleks and a police box time machine, albeit in re-imagined forms. The Daleks were redesigned slightly for the film. They had larger base sections, which made them taller and more imposing than the TV Daleks, which were only about five feet high. They had large, red dome lights and some were fitted with a two-jawed mechanical claw instead of a plunger. They also had more colourful paint schemes. Standard Daleks had blue domes, skirt balls and fenders, and gold collars. A Dalek leader was painted predominantly black and a second-in-command in red. Originally the Daleks were to be armed with flamethrowers, but these were vetoed on health and safety grounds and because they were considered too frightening for a young audience. Instead, the guns produced jets of CO2 gas from internally mounted fire extinguishers. Some of the Daleks used in the background for crowd scenes were constructed from moulded fibreglass, and can be distinguished by the slightly different shape of the collars around their midsections.

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IRRFAN DIES AT 53 IN MUMBAI

Actor Irrfan breathed his last on Wednesday, his spokesperson said in an official statement Wednesday. The actor was 53 years old, and was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai when he passed away. Irrfan is survived by wife Sutapa Sikder, and sons Babil and Ayan. “‘I trust, i have surrendered’; These were the some of the many words that Irrfan expressed in a heartfelt note he wrote in 2018, opening up about his fight with cancer. And a man of few words and an actor of silent expressions with his deep eyes and his memorable actions on screen. It’s saddening that this day, we have to bring forward the news of him passing away. Irrfan was a strong soul, someone who fought till the very end and always inspired everyone who came close to him. After having been struck by lightning in 2018 with the news of a rare cancer, he took life soon after as it came and he fought the many battles that came with it. Surrounded by his love, his family for whom he most cared about, he left for his heavenly abode, leaving behind truly a legacy of his own. We all pray and hope that he is at peace.

Irrfan Khan, also credited as simply Irrfan, is an Indian film actor, known for his work predominantly in Hindi cinema, as well as his works in British films and Hollywood. Wikipedia Born: 7 January 1967 (age 53 years), Jaipur Died: 29 April 2020, Mumbai Height: 1.83 m Spouse: Sutapa Sikdar (m. 1995) TV shows: Chandrakanta, In Treatment, Bharat Ek Khoj, MORE Awards: IIFA Award for Best Actor, Filmfare Award for Best Actor, MORE

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'Angrezi Medium' box office collection day 3: Coronavirus outbreak has a massive impact on Irrfan Khan's film; earns Rs 2.25 crore - Times of India

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'Angrezi Medium' box office collection day 3: Coronavirus outbreak has a massive impact on Irrfan Khan's film; earns Rs 2.25 crore - Times of India

Homi Adajania’s ‘Angrezi Medium‘ was one of the most anticipated films of 2020 as it marked the return of talented actor Irrfan Khan on the silver screen. But looks like the Coronavirus outbreak has impacted the film’s collection as it has managed to earn just Rs 2.25 crore on it’s first Sunday.

Angrezi Medium Movie Review : An emotional story packed with powerful performances

According to the latest Box Office India report, the film has reached a total of Rs 9 crore from its first weekend at the box office. With several theatres in places like Delhi, Jammu and Kerala being shut, the film has managed to find a few screens in parts of Maharashtra, UP, Haryana, West Bengal and Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu. The places like Gurgaon, Noida and Chandigarh which could have been the best markets for the film to excel in have failed to allure the audience despite remaining open all weekend. Taking to social media, director of Adajania had announced that the film will be re-released in India. He had written, “At midnight all theatres will close across India till the authorities give us further notice. We will re-release Angrezi Medium when it is safe to do so. Till then stay safe and be kind to each other.”

With the ongoing scenario, several producers have pushed the release of their films to later dates in order to avoid loss at the box office. Not only Bollywood but even Hollywood films like ‘Fast and Furious 9’, ‘No Time to Die’ and others have also been postponed.

To contain the spread of coronavirus, film bodies in India including Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE), Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) and Producers Guild of India have taken the decision to put the shoots of films, TV shows and web shows on hold till March 31.

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via Today Bharat nbsp; We catch Kareena Kapoor at the special screening of Karisma Kapoorrsquo;s comeback web series Mentalhood Kareena Kapoor, or ldquo;Bebordquo; as shersquo;s affectionately called, stole the show when she recently showed up at her sister Karisma Kapoorrsquo;s (Lolo) special screening event of her web series, Ekta Kapoorrsquo;s Mentalhood. Karisma Kapoor is making her acting comeback after a very long break. Kareena, Karishmarsquo;s little sister and one of the closest people in her life, attended the event with their mother Babita Shivdasani to show their support for her at the event.ldquo;I think everybody is very excited especially about Lolo because I think we all, as fans, have waited to watch her onscreenhellip; on TV. We have wanted her to comeback on scene after so many years. I am as excited and nervous as she is. I know how nervous she is, but Mentalhood revolves around such a relevant topic today,rdquo; says Kareena. Her life story in pics The 3 Idiots actress had also made her Instagram debut last week, hours within which her page gathered over a million followers. The first few of her posts on the platform are pictures of her husband Saif Ali Khan and their little one, Taimur. The actress has said that she hopes to use the platform for her brands, her films and all about her personal life too.ldquo;My fans have pulled me towards this. There are so many fan clubs out there and they were all asking me to do so. So we needed one point where you could know all about me, about my films, my brands, about my life and of course there will be once a picture of them (Saif and Taimur),rdquo; she tells us. Working with the best Kareena, who will next appear in the film Angrezi Medium with Irrfan Khan, tells us that she picked up the role only because it had Irrfan in the lead. ldquo;I am very excited. I got the opportunity to work with such a brilliant actor like Irrfan. That for me is the greatest honour. Thatrsquo;s the reason why I did the film as well,rdquo; she adds.When we ask her if her fans can expect Bebo and Lolo to work together ever, she tells us that it is a possibility with a good script that can justify both their characters. ldquo;I think that we have always wanted to, but then there has been no script good enough thus far that we could do. If someone comes up with a good script, then we could consider,rdquo; she says, signing off.

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These Heroes Were Paid Hefty Sums For Their Biopics

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These Heroes Were Paid Hefty Sums For Their Biopics

These Heroes Were Paid Hefty Sums For Their Biopics Bency Sebastian Hyderabd040-395603080 January 29, 2020

Biopics are interesting movies and are well received by audiences because they are informative, real and have a moral at the end of the movie. They are inspired by real life and have a way of emotionally connecting with the audience. With Bollywood being popularly known for its masala and drama, biopics are out-of-the-box movies that keep it real with the audience and show us what life is. Be it movies like The Dirty Picture that portrays popular actress Silk Smitha’s life or the movie Bandit Queen that shows us the crass reality of the life of the famous Phoolan Devi, biopics have a way of staying with us in some way even after the movie. Some of these biopics are made on the lives of people who have passed on from this world and others on living heroes who have been an inspiration in our lives.

However, no matter what the movie is on, in the end, it’s a business. This is exactly why the people whose story is used to earn profits at the box office are given a certain amount of money. Here are a few heroes who have been remunerated for sharing details of their lives with us and given Bollywood a chance to capture their beautiful journey through these movies.

1. Mahavir Singh Phogat

India Today

Popular sports biopic Dangal is based on the life of the Phogat family. The movie focuses on Mahavir Singh Phogat’s quest to train his daughters in wrestling to win a gold medal on an international level. Mahavir is played by Aamir Khan and the biopic is directed by Nitesh Tiwari. It was released all over the world and became a huge success. The movie made about 240 crores in just nine days and Mahavir Singh was paid a lump sum amount of Rs. 80 lakhs.

2. Milkha Singh

Hindustan Times

Another sports biopic and the first of its kind in India, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag was directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The protagonist is played by heartthrob Farhan Akhtar and as the title suggests, it is based on the life of the famous Milkha Singh. Not only was the movie a super-duper hit but it also filled our hearts with pride knowing that we have such a hero in our country. The fact that surprised us the most was that the “Flying Singh”, as he is called, charged merely Rs. 1 in the form of notes that were printed in 1985. However, the makers of the film had promised to give this unsung hero 10% but they failed to fulfill their promise (1).

3. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

India Today

Whether you are a cricket fan or not, Dhoni is a name we all know. M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story is based on the life of the former captain of the Indian cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The biopic was directed by Neeraj Pandey and shares some insights and lesser-known facts on Dhoni’s life beyond his career in cricket. He is played by the adorable and very talented Sushant Singh Rajput who portrayed Dhoni’s life so well that it won the hearts of the audience worldwide. Dhoni charged a whopping amount of Rs. 80 crores to share details of his real-life for the movie.

4. Mary Kom

Economic Times

Just as the title suggests, this sports biopic is based on the life of the former Indian Olympic boxer Mary Kom. The film features Priyanka Chopra as Mary Kom and it depicts the struggles she faced while pursuing her career as a boxer and making it all the way to represent India in the Olympics. It was directed by Omung Kumar and is one of the best sports biopic movies of all time. The film was a huge success and it made over 100 crores globally but Mary Kom received a sum of Rs. 25 lakhs only.

5. Sachin Tendulkar

God of Cricket as he is called, the legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s life was made into a documentary called Sachin: A Billion Dreams. It was released in 2017 in India and although it was not a film, it made over 7 crores in just two days. For all Tendulkar fans, this documentary is a treat that makes you laugh, sing and sob along with your most inspiring sports hero. He charged about Rs. 40 crores for this documentary and we don’t think it is too much because he is worth so much more!

6. Paan Singh Tomar

India Today

We know that corruption is rooted in our society when it penetrates something as pure as the sports industry. A must watch, Paan Singh Tomar is based on the life of an Indian athlete who becomes a bandit in the Chambal Valley. Paan Singh was a soldier in the Indian Army who became a renowned bandit. The biopic is directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and features the competent Irrfan Khan in the titular role. The gold medalist’s family was given a sum of Rs. 15 lakhs for the movie.

7. Sanjay Dutt

India TV News

Sanju, a biographical drama, was a box office hit and created a storm of success. Directed by Raju Hirani, Sanjay Dutt was played by Ranbir Kapoor in the biopic and it engulfed the audience in an emotional ride on the controversial life of Sanjay Dutt. The biopic made approximately 439 crores and Sanjay Dutt took 10 crores plus parts of the profits from the box office.

Bollywood has made several other biopics that have been received well by the audience but these are the ones who have reaped the benefits. These heroes have shared inspiring stories of their lives to teach us valuable lessons and also managed to make some money out of it. Which is your favorite Bollywood biopic of all time? Let us know in the comments below.

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'Sacred Games' will make you crave an Indian golden age of television

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'Sacred Games' will make you crave an Indian golden age of television

If you’re making your first Netflix original, you have to swing big. 

This is a tradition that started with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. Now, as the company expands its worldwide empire, Netflix India has debuted its first original series: Sacred Games, based on the novel by Vikram Chandra. It’s a big, magnificent swing, and the first season hits it out of the park.

Sacred Games, based on the novel by Vikram Chandra, is the story of Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a notorious gangster who contacts police officer Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) with a threat against the city of Mumbai. Singh ends up working with federal agent Anjali Mathur (Radhika Apte) as they try to solve the elusive criminal’s puzzle. 

Though Singh is our de facto hero and the knight in shining armor, Gaitonde is the central character, whose life is pieced together in flashbacks throughout the eight episodes.

Structurally, the show is part Da Vinci Code, part Slumdog Millionaire. It also harkens significantly to streaming sibling Narcos, with its use of multiple languages and immersion in the underworld. It bears the unmistakable artistic signature of directors/producers Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, a sensibility found in India’s independent features and short films. 

India boasts a voracious film and television audience, but almost all TV shows in India are reality shows or soap operas (“serials”). In 2017, Amazon bet on the sports drama Inside Edge, which performed positively and earned a second season. Notably, Kashyap’s 2012 opus Gangs of Wasseypur (also starring Siddiqui) used to be on Netflix – not as the two four-hour films as which it debuted, but as an eight-episode miniseries.

Sacred Games faces pressure on the international stage, due in part to Netflix’s reach and in part to the popularity of Chandra’s novel.

Though Sacred Games is a rare form of Indian entertainment, it’s hard to imagine Sacred Games in any format besides this series due to the rich craftsmanship of the show. Gaitonde’s world and life are overwhelmingly immersive, as is the ominous trail he leaves for Singh. 

There’s an English dub available, but the original Hindi (and sometimes English, Marathi, or Punjabi) is vital to the viewing experience. The dialect is harsh and guttural and curses – whether you understand them or not – sting with the sharpness of their delivery.

It’s also violent – like Game of Thrones violent or Daredevil violent – which may surprise audiences who only know India for colorful song-and-dance rom-coms. But violence has been a staple of Bollywood for decades – it even used to be in those sweeping musicals about love. Though Sacred Games sets up a world in which you expect assault, rape, and gun fights, they fit into Gaitonde’s uncouth reality through careful production and cinematography.

Siddiqui, a proven talent, is nothing short of hypnotic as Gaitonde with all his rage and ambition. (Lion‘s Sunny Pawar plays a young version of the gangster, ensuring he won’t be pigeonholed as “adorable child” for long.) Though not fully a household name even in India, Sacred Games could propel him to the international versatility of an Irrfan Khan or an Anupam Kher. 

Apte nails her portrayal of Mathur, perhaps because she makes it so unremarkable. Women on India’s screens are almost always airbrushed, lightened, perhaps wearing colored contracts, and caked in makeup within an inch of their lives. They are a fantasy, but Mathur (and Apte herself) is a real woman, a highly competent women in a competitive field and patriarchal society.

She’s driven by duty and justice while Singh has a more a personal stake (Gaitonde knew his father). Khan, better known for popular commercial films, delivers a subtle performance that is one of his best. 

I worked for Khan during production of his 2014 film Happy Ending, and based on conversations at that time it’s clear that Sacred Games is the kind of project he’s spent years trying to find. He was frustrated with the stagnancy of commercial Bollywood and the lack of new stories to tell, intrigued by darkness and folklore, which interweave subtly throughout Sacred Games.

With such a powerful debut, Sacred Games sets an impressive bar for India’s Netflix originals, and creates a show unlike anything else available on the streaming platform. With the stars’ tight film schedules, a second season might be challenging, but Netflix is undoubtedly eyeing it. You’ll want it too, after you take a breather for this one. This game is not for the faint of heart. 

Sacred Games is now streaming on Netflix.

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