Namrata Joshi
@Namrata_Joshi
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Journalist-film critic, words all over; Author, Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track; Fledgling programmer @IFFLA ; Consulting Editor @XpressCinema
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One day life will be a blank slate. No to-do lists, no deadlines, nothing to set right. Then I'll just take off. Kahin se, kahin ko. Bewajah
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SRK par pahunch kar inki frustration aur frustriya jaati hai. That’s why he is precious...
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Always look at adversity with hope; for what might lie beyond. SRK has been made bigger than he already was. Only I am very scared now that Canada Kumar might play SRK in the SRK biopic…
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This afternoon at Cannes was very well spent discussing the Cannes opening film and Spike Lee (among many other things) with
@beemji
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Togetherness of a shared grief. Mourned in our quarantined corners. Two years!
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Not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined Film Federation of India ignoring
#RRR
for India’s official entry to the Oscars. One year when we stood a good chance with it. Moreover, wasn’t
#ChhelloShow
in contention last year? Didn’t one of the members rip it apart?
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Credit goes to Javed Akhtar
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Nothing can come in the way of Oscars and
#RRR
now that Home Minister has referred to Jr NTR as the "Gem of Telugu Cinema"
#NaatuNaatu
...
Had a good interaction with a very talented actor and the gem of our Telugu cinema, Jr NTR in Hyderabad.
అత్యంత ప్రతిభావంతుడైన నటుడు మరియు మన తెలుగు సినిమా తారక రత్నం అయిన జూనియర్ ఎన్టీఆర్తో ఈ రోజు హైదరాబాద్లో కలిసి మాట్లాడటం చాలా ఆనందంగా అనిపించింది.
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Students. Media. Film fraternity. Farmers. Next is who?
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Boht hard!
“I saw the video and jiss tarike se wo campus mein ghuss ke ho raha hai ya phir jo, I think ye mahol bohot galat hai and ye actions lena bohot zaruri ho gaya hai and inn sab chizo ke bare mein baat karna bohot zaruri ho gaya hai”:
@TheAaryanKartik
YT:
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#OnTheSidelinesOfProtests
#OccupyGateway
GayatriBorkar is a student of Somaiya College. In the sessions of Kora Kaagaz, a poetry group, she types out Thanks notes for the attendees. 5.30pm onwards she has claimed a small spot to give little notes and poems
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Is there a cult of Fahadh Faasil? I want membership right away.
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It's the eyes of the present that I saw it with... Found
#ShoojitSircar
's
#SardarUdham
a brave dedication to the urgency of dissent... Loved it with all my problems with it...
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Last night. A girl from Bombay Central and a boy from Mahim who got married and settled in Saudi Arabia almost two decades back were sitting next to me, waiting for DDLJ to play in the magnificent open air screening by the sea. Wish SRK would come she whispered. I overheard…
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I wrote this on autopilot... And then had a good cry... A chapter of life comes to an end... And there's no way left to mourn...
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To all those riling against what NCB is doing to SRK by beginning with “but I don’t like him as an actor”, well ... A) Noone wants to know your opinion about that anyhow B) Come to the point ...
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Just to add some perspective, Nadav Lapid had been one of the signatories to a letter by the Israeli filmmaking community opposing the Shomron Film Fund which they felt was all about whitewashing the Palestinian occupation by giving grants to Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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Before it gets over, let me sum up
#Oscars
2023… When the most deserving Indian film had to return empty-handed…
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“Itti si hansi, itti si khushi, itta sa tukda chand ka; khwabon ke tinko se, chal banayein aashiyaan”
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Pathetic waste of time
#Radhe
... Terrible is the only word ... And don’t just peddle this server crash nonsense ...
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Initiated by DiaMirza & ZoyaAkhtar... Attended by RichaChadha AliFazal IshikaMotwane VikramadityaMotwane VishalBhardwaj RekhaBhardwaj SwaraBhaskar AnuragKashyap AnubhavSinha SudhirMishra HansalMehta RahulDholakia VipinSharma SwanandKirkire VasanBala
#BollywoodOccupiesCarterRoad
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I hope it’s ok to really like, as in really really like Kareena Kapoor… And also to say that many mainstream actors are so damn effortless and versatile yet disregarded because they are, well, mainstream…
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I too have one SRK story. The special one of the many...
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Been meaning to say this for a whole week now... That Konkona Sen Sharma is an incredible actor... And we need to say this more often than we do...
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जो तटस्थ हैं, समय लिखेगा उनका भी अपराध... Ramdhari Singh Dinkar quoted in Thappad... Apt for this moment in the nation's history...
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In a cosmetics shop in upscale Bandra. A lady trying out masks before buying. The ones that don’t fit, kept back in the packet. Don’t know how many others would have tried them on, like her. Raise an objection and get shouted back. Why are we so DAFT?!
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Making films after watching films. Making films after living life. There is a difference...
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Sutapa Sikdar’s statement on Irrfan is so beautiful. It makes you hope through the loss...
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After being very voluntarily confined to
@filmbazaarindia
, first film
@IFFIGoa
...
#AvinashArun
’s
#ThreeOfUs
with
@ShefaliShah_
@swanandkirkire
&
@JaideepAhlawat
&
@Maulisingh
& the finally met
@arpitachatter
...
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Sab baith jaayein... Now that real Gunjan Saxena has spoken... Amazed at the righteousness of liberals who have turned bhakts at the alter of the armed forces... Lynch mobs ki kabhi koi kami nahin Ho sakti...
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If there weren’t enough reasons already to love Clooney... Here’s one more...
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Nature has healed ...
#AskSRK
was back ... But I missed it and then I see this!
Dimaag try kar shaayad work karega…Mann pyaar ke liye rakh.
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The safest state to be in is mediocrity, it never upsets anyone...
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These days it’s
#throwback
@Festival_Cannes
on my FB...
@dhanushkraja
just by the way, on the way to Palais... 2018!
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When the country’s governance becomes a farce & news turns into a daily soap, it’s left for a major star to make a film that’s a no holds barred political statement. I don’t know if I enjoyed but I paid full attention. All that’s left is to launch a party & contest in elections
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There is a new way to spot bigots these days... All those getting het up about the presumed change of religious identity of the criminal in
#Chhapaak
... My advice: beta sweater peheno, sardi hai. Chai pi lo, thandi ho jaayegi ...
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Pin drop silence on Eid on all WhatsApp groups. No greetings exchanged. That’s the reality of the majority now. Other than in the false comfort of the echo chambers we have created around us. Eid Mubarak to one and all!
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Goosebumps proud moment for India. Can we please say Bharat Mata Ki Jai to this?
#BiennaleCinema2020
Il regista di
#TheDisciple
#ChaitanyaTamhane
e il suo cast sul red carpet di
#Venezia77
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A fighter that Irrfan has always been, there was a bigger warrior in Sutapa Sikdar... An interview of the couple together... Also the last I met Irrfan...
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Vetrimaaran’s
#VadaChennai
had its world premiere last night at Pingyao film festival
#PYIFF
A frenzied, chaotic loop around the world of “rowdies”, its “bloody” good. What reached out to me most between its frantic frames is the political allegory...
@the_hindu
@TheHinduCinema
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Couldn't digest this tripe of a Salman Khan film. Without the backing of the fan frenzy in theatres, he delivers nada @ the first day first show at home...
#Radhe
... And what was Disha Patani even trying to do? 0 star from this "aurat zaat"
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Spotted this lovely thought courtesy
@varungrover
on Facebook... By Madhu Raghavendra
@STcom
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Something I can go public with now... Coming soon... My production...
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SRK is India’s best politician. And I mean it as a compliment…
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Modi: It's only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away...
Bhakts: Wah Modiji Wah...
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I can’t understand the love for Forrest Gump. At all. It’s the Hum Aapke Hain Kaun of Hollywood for me. Unbearable piety, sweetness and sentimentality. Remake and mess with it as much as you want. Remaking a Pather Panchali, Pyaasa or even a Sairat is the bigger issue for me...
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It’s been more than two years since I left Bombay and I woke up with a call this morning from my Bandra scrap collector. “Madam bhangaar hai kya?” It’s tough to explain what I felt…
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Jai ho!
"Main lakdbagghe ka voter hoon, Mere hashtag se dar jaa"
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Dear
@the_hindu
Please don't use your ex employees, who you ousted at the drop of the hat in the thick of COVID, as your phone directories. That too without ever making a cursory call to enquire about their well being. Such entitlement and insensitivity! Much wow!
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Ok looks like Bollywood is back! With a loud boom and a big bang. And I couldn’t be happier 😀
#Pathaan
#ThisIsNotAReview
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P.S. SRK is a better actor than most of the supposed good actors patronised by these intellectuals...
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And no one gets the “common man” better than
#Dhanush
... World is indeed curious about the “Tamil Godfather”...
#VadaChennai
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What a star. Sense, sensibility, sense of humour. Those set of film clips and that disclaimer in the end ... And doing it all his very own way ...
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Talking of Akshay Kumar... ❤️
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MC for the evening: “Gentleman at the back. Did someone tell you that you look like Shah Rukh Khan?”
@iamsrk
: Dimples and salaam
@RedSeaFilm
opening
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Every small, independent film is not necessarily a good film. There, I said it!
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I normally don’t do this but inspired by
@chhabs
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@thesatbir
& how gorgeous
@deepikapadukone
looked at the
#Oscars
I give in to this weak moment & hereby submit my one & only star selfie taken by the lady in question at Nice airport on our way back from
@Festival_Cannes
2022
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Twitter offices getting raided... Meanwhile, on WhatsApp
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So Sushmita Sen suffered a heart attack… I am a hundred times more unfit than her
#JustSaying
… Today I shall have the banana cake & the gujiya & whatever else… What’s the point in abstinence of any kind when “Kal kya hoga kisko pata, Abhi zindagi ka Le lo mazaa”…
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Each time I go to the protests—6th done today—I find myself energised by the sheer creativity on display... Bone tired but on such a high... Students are the best. They have brought out the best in those standing with them...
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Someone on FC Film Club just compared Cillian Murphy to R. Madhvan and Oppenheimer to Rocketry… Good night and sweet dreams…
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Finally watched
#83TheFilm
... For someone who just doesn't feel like watching cricket any more, it worked as a slice of nostalgia and innocence...
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Hand over Bollywood to women for a while. Good bad indifferent, there will be something hatke than the same old ghastly formula that is so patently of the men, by the men and for the men... PS I don’t detest men. Thanks...
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Seemingly packed with the familiar tropes of a filmi love story. But how he subverts them simultaneously! Nagraj Manjule's
#Sairat
GO WATCH
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Watched
#Rocketry
at the market screening at Cannes. “Well-intentioned”, “interesting subject” can’t be the defence for a film so utterly banal and unintentionally funny in signalling its own virtue. Death by boredom.
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Easy for Bollywood to take on Kangana. But not a word against the treadmill who is just as sinister, if not more. But uske saath to projects ban rahe hain na...
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I want English subtitles for *every* film, including *every* English film... I have reached a stage where I can’t watch a film without subtitles ...
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It’s not just about partying hard but doing some work as well. Between
@iamsrk
&
@arrahman
I took time out to speak to
#NadavLapid
for an edit page opinion piece
@NewIndianXpress
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Could all the conspiracy theories now be laid to rest?
Sushant Singh Rajput's Therapist Susan Walker reached out to
@themojo_in
& broke her silence. Says Media's irresponsible coverage on Mental Health dismayed her & made going public her "duty". Says Sushant "suffered from Bipolar Disorder" & "Rhea gave him courage to seek help"
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😀❤️ and I know where this is coming from 😀❤️
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I don’t usually cry in movies. Today I wept copiously in my corner aisle in a documentary
#WhileWeWatched
...
@ravishndtv
and the way Vinay Shukla tells his tale brings out a lot that has been lying pent up in a lot of us!
@TIFF_NET
#TIFF22
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The doctor who was denied a proper burial is a story reported yesterday in print. So many young print reporters and photographers are out there on the frontline day in and day out. A little applause for them also please even if they are bylines without a face...
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Went to watch
#RockyAurRaniKiiPremKahaani
alone in Singapore with a massive lower backache for company. Giggled all the way and laughed out loud at one point to double up in excruciating pain. Understood the meaning of kabhi khushi kabhi gham in a new way!
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Couldn’t resist telling her
@iamsrk
aayega, alongwith Kajol. Her eyes lit up 1000 volts. After waiting skeptically for 10 minutes, when she finally saw him on stage, I found affirmation, an invite home from a new stranger turned friend in a country seen little beyond the festival
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha ... To have a sense of humour in such tough times ... RT to banta hai!
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Is it just me? I want everyone in the West who loves
#NaatuNaatu
to hear
#Zingaat
… And before anyone in India ascribes parochial politics to me, I am not Marathi … This is just the love for our 🎶 and💃 … Unbeatable …
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Oscar is a strategic game. Not how good or bad a film is. And we are yet to learn how to play well...
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Problematic politics & saffron validation aside, have written abt allegations of monopoly. But wondering now if monopoly isn't endemic to stardom itself? Then why are male stars not held accountable for their ruthlessness the way women are? Why is ambition unwelcome in a woman?
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