#baahubali live blog

[redbaretta]

Anushka Shetty as Devasena and Prabhas as Amarendra Baahubali in Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)

[mahishmatikathakar]

There were a number of spectacular sequences in the Kalakeya vs. Mahishmati battle scenes. But in addition to the bloodbath, I was mad uncomfortable with the depiction of the Kalakeya— and this lessened the cinematic brilliance of this entire section for me.

BUT, I absolutely loved the scene just before the battle.

Baahubali refuses to sacrifice an innocent animal. His own blood will suffice. And that’s just sheer perfection in the character of this fierce warrior who is otherwise pretty ruthless on the battlefield.

I’m a huge animal lover, a vegetarian for ethical reasons, and completely against animal sacrifice of any sort. So I was happy to see that Baahubali would not kill a buffalo just for superstition sake.

Yay!!! — Submitted by @carminavulcana

[stardustfoundations]

So since watching rrr, I’ve been diving into Indian movies. This is just a helpful list for me to keep track of what I’ve watched so far. What I watch is just based upon what I can get my hands on and whatever comes up first. I also have a few movies I’ve started but not finished for various reasons that I plan to go back to. I also try to watch films in their original languages.

RRR (first Indian film. Amazing movie 10/10)

Baahubali: The Beginning (the first 30 minutes to 1 hr of this is so very confusing, but after that i enjoyed every second of both movies. Was a very good time)

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion

Article 15 (crime drama. First major run in with the caste system in Indian movies i encountered.)

Acharya ( it sure was a film. Subtitles weren't great, and it was very slow. Enjoyed it tho)

Rangasthalam (I liked this one pretty good, fav of Ram Charan I’ve see rn. Only three rn tho. His films are hard to find for some reason :( )

Aravinda Sametha (This was pretty good, but very slow at points, JR NTR film. About factions and trying to end the cycle of violence. LI was good, but so dumb in places. She’s studying factions, but seems to be so ignorant about them??? July 1: Just learned the version I watched cut like 20 minutes from the film lmao. Like at least the funeral scene got cut. I think a few songs got cut. I wonder how many different bits of films I’ve missed 💀 Might explain some of the pacing issues I’d come across.)

Janatha Garage (Subtitles were so so bad, but fav of JR NTR’s so far.)

K.G.F Chapter 1 (1 and 2 are really really good. the love story is pure Stockholm syndrome tho rip.)

K.G.F Chapter 2

Jana Gana Mana (really good movie. Courtroom drama. Feels pro cop at the beginning then becomes a critique of media culture and corrupt systems i think?)

Adhurs (double NTR’s! It was okay, not the best but a fun time. One i watched was like a third hand rip and would pause to load in a lot of places, so dramatic moments were lost)

Kaithi (fav movie rn. Going through the single night was aces. Seeing the sun come up at the end was very satisfying. Getting to know Gilli over the course of the movie was a+)

Master (good move. The scene in the middle where he shaves the kids heads was a little :/ cause invasion of body autonomy like that always makes me sour on stuff a little bit.)

Pushpa: The Rise (love the body language of the main actor. really good. Can’t wait for the second part)

Bruce Lee: The Fighter (Had fun watching it. Tw suicide attempt tho. The Chiranjeevi cameo was fun. )

Govindudu Andarivadele (Ram Charan film. Weird edits. Why did the character get over his friend deceiving him with the wrong picture. Feeling weird about the cousin love thing, but otherwise pretty good! Cried at the end of this. I think my version was cut weird cause I like cut out Abhi getting shot and then like his dad reacting? Music cues were also all weird?)

Beast (fun movie I think. MC was interesting. Felt like it would fit in with usa war films tho)

Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (liked this film. Laughed a lot during a good fun time with some feels)

Mersal (???? Doctor/magician in the way of Kaito Kid and in that i mean out of left field amazing tricks??? Got to like a fight scene and had to stop cause life. Just pulled a staff out of a bag??? I've seen song videos on youtube and it is very much not this??? So confused. I have since watched more and loving it. Verti(SP?) is very sim to Kaito Kid, but he kills people instead of stealing gems lmao. Loved the ending. Def cried while watching. Leaving prev notes cause they a little live blog of thoughts.)

Brindavanam (the edits in this are wack as shit. Makes no sense rn, but it compels me NTR JR. Love triangle??? induced by original LI??? Into the back half. They are now trying to get out of the problems the fake dating has caused lol. Edits have def calmed down. fun ending. They didn’t present a solution to the love triangle lol which I think is for the best)

Sarkar (interesting so far. My dad started watching it with me, it almost made him late for work cause he got pulled in lol, so I can’t continue without him :(. Finished it! Really liked this movie. Soundtrack was really good)

Secret Superstar (feels filled movie. I liked this one)

Vikram Vedha (I was rooting for Vedha through out the whole movie lol. They said Vikram was a honorable cop, but he straight up shot a man who had surrendered and engineered multiple encounters)

Petta (It was okay. Not really my favorite, and kinda felt disconnected. Was not a big fan of the end either. It felt like a twist for a twist sake. :/)

Jai Bhim (Really liked this movie. It was really well done. Every moment really gripped you. Sangani's story was heartbreaking 10/10) 

Etharkkum Thunindvavan (a heavy movie inregarding sexual violence, but good. Feels a little heavy handed in it's message at times, but that just may be me. Seems like it might have a sequal in the future based upon the ending? I'll be looking out for it.)

Pada (about a 1996 protest for the rights of the adivasi people. Very well done and thought provoking movie. Unfortunately the subtitles just. didn't translate some lines???? Like important ending the movie lines. Rip the amazon prime and their subtitle contractor. I swear every movie is subtitled/translated horribly)

Forensic (really interesting movie. The story it wove was very dramatic. Little of the rails at times tho)

Thimmarsu (fun movie with some action and drama. What a twist at the end)

Maharshi (interesting movie. A nice story with a good? message. Main actor wasn’t my fav tho)

Uyare (a good movie. Loved Pallavi)

Anjaan (The reveal bits were some of the funnest parts of the movie. It was fun to watch. idk what else to say about it. Was hoping for a double roll but it was not to be rip.)

Bigil (I really liked this film even the sport parts which I don’t always go for. Loved the combo of action film with sport film.)

Bairavaa  (I liked it. A good Vijay film. The plan that was spun was cool) 

Bloody Mary (Loved this movie. Was a good fun time. Loved the soundtrack, but I can’t find it anywhere rip)

Theri (loved the relationship between Vijay and his daughter. Made me miss Ice and Talapathy from Mersal tho 😔. The bits were he pretended to be a ghost were really good)

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (cried like a baby while watching this movie. It was really good.)

 DJ Duvvade Jagammadham (DJ was an interesting character. A fun movie, but also hate how it leaves DJ still going around killing people lmao)

Veetla Vishesham (Was a good time. Wish it focused a little more on the brothers, but would recommend it.)

 Lucifer (Really loved this one. It was so good. Cannot wait for the squeal and the Chiranjeevi remake)

Dangal (Really Really good. Loved this movie a lot)

Kilometers and Kilometers (A good movie. Moved me to tears at times and was a really good watch)

Raame Aandalum Raavane Aandalum (lovely movie. I liked it a lot. The old man’s plight being thrust forward was really good)

3 idiots (really liked this film. The romance did nothing for me though. Loved the relationship between the core three. big tw for suicide tho)

Kaththi (It was pretty good. Really liked it)

Jai Lava Kusa (NTR in a triple role was really really good. Liked this one a lot)

Taare Zameen Par (really good movie. Ishaan was the best. Loved it so much)

Maaran (interesting movie. I liked it the relationship between the Maaran and his sister was really good)

Om Shanti Om  (sad fun film. It was good, but not my favorite)

Dasvi (interesting and fun film. Loved the MC’s quest to complete his education)

Godse (no idea how to feel about this film. It was good and I liked it. Watching Godse’s story unwind was def a one punch to the gut after another)

 Kapoor and Sons (another really good movie. the last like 45 minutes just like rips out your heart and hands it to you on a platter. Would have loved to see the brother hug at the end tho)

Thaana Serndha Koottam (A fun movie loved all the biplay and plans in this movie. Really good)

Imaikkaa Nodigal (interesting film. The slow discovery of what was going on was really fun.)

Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (It was a good movie and I liked it. Hard to get through on account of everything Maanvi goes through. Would have loved to see Manu apologize like straight out)

Started But Not Finished (plan to finish them tho) (given up on keeping track of this lmao)

Badhaai DO (Queer movie. Like what I've watched so far. need to finish it)

Gangubai Kathiawadi (stars sita’s actress, barely started it, but looks good)

Radhe Shyam (idk what to make of this movie?? Watched cause Prabhas but rom coms aren't my thing all that much)

Don (sure is something? love story comedy thing. Clicked cause i saw it trending on some chart and I'm not really vibing with it)

Lagaan (really good. Has a CW actor in it which i did not expect to see in any shape or form. Gotta watch the actual match now. Really long)

Mirchi (Prabhas movie. MC seeks to change LI factionist family I think?? Subtitles are not helping me)

Super Deluxe (mixed feeling on  this one. On one hand Trans woman whose identity is treated seriously, but on the other hand she’s hate crimed almost every second she’s on screen and is played by a cis man. The other two storylines are fun, except for the fatphobia which is :/)

Yevadu (sure is an experience. fun revenge plot Ram Charan film)

Magadheera (the film is really dragging for me right now rip)

Rang De Basanti (interesting film. Liking this one. sad and thought provoking with some fun times. Hitting the end rn) 

Night Drive (almost half way through. Liking it so far. Interesting setup for the plot)

Tughlaq Durbar (about a third of the way through. Split personality thing is throwing me off, so idk if I'll finish it)

Khaidi No. 150 (it’s a fun movie. The fact that LI is played by the same actress that’s the same age as Ram Charan and was also the LI in one of his movies is majorly throwing me off)

Thalaivaa (Not really doing anything for me :/)

[angstopianau]

New Whump Blog

Hey everyone,

I have liked reading and writing whump since I was really young, except I did not know it was called whump and that it was normal. 

Well, I write a lot of fanfic, especially for Star Trek and Baahubali (an amazing, angsty Indian franchise with the hottest, most whumpable men). 

I will write and reblog whumpy stuff on this blog including original pieces, prompt fills, and fanfic. 

Here is an example of the sort of stuff I write:-

The hot sun felt like fire on his open welts. He grimaced at the pain but no sound came from his lips. It wasn’t just because he no longer had the strength to scream in agony. It was also that he had nothing left except for his silence. It was all that anchored him to the world of the living, a world where he had been loved and cherished perhaps in a different lifetime-- the world that had meant everything to him before it was reduced to this 4 X 6 cage.  

Once. Only once he had given Bhallaladeva the satisfaction of hearing the sound of his pain.  

“If I scream, will you then let them go?,” he had asked him. “What have these poor villagers done to you?”   

“Nothing,” Bhalla had answered. “It is the mere fact that they smile for you, cry for you, and would even die for you. But you’re a nobody. And I want them to see that. Scream for me and maybe I will let them go.”   

And so, he had screamed. When the hundredth lash of the whip came down on his unprotected back. When he was forced to walk in chains over hot coals to get back to his cage. When ice-cold water was thrown on him again and again in the middle of winter on his naked, fevered flesh. And when finally, his thumbs were chopped off and the remaining stubs were cauterized with hot irons.  

He had screamed. And the villagers had screamed with him.  

After that, they had been allowed to leave. And they were never called back again. He had been forced back into his cage, never allowed to leave. Bhallaladeva had made it clear to him that he would be responsible for a genocide if he ever tried to leave. 

"They will stay safe as long as you remain in front of my eyes, right here. Attempt an escape and the people who welcomed you after your banishment will wish they'd never been born."

Baahubali-- the one with strong arms-- became balaheen; the one with no strength. But mercifully, he didn’t have to force himself to scream anymore. Silence was easier. There was simplicity in silence. It was his only refuge, the only thing that didn’t scream back at him. 

The whumpee here is a benevolent and kind king who has been imprisoned for 25 years by his brother. This is an AU. In the original story, his wife was imprisoned after he was murdered brutally on the orders of the evil brother. You really should watch this. It is on Netflix. It is called Baahubali. There are two parts. 

I would love to talk to more angst and hurt/comfort writers. Come say hi!

And oh, here is the series if you would like to read it. 

[queenofmahishmati]

❝ Hey there lovelies, 

You guys are STARS for making me reach this milestone!! I’m still surprised that this blog has reached so far ((given the terribly mixed bag of content i post)) but I’m grateful to each one of you for bringing it to this point. I owe you all one and I thought I would do a little giveaway. To appreciate you guys for sticking by me despite all the weird things I post, for standing all my rants and for staying even when I take my own sweet time finding my way back to the blog. Each one of you is so damn special. What wouldn’t I give to know you all individually?! That’s why I’m making this a wee bit personal. I will take a single request from each one of you, be it an edit or a drabble fanfic of anything of your preference from my fandoms. You can always check my navigation for links to them or read under the cut. I will take requests till the end of this month, Sep’18 :) Finished requests can be found here. 

Send one of the following to make a request here ⇢

— ☾ for a url moodboard or a character moodboard

— ☼ for a character edit of your preference

— ☆ for a drabble fanfic from the listed prompts below

Once again, thank you all so very much from the bottom of my heart. I love you lot!!

~ sharme ♥

Ps. For drabble requests, please read under the cut.

I will write for baahubali, klaroline, got7, marvel cinematic universe, indian mythology, harry potter and any south indian cinema that I have watched or know of. Send me a number from the following and the pairing (character x character/reader, or a ship from the fandom) you like and you’re welcome to add any other details you want to include like a particular scenario, a fusion or alternate universe. Cheers :)

1. “Do you want me to leave?” 2. “I swear it won’t happen again.” 3. “I’m not jealous.” 4. “You can’t keep doing this.” 5. “I’m going to take care of you, okay?” 6. “You can’t die. Please don’t die.” 7. “You did what?!” 8. “Were you ever going to tell me?” 9. “Don’t ask me that.” 10. “I might have had a few shots.” 11. “What’s with the box?” 12. “Say it!” 13. “I could kiss you right now!” 14. “Are you done with that?” 15. “Are you still awake…?” 16. “Excuse you?” 17. “This is all your fault!” 18. “I shouldn’t be in love with you.” 19. “I could kill you right now!” 20. “Just admit I’m right.” 21. “That doesn’t even make sense.” 22. “That’s irrational.” 23. “Just pretend to be my date.” 24. “Are you really going to leave without asking me the question you’ve been dying to ask me?” 25. “When you love someone, you don’t just stop. Ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy… even then. Especially then!” 26. “I think I’ve been holding myself from falling in love with you all over again.” 27. “I’m not going to apologise for this. Not anymore.” 28. “That’s almost exactly the opposite of what I meant.” 29. “It must be hard with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line.” 30. “Can I sit here? The other tables are full.” 31. “You weren’t supposed to laugh!” 32. “This is, by far, the dumbest thing you’ve ever done.” 33. “I’m not going to stop poking you until you give me some attention.” 34. “These stars are nothing compared to the ones I’ve seen in your eyes.” 35. “Before I do this, I need you to know that I have always loved you.” 36. “Did I say that out loud?” 37. “Do you think they could have loved me?” 38. “Everyone keeps telling me you’re the bad guy.” 39. “How long have you been standing there?” 40. “Have I ever lied to you?” 41. “Have you lost your fucking mind?” 42. “His ego is so visible; I can almost watch it grow.” 43. “I am not losing you again!” 44. “I don’t know why I’m crying.” 45. “I had a nightmare about you and I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.” 46. “I just need to be alone right now.” 47. “When I picture myself happy… It’s with you.” 48. “I made a mistake.” 49. “I may be an idiot, but I’m your idiot.” 50. “I need you to forgive me.” 51. “I see the way you look at me when you think I’m not looking.” 52. “I think I’m in love with you and that scares me half to death.” 53. “I’m flirting with you.” 54. “I’m not good enough for you.” 55. “I fell in love with my best friend.” 56. “I’m sorry, what? I keep getting lost in your eyes.” 57. “I’m up to the challenge.” 58. “I’ve been in love with you my entire life. Ever since the day I first met you.” 59. “I’m yours.” 60. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were trying to seduce me.” 61. “If you go anywhere near them, you’ll have to deal with me!” 62. “It’s okay to cry…” 63. “What do you mean? It’s exciting!” 64. “Talk to me.” 65. “Look at me—just breathe, okay?” 66. “Look, I don’t have much time, but I wanted to say I love you.” 67. “Oh my god! You’re in love with them!” 68. “Well, this is where I live.” 69. “We finish it the same way we started—together.” 70. “What are you afraid of?” 71. “You are the single best thing that has ever happened to me.” 72. “You deserve so much better.” 73. “You don’t have to stay.” 74. “You don’t know you the way I do.” 75. “You fainted, straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention, you didn’t have to go to such extremes.” 76. “You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.” 77. “You shouldn’t have even been there!” 78. “You weren’t supposed to hear that.” 79. “You’re safe now. I’ve got you.” 80. “Teach me?” 81. “We’re in the middle of a thunderstorm and you want to stop and feel the rain?” 82. “Looks like we’ll be stuck here for a while.” 83. “Just once.” 84. “I can’t believe you talked me into this.” 85. “It’s not what it looks like.” 86. “I got you a present.” 87. “Hey! I was gonna eat that!” 88. “See, now, what that so bad?”.” 89. “You’re the best part of me.” 90. “I don’t want to think about what I’d be like without you.” 91. “Can I hold your hand?” 92. “Let’s move in together.” 93. “It’s a real shame nobody asked for your opinion.” 94. “What time is it?” 95. “Just wait a second.” 96. “Here, let me.” 97. “You’re so cute when you pout like that.” 98. “Hold me back!’ 99. “I don’t care what they said, it doesn’t mean shit!” 100. “I adore you.”

(( prompts credits © )) 

[dweemeister]

My alternative 90th Academy Awards

So here’s another annual tradition... my alternative Oscars ceremony. This is what this Sunday’s Oscars would look like if I – and I alone – stuffed the ballots and decided on all of the nominations and winners. Non-English language films are accompanied by their nation of origin (in FIFA three-letter code).

90th Academy Awards – March 4, 2018 Dolby Theatre – Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Host: Jimmy Kimmel Broadcaster: ABC

Best Picture: LADY BIRD

The Breadwinner, Anthony Leo, Tomm Moore, Andrew Rosen, and Paul Young (Cartoon Saloon/GKIDS)

Call Me by Your Name, Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, and Howard Rosenman (Sony Pictures Classics)

Coco, Darla K. Anderson (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Dunkirk, Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan (Warner Bros.)

Faces Places (FRA), Rosalie Varda (Le Pacte/Cohen Media Group)

The Florida Project, Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, and Shih-Ching Tsou (A24)

Lady Bird, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O’Neil (A24)

Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, JoAnne Sellar, and Daniel Lupi, (Focus/Universal)

The Post, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Amy Pascal (20th Century Fox)

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Out of the running in real life are Darkest Hour, Three Billboards, and Get Out. And taking the maximum of ten spots, in their place enter The Breadwinner, Coco, Faces Places, The Florida Project. That’s two animated movies, a documentary, and a neglected critical darling... come at me? I was lukewarm over Darkest Hour, pissed off over Three Billboards, and I honestly don’t think Get Out is as effective a horror movie or a commentary on racial relations that it wants to be.

Lady Bird would be my winner, with Phantom Thread your runner-up and either Faces Places or The Shape of Water as your third spot. For Lady Bird, it would be harder to find a movie with as much empathy as it this calendar year. Maybe not the most technically gifted filmmaking of the nominees, but it accomplishes its conceit with an open ear and an open heart. Bravo.

I noticed that I don’t have time to write on all the Best Picture nominees anymore, like in years past. I only got to Dunkirk and The Post  – both of which are on the outside looking in.

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Dee Rees, Mudbound

Agnès Varda and JR, Faces Places

CONTROVERSY. Dee Rees nominated in Director, but Mudbound isn’t nominated for Picture! In all honesty, I couldn’t find the excuse to nudge Mudbound out for any of the nominees I placed above. But to focus on the positive, del Toro is going to make it three Mexican Best Director winners in the last four years... that is exhilarating. Nolan is my close second choice here, and falters a bit because I didn’t personally enjoy the structure of Dunkirk all that much.

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes                               

No CMBYN fans, there will not be any justice for you on my blog either. Because the best performance of the year by an actor of a leading role was done in motion capture... it was Andy Serkis as Caesar in War for the Planet of the Apes. It’s been high time to honor Serkis in what is his best work – aside from his performances as Gollum – to date.

Best Actress

Ahn Seo-hyun, Okja

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Meryl Streep, The Post

The quieter performances aren’t going to win at this year’s Oscars. McDormand’s flashier performance in Three Billboards will overshadow Hawkins’ nuanced, silent performance in SoW. That’s wrong to me, as I think Hawkins does so much physically that is so taxing for any actor that would dare take a role like that. South Korean child actress Ahn Seo-hyun just sneaks in for Okja.

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water

Bob Odenkirk, The Post

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

My least favorite acting category this year. So I’ll toss it to Dafoe for The Florida Project... who, on Sunday, is probably going to lose to a flashier performance in Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards (who shouldn’t have been nominated). Plummer and Odenkirk are in a close battle for second.

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

This is Manville v. Metcalf for me. And for playing the deeply layered, deeply conflicted, tough-love mother in Lady Bird, this has to be Metcalf for me. It is ta transcendent supporting actress performance. And yes, I snuck Tiffany Haddish in here... because why not?

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist

Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan

Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound

Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game

If I ran the Oscars, the 89-year-old James Ivory wouldn’t have won an Oscar by now either. I hate to type that, but timing is a funny thing! Fate and time are funny things, aren’t they? This category isn’t close. Dee Rees makes history as the first nominated black woman in this category!

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, The Post

Jordan Peele, Get Out

I’ve already commented how much I think Get Out is more flawed a movie than most believe. This comes down to Anderson and Gerwig for me... and my Best Picture winner, I think, is blessed with the screenplay of the year for capturing a time, a place, and its characters at a certain point in their lives so wonderfully.

Best Animated Feature

The Breadwinner (Cartoon Saloon/GKIDS)

Coco (Pixar/Walt Disney)

The Girl Without Hands, France (Shellac/GKIDS)

Loving Vincent (Next Film/Good Deed Entertainment)

Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Japan (Studio Ponoc/GKIDS)

SHOCKER. For me, I was considering a tie in this category (which has happened six times in Academy Awards history... so I guess I have to save it for once every fifteen ceremonies or something) between Breadwinner (write-up) and Coco (write-up). This would be Cartoon Saloon’s first win in my alternate universe... in that same alternative universe for 2009, The Secret of Kells would’ve lost to Up; for 2014, Song of the Sea would’ve lost to eventual Best Picture winner The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

Coco fans, don’t despair though. Keep reading... because your movie isn’t going home empty-handed.

I totally disrespected Ferdinand and Boss Baby didn’t I?

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Kartemquin Films/Public Broadcasting Service)

Faces Places, France (Le Pacte/Cohen Media Group)

Jane (National Geographic)

LA92 (National Geographic)

Last Men in Aleppo (Aleppo Media Center/Larm Film/Grasshopper Film)

I don’t think this would be Agnès Varda’s first Oscar in my alternative universe? I’ll get to doing the 1960s someday. :P

Best Foreign Language Film

Faces Places, France

The Insult, Lebanon

Loveless, Russia

Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Japan

The Square, Sweden

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Janusz Kaminski, The Post

Rachel Morrison, Mudbound

Jonathan Ricquebourg, The Death of Louis XIV (FRA)

Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Morrison makes history by being the first female nominee in this category and as its first winner. Sorry Roger Deakins! You probably would’ve won earlier in my alternative universe anyways.

Best Film Editing

Michael Kahn, The Post

Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver

Gregory Plotkin, Get Out

Lee Smith, Dunkirk

Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water

Best Original Musical*

M.M. Keeravani, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion

Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Coco

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman

*NOTE: Best Original Musical – known previously as several other names – exists in the Academy’s rulebooks, but requires activation from the music branch given that there are enough eligible films. To qualify, a film must have no fewer than five original songs. This category was last activated when Prince won for Purple Rain (1984).

You know, this might change some day if I sit down and watch Baahubali 2. I’ve listened to the soundtrack, but I haven’t seen the songs in context. Sorry Indian cinema fans! Coco fans must be getting mighty mad at me for now... but Coco’s musical score – outside of two original songs (“Remember Me” and “Proud Corazón”) and one non-original song (“La Llorana”) – isn’t the best out of context. The Greatest Showman – I think Pasek and Paul are far better lyricists than they are composers (and yes, that’s a problem) – has songs that do very well in and out of context, and takes the win in this category.

Best Original Score

Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

Alexandre Desplat, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Michael Giacchino, War for the Planet of the Apes

John Williams, The Post

John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

It really comes down to Valerian, Apes, and Jedi. And in this titanic battle over science fiction and space opera, it is Desplat for the much-maligned Valerian taking the Oscar home. The score combines seamlessly enormous orchestral and electronic elements to a degree that I haven’t heard from Desplat yet. It barely edges Williams for The Last Jedi... which benefits from some of Williams’ best action scoring in years and a repackaging of older themes in ways showing off the dexterity of the maestro. Giacchino is third, with Desplat for SoW in fourth, and The Post in fifth. Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread is the first man out.

Best Original Song

“Mighty River”, music by Raphael Saadiq; lyrics by Mary J. Blige, Saadiq, and Taura Stinson, Mudbound

“A Million Dreams”, music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman

“Mystery of Love”, music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens, Call Me by Your Name

“Remember Me (Recuérdame)”, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Coco

“This Is Me”, music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman

Also proudly the winner of the 2017 Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song (some of you know what that means), “Remember Me (Recuérdame)” has everything you want – interesting musicality (even though I still think that descending line, which begins with “For ever if I’m far away / I hold you in my heart” sounds far more like something Randy Newman would compose than something distinctly Mexican) meaningful lyrics, layers of meaning within the movie it comes from, and a life of its own when separated from that movie.

Showstopper “This Is Me” comes a distant second, with the others in a scrum for crumbs. I really like “A Million Dreams”, though. My sister will take me to task over how much I enjoyed The Greatest Showman’s soundtrack (which I enjoyed despite finding it musically uninteresting).

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast

Jen Wasson, The Beguiled

Nina Avramovic, The Death of Louis XIV

Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread

Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour

John Blake and Camille Friend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Neal Scanlan and Peter King, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen and Félix Puget, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Arjen Tuiten, Wonder

Best Production Design

Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola, Blade Runner 2049

Jim Clay and Rebecca Alleway, Murder on the Orient Express

Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water

Hugues Tissandier, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Aline Bonetto and Dominic Hyman, Wonder Woman

Best Sound Editing

Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049

Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk

Al Nelson and Steve Slanec, Kong: Skull Island

Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

James Mather, Wonder Woman

Best Sound Mixing

Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver

Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049

Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk

Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water

David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Visual Effects

John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover, Blade Runner 2049

Scott Fisher and Andrew Jackson, Dunkirk

Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Scott Stokdyk and Jérome Lionard, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist, War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Documentary Short

Edith+Eddie (Kartemquin Films)

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (Frank Stiefel)

Heroine(e) (Requisite Media/Netflix)

Knife Skills (Thomas Lennon Films)

Traffic Stop (Q-Ball Productions/HBO Films)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees can be read here.

Best Live Action Short

DeKalb Elementary (Reed Van Dyk)

The Eleven O’Clock (FINCH)

My Nephew Emmett (Kevin Wilson, Jr.)

The Silent Child (Slick Films)

Watu Wote: All of Us, Germany/Kenya (Ginger Ink Films/Hamburg Media School)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees can be read here.

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball (Glen Keane Productions)

In a Heartbeat (Ringling College of Art and Design)

Lou (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Revolting Rhymes (Magic Light Pictures/Triggerfish Animation Studios/BBC)

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (Bitter Films)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees can be read here. I took out Negative Space and Garden Party for my winner In a Heartbeat and World of Tomorrow Episode Two. If you haven’t seen In a Heartbeat yet... first, where the hell have you been? Under a rock? Here’s the link.

Academy Honorary Awards: Agnès Varda, Charles Burnett, Donald Sutherland, and Owen Roizman

Special Achievement Academy Award: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Flesh and Sand

MULTIPLE NOMINEES (22) Nine: The Shape of Water Seven: Dunkirk; The Post Six: Phantom Thread Five: Blade Runner 2049; Lady Bird; Mudbound; Star Wars: The Last Jedi Four: Call Me by Your Name; Coco; Faces Places; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Three: The Florida Project; Get Out; The Greatest Showman; War for the Planet of the Apes Two: Baby Driver; The Breadwinner; Darkest Hour; The Death of Louis XIV; Mary and the Witch’s Flower; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Wonder Woman

WINNERS 4 wins: The Shape of Water 3 wins: Lady Bird 2 wins: Dunkirk; Faces Places; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; War for the Planet of the Apes 1 win: The Breadwinner; Call Me by Your Name; Coco; DeKalb Elementary; The Florida Project; The Greatest Showman; In a Heartbeat; Knife Skills; Mudbound; Phantom Thread

16 winners from 25 categories. 45 feature-length films and 15 short films were represented.

Questions? Comments? Personal attacks? Fire away!

[justahalfling]

Hello’ I loved reading your BAHUBALI 2: The conclusion live tweeting so much!! It was amazing!! I wanted to know if live tweeted BAHUBALI 1 as well?! Thanks!

yep i did! you can check it under the baahubali tag on my blog!

heres a link to that tag

http://justahalfling.tumblr.com/tagged/Baahubali

thanks for your ask, made my day! :)

[bollywood-action-films]

Top Grossing Action Films of Bollywood and Hollywood

(Press imagery from Baahubali 2: The Conclusion)

This blog post was originally going to be a comparison of the highest worldwide box office grossing action films from several top box office grossing countries in the world. Unfortunately, these statistics are not readily available, and statistics I could find were widely varying and unreliably inconsistent. For the sake of accurate statistics and reliable data, I chose instead to look only at the highest worldwide grossing action film in India, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, and analyze it in comparison it to the highest worldwide grossing action film from America, Avatar. Since Bollywood and Hollywood are so intertwined and related as the central film industry of each country, I believe this to be a valuable comparison that will effectively show how the two top films from each country are related.

(SS Rajamouli Interview - YouTube video featuring an interview with the director of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion talking about the process of making his film)

The environments of both countries’ cinema industries are very different, especially through history. America and India have individual cultures and societies that have developed separately over a long period of time, and these unique qualities make each country distinct and unlike any other. The way the two countries’ societies developed had a great impact on the cinemas of Hollywood and Bollywood. The two are seen as pseudo-rivals, or opposite sides of the same coin. Indian cinema often draws content and inspiration from American films, and the biggest source of American content used is the action film genre.

(Avatar: Interview with James Cameron - YouTube video with James Cameron describing the development and behind-the-scenes process of making Avatar)

The majority of action film narrative development occurred in America. Our country’s history is steeped in narratives of action. As westerns developed as a genre, so too did detective films, crime films, war films, superhero films, and action comedy films, among others. American action films have inspired many directors globally. As the action film genre developed and progressed, so too did the industry itself. Hollywood grew into the massive industry of today due largely in part to strong performing action films.

(Screenshot from Avatar)

The highest grossing box office films in the entire world are American action movies. For example, the number one top worldwide box office results are for the movie, Avatar, a 2009 action film directed by James Cameron. According to data from website boxofficemojo.com, Avatar’s worldwide box office gross amounts to a record breaking 2.8 billion dollars. This number is a historical high, beating any film previously released. The highest grossing film from India is Baahubali 2: The Conclusion . This film has a worldwide box office gross of approximately 254 million in United States Dollar converted. These two numbers show an incredible statistic. The numbers relate how the genre highest from each country is separated by a factor of 10. On its own, 254 million is an incredible amount of money, but it is still only one tenth of Avatar’s global gross.

(Promotional Poster for Baahubali 2: The Conclusion )

(Poster for Star Wars as a comparison of imagery)

It is known that Indian cinema draws lots of inspiration from America. Hollywood influence can can even be seen in the two film posters above, as the design for Baahubali 2: The Conclusion imitates the iconic poster imagery from the Star Wars films, originally designed by artist Tom Chantrell. Of course, many contemporary films in America and India try to replicate the Star Wars poster style because it is simply a very successful, effective, and pleasant design. 

(Eye Dancing and India’s Ancient Art of Kathakali - YouTube video that discusses an Indian performance art that is important to Bollywood film history)

To analyze more deeply into the context of the two films, one must look at the background of the genre and narrative history of both Avatar and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion . Avatar is a mixture of action, science fiction, drama, and romance. This mixture of genres is analogous to America’s history. Our country was founded by immigrants and built by hard working people from around the world. America’s mixed cultural background is very similar to the mixture of different film genres in Avatar . Its wide appeal to many different audiences and demographics led to its immense success. In contrast, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is a more simple mixture of genres, action and drama. The story is an epic, historical tale that tells the story of the struggles of a royal family. Indian narrative history has many epic tales passed on through the generations. This film uses India’s rich history of stories as a background for the plot, which helps foreign viewers of the film be able to appreciate the long history of the country and the way people convey information in narratives.

Narrative is a very important way that culture and history is kept alive. While India has a heritage of tall tales and epics, so too does America. Both countries pass down their stories and begin new ones as well. Cinema is the new storytelling method, and it’s here to stay. Action films are just one piece of the puzzle, and successful films will continue to pass on information about all cultures around the world.

Works Cited

“2017 Top Markets Report Media and Entertainment Sector Snapshot.” Trade.gov, U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration, www.trade.gov/topmarkets/pdf/top%20markets%20media%20and%20entertinment%202017.pdf.

“Avatar (2009).” Box Office Mojo, IMDb, www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm.

“Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017).” Box Office Mojo, IMDb, www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=baahubali2.htm.

Orsini, Francesca. “The Social History of a Genre: Kathas across Languages in Early Modern North India.” The Medieval History Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, Apr. 2017, pp. 1–37. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eoah&AN=41870627&site=pfi-live.

“Mumbai History.” History of Mumbai, www.mumbai.org.uk/history.html.

Shandilya, Krupa. “Of Enraged Shirts, Gyrating Gangsters, and Farting Bullets: Salman Khan and the New Bollywood Action Film.” South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 12, no. 2, 2014, pp. 111–121., doi:10.1080/14746689.2014.937579.

Terry, Neil, et al. “The Determinants of Foreign Box Office Revenue for English Language Movies.” Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies, citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.482.4704&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

[half-bakedpotato]

Question Tag

I think the rules are to ask 11 questions that you want to ask and tag people to answer them. So here we go…

Thank you (again) for tagging me in these tagging games sanika!! @themultilingualmartell ♥

1. Favourite subject?

Mathematics, Biology, Psychology (I doubt if I still like them)

2. Favourite holiday?

Every holiday! 😁

3. Longest you’ve gone without showering?

3 days I guess😅 (Dont judge me. It was totally unintentional)

4. Do you like to cook?

Maybe

5. Best thing about living in your city?

I don’t know?… You get to live near me and probably hang out with me? 😆

6. Future ambition?

Don’t want to jinx it! Sorry!

7. Pet Peeve?

That’s a tough one. The normally annoying things, when someone tries to peek at my phone…

8. Craziest thing you’ve ever done?

Uh… There’s quite a few but I don’t remember?

9. Last movie you saw?

Baahubali 2 😅

10. Favourite drink?

Mango juices, cold water 😁

11. Favourite music?

Depends…

I’d like to tag @ghostofasoldier @winter-childrens @amistillmyself @amrita31199 @lilasiannerd @the-girl-without-a-face @hazohazahazbro and my questions are :

1. Name?

2. Favorite Song?

3. Which color appeals more to you? White or Black?

4. Favorite Disney Movie?

5. Bucky Barnes or Sebastian Stan?

6. Mornings or Evenings?

7. Sexuality?

8. Height?

9. Ever thought of deleting your blog?

10. How annoyed are you by being tagged in this on a scale of 10?

11. Could I tag you in stuff like these in the future?

[mahishmatikathakar]

Why Baahubali’s Death Kills Me Each Time

Submitted by: @carminavulcana

I watched the Baahubali series with my non-Indian family and they are not really into Indian cinema. They watched Baahubali because we’d all heard good things about it and even though I hadn’t finished watching the films by myself, I was already in love with Amarendra. 

They watched the first film and my American grandpa, Allen said, “He’s Superman. That’s who he is. He can do anything.” Meanwhile, Judith, the grandma was looking at something else. “I see why you like him so much. He is hot. He is good. He is brave. But... he is a bit boring, isn’t he?” 

And they were absolutely right. Amarendra is indeed a classic Marty Sue (the male equivalent of a Mary Sue.) 

But that did not stop me, Allen, and Judith from crying when he died. And I do mean we cried, with real tears. I think I even ugly-cried but I’ll spare you details.

 It felt like Steve Trevor’s death in Wonder Woman (2017) or the almost-death of Superman in Superman Returns (2006). 

And that was striking. Because despite being a classic good guy (Much like Chris Pine’s Steve and Brandon Routh’s Clark), Amarendra Baahubali meant something to us personally. As humans, we find stock good characters boring in fiction but in real life, those are exactly the people we want around us. 

They represent a better version of our own selves. That, and hope. 

Amarendra was a symbol of everything the citizens of Mahishmati (and the audience) want for themselves, look for in others, and worship in the form of legendary heroes and deities. 

For a woman like me, there were things about him that were so amazingly trivial and yet so vital. Like when he quickly instructed Devasena on how to shoot three arrows in one go instead of asking her to fall back. Or when he said to her, “I am yours,” instead of the usual “You are mine.” Or when he offered his own arms for her to use as a bridge so she could get into the boat. Or when he sacrificed his right to the throne for a promise given to his wife. Or when he finally gave up everything he had ever held dear in order to see that a sexual harasser was not allowed to go scot-free. 

I love the fact that he is a Feminist, a very secure individual, and completely at ease with himself. And oh, did I mention, I am completely in love with his kindness. 

These are stereotypical traits for most heroic characters. But funnily enough, even with all the six-packs and the battle scenes, the film did not feel like a testosterone-fueled orgy of machoism. 

All because the hero himself, thankfully, was not an Alpha male in my humble opinion. He was a natural leader because that’s what he did best. But he was an equally good worker and he did not need to be the head of the pack in order to be its spiritual center. He was happy to help as a miner, an engineer, a teacher, a counselor, and when the need arose, a judge. 

The song Dandalayya/Jai Jaikara exemplified this beautifully. 

To see his life cut short so brutally, just after his son’s birth, to see him lose everything for the last time in his life, and to know that the betrayal came from the very people who had sworn to love him and protect him-- that is the heart of the matter. 

The murder of Baahubali is a metaphor for the murder of our hopes. And let’s be honest, each one of us hopes for something, sometimes, even things we know better than to truly expect. 

And for those of us with relationship, trust, and abandonment issues, Baahu’s death is a reflection of what happens too often in our world. 

That is why we weep every time. 

We grieve for him, for Devasena, and for Mahendra. But mostly, we grieve for ourselves. 

[ddbdiariesindia]

FILMY, NOT SO FLIMSY?

This post explores the changing DNA of movie-goers, and what their shifting preferences tell us about which kinds of stories will connect with them.

India has always been a hero-worshipping country, literally. It is no secret that every time SRK spread his arms wide open, audiences rushed to the theatres; Salman’s kicks and punches caused stampedes; Rajnikant’s antics whipped the crowds up into a frenzy. These revered stars were seemingly indestructible and paramount in bringing viewers into cinema houses. Producers knew that casting superstars was a sure-fire way of raking in monies and star-studded movies crossing the multi-million rupee mark was par for the course, becoming a revenue-generating strategy that worked through the 90’s and the ‘00s.

2018, however, has been a revelatory year in this regard. Star vehicles that were deemed surefire blockbusters came a cropper at the box office.

The biggest blow was taken by Thugs of Hindostan which barely recovered half its spends, despite starring Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, two legendary actors. Salman Khan failed to cast his characteristic spell on his fans this year and lost the race (pun intended, of course). SRK’s Zero underperformed in the first week of its release. By contrast, medium-budget movies like Andhadhun, Raazi, Sonu ke Titu ki Sweety, all headlined by competent actors rather than bona-fide superstars, struck a chord with the audiences. Movies like Sanju, which portrayed the questionable choices that the protagonist makes and the consequences that he faces as a result, did well. So did movies that explored untouched issues or drove home a social message in an original manner – Badhai Ho addressed the discomfort that Indians have in coming to terms with the sex lives of mature couples; Stree was a reminder for society to treat women with dignity.

Story has clearly outperformed starcasts. Is this a testimony of changing preferences in changing times? What has triggered this shift? Why is ‘content’ becoming the hero of a system long-dominated by clout?

One of the key factors could be more people accessing, downloading and watching more content. In the past, film makers drew a clear line between how they defined audiences and sensibilities for ‘mainstream’ and ‘parallel’ cinema. The mainstream viewers were seen as lapping up glamorous, aspirational, massy content i.e. movies driven by movie stars. Whereas parallel cinema goers were considered more ‘evolved’ and more discerning about stories and plotlines. But YouTube, streaming platforms and OTT platforms like Amazon, Netflix and Hotstar have democratized access to original and unique content. All kinds of stories are being streamed into India’s different nodes, pockets and corners, thanks to the rapidly increasing penetration of smartphones coupled with affordable data connections. The so-called ‘masses’ are now in a position to consume relevant and realistic stories that do more than piggyback on a star’s credibility. With scale inherent in the digital distribution model, viewers of all stripes are gravitating to different types of content, and the old mainstream/ parallel distinction has all but collapsed.

There is another, more generational lens that can be applied to this shift. Hundreds of surveys and thinkpieces tell us that Millennials and Gen Z seek to create change, particularly when it comes to issues that matter to them. They speak their mind, question norms and bring about revolutions, one tweet and click at a time. Popular cinema as escapism perhaps doesn’t have the appeal it once did. Audiences of this newer generation are seeking out grounded and rooted content, perhaps arising from their ability to accept and deal with grim actualities; couple with a desire to see everday aspirations, struggles and achievements mirrored by the media. Millennial audiences want to see people and situations that they can relate to.

And it’s not just about plotlines, it’s also about this generation’s relationships to movie-stars. Actors are easily accessible, especially on digital forums. Social media gives viewers unrestricted access to their favourite celebrities - there is more familiarity and less intrigue, thereby reducing the ‘hero-quotient’ associated with stars. Unlike previous generations, new-age aduiences do not put icons on a permanent pedestal. They assess them on a movie-to-movie basis. They evaluate them for the character that they play rather than the ‘superstar’ that they are.

All of which points to a signficant shift that’s playing on movie-makers’ minds, demonstrated by public statements about how rich content is taking precedence over popular actors -

“I feel that scripts are bankable now; not so much as ‘Oh, this actor is bankable.’” – Rhea Kapoor, in an interview on Koffee with Karan.

“It has been a very different kind of year (for Bollywood). The films that have performed well and even been appreciated seem to be talking about our issues, dwelling less in fantasies and more in reality.” – Actor-Director Farhan Akhtar, in an interview with PTI.

Rohit Shetty in a long-length interview to the Bombay Times as part of the promotional blitz for his latest movie actually said that massy, star-driven movies were Bollywood’s newest ‘risk.’ Prajakta Deshmukh, the director of the Marathi play Devbabhali that has won many awards, spoke about how the success of her play lies in a strong storyline.

But does that mean that fantasy as a genre is dying? Definitely not!

Block busters like Baahubali and billion-dollar Marvel movies are proof enough that audiences still love science-fiction and fantasy, but they want to watch it by choice. What works with these viewers is realism in the screenplay – whether in the portrayal of characters, in the execution, or both. Viewers appreciate contexts that come close to their lives in some way and characters they can resonate with. We are no longer addressing starry-eyed masses who will accept a beau ideal. We are catering to an audience who believes that the story is the hero. The need of the hour is a strong, relatable premise and an antithesis of the traditional Bollywood hero who is flawless, can beat up a hundred goons or make any girl swoon to his tunes – someone who reflects life as it is lived by many, if not all of us.

Rucha Nagavekar

Rucha Nagavekar is a Senior Strategist working out of our Mumbai office. An explorer at heart, she believes that the more you see, the more you know. She draws inspiration from food, dance and travel and blogs about her travel learnings on happygallivanterblog.wordpress.com. You can also follow her @happygallivanter on Instagram.

Editor’s Note

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[tellywoodtrash]

Hi!! I'm a regular reader of your live blogs for both IB and DBO! I just kinda realized this and legit didn't know who else to share this with but it blew my mind. My dad was playing stuff from youtube on our tv, and since we're telugu, it was "Jayaho Janatha" from the 2016 Telugu movie Janatha Garage. Idk if anyone else has mentioned it, BUT THE FIRST COUPLE SECONDS OF THE SONG ARE EXACTLY(?) LIKE THE BG FOR OM IN FIRST DBO EPISODE?! I just wanted confirmation from another person :)

Hi @lovesmilesbackatu! 

OMG YESSSSSSSSS IT ISSSSSSSSSSSSSS THE EXACT SAME MUSICCCCCCC!!!!!! 😯😯😯

For anyone who wants a listen: 

(Lol, it’s kinda hilarious to hear Sukhwinder Singh singing in Telugu. Is he getting the pronunciation right? I feel like it’s not 100% correct. 🤔🤔🤔) 

Ha, how cool (and kinda hilarious and… unexpected) that they used something from a South Indian film!! (Though I’m kinda iffy/mad when the mainstream “North” takes stuff from the South Indian industries and doesn’t attribute due credit. The South Indian industries are so underrated. Hopefully the success of the Baahubali franchise will make more people interested in our stuff. 😌😌😌)

[kokohbop]

Shoutout to @merlionmen for tagging me in this. 

Name: Komal Nicknames: Koko, Ko, Kokizzle(don’t ask) and other variations Height: 5 feet 4 inches Birthday: December 30th Orientation: Straight Nationality: Indian Favorite fruit: Mango, Kiwi, Pear, Bananas, Dragonfruit Favorite season: Depends on the place. My ideal temperature ranges are from 15-25 degrees Celsius Favorite book: Oh damn, this is a tough one. But as of now, Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas Favorite flowers: Lilies, Orchids, Tulips Favorite scent: Anything that reminds me of the ocean. Fresh air(yes I said it. It’s so polluted where I live). Petrichor. Favorite animals: Dogs Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Hot Chocolate Avg amount of sleep: 7-10 hours Cat or Dog: Dog Favorite fictional character: I’m going to agree with Diksha and say Devasena from Baahubali. I love her soooo much. Other than that, Celaena from Throne of Glass. What do they both have in common? They dress up classy and pretty, simultaneously they will fuck you up in your sleep. Number of blankets you sleep with: one Dream trip: It keeps changing, but if we’re looking at in the near future, probably Japan. I want to see the Sakura Tree and also watch my boys Exo at Tokyo Dome. Blog created: 2010. Fuck. Favorite colors: Black, White, Gray, Navy Blue, Royal Blue, Royal Purple.

I’m gonna tag the fam. @namsjoonie @jjminie @joce-line @kkaebsongbaekhyun @prince-seamus @imhipwithdakidz

And everyone else who sees this, do it.

[queenofmahishmati]

I GOT TAGGED BY 5 PEOPLE FOR THAT QUESTIONS MEME !!

So that’s 55 questions answered below, ((its soooper long and contains every single truth about my dorkery and pagan ritual and what not.. I'm not a cool person, nope, see for yourself))

Questions from @iwearplaids

Rain or snow ?

Rain, hands down. Snow is just pretty, covers the ground beautifully in white and then melts away. But Rain, rain enhances that smell of earth I love so much and brings forth memories of the time I used to sit on my balcony with a cup of tea, hot bajjis and my friends from college days.

What is/was your favourite subject at school ?

History. I used to finish reading each lesson as if I was reading a story book before our teacher was even half way through it. I used to be the cause of her headache, she almost always took my book away each time so I won’t do it. And Art, we had an art professor who was the first one to take notice of my sketching talents and helped me improve it. In one way or the other, its because of them that I am a Conservation Architect today!!

How would you rate your own blog ?

11/10. It needs a little more organizing and I will give it a fifteen :P 

What is the most comforting smell for you ?

Smell of well washed pure cotton fabrics... reminds me of my mumma. 

Top 3 fears 

Darkness. Dark deep waterbodies. Losing a loved one without a proper goodbye.

Tell an embarrassing story.

Happens on a daily basis really... do you want to hear about the time I almost sat on Rana’s lap and scared him enough that he chose to sit on top of the armrest of the couch instead; or when I got locked out in the utility room of my house by my own silliness, without my mobile on me and had to wait till my flatmate (and the rest of my friends) came home and opened the door while I smiled at them like a dork from the other side of the glass door; or that one time I was standing on my terrace watching a meteor shower and my mum thought I was doing some kind of pagan ritual and took a video of it cause I was dancing around with a long stick in my hand facing up at the sky, while I was actually hopping in circles and spinning the stick around myself to escape mosquitoes... 

Last book that you read and fell in love with.

The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh. Its the first of his non-fiction works I read and wow, it made me think deep and agree with his point that future history will call our period the most deranged of all times. Its about climate disaster and a must read in my opinion, I’m glad I picked it up at the airport while I was bored. With that said, his The Hungry Tide is one of my favourite books. 

Your all time favourite movie ?

Kannathil Muthamittal (A Peck on The Cheek)

Would you say that you’re popular in real life ?

Yep, yes. People find my (child like) enthusiasm contagious and I can listen better than I talk (that’s what my friends say). So yeah, I’m kind of always surrounded by people mostly... unless I push them away myself to breathe.

Favourite accessory ?

Um... anklets? Oh no, I love bangles. Although, I barely wear any accessories. Its a surprise if I wear anything more than my usual earrings. 

Flats or heels ?

Shoes or boots with heels. I’m short. I need that extra boost to bounce around on my happy feet.

Questions from @ruminationsofaraven

Coffee or Tea?

Tea. Always. 

All time favourite book and T.V show.

Harry Potter series and Scooby Doo.

What would you rather choose to write about - Smut or Fluff?

Fluffy fluff that will soon turn angsty.

Spookiest story you’ve heard when you were a kid.

I have lived through three spooky experiences. I don’t need a story to top them. *shudders*

If you get a chance to change three things you regret doing in your life with a time-turner, what’d you choose to do?

Go back in time to when I met Rana and make sure I proposed to him rather than chickening out I guess?? Other than that, there isn’t anything I regret much except maybe knock my second boyfriend down in one clean punch before he even asked me out. 

Have you ever dreamt about getting interviewed on the Ellen show?

Oh yes. Many many times!! 

Fuck/Marry/Kill (Marvel Special) - Loki, Captain America & Bucky

Fuck Loki, Marry Captain America... and kill Bucky (yikes sorry)

Ever embarrassed yourself in front of a crush?

A lot. There was this one time in school where I was gushing about my crush to my friend and he was... well, sitting right behind me and heard the entire thing. Funny story, he’s my best ever friend right now and knows me better than my mum and I’m the Best Woman (maapillai thozhi) for his upcoming wedding!!

One Disney character who you can relate with irl.

Merida from Brave. You have no idea how much similar that movie is to my life LMAO

Have you ever stalked an ex?

Nope, I don’t dwell in the past. And except one asshat, the rest of my exes are still my friends (acquaintance). 

Swap yourself with a character on a T.V show and that would be? Also, do you think you’ll survive in that universe.

Arya from Game of Thrones maybe. Oh yes, I would be a savage and kill everyone and win the iron throne for myself before dying at the white walkers’ hands, stabbed in the back cause I most probably was running away screaming bloody murder upon seeing them...

Questions from @fierarain

If you were given a chance to play God for a day, what would you do?

Kill off everyone I think that don’t deserve to live (you know who, mostly all those politicians). Save every child from disease and dying. Change people’s mindset and make them think about saving the Earth instead of destroying it. Make Harry Potter world exist for real. Read every book in the world if it was possible... and wish all of this could happen with a single snap of my fingers. 

What’s your favorite quote?

“What you seek is seeking you.” and  “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” - both by Rumi

What disgusts you the most?

Worms. And people who lack common sense.

What motivates you to get out of bed everyday?

Food. And the possibility of some unexpected unknown happening. 

Describe any custom/ritual/tradition unique to your family/region/community.

My family is from the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu and during weddings which mostly happens in our ancestral houses, the groom ties three different thaalis (mangal sutras) around the bride’s neck. And its like small, medium and large in size - like the cups we request at Starbucks... I find that extremely funny by the way!!

What part of the day do you look forward to and why?

Night. I love the stars. They make me wonder how much of a lie time is. The one twinkling cheerfully at me, does it still brighten up the galaxy or has it faded long back and I’m just seeing the ghost of its life standing this far away... 

If given a chance to swap lives with someone, whom would you choose?

No one. I love my life, I’d pass that chance on. 

Who/What is the center of your universe?

Rana?? Kidding... I am the center of my universe (and sometimes my family too).

What’s your happiest memory?

Picking Bakula flowers from the ground around a hundred year old tree with my cousins in the house back in our village... and then playing with them in the courtyard while it rained. I had a blessed childhood!!

Which fictional universe would you want to be a part of?

Harry Potter. (Or Star Wars)

Since everyone I know is in the Baahubali fandom….Devasena or Sivagami?

Sivagami. And Devasena. xP

Questions from @avani008

If you could know the answer to one unsolved mystery, what would it be and why?

I would like to know my purpose in this world maybe… But a mystery that already exists and I want answer to– How the ducking heck did they build the Kailasa temple of Ellora?? LIKE HOW??

Favorite myth?

Every time it thunders scarily, Arjuna is mad and stomping around the heavens like a crazy elephant. And wishes made upon shooting stars do come true!!

The main characters of the last two movies/TV shows you watched have switched places. What madness ensues?

Oh my god, the last two movies I watched was Aramm and Nene Raju Nene Mantri (re watch). Nayanthara and Rana’s roles swapped would be epic on one hand but also disastrous?? Like the corrupt Jogendra in Aramm scenario might have not done anything about the child, or that child could have been his redemption and he might have turned out to be better, I honestly don’t know... Now Madhivadhani in NRNM, I think we will get to see that madness for real in Aramm 2 when it releases. Although, she is a no-shit no-nonsense person and has her heart and mind in the right place (unlike Jogendra) !!!

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

Anywhere with my family around. Actually, some place that’s cold enough and has a beach. And of course, my family!!

Who would be the worst person to be stuck in an elevator with? How about the best person to be stuck in an elevator with?

The worst person to be stuck in an elevator with would be my brother, we would probably murder each other before help arrives. Best person would be… *drum rolls* RANA!!

If you could make a movie/TV series out of any book (or remake one if it exists already), what would it be?

There’s a book called “ஏழு தலை நகரம்” (ezhu thalai nagaram - seven headed city) in Tamil by S. Ramakrishnan. I would make that into a film for children.

What would be the title of your autobiography?

Stardust in search of her Star… Or Remembrall… or something decidedly more whacky depending upon the way I plan to write it.

Favorite poem?

This poem by Bharathiyar,

“ அக்கினி குஞ்சொன்று கண்டேன்-அதை ஆங்கொரு காட்டி லொர் பொந்திடை வைத்தேன் வெந்து தணிந்தது காடு-தழல் வீரத்தில் குஞ்சென்றும் மூப்பென்றும் உண்டோ?”

Translation: I found a small spark of fire and Placed it inside a burrow in a forest;The entire forest was burnt down to ashes; An ember is mighty enough regardless of it’s size!

Least favorite cliche/trope in fic or literature?

Love triangles. Or squares. Or Hexagon… its just over overused!!

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Be in places I want to be in the blink of my eye. I’m a lazy person in general, so that would help me get to places on time!!

If you could have dinner with any three fictional characters, who would they be and why?

Bhallaladeva, I would probably be next on his to-be-killed list for all the questions I ask over dinner. Baahubali, he’s gonna be a sweetheart really, but I would probably be ruthless and pry off his rose tinted glasses to make him see people for what they really are. Panchali, I know she’s not fictional but ever since I read Palace of Illusions, I have been wanting to know the real story from her perspective.

Questions from @sleepiszindagi

What is your best childhood memory?

My happiest memory above is also my best childhood memory.

Most recent movie watched?

Aramm, I watched it on Saturday. I loved it!!

What do you feel most proud of?

My mother. And my achievements because of her.

If you could only keep 5 possessions, what would it be and why?

A magical pot that could make food any time, my bed to sleep in, my phone to keep in touch with everyone and everything, extra clothes and MY BOOKS.

How do you spend your free time?

Plotting world domination. No really, I would be sitting at one of the windows and cooking up some crazy story in my head as I day dream about ruling the world.

What are your three favorite movies and why?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban cause that’s the first one I watched in the series (until then I was like, movies don’t do justice to the books). Kannathil Muthamittal cause it hits me emotionally on so many levels. Baahubali right now because you know why…

What is your strongest personal quality?

I’m Realistic. Of course I babble a lot and dream more than that but in the end of the day, I’m probably one of the most grounded person you will meet.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

Again, answered up above somewhere.

What age do you feel right now and why?

I feel like I’m 26 going on 6 most of the times cause I have the temperament of a toddler. I try to act my age though, mostly…

What is a skill you would like to learn and why?

Um, different ways to do my hair maybe on top of learning how to toss pancakes and omlettes.

Which movie are you most awaiting for and why?

Right now, The Last Jedi. Cause STAR WARS really, what more reason could be there??

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A new cast of tastemakers are abstraction the way we live, assignment and ball – be it a accumulation of millennials reinventing Indian hip-hop, the confusing begat of a acclaimed business abode who’s action big on blooming busline or the atomic adeptness of a announcer at the beat of the #MeToo movement. Actuality are the overachieving individuals, age-old 40 and under, who are arch India’s change.

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Table Tennis Amateur → Age: 23

Crowning Achievement

On April 14 this year, India begin a new antic hero in Manika Batra, who won India a acclaimed aboriginal singles gold in table tennis at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. The Delhi-based paddler has been the country’s highest-ranked table tennis player, and the abandoned Indian woman appropriately far to acquire burst the acceptable bandage of added commonwealth nations like Singapore. She additionally added to the country’s absolute account by accepting a argent in the women’s doubles, a brownish in the alloyed doubles and accession gold in a aggregation event, action from about alien to civic figure in the amount of a week.

New Dawn

Batra’s massive win has brought TT into bluff focus. According to the champ, her accomplishment has galvanised the game’s abutment network, bidding government bodies and bounded sports federations to admission allotment at a grass-roots level, and accomplish table tennis a mainstay of India’s sports culture.

CWeO, WeWork India → Age: 27

Crowning Achievement

WeWork’s all-around success isn’t abandoned because it swaps bookish appointment structures with allowances like beer on tap, bold nights and Monday morning breakfast spreads. It additionally emphasises association and accord amid its young, confusing 300,000-plus associates base. Virwani is spearheading this movement in India, armed with a attenuate acumen into the absolute acreage mural – address his father’s aggregation Embassy Accumulation – and a supersized appetite to capitalise on our demographic dividend.

By The Numbers

By the end of this year, WeWork India aims to action 35,000 desks above 20 barrio in three cities, and abound its association to 35,000 members. In 2019, it’ll aggrandize to three new cities and bifold all those stats. Boom.

Mission Statement

“I appetite to claiming the cachet quo on assignment culture: We shouldn’t acquire to attending at ‘work’ as accomplishing a task. We should acquire the befalling to do what we adulation and chase our passion.”

Actor → Age: 34

Crowning Achievement

Khurrana is the aboriginal to say that this is an agitative time for Bollywood. But he was there at the beginning: Back his advance role in Shoojit Sircar’s arbitrary Vicky Donor in 2012, the multi-faceted aerialist has acclimated his strengths – accomplished banana timing and an eye for amazing scripts about accustomed bodies – to actualize the arrangement for a new affectionate of arch man; the affectionate for whom “entertainment afterwards amount conception agency nothing”. In 2018, though, he bankrupt out of the slice-of-life-films mould to bear two of the year’s best anarchistic blockbusters: Sriram Raghavan’s dark, ambrosial Andhadhun and Amit Sharma’s Badhaai Ho, which is additionally amid the year’s `100 crore films.

Brownie points

A accomplished guitarist, he abstruse to ball the piano for Andhadhun, and now loves dishing out “SD Burman and Devsaab’s songs” on the keys.

Journalist → Age: 39

Crowning Achievement

#MeToo may acquire taken its time extensive India, but back it did beforehand this year, it absolved no one: from able ministers to actor comedians to actors. And Menon was at the vanguard, tweeting her own claimed accounts of animal aggravation in the abode and calling out affecting men in the media. In three days, her Messenger was abounding with over 300 accounts from women of their own adventures of aggravation – belief Menon aggregate via amusing media, amplifying choir that adeptness acquire contrarily not been heard. Her several TV appearances additionally brought dash and abyss to the #MeToo debate. Now, in accession to befitting up the burden on those accused in positions of power, she’s actively alive to actualize acquaintance about the PoSH (Prevention of Animal Harassment) Act and, with the advice of policymakers, clarify it further.

A new balance

Currently alive on a book on brainy health, the Bengaluru-based Menon has been autograph acutely on her own struggles with ambiguous personality ataxia and bipolar ataxia on her blog, The Restless Quill. Beforehand this year, she was one of the arresting faces of The Alive Adulation Laugh Foundation’s #NotAshamed campaign, aimed at mainstreaming brainy health.

MD, Pass Cipher Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. → Age: 34

Crowning Achievement

When Dhariwal launched the underground speakeasy PCO, ushering in India’s artisanal cocktail revolution, he apparent that a abstruse in India is no abstruse at all. He played this to his advantage, and created newer, harder-to-get-into nightlife hotspots in the basic like ATM, and specialty restaurants like Ping’s Café Orient (for lesser-known dishes from Singapore to Japan) as able-bodied as Jamun (which serves accurate bounded Indian book that commonly lay in the area of government-run bhavans). Now, with three new projects in the NCR in the works, and affairs to booty his American bar and brasserie, Sazerac, to Mumbai and Bengaluru, Dhariwal’s authoritative abiding you’ll consistently acquire a aces adeptness cocktail in hand.

Hidden Figures

130,000: The cardinal of Old Fashioneds that acquire been served up above Dhariwal’s bars, featuring twists like jamun, amber and brilliant anise.

CEO & Director, The Tamara Leisure Adventures Pvt. Ltd. → Age: 33

Crowning Achievement

A blooming action at best hotels agency placards in anniversary allowance requesting guests to reclaim towels and bed linen. At Tamara’s properties, it blends seamlessly into the architecture and infrastructure: Tap aerators abate baptize consumption, decay baptize is acclimated for the account of area and kitchen decay is acclimated in composting systems. This year, the Columbia MBA grad, who’s been alive with the cast back 2012, launched The Tamara Kodai, about nine years in the making, in a repurposed above 19th-century monastery. With three new hotels and resorts accessible to barrage in aboriginal 2019, all ecologically responsible, Shibulal has her assignment cut out for her.

Founder, Spice PR, Entropy → Age: 39

Crowning Achievement

He’s Bollywood’s top communications czar, who manages the media interests of anybody from Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone to Radhika Apte and Tiger Shroff. Accepting marketed some of Bollywood’s bigger films, including Dangal and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, aftermost year he crafted the PR action for the phenomenally successful, 1,800 crore earner Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, a Telugu blur that bankrupt annal alike in Punjab. He additionally helped administer accession event, massive in calibration acceptance added secretive: Deepika Padukone’s bells to Ranveer Singh, ensuring that the brace had all the aloofness and ascendancy they wanted. And with Entropy, his year-old agenda business adventure in accord with Reliance, he’s already administration three – out of a absolute of bristles – Indian celebrity Instagram accounts, anniversary of whom acquire a afterward of over 20 actor people.

The bearing of a star

Choudhary is already anecdotic the abutting bearing of celebrity superstars. Appropriate now, he’s aflame about Sara Ali Khan, who he believes has the acting abilities – and that je ne sais quoi – to accomplish it big. Those brilliant kid genes don’t aching either.

Film-maker → Age: 36

Crowning Achievement

Long afore Das became the acknowledgment of the all-embracing blur anniversary circuit, she’d appear to Mumbai from Assam to try her duke at acting. She failed, admittedly; but the upside was affair bodies in a cinema-crazy burghal who alien her to the worlds of Bergman, Majidi, Kiarostami & Co. “Watching films like Pather Panchali, I was addled by the artlessness and absoluteness of these belief from altered lands. I anticipation I could do that too, and that way, actualize roles for myself.” Back then, like a one-woman army, Das has written, attempt and directed three appreciably simple, astute appearance set adjoin arcadian backgrounds. The additional of these, Village Rockstars, has won 44 awards at blur festivals about the world, including four Civic Awards, and is India’s official admission to the 2019 Oscars in the adopted accent category.

Latest Triumph

Even as Das campaigns for Village Rockstars’ Oscars bid, her third film, the coming-of-age Bulbul Can Sing, won the Golden Gateway award-winning at the Mumbai Blur Anniversary 2018, afterwards premiering to arranged houses at the Toronto All-embracing Blur Anniversary in September.

MD, JSW Cements; Architect & Director, Inspire Institute of Sport → Age: 28

Crowning achievement

In befitting with ancestors tradition, Jindal’s spent the aftermost few years earning his affirmation to the arch at JSW Group. As arch of the conglomerate’s consumer-facing businesses, he’s active the cements vertical and ventured into the paints industry with a sustainably crafted bandage that’ll hit South Indian retail food in January. But his bigger accomplishment is growing JSW Sports from an animated PowerPoint presentation into a adventure that’s actuality abreast to be India’s aboriginal about traded sports company. In March this year, the sports aggregation bought a 50 per cent pale in the IPL aggregation Delhi Daredevils, and in August, launched the country’s aboriginal Olympic-grade training adeptness in a Karnataka township. Action by the success amount of the athletes JSW has accurate so far – Sakshi Malik and Neeraj Chopra amid them – the Inspire Institute of Sport may be India’s best bet for a aboveboard attendance on the all-embracing sports stage.

Dream run

“I appetite to accomplish bodies acquire that they can abandoned accomplish a difference, and to appearance that if you dream big, it is achievable.”

Vice President & Arch of Fashion, IMG Reliance → Age: 37

Crowning Achievement

There were three defining moments at Lakmé Appearance Anniversary Winter/Festive 2018: Chola’s “Bye, Felicia” annoyance queen parade; #GenderBender, featuring aqueous clothes from India’s new-gen designers; and a aggregate of women weavers from Kota authoritative their appearance anniversary debut. These presentations weren’t accessible alike three years ago, back LFW was a bi-annual, five-day ball area a amiable apple advantaged in an accessible bar and advised aerodrome collections that were abandoned anon after. Yet, beneath the administration of Chandok, it’s developed exponentially, not aloof in business – through affairs in ample establishments like Raymond for year-round collaborations – but additionally by actively agreeable with weavers, craftsmen and the LGBTQ community. Actuality the abandoned televised appearance anniversary in the apple (which additionally streams on two of India’s bigger OTT platforms) agency the chat about Indian appearance is added extensive and across-the-board than it’s anytime been. Thanks to Chandok, appearance now comes with a advantageous dosage of substance.

Trend Report

This year, Chandok contributed to ablution The Articulation Of Fashion, an e-zine that takes an all-embracing attending at the business of Indian fashion.

Director → Age: 36

Crowning Achievement

With Kabali and Kaala – both Rajinikanth starrers – Pa. Ranjith accomplished pan-Indian popularity, but his admission extends far above administering superstars in bartering hits. Clashing Bollywood, which tends to focus on the one per cent, Tamil cinema has consistently fabricated amplitude for the subaltern. But it still took Ranjith to conductor in a cast of boilerplate cinema that rejects those stereotypes, questions the cachet quo and affirms that Dalit lives matter, and charge be acclaimed – authoritative the administrator one of the best basic choir in Indian cinema today. And his appulse has been palpable: In the bristles years back his debut, Ranjith’s admission to beefy accommodation is award echoes in the works of his aeon such as Mari Selvaraj, Lenin Bharathi and Vetri Maaran.

Cultural revolution

The thinker-orator, who generally takes to the belvedere to allotment his thoughts at music releases and blur promotions, has sown seeds that acquire agilely sprouted: His company, Neelam Productions, is introducing adolescent directors, while The Casteless Collective, which he got off the ground, is a 19-member music bandage popularising folk music like Gaana, which commonly critiques casteism. Ranjith will additionally accomplish his Bollywood admission abutting year with a blur on the action of affiliated billy Birsa Munda.

Inspiration projects

“I’ve focused on assuming the lives and history of the afflicted masses in this country, and will abide accomplishment altruism acceptance cinema.”

Actor → Age: 30

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From Panimalar in Maryan to the abnormally abled RJ Sarah in Bangalore Canicule or Kanchanamala of Ennu Ninte Moideen and besetting traveller Tessa in Charlie, Parvathy has able the art of arena fleshed-out, independent-minded women with authenticity, abyss and nuance. Off-screen too, she demonstrates the aforementioned tenacity, adventurous to allege accuracy to power. Abounding actresses avoid the feminist tag for a arrangement of reasons, but Parvathy wears her feminichi (a aspersing English-Malayalam blend for articulate women, address trolls) tag proudly. Literally, too: She owns a bag with the chat abstract on it. From commonly calling out misogyny in Malayalam cinema – stars or no stars – to cofounding the Women In Cinema Aggregate that’s demography on the establishment, Parvathy is at the alpha of a all-important cause to change the way the Malayalam blur industry functions.

Founders, Azadi Annal → Age: 36, 27

Crowning Achievement

When Prabh Deep’s afire admission anthology Class-Sikh abandoned backward aftermost year, it appear the accession of a astounding talent, and showed aloof how austere “dot-com guy” Joshi and announcer and bookish Kapur were about afraid things up for absolute music in India – administration copyrights with artists, and alms royalties in perpetuity. Their Delhi-based characterization has back congenital a agenda of politically acquainted hip-hop and R&B artists who acquire absolute belief to acquaint – and, in the process, confused the chat about Indian hip-hop above Mumbai’s gullies and Delhi’s arrant clubs.

Mixtape Magic

Azadi has now active ten musicians – Mumbai-based Tienas (who afresh denticulate the appellation clue for Audible book Mafia Queens Of Mumbai), the Swadesi aggregation (known for their eco-conscious music), Bengaluru-based Siri (whose EP discusses brainy bloom in English and Kannada) and Ahmer Javed from Kashmir.

Singer; Founder, Svatantra Microfinance Pvt. Ltd. → Age: 24

Crowning achievement

When she isn’t creating music and curating one-of-a-kind handcrafted home décor pieces through her online abundance CuroCarte.com, Ananya Birla is advantageous absorption to added issues you adeptness not apprehend a 24-year-old to. Back 2013, her microlending close Svatantra Microfinance has helped over 300,000 rural Indian women. The close boasts of a accommodation portfolio of `863 crore and afresh acquired Micro Apartment Finance Corporation to accomplish a attack into the affordable apartment segment. The consecutive administrator is additionally carefully circuitous with MPower, a brainy bloom foundation she started with her mother, Neerja, to breach taboos about brainy affliction in India.

Money moves

Birla’s alive appear authoritative Svatantra Microfinance a billion-dollar aggregation by 2020, accretion its casework and accepting it accessible to administer for a cyberbanking licence. Added immediately, 2019 will see the absolution of her aboriginal EP.

Co-founder, Gateway Brewing Company, Third Eye Distillery, Svami → Age: 33

Crowning achievement

Mixing businesses as calmly as he does drinks, Rahul Mehra’s a frontrunner in India’s artisanal booze scene: With Navin Mittal and Krishna Naik, he brought us Gateway Brewery favourites White Zen and Doppelganger; at Third Eye Distillery, he launched Stranger & Sons gin with his wife and her brother; and at Svami, he retails made-in-India mixers, including a cucumber and grapefruit tonic, with Aneesh Bhasin and Sahil Jatana. An astonishing adroitness for blockage advanced of the ambit and a appetite for creating a assorted portfolio of affection Indian liquor beggarly Mehra’s brands are caked everywhere from Harbour Bar at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai to the hippest gigs like Sofar Sounds.

The Big Chill

When brewing beer was aloof a hobby, Mehra bare eight ample refrigerators at home to abundance his creations for accompany and family.

Actor → Age: 25

Crowning Achievement

Never belittle the appulse of a well-crafted home video. Back her YouTube admission – a awning of Anna Kendrick’s “Cups” – in 2016, Palkar has become the pop-cultural abettor of Gen Z’s aches and aspirations in some of the best accepted Indian web alternation (Dice Media’s Little Things, Bindass’ Girl In The City). She additionally led a Hindi blur (Akarsh Khurana’s Karwaan) and fabricated her admission in Marathi cinema (Varun Narvekar’s Muramba), while Little Things begin a new home at Netflix. Her brief acceleration has been fuelled by a aggregate of alluring charm, congenital aptitude – and the adequacy to recognise that, in 2018, if you accumulate it real, you’ve got accumulation appeal.

Latest Triumph

Scoring her aboriginal big-budget action advance in the accessible Netflix Aboriginal blur Chopsticks, additionally starring Abhay Deol.

Sustainable Appearance Strategist & Curator, IMG Reliance → Age: 35

Crowning Achievement

It’s adamantine to brainstorm a added arduous assignment than putting sustainability front- and-centre of the alluring apple of Lakmé Appearance Week. But that’s absolutely what Vazirani’s done, authoritative LFW one of the arch pillars of India’s bigger appearance platform. He’s accustomed adeptness handloom designers from Jenjum Gadi to the women of Usha Silai a arresting place; brought an armory of craftsmen and artisans to the fore; got accustomed houses like Anita Dongre and Raymond to coact with women weavers from baby towns; and helped set up cogent partnerships with the United Nations, Austria’s Lenzing Accumulation and India’s Ministry of Textiles. In three abbreviate years, he’s fabricated sustainability cool, and is arch the awful accordant chat on acquainted fashion.

Fashion Artist → Age: 38

Crowning Achievement

With the affectionate of automated abstracts that Aggarwal favours – polymer, glass, metal, recycled artificial – he should’ve been an engineer. He strips these of their acceptable purpose to actualize accelerating appearance that’s as abundant about upcycling as it is about his characteristic beat vision. Which has not abandoned fabricated him one of India’s best approved designers (with assemblage like Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kalki Koechlin), but additionally created a able all-around attendance for his brand, which retails in over 20 countries, including France and Lebanon.

Current Code

A new flagship at The Kila in Delhi will banal couture and his afresh launched menswear line. He’s additionally bringing his cast admission and adulation for altered bolt – anticipate chanderi alloyed with recycled artificial – to accessories.

Co-founders, Sleepy Owl Coffee → Age: 26, 28, 27

Crowning Achievement

From ten barter in 2016 to their accepted 30,000, these Delhi boys are authoritative abiding we never acquire to accomplish for burning coffee again, but don’t charge to adept some circuitous science agreement to beverage our own cup either. The $500,000 berry allotment they accustomed beforehand this year from DSG Consumer Ally – which additionally backs Raw Pressery and Chai Point – agency they’re all set to expand, alike as their OG, 100 per cent apple-pie cold-brew coffees (no preservatives, amoroso or chemicals, low in acid) accomplish us feel a tad beneath accusable about our abandoned caffeine consumption.

No filter

Sleepy Owl’s acceptable clarify accoutrements for cold-brew coffee and reusable beverage kits are already a hit. Up abutting are bottles that you can grab and go, as able-bodied as affairs to barrage hot beverages.

By The Numbers 20: “The cups of coffee we alcohol amid the three of us anniversary day.”

MD, MRS Hotels → Age: 34

Crowning Achievement

Shekhawat has a way of rebooting aggregate he’s amorous about: whether it’s hotels (Suryagarh in Jaisalmer and Narendra Bhawan in Bikaner, accessories on every luxe biking hot account that counts), ancestry sites or a accomplished new way of active (an alpha abode and township, Dhun, is currently in the works abreast Jaipur).

Scaling new heights

Shekhawat and his aggregation are cartoon up a absorption plan to disclose the abandoned Govindgarh Palace in Madhya Pradesh, home to the country’s aboriginal white tiger, and transform it into a chic cover in the abutting few years. But afore that will be the barrage of a adequate aggressive acropolis in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, Kuchaman Fort, as able-bodied as a backwoods abode in Matheran.

Actor → Age: 33

Crowning Achievement

Dubbed “Lady Superstar” for her adeptness to bear back-to-back hits, Nayanthara’s all but rendered her macho co-stars dispensable. Bartering film-makers now address for her, consistent in a cord of able character-based Tamil movies such as Maya, Dora and Aramm. One of 2018’s bigger successes, the atramentous ball Kolamavu Kokila, has her arena the eponymous role of a adolescent woman aggravating to accumulate her ancestors financially afloat, accommodating to advertise drugs and annihilation gangsters, all while attired in apparent printed acme and continued skirts. In the abutting year alone, she carries the weight of at atomic bristles films, anniversary cyberbanking on her acting chops and adeptness to draw crowds, the aperture credits announcement boldly: “NAYANTHARA IN…”

Now Playing

Notoriously bashful IRL, Nayanthara has no amusing media attendance and rarely appears in the media. In Airaa, her accessible 63rd film, she makes accession male-dominated amplitude her own: the bifold role.

Chief Action Officer, Reliance Jio Infocomm → Age: 27

Crowning Achievement

From 2014-2017, India’s boilerplate account abstracts acceptance went up a whopping 15 times – from 0.26GB to over 4GB per user – in no baby allotment due to the Akash Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm, which disrupted the telecom bazaar back it launched in September 2016. This year, Jio added a almanac 11.79 actor adaptable subscribers in july alone, and by the end of September had already clocked in 252.3 actor subscribers.

For the division catastrophe September 2018, it was the top telecom account provider in agreement of adapted gross revenue, with `8,271 crore. Parent aggregation Reliance Industries’ majority accretion of Den Networks Limited and Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited has additionally accustomed Ambani admission to 24 actor homes above 750 cities to addition Jio GigaFiber and Jio Smart Home Solutions.

In focus

Come January, Reliance Jio Infocomm will booty over as the account provider for Indian Railways, application about 3,78,000 adaptable buzz access of its employees. Additionally, Ambani is action on AI, apparatus acquirements and blockchain, which can revolutionise apprenticeship and healthcare and advice him run the two-year-old juggernaut added efficiently.

Actor → Age: 31

Crowning achievement

He’s the best bankable brilliant of his generation. But, alike while acceptance his limitations – acknowledgment to a larger-than-life academy of acting, and basal claimed acquaintance – Dhawan’s fabricated the accomplishment to woo film-makers who’ll advice him grow. While in box-office successes like Judwaa 2 he showcases his courage in the Nineties hyper-hero mould, in Shoojit Sircar’s quiet and admirable October, as in Sharat Katariya’s abandoned check Sui Dhaaga, he demonstrates an adeptness to get beneath the bark of a character. In an industry that’s no best abiding what formulae to await on, Dhawan’s arc represents the accomplished and approaching colliding. Thankfully, he’s got the acting chops – and the amusing media adeptness – to able the code.

The hit-maker

Dhawan affairs to accumulate annihilation at the box appointment with Alia Bhatt in Shuddhi, and an untitled action with Katrina Kaif. He’s additionally owning Instagram with all those able conditioning videos as he preps for Abhishek Verman’s Kalank.

Concept Head, Foodhall-Future Accumulation → Age: 29

Crowning achievement

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Modelled afterwards some of the world’s best administration stores, Avni Biyani’s Foodhall is area you go back you’re appetite alpha guacamole or attractive for argument for that sweet-sour dessert. Foodhall has clocked a abiding 14 per cent advance in the aftermost four years, alms innovations like aggregate one’s own nut adulate and in-store masterclasses. It’s all spearheaded by the hands-on Biyani scion, who spends abundant of her time interacting with consumers and anecdotic new trends. Seven years and 11 outlets later, she’s now action big on the brand’s behemothic 25,000sqft flagship abundance on Bandra’s Linking Road: a abode with a hydroponic lab to beat for your own alpha greens, a tea lounge, cheese room, coffee roastery and Sorrentina, to cloy your Italian cravings.

Seeing red

During the aboriginal days, Biyani was so amorous that she auspiciously assertive barter to buy antique tomatoes at `2,500/kg.

Founder & CEO, Simba → Age: 27

Crowning Achievement

Prabhtej Singh Bhatia’s bootstrapped Simba entered the awash adeptness beer bazaar in 2016, a time back microbreweries had already able audible identities and loyal followings. But Bhatia, who’d spent four years bearing beer for SAB Miller in Chhattisgarh and perfecting his recipes for Simba, had a plan. Back it was time to barrage his Belgian wit, stout, ablaze and strong, he snubbed oversaturated metros in favour of his home state, afterward it up with Assam. Roaring success followed, and about overnight, Simba became one of the few adeptness beer brands to go national, with an added attendance in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Delhi-NCR and Bengaluru – affairs 3,00,000 lakh cases this year alone.

High hops

Simba will be accessible in Kolkata and Mumbai this month, with four to six new variants accessible for administration in aboriginal 2019. Bhatia additionally aims to actualize a new articulation of sessionable adeptness beers and alcohol that acquiesce one to socialise afterwards accepting too bashed too fast.

Director of Creative, All-embracing Originals, Netflix India → Age: 40

Crowning Achievement

“The Sacred Games moment”, as Sethi calls it, was a cardinal one for Netflix. Not abandoned was the aboriginal India-original alternation a delinquent hit at home, it additionally advance like bonfire in territories that “don’t acquire å Indian agreeable on their radar.” In the 16 months back Sethi (whose accomplished stints lath Freeform and NBC) abutting Netflix, she’s commissioned and developed a solid slate of titles from the motherland, and congenital a able-bodied agenda of alliances with Bollywood, bounded industries and absolute streams. Aggregate Netflix India’s appear in 2018 – Ghoul, Lust Stories, Adulation Per Aboveboard Foot – has been a crossover hit. Because, as Netflix’s aggressive algorithms and bodies know, acceptable belief consistently acquisition an admirers in their added borderless world.

Next episode

Netflix is bullish on India – it anticipates its abutting actor subscribers to be from actuality – and Indian agreeable is key. Scripting this advance are Sethi and team, with eight Aboriginal films and bristles alternation in the pipeline, alpha with an adjustment of Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day this month.

Founders, Licious → Age: 32, 37

Crowning Achievement

Online gourmet meat and seafood cast Licious was built-in as abounding acceptable account are: over several plates of kebabs and drinks, as founders Vivek Gupta and Abhay Hanjura rued the adversity of accretion fresh, good-quality meat. It’s a $30 billion befalling in a country that’s 70 per cent non-vegetarian, one they’ve absurd by authoritative the absolute back-end accumulation chain, from farms to cold-storage units, and by able to bear aural 90 minutes. But the absolute acumen the duo acquire so abounding echo orders is Licious’ signature dishes, crafted by an on-board chef – Lucknowi keema, Peri Peri craven drumsticks, angle fingers – that acquire amused the tastebuds of about 300,000 consumers above Bengaluru, Hyderabad and the NCR in the aftermost three years. And now with an beverage of $25 actor in funding, and affairs to aggrandize to Mumbai and Pune, and Kolkata, Visakhapatnam and Coimbatore in 2019, Licious has bigger angle to fry.

Fresh Menu

Expect new additions to Licious’ bandage of sandwich spreads, craven and pineapple jam, keto-friendly commons as able-bodied as fresh, meat-based soups.

Photographer → Age: 37

Crowning Achievement

Bikramjit Bose has never been ashamed by celebrity, alike acceptance he’s attempt some of the country’s best eminent personalities, including Rahul Dravid, Sabyasachi, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Ranbir Kapoor. The Srishti alum isn’t a “reference” affectionate of guy, and consistently ideates to abduction his accommodation in absorbing new agency – be it cutting annoyance queens and gender-fluid artists or artist campaigns, acute editorials or behind-the-scenes images during appearance week. With a affection for black-and-white delineation and, he admits, a proclivity for the melancholic, Bose heralds a new beachcomber of appearance photography in India.

In focus

Up abutting for Bose is a abeyant exhibition of his connected portraits, and a abysmal dive into the apple of ad film-making.

MD, Associated Capsules Accumulation (ACG) Common → Age: 39

Crowning Achievement

Karan Singh has taken ACG Common – his affiliated authority and one of India’s bigger biologic accessories manufacturers – and angry it into the accessory courage of the all-around biologic industry, employing over 4,500 bodies above 100 countries. With audience like Cipla, Abbott and Pfizer, ACG, which makes aggregate from adamantine gelatin abridged shells to foils and tablet-manufacturing tools, has afresh broadcast its factories in Brazil and Croatia and ventured into Thailand in a bid to admission its common bazaar share. In the 16 years back he abutting the business, Singh, an alum of the Harvard Academy of Business, has overseen the company’s about-face from bounded to “glocal”, additionally authoritative the cast the second-largest artist of accepted capsules in the world.

Future plans

With an estimated $500 actor about-face for 2018, Singh wants to acquaint basic absoluteness and automation to bigger explain the above of his company’s casework to abeyant customers.

Founder, Holistic Bloom Store, Reset and Pure Nutrition; Co-Founder, GOQii → Age: 38

Crowning Achievement

On Facebook, Coutinho will acquaint you that chewing cardamom afterwards a meal reduces acidity and boosts lung health; and that debauchery your bake-apple assimilation can activation indigestion and anatomy fat because of the aerial fructose levels. Over 50,000 bodies tune into his alive videos, and over 20,000 audience above the apple affirm by his methodology. With an MD in Alternative Medicine, Coutinho promotes holistic health, absorption on antitoxin methods, healing and affairs changes. If all this is too New-Agey, he additionally co-founded GOQii – a fettle bandage that transfers a user’s circadian concrete action and beddy-bye abstracts to one of 500 adviser coaches – and Reset, Mumbai’s classy gym frequented by Bollywood stars like Shahid Kapoor and Tiger Shroff.

Dream Run

His blight action is allowance bodies go from the fourth stages into remission. While chemotherapy may still be necessary, Coutinho works on managing the ancillary furnishings of these acrid treatments through counterbalanced diet at a cellular level.

Actor → Age: 31

Crowning Achievement

Every time Taapsee Pannu’s appeared on awning this year – as a advocate in Mulk, a aberrant Juliet in Manmarziyan, a hockey amateur in Soorma – she’s captivated her own, if not absolute baseborn the arena from added acclimatized actors. It’s been a alive time, she says: Audiences now watch films if she’s on the billing. Accepting baffled the South Indian blur industries a continued time ago, she’s now architecture a arrangement for a new affectionate of arch adult in Bollywood, opting for characters with a able spine; and insisting on not arena the aforementioned blazon twice. With three behemothic projects on her slate for 2019 already – Sujoy Ghosh’s Badla, R Balki’s Mission Mangal and Ashwin Saravanan’s bilingual Bold Over – she demonstrates a accommodation for adamantine assignment as abysmal as her range.

In focus

Pannu’s affection to accumulate things alpha extends above her acting career: A few years ago, she launched a bells planning company. And this year, the annihilate activist bought a pale in the Premier Badminton League aggregation Pune Seven Aces, which counts ascent brilliant Lakshya Sen and Olympic best Carolina Marin amid its ranks.

Co-founder, Livspace → Age: 38

Crowning Achievement

Doing up a home can be a time-consuming and anarchic process. IIT alum and above VP of Engineering at Myntra Sharma’s alteration that by analogous barter with over 30,000 pre-designed looks and over 2,000 autogenous designers who’ll administer and bear a custom amplitude – active room, modular kitchen, Batcave – according to your aftertaste and budget, afterwards the altercation of afterward up with assorted contractors. What’s more: You can appearance your adopted architecture in a appropriate VR allowance at one of Livspace’s acquaintance centres afore the assignment starts.

Home improvement

Founded in 2012, forth with Anuj Srivastava, the start-up afresh aloft $70 actor (approx `505 crore) in funding, and is now accretion above India’s seven above metros, all the way to Singapore.

Captain, Indian Candid Aggregation → Age: 30

Crowning Achievement

Ever back he led India to accomplishment in the 2008 U-19 Apple Cup, Kohli’s fabricated acceptable attending easy. Beneath his captaincy, India acquire anchored their position at the top of the Test rankings, and are ranked amid the top two countries in all-embracing T20Is and ODIs. Forth the way, he’s alloyed a new activity and assailment into Indian cricket. His annal – the fastest 10,000 ODI runs and fastest 37 ODI centuries – are not aloof hallmarks of his own bold but additionally the bearing he represents.

The A-Team

As one bisected of India’s best important adeptness couple, the well-inked, style-conscious, cocky batsman, who’s additionally the country’s highest-paid athlete, is a connected admonition to Gen Z that actuality a aboveboard peg in a annular aperture isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Executive Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Accumulation → Age: 33

Crowning Achievement

An accepted capitalist, Suri will booty barring if you alarm him an activist. Still, he’s fabricated admittance a allotment of the LaLit brand, employing auto staff, mandating changeable and gender assortment training for advisers and negotiating medical allowance advantage for ally of his anomalous staff. He’s additionally India’s annoyance godmother: His clubs and hotels acquire not abandoned played host to some of the world’s finest annoyance talent, from Alaska 5000 to Violet Chachki and Derrick Barry, they’ve additionally catalysed a new bearing of swadeshi annoyance queens. Best recently, he was amid a clamp of high-profile campaigners who auspiciously confused the Supreme Court to annul Section 377.

Pure love

Suri’s architecture on that drive with the Keshav Suri Foundation to lath attainable abilities to, and admission afterimage for, the LGBTQ community, attached up with anybody from the It Gets Bigger action to industry bodies like the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), all about the ambulatory cry “Embrace, Empower, Mainstream”. Those non-activist accreditation are alpha to attending suspect.

Architect, Ashiesh Shah Architecture Architecture → Age: 40

Crowning Achievement

As artist to the stars – anticipate Jacqueline Fernandez, Hrithik Roshan and Aditya Roy Kapoor – and some of the country’s best agitative fine-dines, including Mumbai’s Masque and Pali Thai, the Parsons alum is amid the country’s best analytical architecture minds. Shah, who fabricated his TV admission on Fox Action India with Architecture HQ Season 1 aftermost year, has had a cyclone 2018: curating art and architecture fair D/code in Mumbai, which shone a spotlight on the country’s best bohemian architecture studios; accommodating with Chivas and Jaguar; and ablution Atelier, a appliance and home décor accumulating created with adept craftspeople. The closing is allotment of a above action to advice organise the crafts sector, contrarily abundantly ashore in emporia andairport shops.

Right angles

An ardent art collector, Shah’s claimed accumulating includes works by Zarina Hashmi, Manish Nai, Sudarshan Shetty and Ayesha Sultana.

TV personality, playback accompanist → Age: 28

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Crowning Achievement

With a articulation that can oscillate from falsetto to baritone in a flash, Sushant Divgikar is accessible to breach into the big time, afresh singing both the macho and changeable genitalia for a song in the Marathi blur Vitthal. Equally important is the acceptance of his annoyance queen avatar, Rani Ko-HE-Nur. Back he goes on date on Indian music absoluteness TV appearance Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, in a ablaze gold clothes and a albino wig, and belts out “Jawani Janeman”, he broadcasts a altered way of being, into the homes of over 12 actor people. Yet, Divgikar, who aboriginal appeared as Rani a year ago at LaLit Delhi’s Kitty Su, area he still consistently performs, is the aboriginal to avoid the tokenism associated with the LGBTQ movement and believes that, in the end, it’s your aptitude that shines.

The Stage

“People misunderstand annoyance adeptness and anticipate we’re transgender. Anybody can do drag; alike a woman. Finally, it’s about arduous gender norms and expressin your individuality.”

Founder, Bombay Shirt Company, → Age: 36

Crowning Achievement

When the narrowest of gaps opened in the appearance business, Akshay Narvekar jumped in, and jacked it advanced open. In 2012, he launched the Bombay Shirt Company, accumulation his annoyance over award an affordable, high-quality, customised shirt in India, ability alive at BCBGMAXAZRIA and a clandestine disinterestedness close in LA and ache to alpha his own business. Narvekar opened his aboriginal brick-and-mortar abundance in Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, as able-bodied as an e-commerce portal. Today, BSC has 13 food above India, one anniversary in New York and Dubai and the aerial aim of hitting at atomic 20 in 2019. In a few abbreviate years, Narvekar’s accustomed himself as the arch shirt-maker for the country’s urbanites, who never afresh acquire to anguish about cutting a apparel basic that’s annihilation but a absolute fit.

On a roll

Narvekar’s abutting adventure is customised pants, to accouterment the Indian macho physique, and to go with his arrangement of shirts.

Director, biographer → Age: 37

Crowning Achievement

At a time back the Hindi ball industry is witnessing a accumulation upheaval, in both anatomy and content, Karan Anshuman’s at play. Already a blur critic, afresh the administrator of a middling ball alleged Bangistan, Anshuman took to a altered format: 2017’s Inside Edge wasn’t aloof the aboriginal Amazon Aboriginal alternation from India, it was the aboriginal of its affectionate from the country; and it showcased the writer-director’s aptitude for scripting ball that captured the appetite and absorption amount of a young, upwardly adaptable crowd. Alike as it becoming him a choice at the All-embracing Emmys this year, Anshuman proceeded to address and broadcast a alarmingly acclaimed espionage thriller, Kashmirnama, and accelerating to “showrunner” for his additional web alternation with Amazon: the guns- and gangs-riddled Mirzapur. A adept of cliffhangers, Anshuman’s a cheat for our age.

Founder & CEO, Zomato → Age: 34

Crowning Achievement

Food tech, already admired as the articulation area start-ups went to die, has now become hot property, and Zomato is a frontrunner. Its early-mover advantage, accompanying with cogent allotment (the aggregation was aftermost admired at about $2 billion, afterwards accepting a $210 actor advance in October from Ant Financial) agency the restaurant analysis app’s now present in over 10,000 cities above 24 countries. Goyal’s bigger contempo success has been his avant-garde adherence cable programme, Zomato Gold, formed out in India with over 4,000 accomplice restaurants, and over 600,000 subscribers. Scoring those post-work drinks aloof got a lot easier on the pocket.

Photographer → Age: 35

Crowning Achievement

In a country bedeviled with weddings and celebrities, Radhik has able a niche. Back ambience up Belief by Joseph Radhik in 2011 with his brother Joshua Karthik, the Hyderabad-born Joe has brought an auteur’s angle to weddings of South Indian blur stars (including Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu), appearance designers, cricketers and industrialists, giving us a advanced row bench we’d contrarily never have. Case in point: Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli’s bells photos, that were retweeted by anybody from Karan Johar and SRK and becoming his aggregation about 1,00,000 followers. Radhik and his 12-member aggregation acquire what their audience want: Memories, yes, but additionally accurate photographs that will ratchet up the brand on amusing media.

The appropriate frame

Unable to acquire the about 900 circadian requests to intern with him, the IIM grad’s latest affection action PEP is a photography apprenticeship aggregation that aims to coach the abutting bearing of photographers.

Founder, Clove The Abundance & Dandelion; Co-founder, Jamavar → Age: 33

Crowning Achievement

Many Indian success belief are associated with pedigree, and Samyukta Nair, the granddaughter of The Leela Accumulation architect Captain Nair, uses her birth as a billy to conduct a booming ambitious career. She co-founded and manages two broadly recognised Indian accomplished dines: Jamavar (Bill Gates is a fan) and the buzzy Bombay Bustle in London’s chic Mayfair. And in India, she started Dandelion in 2015, an all-cotton bandage of affection nightwear and children’s bedding.

Stocking up

Nair opened Clove aftermost year, a appearance and décor abstraction abundance in Mumbai that pushes designers to go above their acceptable areas of expertise. The aftereffect has included womenswear artist Nimish Shah experimenting with About-face Men and About-face Home at the store. There’s additionally Anavila Home. Abutting year, the all-rounder’s aperture a non-Indian restaurant in Mayfair, for a comestible hat-trick.

Founder & CEO, YourStory → Age: 38

Crowning achievement

For seven years back its birth in 2008, Shradha Sharma’s YourStory remained a disturbing start-up, alike as it appear on added start-ups not clashing itself. Today, afterwards accepting $8.5 actor in allotment from investors such as Kalaari Capital, UC-RNT and Qualcomm Ventures, it’s a successful, affecting business, with over 10 actor readers and viewers. And this year, Sharma launched a new online acreage (SMBStory, to characterize the belief of small- and medium-sized businesses), broadcast YourStory to South Korea (following a barrage in Germany in 2017) and additionally put out the absolute India Startup Report on India’s beginning start-up community.

In focus

HerStory has enabled conversations about gender issues in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. Sharma aims to ability 100 actor bodies online, alike as her aggregation continues to account the trials and wins of the adventurous entrepreneurs set to change the world.

Managing Director, CEAT → Age: 37

Crowning Achievement

CEAT has never been as innovation-focused as it is beneath Anant Goenka. As a result, the aggregation articles a puncture-safe tyre, and accession that lasts up to 100,000km. Unsurprisingly, actor allotment acquire developed 15-fold in the aftermost bristles years alone, and CEAT has become the abandoned tyre artist alfresco of Japan to acquire won the Deming Prize, one of the best celebrated all-around affection awards in the world. And, accepting fabricated a attack in the European markets in 2016, CEAT is now abiding to its roots in Italy, as a sponsor for Torino Football Club.

Fast track

2019 will see Goenka and aggregation harnessing the adeptness of digital, while growing CEAT’s offline administration network. The idea, Goenka says, is that no one should acquire to biking added than two or three kilometres to buy a tyre.

Director, GVK → Age: 35

Crowning Achievement

As the point man for the GVK-led Navi Mumbai All-embracing Airport (NMIA), Bhupal – GVK Reddy’s grandson, and babysitter of the group’s adeptness and basement verticals – is at a cardinal point in his career. Overseeing the planning and development of one of the group’s bigger burghal development projects yet – NMIA is set to accomplish absolute application for over 1,42,000 bodies (along with 2,00,000 aberrant jobs) – in Bhupal one can see an basement administrator in the making. The `16,000 crore airport is set to lath 10 actor cartage in the aboriginal appearance alone, which, letters suggest, could be in the aboriginal bisected of 2020, and is targeting 60 actor by the end of the fourth phase. To accomplish this, Bhupal has navigated a bewilderment of banking arbitrations and government action negotiations to appear as an abettor of accurate bread-and-butter change.

The ambit of things

The achievement of the project, according to Bhupal, will additionally addition the abridgement of the arena about it, bringing alpha automated development forth the Mumbai-Pune-Ahmednagar corridor.

Director, Hexi; CEO, Firefox Bikes → Age: 29

Crowning Achievement

With his blooming busline aggregation Hexi, which began operations in January this year, Munjal is action on the accessibility of the bike-sharing arrangement and e-rickshaws to lath cheaper and faster first- and last-mile connectivity. With over 7,000 bicycles above 10 university campuses and 15 cities about the country already, Hexi’s bound become the fastest-growing acceptable carriage arrangement in India.

Green light

Munjal’s accepting governments enthused about his bike-sharing abstraction – Bhubaneshwar, Visakhapatnam and Nashik are already on lath – as able-bodied as analytical the achievability of ascent up Hexi’s e-rickshaw pilot project.

Actor → Age: 25

Crowning Achievement

Bhatt’s absolute adeptness lies in the array of projects she chooses to be a allotment of, arresting a antithesis amid big-budget, all-star blowouts and added script-oriented films: An Udta Punjab followed by a Dear Zindagi; a sci-fi abstruseness Brahmastra (opposite Amitabh Bachchan and Ranbir Kapoor) followed by Kalank (with Varun Dhawan, Madhuri Dixit Nene and Sanjay Dutt for co-stars); and then, aloof to annular things off, a Zoya Akhtar aboriginal about gully rap wunderkind Naezy and DIVINE.

Latest triumph

Not back Imtiaz Ali’s Highway has Bhatt bedeviled the awning as abundant as she did in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi, with her nuanced assuming of an Indian spy in bed with a Pakistani officer. But above her on-screen fluidity, she’s additionally creating a arrangement for a new affectionate of millennial celebrity: the affectionate that knows actuality sells, and has ample out how to accumulate their capital, as her contempo advance in the start-up StyleCracker shows.

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http://www.mid-day.com/articles/heres-how-you-can-spot-and-ignore-fake-news-online-mumbai-news/18366187 http://www.mensxp.com/technology/social-media/39996-as-news-gets-compromised-for-clicks-3-saviours-rise-to-the-challenge.htmlhttps://yourstory.com/2017/04/hoax-slayer-busted-1300-fake-forwards-whatsapp/ http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/fake-news-warriors-meet-the-people-who-debunk-fake-news-one-post-at-a-time/story-eLOYOfvrTMzn5AfuCfCRUP.html https://factordaily.com/boom-live-fake-news/ http://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/in-an-era-of-fake-news-check-out-india-s-homegrown-hoax-slayer/story-zyonebYJ4ApaOxABOybvSN.html http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/9583-social-entrepreneurs-launch-websites-bust-fake-news http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-forget-facebook-and-twitter-how-about-fake-news-on-whatsapp-2308754 http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/26/10-instances-that-show-a-fake-news-explosion-is-taking-place- http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/07/10/if-politicians-truly-cared-about-india-theyd-first-tackle-the_a_23023218/ https://thewire.in/140766/back-story-balloons-buntings-three-year-old/ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/breaking-fake-news/articleshow/58662449.cms http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/look-out-for-the-alternative/article19232271.ece http://www.vikatan.com/news/miscellaneous/96277-how-to-identify-fake-news-and-fake-photos.html https://newsclick.in/why-fake-news-indian-internets-biggest-problem http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-week-s-long-reads-from-sikkim-stand-off-to-fake-news-to-kerala-assualt-case/story-g5e4gQ86eqzupyINyOtWaP.html https://scroll.in/article/840217/full-text-arun-shourie-says-narendra-modi-regimes-genes-are-totalitarian http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/closer-look-at-alt-news-pratik-sinha-on-how-hard-it-s-to-fight-fake-news-73635.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_checking http://tamil.thehindu.com/society/lifestyle/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81/article9722802.ece https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/blogs/how-to-protect-ourselves-from-fake-news-1723047 http://www.inkhabar.com/tech/40913-this-website-will-tell-the-truth-of-viral-video-and-content-on-social-media https://www.mumbailive.com/hi/tech/smhoaxslayer-slays-fake-news-10899 https://legitnews.in/2017/04/15/making-fake-news-story-definitive-7-step-guide/ http://liveindia.live/india/website-will-tell-the-truth-of-viral-video-and-content-on-soci/161468.html Credit given - http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/piyush-goyal-deletes-fake-photo-of-illuminated-roads-after-social-media-calls-it-out/story-FamJP5M7QVVoGEhc4Fa6EN.html http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/fake-news-buster-currency-notes-cut-for-school-project/articleshow/60929304.cms? http://dunyanews.tv/en/Entertainment/403550-Bald-photograph-of-Aishwarya-Rai-takes-the-inter https://www.thequint.com/news/rahul-wasnt-reading-kannada-newspaper https://www.thequint.com/news/india/image-indian-flag-israel-parliament-fake http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-bjp-haryana-leader-vijeta-malik-shares-bhopuri-movie-still-to-show-plight-of-hindus-in-west-bengal-2495403 https://www.thequint.com/news/fake-news-syed-salahuddin-offered-congress-ticket http://www.news18.com/news/buzz/lalu-prasad-yadav-gets-called-out-on-twitter-after-posting-photoshopped-image-of-patna-rally-1502987.html https://www.scoopwhoop.com/a-swachh-bharat-ad-featuring-br-ambedkar-has-run-into-a-controversy-heres-an-analysis/ https://www.thequint.com/news/india/pakistan-india-cricket-icc-fake-news-whatsapp-video http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/demonetisation-of-50-and-100-rupees-wont-happen-heres-why/1/1037229.html https://www.thequint.com/news/india/brett-lee-didnt-convert-to-hinduism-only-went-to-st-judes-hospital https://www.thequint.com/news/world/fake-news-alert-rohingyas-are-not-killing-hindus-in-rakhine https://thewire.in/148192/fake-news-narendra-modi-bjp-india/ https://www.scoopwhoop.com/mamata-banerjee-announces-judicial-inquiry-into-basirhat-communal-riots/#.vxdq6cfki http://www.dailyo.in/variety/baahubali-the-conclusion-sukma-attack-hoax-ss-rajamouli/story/1/17012.html in_a_22104789/ http://www.dailyo.in/variety/chandigarh-stalking-vikas-barala-bjp-shaina-nana-chudasama-hacked-twitter-victim-shaming/story/1/18824.html http://www.newsx.com/science-and-technology/63902-call-777888999-get-killed-another-hoax-making https://www.thequint.com/news/fake-news-naked-photo-assamese-woman-used-by-bjp-facebook https://www.outlookhindi.com/country/issues/social-media-hoax-rumours-are-travelling-that-gauri-lankesh-was-a-christian-20084 https://www.outlookhindi.com/media/social-media/after-fake-twitts-once-again-paresh-rawal-in-the-disputes-18579 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/moderne-distances-itself-from-bangladeshi-maid-lie-talks-harmony-security/articleshow/59613840.cms https://www.thequint.com/news/india/fake-news-on-dhule-gangster-hacking http://www.azhimukham.com/trending-union-minister-piyush-goyal-use-again-fake-photo-street-lighting-led-russia/ http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/06/21/how-cricket-in-india-became-a-deadly-litmus-test-of-loyalty-afte_a_22494710/ https://thewire.in/175643/gauri-lankesh-final-editorial-fake-news/ http://www.jantakareporter.com/india/rapist-baba-list-vvip/146732/ http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/bjp-s-sambit-patra-falls-for-fake-news-on-social-media-yet-again-117061200178_1.html https://bollywood.bhaskar.com/news/ENT-BNE-fake-reality-of-bahubali-director-donating-115-crores-to-martyr-soldiers-5590158-PHO.html https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/media/rohingya-refugees-are-they-really-man-eaters http://zeenews.india.com/bengali/entertainment/hoax-busted-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-bald-picture-is-fake-and-morphed_173055.html https://www.bhaskar.com/news/UT-DEL-HMU-NEW-reality-check-of-viral-photo-of-rs-1000-note-news-hindi-5472781-PHO.html http://thefakebuster.com/123/abp-news-shared-2-year-old-gurdaspur-attack-photos-news-killing-hizbul-terrorist-sabzar/ http://m.bhaskar.com/news/ENT-BNE-fake-reality-of-bahubali-director-donating-115-crores-to-martyr-soldiers-5590158-PHO.html https://blogs.navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/socialmedia/satyakhoji-fake-image-of-new-1000-rupee-note-gets-viral-on-facebook-and-twitter/ http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-bbc-survey-claiming-that-congress-4th-most-corrupt-party-in-the-world-is-fake-2361581/amp http://varadigara.com/article/3221 https://www.thequint.com/news/2017/06/30/fake-news-syed-salahuddin-offered-congress-ticket https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/07/04/image-indian-flag-israel-parliament-fake https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/2017/05/05/baahubali-donates-121-crore-fake-news https://www.thequint.com/news/2017/06/16/rahul-wasnt-reading-kannada-newspaper https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/06/19/pakistan-india-cricket-icc-fake-news-whatsapp-video https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/06/15/brett-lee-didnt-convert-to-hinduism-only-went-to-st-judes-hospital https://www.thequint.com/news/2017/06/17/fake-news-naked-photo-assamese-woman-used-by-bjp-facebook https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/06/19/cabinet-letter-aadhaar-link-to-land-records-is-fake https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/06/12/fake-news-ar-rahman-cattle-slaughter-debate https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/07/04/paresh-rawal-spreads-fake-news-quotes-on-social-media https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/disabled-man-photo-from-bangladesh-used-rohingya https://www.thequint.com/lifestyle/food/indore-the-city-that-loves-to-eat https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/fake-video-of-priest-beaten-up-in-bengal https://www.thequint.com/news/india/fake-news-on-dhule-gangster-hacking lice/ https://www.facebook.com/SMHoaxSlayer/photos/a.147365528932186.1073741829.140690692933003/559298304405571/?type=3