posting here as well - just posted on bollywood
Hi! I have always loved old Bollywood songs (60s-80s) - I grew up listening to them with my dad and granddad. Heres what I have on my playlist currently (what I could remember they used to play) - looking for some suggestions:

• "Ek Main Aur Ek Tu" - Asha Bhosle - 1972
• "Ae Mere Zohra Jabeen" - Manna Dey - 1965
• "Yaar Bina Chain Kanha Ray" - Bappi Lahiri - 1985 (from the movie Saaheb)
• "Beqara Karke Hamen" - Hemant Kumar - 1962
• "Baar Baar Dekho" - Mohammed Rafi - 1962
• "Kehdoon Tumhen" - Kishore Kumar - 1975 (from the movie Deewaar)
• "Ropp Tera Mastana" - Kishore Kumar - 1973 (from the movie Aradhana)
• "Gulabi Ankhen" - Rafi - 1970
• "O Haseen Zulfonwali" - Asha Bhosle - 1973 (from the movie Teesri Manzil)
• "Badan Pe Sitare" - Mohammed Rafi - 1969
• "Aajkal Tere Mere Pyaar Ke Charche" - Suman Kalyanpur - 1968 (from the movie Brahmachari)
• "Chura Liya Hai Tumne" - Asha Bhosle - 1973 (from the movie Yaadon Ki Baaraat)
• "Piya Tu Ab To Aaja" - Asha Bhosle - 1971 (from the movie Caravan)
• "Yeh Sham Mastani" - Kishore Kumar - 1971 (from the movie Kati Patang)
• "Dil Kya Kare" - Kishore Kumar - 1975 (from the movie Julie)
• "Mehbooba Mehbooba" - RD Burman - 1975 (from the movie Sholay)
• "Taarif Karoon Kya Uski" - Mohammed Rafi - 1968

The vibe is more of retro chill fun songs? Something like these but other decades work as well :)
Appreciate the help! <3

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• She is a trained Odia dancer.
• She was offered the lead role in the 1994 Bollywood film 'Aa Gale Lag Jaa' at the age of 16.
• She often smokes and consumes alcohol.
• Her hobby is dancing.
• Rani Mukherji is the first actor ever to win both the best actress and best-supporting actress trophies in the single year 2005 at the Filmfare.
• She was barely 14 when she appeared in Biyer Phool, a Bengali film, which was by Ram Mukerji, her father.
• The actress then entered Bollywood with her film Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat. That was her first Flop Film,This lead to her being offered the role of Tina in the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”, which took her career upwards.
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Sharmin Segal is receiving an enormous amount of hate on the internet after her role as Alamzeb in the Netflix series Heeramandi. The series is directed by her uncle Sanjay Leela Bhansali and was long overdue. However, after seeing the character of Alamzeb, many people took to the internet, each with their own negative comment about Sharmin Segal, so much so that she had to close all the comments sections of her Instagram posts. Several actors from the series came to her defense, including Taaha Shah and Shruti Sharma. Nevertheless, Sharmin continues to be trolled for her facial expressions, which are always the same according to Internet users, her “weird face, which has undergone too many injections", and her acting, which is considered by many to be lacking. Sanjay Leela Bhansali has also received a great deal of criticism, with many accusing him of wanting to make his niece famous at all costs, and of ruining Heeramandi by giving her the role of Alamzeb.

1. Why nepotism doesn't bother you.

Nepotism only seems to bother people when the parent who gave their child a post isn't a hero or heroine. Many of you have been harassing little Taimur (son of Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan) since he was born. The trendy babies are now Raha Kapoor (daughter of Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor) and the unborn child of Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh. These children (babies or fetuses) are the talk of the town and have been in the spotlight since they were born. What's to say that when they grow up, they don't continue to take advantage of the fame they've already acquired to play big roles just like their parents, thus satisfying the indirect demands of the pulic? You keep asking for the children of so-and-so to appear on screen, but when they do, there's always controversy.
Finally, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, despite his impact and his many successful films, doesn't enjoy hero status or is not respected enough by the general public to offer nepotism to his niece. Why not? Every time he releases a film, he's under fire from critics, threatened with death for Padmaavat, threatened by religious organizations for “goliyon ki rase leela ram leela”, accused of romanticizing prostitution in Gangubai Kathiawadi and Heeramandi. This man is both Bollywood's most beloved director and its most hated. If the public doesn't love him, how can he get them to love anyone else? In 2007, in the movie Saawariya, he tried to cast 2 nepo kids at the same time, Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor, but it was a bitter failure and the director still remembers it to this day, so I don't think it was his intention to give his niece an unfair place. According to Sharmin Segal, he had her audition 17 times for the role of Alamzeb, which she apparently passed. Is she now the right choice for Alamzeb? I don't think so, but all this hatred is definitely undeserved.
What's more, Sanjay Leela Bhansali strives in all his films to bring unknown or forgotten actors to the spotlight (Gulshan devaia, Jim Sarbh, Shantanu Maheshwari, Taaha Shah...), so for me the accusations of nepotism are unfair. Yes, he may have wanted to help his niece's career, just as most of us would.
What's more, Sharmin's career has been struggling since her debut in 2019 and she's only had 2 roles since her debut in Malaal.

1. Sexism

This excessive hatred can only be found towards women. Never have Salman Khan or Saif Ali Khan (who are bad actors and come from nepotism) found themselves under such a wave of hatred; on the contrary, they are applauded for the slightest wink. When they couldn't quote a line to save their lives (we can talk again about how Salman single-handedly ruined Hum dil de chuke sanam). Saif's daughter, Sara Ali Khan, is much more trollable on social media, even though she offers better performances than her father.
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Sharmin also faces criticism about her physique, which has nothing to do with her performance, people have been criticizing her supposedly bad injections, or her posture, or her supposedly unpleasant voice, or her personality and calling her ugly. These comments reflect the real intentions of Internet users, which are not to give constructive criticism, but rather to destroy the actress. Such criticism can only be seen towards young actresses coming ans nepotism is often an excuse (as men nepo kids don't get that much hate).

1. Acting.

Having seen the series in one go, on the day of its release without seeing the reviews, Alamzeb struck me as rather melancholy, withdrawn and shy. She didn't react much to traumatic events in her life because she was afraid of her mother MallikaJaan. I didn't see the problem in her acting, which to me made sense as a whole (not just taken out of context). Sharmin was trolled for her non-reaction to her lover's death in the series, which was certainly disappointing, but it was reminiscent of the scene in the film “ram-leela” where Deepika has her finger cut off and walks slowly until she collapses. And that's the problem for me.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali tried make Sharmin act the way he directed Deepika Padukone. For example, Deepika's acting in Padmaavat is very similar to Sharmin's in Heeramandi. Very stoic in all situations, not overly expressive, reserved and calm. In Padmaavat, when the queen learns of her husband's death, a single tear rolls down her cheek and nothing more, but you can feel all the sadness of the character because Deepika's eyes are more expressive and she's a much more experienced actress. Padmaavat's role was hard to take on, and that's Sanjay's mistake, trying to reproduce it with a different, novice actress.
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In the film atithi bhooto bhava we can see that her performance isn't at all the same as in her role as Alamzeb, where she seems more comfortable and her lines more natural, so it's not a problem of skill but of direction (she'd probably be more at ease in comedy).
Now people have the right not to like a performance or a character but nothing justifies bullying the person acting it.

as we know that In northern part of our country the food is semi variable for even upper middle class people, like rice and roti/chapati/Indian flat bread remains constant only thing that changes is what we eat with it, I dont have much Idea about southern but I assume rice has a very big role. but still I think what do very rich people (>100 cr) eat like bollywood stars, Ambanis, cricketers, Jindals from people who are first in their generation to be rich, to people with generational wealth.
(like do they also eat roti- with lauki/bhindi ki sabji or daal chawal.......yaa fir something which my middle class mind is not even considering)

Watched it yesterday and it is one of the best romanctic movies bollywood has made in recent times.
The chemistry between both actors was too good. Literally you will relate to many scenes and feel good.
The story and storytelling both were the plus points of thr film. The narration by ayushmann is absolutely perfect.
Bindu uss dun ki tarah h woh dun jo app ek bar sun lo toh Sali zindagi bar app ka picha na chodegi. Songs (hareyaa and mana ke hum yaar nhi) are just like the above sentence. Songs were top notch. The makers also used old songs in some parts of the scenes that enchane that particular scene.
I felt this movie is kind of underrated and needs to be appreciate. If you are looking for nice rom-com then this is a go for you.

I watched Bareilly ki barfi today I know I am late but It is one of the best rom com I have ever seen . It connects with you and made you emotional specially with ayushman khurana you can feel what he feels . His is acting is so brilliant you get sad when the character is sad you are happy when the character is happy ayushman did a very good job but the main highlight of the movie pritam vidhrohi . Rajkumar Rao nailed the character his transformation is epic , his swag his attitude made him badass and when he and chirag became enemy of each other it is fun to watch you get angry at pritam but when you think from his side he started thinking he is right . Kriti sanon is okayish neither good nor bad but one the best performances of her career according to the characters she played definitely better than sifra and mimi both are very overhyped as per my opinion . Performances of Side characters are very good. The accent of every character is on point but I feel kriti's accent can be better. The story is so good and narration by Javed akhtar is cherry on top . The Music is good and the run time is perfect it neither bored you nor feeled rushed . Movie is well paced . Overall Bareilly ki barfi is one the best rom com of Bollywood and it is definitely a worth watching . Rajkumar Rao is the main highlight of the movie , ayushman khurana's performance is to good . Kriti sanon's best performance according to me after watching majority of his movies and ya the movie made you feel emotional and ending made you happy

A bit random but why do we under-appreciate our own works? Actor in Law was such a good movie, I thought keh har frame pe kaam hua tha and felt purely Pakistani not a bollywood rip off (What I like about Nabeel-Fiza duo). Could watch and enjoy it mutiple times. Punjab Nahi Jaungi, JPNAs, Load Wedding, recently again Quaid e Azam Zindabad. I thoroughly enjoyed QAZ and that concept of Quaid e Azam disappearing from the notes was pretty indigenous I think. Wo plane wala scene over hoga but all movies do this so why not us. Plus original Paki humour tha (shehad ki bottlein). I personally stopped watching Indian movies or listening to Indian songs (v rarely) when I grew old enough because I was like apna kyun nahi hai kuch? Second reason being keh jo inko paisa milega tax se Indian govt ke pas jayega which they'll use in occupied Kashmir (too far-fetched?) Apni movies se references kyun nai dete? Apni identity nahi hai? I have always loved the Pakistani Indie Music scene and knew many now popular singers pehle se which are recognised by Indians as well. Now after the bollywood ban people have started listening to more Pakistani songs I think. Ghulam qoum hi rahe hein kabhi Saudi Arab, kabhi Turkey ko idealize karna aur India ko hate karke bhi unki cheezein dekhna. Looking forward to Neelofar, Aan, Umro Ayyar, Glassworker and more Pakistani movies.

31 May (Fri) Update: Everything in till 6th Jun, see post comments for sun-thu list.

24 May, Fri - truncated

• Ricky Montgomery for BLOCK A ft hongjoin, Pasir Panjang Power Station, $95
• DJ, ESPLANADE: SG Lewis ft Luke Alessi (DJ Set) pres by Collective Minds, Esplanade Annexe Studio, $88
• Piano Recital by Dang Thai Son (VN 🇻🇳), Victoria Concert Hall, $25
• Ballet: SWAN LAKE by Saint Petersburg National Ballet Theatre - day 1 of 2, the theatre @ mediacorp, $88
• SG Chinese Cultural Center / C-Pop : TGIF Music Station x YES 933, - ft Wong Jinglun 黄靖伦、Tay Kexin 郑可心、Ranen Hum 范平泽、Psquare 四方行及 Yuhua Secondary 裕华中学的学生, SCCC Concourse @ 1 Straits Blvd, Ground floor, free
• Emo Pop-Punk: Grey & Enamore (ID 🇮🇩) ft Line Drive & Late Culture, new venue,$20
• Indie Hardcore Punk Short Notice Hardcore #1 - Righting Wrong (ID🇮🇩), Jahil7, Inkorruptibles, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $20
• Pianoland Westgate: Pianist Sueli Tang ft Czarina Oswald-Lim (young elsa in Frozen the Musical Broadway) - Grand Opening 11am-130pm, Westgate Level 2 Atrium, free
• Jazz Loft: SWING JOURNAL (crossover jazz with asian flavours), Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln, $24
• Maduro Jazz: Swing & Latin Jazz by Daniela Ruggieri Trio (IT 🇮🇹), maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
  
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• DJ Rave: ♫꒰･‿･๑꒱ LIVE LAUGH LOVE RIOT ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ - adultsdoharddance x hyperfocus x subplotsystems - ft BULMA (FES 🇫🇷🇪🇪), Tikkoii (ID🇮🇩), Shielhiel (MY 🇲🇾), Turbo Boyfriend, High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place, $48
  
• DJ, BTGD: GrooveTop - RAAJ, Dee & Ya5th - underground dance to funk, Behind The Green Door SG - Cocktail Bar & Club @ 97 Duxton Road, $30
  
• DJ, ARK11: TCHUNO (MY 🇲🇾future house & techno) , Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
  
• DJ, HQ: Thugshop Presents - EMILY JEANNE (BE🇧🇪, broken beat, bass, techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36
  
• DJ, Tuff: ØGravity x Soul Collective Presents - SABO (US 🇺🇸 tribal organic house) ft Krio, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $42
   
  

25 May, Sat - Africa Day, truncated

• Esplanade: Virtuose de la harp - Xavier de Maistre (FR 🇫🇷) pres. by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• SG Composers x TENG Ensemble 20th anniversary - The Singaporean Composers Series 起承转合 Day 1 of 2 - ft George Leong, Dr Kelly Tang, Chok Kerong, Evanturetime, Nathanael Koh, Bang Wenfu & more, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd, $28
• Singapore Chinese Orchestra: SCO Goes to VivoCity, VivoCity (harbourfront), $4
• Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir : The Poetry of Song, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• ONE Chamber Choir: 7byONE: vis-à-vis, The Arts House, $34
• The Random Clarinet Ensemble: Emotive Reverie, 10 Raeburn Park, B1, $15
• Maduro Jazz: An Antonio Carlos Jobim Evening (bossa nova icon) by Weixiang Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Blu Jaz: Hiro Maekawa Quartet, Blu Jaz @ bali ln, bar
• Pianoland Grand Opening: Likie Low - EDM & Chinese Erhu ft Mandopop busker Jeff Ng, Westgate Atrium Level 2, free
• Funk Soul Blues Fest @ Tampines Hub: Every Little Thing - ft Indigo, Babes Conde & Friends, Nick Zavior, Solid State + Varsha, hosted by Najip Ali, Our Tampines Hub, free
   
  
• Indie Post-Rock Fest: Disrupt.Co pres: THE GATHERING - feat. A BURIAL AT SEA (IE 🇮🇪), Tranquil, 7nightsatsea, Sun Eater, Amateur Takes Control, Monda(e), Paint the Sky RED, Kaji, SCAPE Orchard Ground Theatre, $45
  
• Metal Gig: 20 Years of Deus Ex Machina (prog death 🇸🇬) - ft Metal Gunz (heavy metal), Where The Dead Gather (deathcore, groove), RESERATE (metalcore), Heremod (blackened death), Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $32
  
• Hiphop Rnb Live + DJ Afterparty, VIBENIGHTS Volume III - SG 🇸🇬: Opus Renegade, acapslim, Mex Jr. LEFTMIND MY 🇲🇾: Hao You, Blckywacky, Zimmy E, Rezaray - DJs: Zazzles, Sirkid, Shane2Sweet, DeeJay XG, Element Studio 12 Ann Siang Rd, $20
  
• Synth Electronic Open Jam: Synth Commune Singapore at Tanglin, Tanglin Community Club, B1, @ 245 Whitley Rd, free
  
• Indie Ska Folk Surf Rock: Blush Hotel - We Want The World And We Want It Now - ft Banana Foster, Rici Bell, 1-800-Wicked, $10
   
  
• DJ, Art Exhibition Opening and Mini Rave: Kaleidoscope x The Night Ascent: Exhibition Reception - DJ Lexi (hyperpop set), Guest DJ Bodhi, DJ Ah Lian Jiejie , Lucky Hall @ 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace L2 , free
  
• Public Art Jam & DJ Set: ARTLETICS - A Celebration of Youth and Urban Culture - Day 1 of 2 - DJ Set by Day 1 by Intriguant, Day 2 Set by Kiat, Somerset Skate Park, free
  
• DJ, Dubrunner (UK 🇬🇧 Breaks, UK bass) pres by North East Social Club , tuff club @ 138 robinson rd, $43
  
• DJ, Behind the Green Door SG KONFLICT - Antares & Auric (deep melodic-progressive) ft James Selva, 97 Duxton Road, $37
  
• DJ, Fate by Have Fun: CORAZÓN (Reggaeton, Guaracha and Party Anthems) pres by Pulse SG, asian style club @ orchard cineleisure L8, $20
  
• DJ HQ: RADIO SLAVE (DE 🇩🇪 house & techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36
   
  

26 May, Sun - truncated

• Indie Rock Fundraiser Fest: ROCK FOR NOAH’S ARK 2024 - Subsonic Eye, Pleasantry, Suneater, Woes, Krunkle, CARACAL, animal shelter, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks, $38
• Victoria Concert Hall OPEN HOUSE by SSO

 

27-29 May, Mon to Wed truncated for word limit :/

 

30 May, Thu

• Jooyoung 김주영 2024 World Tour, Esplanade Annexe Studio, $98
• Classical: Highly Strung - by re:Sound Collective - Yang Shuxiang leads re:Sound in Pēteris Vasks second violin concerto, “Distant Light”, Victoria Concert Hall, $28
• NLB: Eugena Kwong in Recital (classical pianist) - Debussy, Liszt and Schubert, National Library Lobby (bugis), free
• Esplanade: oolfs & friends (soul pop to rock, singer-songwriter), Indoor Concourse, free
• Mad & Midas RNB Night with Jukuleles, cocktail bar @ 39 ann siang hill (maxwell)
• Candlelight: Candlelight: A Tribute to Rihanna - by VOX string quartet, CHIJMES hall (city hall), $58
  • Candlelight: A Tribute to Coldplay on Strings - by VOX string quartet, CHIJMES, left $100
• Simply Jazz: Rhapsody in Gershwin - Jazz & Chamber - Gatsby theme night, simply jazz bar @ CHIJMES, B1, batable
• Blu Jaz Cafe: Skunk Jive And Guest Jam Session (blues), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis) free
• RGS Angklung & Kulintang Ensemble: Concert Nebula, Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), free

 

• DJ, Behind the Green Door SG PRAV & LI.A - Sips & Dips (amapiano, hiphop, rnb, baile funk, breaks, house), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25
• DJ: Offtrack Kaleidoscope: Bongomann — Offtrack Singapore, 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
• ==Tuckshop Drag Bar: DIVA 80's Music ft DJ Clammr, 51 Neil Road (maxwell), 🏳️‍🌈 lgbt drag bar-club==
• DJ, Cocktail Restrobar: JURA Sunset Sessions ft GLHF's MiggyT and Kasho.by Hazel's Guestist, Mr Chow's Aviary @ 9 Duxton Hill (maxwel)
• DJ, MOONSTONE Bar Secret Pals (PH SG collective) - House, Disco & Funk to Garage, Baile Funk & Amapiano, Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/ bar
• DJ, HighHouse: Not your Classic Whisky Night w DJ Zushan , High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), free

Other Events

• Till 9 Jun Musical: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, marina bay sands, $80
• 30 May - 2 Jun: Theatre PEOPLE by Wild Rice (Rating : R18), Wild Rice at Funan Mall (city hall), $35
• 17 May - 2 Jun: Theatre Festival: SIFA Singapore International Festival of Arts
• 31 May - 23 Jun : i Light Singapore by URA (outdoor light display art around marina bay)
  • Food, Market, Music: Gastrobeats 2024, Bayfront Event Space at Marina Bay Sands, free
  • Performers rotation: 53a, Ctrl Chaos, Sopes, Jasper Parulan, Curry The Basil, Shirlyn & The Unexpected, Jumpstart, Tabula, Syltra Band, Nation One, Little Band Plus, Gaston Liew
• 31 May (Fri), 1 Jun: Momentum Dance Festival Showcase 2024: Bhumi, The Republic Cultural Centre (Woodlands North), $11
• 31 May: COMEDY NIGHT AT THE PROJECTOR - Prem John & Shawn Chua, the projector golden mile tower, $20
• 31 May: Objectifs Photography Closing: Talk - The Yearning for Harmony by Ryhan M.Y., info
• 31 May: Drag Movie: Bugis Street - The 90s SG Drag Movie Screening, Projector X Cineleisure Orchard
• 1 Jun (Sat): Chinese Comedy: 张骏 Zhang Jun, Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade, $58
• 2 Jun (Sun): LIONS HOME FUN(D) DRIVE 2024 AT THE SINGAPORE FLYER , Singapore Flyer (promenade mrt), free
• 6-28 Jun: Baby Queen - Singapore's 1st ever Feature Film about Drag & Live Drag Show afters, the projector golden mile tower, $33
• 6 Jun (Thu): Queer Comedy: SIAO CHAR BORS GO NKD! , Bar NKD @ 95 Club St , $19
• THE DEVIL'S PLAY - a dine-in theatre experience (PG13), Thursdays, 30 May - 20 Jun , Semma Bistro, 60 Springside Walk (springleaf) ,$50
• CHINESE THEATRE FEST Family Ed.
  • 19 May - 9 Jun: 《玩：泡泡菜！》Play With: Pickles!, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $42
  • 26 May, 2 Jun: 《玩：小手拉大手》Play With: The More We Move Together!, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $42
  • 1-9 Jun: 《早餐家族来咯：儿歌说故事！》Here Comes the Breakfast Kakis: Imagine Our Songs!, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $34
• 3-6 June: Comedy - TREVOR NOAH: OFF THE RECORD TOUR, , The Star Theatre, The Star Performing Arts Centre,$108

 

31 May, Fri - i Light SG till 23 Jun - city night light installations

• 柯泯薰 - Misi Ke (TW 🇹🇼 folk-pop ), At Livehouse @ 10 Square (Orchard Central Mall L10, Somerset MRT), $88
• Death Metal Gig: Buried Alive, Volume 4 - ft Intestine Baalism (JP 🇯🇵), Reputdeath (MY 🇲🇾), Darah and Ursala, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), tix 🎟 $35
• SCO: Chamber Charms: Night of Plucked-Strings 室内乐系列：弹拨乐之夜 (G), Singapore Chinese Orchestra at Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way ,$30
• Tutti! by VENTUS Wind & Band Academy Singapore (BAS), SOTA Concert Hall (bencoolen/dhoby), $25
• Jonathan Weigle Cello Masterclass & Concert - ft Fiore String Quartet, 10 Raeburn Park B1 (near old tg pagar railway station), $15
• NLB Woodlands: Emmanuel Symphony Orchestra's Open Rehearsal - Classical Notes meet Contemporary Films, Woodlands Regional Library - Auditorium, free
• Jazz & wine - Natasha Oong, Lobby Lounge of Intercontinental hotel, 80 middle rd (bugis), $38
• Manadala Club: Friday Night Live ft Dita Jacob (soulful powerhosue vocalist), member's club @ 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, outram
• Cool Cats Jazz: Nita and Dian 🇮🇩 presents Ladies of Jazz - Day 2 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Simply Jazz: Myra V & Trumpet Z, simply jazz club @ CHIJMES B1 (city hall)
• Jazz Loft: Pablo Calzado Quartet, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• ==Maduro Jazz: Summer Prelude - A Tropical Duo Soirée by Rachma & Richard Jackson , maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits==
• Gastrobeats at Bayfront Event Space bs Marina Bay Sands: In Conjunction with i Light, till 23 Jun, Main IG 📸, Today's Featured Performer - 53A, free
  • Side Festival: Rock & Paws Festival @ Gastrobeats - pet-friendly market place & music, same area,
  • Performers rotation: 53a, Ctrl Chaos, Sopes, Jasper Parulan, Curry The Basil, Shirlyn & The Unexpected, Jumpstart, Tabula, Syltra Band, NationOne, Little Band Plus, Gaston Liew
• Alt Rock to Skate Punk Gig: It’s Gonna Be A Long Nite Vol 5 - ft Iman's League pre Japan-Korea Tour Gig, Uranophobia, 83 Inc, Sugar, Razmy of Kranky Doodle, rad studio 345, $10 doors

 

• SIFA - Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024
• Multi-disciplinary: REFUGE by The Observatory (the SG experimental prog band collective) - day 1 of 2, SOTA Studio Theatre (bencoolen/dhoby ghaut), $48
• Theatre: The Prose and the Passion by Haresh Sharma & Chong Tze Chien (SG) - Day 1 of 3, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow Day 1 of 2 - showcase of theatre companies in Singapore, at Stamford Arts Centre 155 Waterloo St (bugis), all free but $20 refundable deposit
  • Centre 42: Social Distancing Ambassadors by Zulfadli Rashid, still open
  • Teater Ekamatra: Territori by Nabilah Said, full
  • The Theatre Practice: Performing The Director’s Notes: All The World’s A Sea, full
  • Singapore Theatre Company: Myles: The Perfect Soulmate, full
• ESPLANADE: Experimental Beach Opera - Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė (LT 🇱🇹) - Day 2 of 3, Esplanade Theatre, $68 SRO

 

• ESPLANADE - Flipside: Circus Comedy, Physical Theatre, Puppetry till 9 jun
• ES Music: Lorong Boys - Flippin’ It Up! - local fusion, classical, jazz, Indoor Concourse, 730pm 9pm,free
  • ES Roving Theatre: Big Mob by Bedlam Oz - 1 of 3, Roaming Around Esplanade, 630~ 830pm free
• ES Circus Show!: Convergence by Bornfire Circus - 1 of 3, Outdoor Theatre, 7pm 930pm free
• ES Aerial Acrobatics: Aerial Open Stage by Various Artists, Outdoor Theatre, 815pm, free
• ES Comic Object Theatre: Stars in Our Eyes – A Double Bill by Compagnie Bakélite (FR🇫🇷) - day 1 of 3, Recital Studio, 8pm $38

 

• Others
• Open Mic: SG Singersongwriters Band Jam, The Upper Room Restaurant & Cafe - 115 King George's Avenue, IG 📸
• French Theatre: The Theatre Ensemble fait son show - 1 of 2, Alliance Française de Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road (newton mrt), $48
• Dunman High School Symphonic Band: Rhythm XXXIII, Dunman High Performing Arts Centre, $10
• Open Mic Night @ Marymount CC) - feat phfew (alt rock)

 

• Party Zone
• DJ, .WAV(Y) Remixed pres. LOVE SIX (AT 🇦🇹 Dancehall, Hiphop, Baile Funk, Afro, RnB) with PRAV, XG & KNRCK, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, tix 🎟 $22
• DJ, Secret Pals pres. Arthur Tan (PH-NYC 🇵🇭🇺🇸 emergent club scenes - from indie house to ukg, baile), the projector golden mile tower, tix 🎟, $20
• DJ, Culture X WhoHurtYou❓ pres. Homecoming Part 1 ft My Chemical Romance tribute (emo pop-punk night), Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, $31
• DJ, New Nakhra : Bollywood vs Kollywood, Magic Carpet Bollywood Lounge @ 7500E Beach Rd (opp. Haji Ln), $30
• DJ, Spades: Royal Flush (Hiphop, Pop, R&B, EDM) - DJ Belle & Ryson, Sector 26 Club - 5 Koek Road @ Cuppage Plaza B1 (somerset MRT), IG 📸 $32
• DJ, Club Hell: EDM in Hell, 🏳️‍🌈 gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st
• DJ, Foreplay - Bottoms Up, 🏳️‍🌈 gay event, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $38
• DJ, Noa Lounge: URBAN GLAM @ NOA LOUNGE with party social (hip hop, rnb and top 40s), Noa by Olivia - Lounge & Restaurant @ 83 Neil Rd (maxwell)
• DJ, Here Kitty Kitty Bar: FRESH Fridays - 00s Hip Hop, R&B, Reggaeton, Cocktail Bar at The Cannery @ Clarke Quay, L2
• DJ, Offtrack: Nez Senja (Soul, House and Bass), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
• DJ, Potato Head: Seng Wei (house & disco), 36 Keong Saik Rd, bistro bar
• DJ, Kult Yard DJ Chunk & Nassau, 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace (chinatown) arts enclave, courtyard bar
• ==DJ, No Sleep Club: Vinyl Only - DJ Zai (hiphop funk soul), cocktail bar @ 20 Keong Saik Rd==
• DJ, Vertigo 26: DJ KiDG of eatmepoptart (indie dance), music listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn 🏖: Kate & Kidd Royale - ft Spruce on Sax, Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa)
• DJ, High House: MinGs & ANDRE MARC (melodic house & techno), Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place, $38

 

• Club Events
• DJ, Kings of Bass presents DJ MARKY (BR 🇧🇷 liquid drum n bass sometimes disco), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (tpi building), IG 📸 $40
• DJ, BTGD: One with Aldrin, ft Erwin Linden (deep prog house n techno to indie dance), Behind the Green Door SG bar club @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25
• DJ, Highh Club: Highh BPM ft Joshua Dillon (Hard Techno), at Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), $20
• Club Nights
  • DJ, Marquee: Hypersonic w DJ Fvder - dark techno, hard style and rave, nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $20
  • DJ, Zouk: 100% Bulletproof Hiphop night + phuture & capital lounge, the famous sg club, clarke quay, from $35
  • DJ, Ce La Vi, Elevate with Godwin P & Lenoard T, marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, $38
  • DJ, Cherry: Pop Your Cherry (edm), 133 cecil st (cbd)
  • DJ, Spotlight: Rave Singapore New Asian style hybrid nightclub, Gr.ID Mall at 1 Selegie Rd, B1 (bencoolen, dhoby)
  • DJ, Fate by Havefun: Bubble Fridays, asian style nightclub @ orchard cineleisure L8, $20
  • DJ, ARK 11: Entity Nights - DJs hanif, limmy, nicole (Hiphop, Pop and EDM), Nightclub @ Orchard Central Mall L11
  • DJ, Drip Club: Chambers (modern hiphop dj crew), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, tix 🎟
    • Other room is hosting an event from the party section
• DJ, ØGravity x Thugshop pres. - 19:26 (IT 🇮🇹 melodic techno), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36
• DJ, Unmute x Thugshop pres. - OCCA ( JP 🇯🇵 hypnotic driving techno) & VAIBS, headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay,IG 📸 $36

01 Jun, Sat

• Tarcy Su 苏慧伦 (TW 🇹🇼 Mandopop & dreamy pop rock) - Flower of Life《生命之花》
• Rockestra® Concert in the Park : Club Mild (aka M1ldlife aka TakeTwo) , Owen Li (of The Island Voices), Shazza and SuperSonic, mix of indie, pop and rock, Fort Canning Green (Fort Canning Park - near Dhoby Ghaut side), free
• ==Opera at GBTB: Roses and Ballads: A Symphony of Blossoms in Singapore - ft six distinguished opera artists from Türkiye 🇹🇷 - day 1 of 2, Gardens by the Bay - Flower Field Hall, enter free==
• SG CPOP: 北緯⼀度° 1 Degree Off - ft Yokez 葉玉欞, Zadon 炸蛋, Ben Hum 范平庚, Ruth Kueo 魏妙如, aliwal arts centre (nicoll hwy), IG 📸 $30
• Mega Punk Gig: This is Friendship Forever - Opposition Party, Swindle, Class Sinners, Rejected Scum, Putrid Scum etc - Total 18 Bands too many to list, Lulian Pit (south-east), advised $40 to support
• Chill Indie Gig: Noru + Pleasantry , ask the bands, starts at 2pm, pay as you wish
• Indie Electronic Gig: SAMPLE THIS! Live ft MingZXC, Genesis Keefer, Monozerra, TOMO Blu, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), tix 🎟 is a google form in IG bio here $20
• Maduro Jazz Lounge: The Magic of Cinema by Chee-Hang See - solo piano night, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Cool Cats Jazz: Nita and Dian 🇮🇩 presents Ladies of Jazz - Day 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Blu Jaz: Ernesto Castillo Quartet (CU 🇨🇺 guitarists' band), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), free/bar
• NLB Woodlands: Emmanuel Symphony Orchestra - Classical Notes meet Contemporary Films, Woodlands Regional Library - Auditorium, free
• SSO at ESPLANADE: Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Emperor Concerto and Symphonie Fantastique (beethoven, berlioz, koh) , ft Paul Lewis, comd Pierre Bleuse, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• Fusion: Disappearing Series...: Childhood Melodies of Yesteryears “消逝中...”：古早童谣叮当响 by Ding Yi Music Company, Contemporary Classical Music w Chinese, Malay, Indian sg folk songs, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $28
• The Singapore Youth Choir: SYC & Friends: 60 Years Young ft Wayfarer Sinfonietta - arvo pärt, whitacre, grases, Victoria Concert Hall, IG 📸 $27

 

• Gastrobeats i Light till 23 jun, at Bayfront Event Space @ Marina Bay Sands, main IG 📸, Today's Featured Performer: Curry The Basil (pop-punk hard rock), pet friendly, **free
• Blues Jam: Nineteen Eighty Studios' Strait Up Blues, 361 Joo Chiat Road L3, $20 with drinks
• Acoustic Reggae with Reggae Remedy (& ska, rocksteady), Alegria Restaurant & Bar latin asian fusion, at 18 Teck Lim Rd (maxwell)
• Musical Theatre Improv Les Musicables - Behind-the-Scenes: An Improvised Movie Musical Experience, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), IG 📸 $25
• Dungeons & Dragons Gig?: TableMinis - D&D 50th Anniversary ft Those who Harp - Day 1 of 2, TableMinis at 10 Arumugam Rd L8 (macpherson mrt), free walk in
• Fundraiser Gig: The Horizon Foundation: Concert Violet - students for underprivileged - ft Thaarmin and more bands & singers, 8 Bulim Ave (lakeside, free shuttle bus from jurong east mrt), from $11
• Fundraiser Gig: Bonds That Overcome - RainbowAsia's Fundraising Gala 2024, 🏳️‍🌈 Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, 6-9pm, from $35
• A Capella meetup: Vocal Village presents... ACA Meet 6, Voices of Singapore @ Capitol Theatre B1 (city hall), $5
• Muddy Murphys Bar: Girls Like Mystery - britpop, indie and more ft Cronkite Satellite, Irish Pub at 442 Orchard rd, Claymore Connect (orchard mrt)
• ==Shawyard Bar: Ska Reggae Soul with Singapore Soul - Ska-turday Nights, 20 shaw rd (taiseng)==

 

• SIFA: Singapore International Festival of Arts
• Multi-disciplinary: REFUGE by The Observatory (SG experimental prog band collective) - day 2 of 2, SOTA Studio Theatre (bencoolen/dhoby), $48
• Theatre: The Prose and the Passion by Haresh Sharma & Chong Tze Chien (SG) - Day 2 of 3, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow Day 2 of 2 - showcase of theatre companies in Singapore, all at Stamford Arts Centre 155 Waterloo St (bugis), all free but $20 refundable deposit)
  • Centre 42: Headline Acts: Tomorrow’s News, open
  • Centre 42: Social Distancing Ambassadors by Zulfadli Rashid, open
  • Teater Ekamatra: Territori by Nabilah Said, full
  • The Theatre Practice: Performing The Director’s Notes: All The World’s A Sea, full
  • Singapore Theatre Company: Myles: The Perfect Soulmate, full
• ESPLANADE: Experimental Beach Opera - Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė (LT 🇱🇹) - Day 3 of 3, Esplanade Theatre, $68 SRO

 

• ESPLANADE: Flipside - Circus, Comedy, Puppetry
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Emperor Concerto & Symphonie Fantastique, above, $15
• ES Music: SG's Top Debut - Preetipls and Shak'thiya, also on Mon, Indoor Concourse, 730pm 9pm, free
• ES Comic Object Theatre: Stars in Our Eyes – A Double Bill by Compagnie Bakélite (FR🇫🇷) - day 1 of 3, Recital Studio, 2pm, 7pm, $38
• ES Mime and Object Play: Ta Lent Show Theatre (TH🇹🇭) - Day 1 of 2, Indoor Concourse, 2pm 5pm, free
• ES Clown Show!: Who’s Our Next Clown? by Creatives Inspirit - Day 1 of 2, Indoor Concourse, 330pm, free
• ES Circus Show! : Convergence by Bornfire Circus - Day 2 of 3, Outdoor Theatre, 7pm 930pm, free
• ES Aerial Acrobatics: Aerial Open Stage - Day 2 of 3, Outdoor Theatre, 815pm, free
• free
  • ES Public Booth Crafts: Boing! Twist, Twirl & Turn (Craft Activity) by 7 dots and dashes, Indoor Concourse, free
  • ES Roving Theatre: Big Mob by Bedlam Oz - 1 of 3, Roaming Around Esplanade, 630~830pm free
  • ES Circus Easy Workshop: Introduction to the Rola Bola by Bornfire Circus, Rehearsal Studio, 11am, $18
• ES: Chinese comic: 张骏 Zhang Jun, $58

 

• SINGAIAL - The Brazilian Country Festival, Hollandse Club @ 22 Camden Park (botanic gardens), $28
• French Theatre: The Theatre Ensemble fait son show - 2 of 2, At Alliance Française de Singapour 1 Sarkies Road (newton), $48
• Market and DJ, DJ collective ♥ kopi cats ♥ - art sale the Meowket i, The Black Sheep Cafe (French Bistro) @ 18 norris rd (little india, jalan besar)
   
  
• Party Zone
  
• DJ, Cosmic City x WARPP showcase - BONDAREV (RU 🇷🇺), Aman Anand, mikki, Sandro, Himmat, RPDM, Matt H, Watch Her Bern - deep, hypnotic dreamy to dark and progressive, @ Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, from 2pm, IG 📸 $32
  
  • DJ, Africa Parties SG - Feel Africa: MADARAKA ft DJ Gillou & DJ SWTLKR , Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, from 1030pm, $20
• DJ, Loco Parties - CIVIL WAR - Kendrick Lamar vs Drake (hiphop goes without saying), Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L6, $25
  
  • DJ, One Night In Seoul (KPOP night) by UNfilteredPresents, Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5 , tix 🎟 $24
• DJ, Moonstone: EATMEPOPTART's The Kids Are Alright - unapologetic pop night - DJs YA5TH & Fantastic Dinosaur, BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/table reservations
  
• DJ, Blu Jaz: AFRO LATINA - salsa, reggaeton, afrobeat, and more - DJs DaBishopOnDMixx, RV, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis) L2, $15
  
• DJ, iki: Latino Anthem by Get Real - Reggaeton Latin Music All Night - DJs Jag, Naddz, Ollie Des, Wai, MC Hadi & Audi, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), tix 🎟 $25
  
• DJ, Expat 101 - Motown Night in the City, , The Exchange Bar @ Asia Square Tower 1 (shenton way, downtown), $37
  
• DJ, Brown Roast - Vibe Pandrom (Kollywood, indian) ft. Adithya RK & DJ Gowtham, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard) 1030pm, $48
  
  • 🏳️‍🌈 Drag Party, Riot! Space, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard) 8pm, $15
• 🏳️‍🌈 DJ, Two Queens Asia - best of the 2000’s - Stay Gold with DJ Zack C, Bar NKD @ 95 club st (maxwell)
  
• 🏳️‍🌈 Party, HAUSWERK: All Tied Up - Temüjin 陳劭恆 Terry Tan on vox, DJ Thomas, ESTR, kink performance, Salud 19 Keong Saik Road (maxwell/outram), $25
  
• 🏳️‍🌈DJ, Unleash Circuit Bar: Unhinged ft Rai’s Playhouse (HK 🇭🇰) kink performance, Neil Conversion - Gay Bar @ 43 Neil Rd (maxwell), from $30
  
• 🏳️‍🌈 DJ, Pool 🏖 BYOT Bring Your Own Trunks - DJs DNLD, Poi, Akitokunt, Thomas & Drag, At W Singapore - Sentosa Cove, 21 Ocean Way, left $40
  
• DJ, Kult Yard Pulau ft DJs Gonzo & Malek, 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace (chinatown) arts enclave, courtyard b ar till 11pm
  
• Restaurant Party: Lucha Loco's Dusk Till Dawn - Tarantino-inspired fiesta - ft Drag and Beats by DJ Jaz, Lucha Loco @ 15 Duxton Hill (maxwell)
  
• DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann + Jas (leftfield house and breaks) , 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar restaurant
  
• ==DJ, No Sleep Club: Vinyl Only - DJ Chris of Wild Pearl (funk soul disco), cocktail bar @ 20 Keong Saik Rd==
  
• DJ, Potato Head PH10: Jason Soong (Nokal, Manila 🇵🇭) + David Jacob, 36 Keong Saik Rd, bistro bar
  
• DJ, Sand Bar ThePartyman and DJ Jason T, Sand Bar 🏖 @ 53 Siloso Beach Walk, Sentosa
  
• DJ, High House: Fred E & XTVA (trance & melodic techno), High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
  
• DJ, Rumours Beach Club 🏖: RUSSH pres Secret Pals & Arthur Tan (PH 🇵🇭)- Funk rhythms to groovy Disco, house amapiano, Rumours Beach Club 🏖 @ 40 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa
  

 

• Club Events
• DJ, Marquee: W&W (NL 🇳🇱, edm), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $40
• DJ, BTGD: The Souq - ft ORGANICS (Arab + Indian + Organic Ethnic), Himmat, TIM Engelhardt (DE 🇩🇪 house n techno) - A Silk Road Spice Box Symmetry, Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $32
• DJ, Drip: INQUISITIVE (SG oriental hard dance rave icon), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $27
• DJ, ARK 11: DJ TPA (KR 🇰🇷 edm), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $20 with drinks
• DJ, Sigma Entertainment pres. Bounce - DJ Axeo, DJ Kelibre and Snickaz, Crazy Horse at Oxley Tower CBD (og bar-club orchard towers), 138 Robinson Rd L4, $25
• DJ, Club Rich: DJ Hande, Alekto, Hyde, MC Marcz, southeast asian club @ 114 middle rd (bugis)
• DJ, HQ: Thugshop pres. SHINEDOE (NL-NG 🇳🇱 🇳🇬 house n techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36
• DJ, MISS HOMO: PRIDE - HAAi (AU 🇦🇺), RAUMTESTER (DE -RU 🇩🇪) Candice B, LoyBoy, , MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd, tpi building), 🏳️‍🌈 house n techno queer rave eventbrite link from $22
   
  

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Idk bhai mera pehla post hai idhar, mai jee 2024 ka aspirant tha, 11th class me bahut achha padhta tha, like literally 13 hours a day and i was like top scorer among my coaching institute, i have always been a topper. 10th me boards me 98 aaye the, yeh toh chalo bahuto ke aate hain, but mai thora ch*tia sa hu, meri ek bahut badi weakness hai and thats 'Dating'. i mean ik how fucked up it sounds but thats the truth, I have had a lot of relationships (mostly failures) and shayad meri choices itni fcked up hai ki mai humesha cheaters and players ko hi date karta hu, problem toh hai yeh ki bc mai bahut zyada hi serious ho jata hu, mujhe ek actor, director yeh sab banna hai, meri maa bhi ek actress hi hain, not that well renowned in public but in Bollywood she is one of those choices UK. mere parents ne mujhe ek choice di thi in 10th ki mai 2 saal drop leke jo karna chahu who karu and if i fail then i will have to do whatever they ask me to (abbe autocorrect band kaise hota hai), and i was super into that plan as i am pretty sure of my talent. but USS samay I was in a relationship with a girl who was not at all good in studies and not at all into thinking about her future UK, and hence I was like if in future I have to make a family with her I need to have a job cuz the success rate in this field is less, so I chose jee cuz of her, while my 10th boards, I knew she was cheating on me cuz of all the possible reasons, I even saw her with "that guy" in the pool a bit way too close and wearing way too weird clothes, I was like nah be lets be modern, he might be a friend, but due to this stress I was way too out of my mind and couldn't even study properly, tab bhi I got 98, the day I left that place for coaching UK jee ki, she broke up with me via "that dude" ofc heartbroken and shit, I promised myself I wont come into any relationships any sooner, I started studying way too nice, 11th me I used to get top ranks in my coaching and I was like their star student, but to my fcked up self, I came into another relationship, this one went for over an year and I got cheated by her twice, she left me 5 times and came back crying everytime asking for chance, and haa sahi samjha, mai thora behen ka l*da hu, I gave her chances everytime, pyaar me andha that an, my whole 12th got ruined cuz of her and this shit relationship I was in, and due to that in my first attempt I got only 92 percentile, mai padh paa hi nahi raha that cuz of stress and all, ukw, she left me for the 6th (and I promise the last time) on 22nd feb, date sounds similar? well our boards started that day (I was however in Maharashtra board so mine started a day before) ofc, a blind lover got his heart broken, I couldn't study, like literally I studied nothing, I couldn't sleep either, forget about it, while sitting in the exam room, I used to blank out for hours and then somehow I used to write my papers. if this wasn't enough, 9th march, my parents they started having huge fights within themselves (they were the best romantic couple I ever knew) abb being a middle class kid, I never spoke up until I broke down and I started shouting at them, believe me or not, my parents were so out of their minds, I had to step up between them, I had to spend whole day and sometimes even whole night to make things better (nothing worked out back then, rn things have stabilised, I single-handedly managed the whole house and stopped their divorce as I didn't want my younger brother to suffer this divorced environment) but because of these shits, I couldn't study a lot for even my mains second attempt, I somehow started studying 3-4 days before my shift and managed to get a 94.4 percentile, I just passed the cut off and was happy cuz now I had chance to crack jee advanced, and go to an IIT, I started studying right away after my shift (5th april) 4 days before allen (my coaching institute) they conducted a mock and I secured more than 200 marks in that, ikr I can get a rank under 500 and I was so confident and happy, until 21st may, my boards result dropped, I got 73.6 percent in that, I got disheartened and called my dad, he was like let me figure something out, I knew about the 20 percentile criteria, so I waited anxiously till today for the marks determined by the boards for UK 20 %ile, unfortunately it is 75.6 percent, and i missed my 75 percent criteria by just 7 marks, i have jee advanced 3 days later, my mind is so fcked rn, i cant concentrate, today was my bitsat, i was so depressed i slept in that exam (i never slept in any of the mocks either whether i was doing good or bad). i don't wanna take a drop at all, like at all, but idk what to do either, i want to cry like hell but my tears dried up cuz of that beach(my ex), i feel so worthless and helpless, literally i can do anything to just get 7 marks increased but idk what to do. bruh i just checked i wrote a lot, will anyone even read it? :') I'm sorry if u felt i wasted ur time in making u read this shit, but i just had to open up(i still don't feel good). idk what to do y'all. i want to s*icide, but i wont cuz i want to be world's most famous person, and i ain't dying before seeing myself receiving an oscar. but rn idk what to do...

Idk bhai mera pehla post hai idhar, mai jee 2024 ka aspirant tha, 11th class me bahut achha padhta tha, like literally 13 hours a day and i was like top scorer among my coaching institute, i have always been a topper. 10th me boards me 98 aaye the, yeh toh chalo bahuto ke aate hain, but mai thora ch*tia sa hu, meri ek bahut badi weakness hai and thats 'Dating'. i mean ik how fucked up it sounds but thats the truth, I have had a lot of relationships (mostly failures) and shayad meri choices itni fcked up hai ki mai humesha cheaters and players ko hi date karta hu, problem toh hai yeh ki bc mai bahut zyada hi serious ho jata hu, mujhe ek actor, director yeh sab banna hai, meri maa bhi ek actress hi hain, not that well renowned in public but in Bollywood she is one of those choices UK. mere parents ne mujhe ek choice di thi in 10th ki mai 2 saal drop leke jo karna chahu who karu and if i fail then i will have to do whatever they ask me to (abbe autocorrect band kaise hota hai), and i was super into that plan as i am pretty sure of my talent. but USS samay I was in a relationship with a girl who was not at all good in studies and not at all into thinking about her future UK, and hence I was like if in future I have to make a family with her I need to have a job cuz the success rate in this field is less, so I chose jee cuz of her, while my 10th boards, I knew she was cheating on me cuz of all the possible reasons, I even saw her with "that guy" in the pool a bit way too close and wearing way too weird clothes, I was like nah be lets be modern, he might be a friend, but due to this stress I was way too out of my mind and couldn't even study properly, tab bhi I got 98, the day I left that place for coaching UK jee ki, she broke up with me via "that dude" ofc heartbroken and shit, I promised myself I wont come into any relationships any sooner, I started studying way too nice, 11th me I used to get top ranks in my coaching and I was like their star student, but to my fcked up self, I came into another relationship, this one went for over an year and I got cheated by her twice, she left me 5 times and came back crying everytime asking for chance, and haa sahi samjha, mai thora behen ka l*da hu, I gave her chances everytime, pyaar me andha that an, my whole 12th got ruined cuz of her and this shit relationship I was in, and due to that in my first attempt I got only 92 percentile, mai padh paa hi nahi raha that cuz of stress and all, ukw, she left me for the 6th (and I promise the last time) on 22nd feb, date sounds similar? well our boards started that day (I was however in Maharashtra board so mine started a day before) ofc, a blind lover got his heart broken, I couldn't study, like literally I studied nothing, I couldn't sleep either, forget about it, while sitting in the exam room, I used to blank out for hours and then somehow I used to write my papers. if this wasn't enough, 9th march, my parents they started having huge fights within themselves (they were the best romantic couple I ever knew) abb being a middle class kid, I never spoke up until I broke down and I started shouting at them, believe me or not, my parents were so out of their minds, I had to step up between them, I had to spend whole day and sometimes even whole night to make things better (nothing worked out back then, rn things have stabilised, I single-handedly managed the whole house and stopped their divorce as I didn't want my younger brother to suffer this divorced environment) but because of these shits, I couldn't study a lot for even my mains second attempt, I somehow started studying 3-4 days before my shift and managed to get a 94.4 percentile, I just passed the cut off and was happy cuz now I had chance to crack jee advanced, and go to an IIT, I started studying right away after my shift (5th april) 4 days before allen (my coaching institute) they conducted a mock and I secured more than 200 marks in that, ikr I can get a rank under 500 and I was so confident and happy, until 21st may, my boards result dropped, I got 73.6 percent in that, I got disheartened and called my dad, he was like let me figure something out, I knew about the 20 percentile criteria, so I waited anxiously till today for the marks determined by the boards for UK 20 %ile, unfortunately it is 75.6 percent, and i missed my 75 percent criteria by just 7 marks, i have jee advanced 3 days later, my mind is so fcked rn, i cant concentrate, today was my bitsat, i was so depressed i slept in that exam (i never slept in any of the mocks either whether i was doing good or bad). i don't wanna take a drop at all, like at all, but idk what to do either, i want to cry like hell but my tears dried up cuz of that beach(my ex), i feel so worthless and helpless, literally i can do anything to just get 7 marks increased but idk what to do. bruh i just checked i wrote a lot, will anyone even read it? :') I'm sorry if u felt i wasted ur time in making u read this shit, but i just had to open up(i still don't feel good). idk what to do y'all. i want to s*icide, but i wont cuz i want to be world's most famous person, and i ain't dying before seeing myself receiving an oscar. but rn idk what to do...

Idk bhai mera pehla post hai idhar, mai jee 2024 ka aspirant tha, 11th class me bahut achha padhta tha, like literally 13 hours a day and i was like top scorer among my coaching institute, i have always been a topper. 10th me boards me 98 aaye the, yeh toh chalo bahuto ke aate hain, but mai thora chutia sa hu, meri ek bahut badi weakness hai and thats 'Dating'. i mean ik how fucked up it sounds but thats the truth, I have had a lot of relationships (mostly failures) and shayad meri choices itni fucked up hai ki mai humesha cheaters and players ko hi date karta hu, problem toh hai yeh ki bc mai bahut zyada hi serious ho jata hu, mujhe ek actor, director yeh sab banna hai, meri maa bhi ek actress hi hain, not that well renowned in public but in Bollywood she is one of those choices UK. mere parents ne mujhe ek choice di thi in 10th ki mai 2 saal drop leke jo karna chahu who karu and if i fail then i will have to do whatever they ask me to (abbe autocorrect band kaise hota hai), and i was super into that plan as i am pretty sure of my talent. but USS samay I was in a relationship with a girl who was not at all good in studies and not at all into thinking about her future UK, and hence I was like if in future I have to make a family with her I need to have a job cuz the success rate in this field is less, so I chose jee cuz of her, while my 10th boards, I knew she was cheating on me cuz of all the possible reasons, I even saw her with "that guy" in the pool a bit way too close and wearing way too weird clothes, I was like nah be lets be modern, he might be a friend, but due to this stress I was way too out of my mind and couldn't even study properly, tab bhi I got 98, the day I left that place for coaching UK jee ki, she broke up with me via "that dude" ofc heartbroken and shit, I promised myself I wont come into any relationships any sooner, I started studying way too nice, 11th me I used to get top ranks in my coaching and I was like their star student, but to my fucked up self, I came into another relationship, this one went for over an year and I got cheated by her twice, she left me 5 times and came back crying everytime asking for chance, and haa sahi samjha, mai thora behen ka l*da hu, I gave her chances everytime, pyaar me andha that an, my whole 12th got ruined cuz of her and this shit relationship I was in, and due to that in my first attempt I got only 92 percentile, mai padh paa hi nahi raha that cuz of stress and all, ukw, she left me for the 6th (and I promise the last time) on 22nd feb, date sounds similar? well our boards started that day (I was however in Maharashtra board so mine started a day before) ofc, a blind lover got his heart broken, I couldn't study, like literally I studied nothing, I couldn't sleep either, forget about it, while sitting in the exam room, I used to blank out for hours and then somehow I used to write my papers. if this wasn't enough, 9th march, my parents they started having huge fights within themselves (they were the best romantic couple I ever knew) abb being a middle class kid, I never spoke up until I broke down and I started shouting at them, believe me or not, my parents were so out of their minds, I had to step up between them, I had to spend whole day and sometimes even whole night to make things better (nothing worked out back then, rn things have stabilised, I single-handedly managed the whole house and stopped their divorce as I didn't want my younger brother to suffer this divorced environment) but because of these shits, I couldn't study a lot for even my mains second attempt, I somehow started studying 3-4 days before my shift and managed to get a 94.4 percentile, I just passed the cut off and was happy cuz now I had chance to crack jee advanced, and go to an IIT, I started studying right away after my shift (5th april) 4 days before allen (my coaching institute) they conducted a mock and I secured more than 200 marks in that, ikr I can get a rank under 500 and I was so confident and happy, until 21st may, my boards result dropped, I got 73.6 percent in that, I got disheartened and called my dad, he was like let me figure something out, I knew about the 20 percentile criteria, so I waited anxiously till today for the marks determined by the boards for UK 20 %ile, unfortunately it is 75.6 percent, and i missed my 75 percent criteria by just 7 marks, i have jee advanced 3 days later, my mind is so fucked rn, i cant concentrate, today was my bitsat, i was so depressed i slept in that exam (i never slept in any of the mocks either whether i was doing good or bad). i don't wanna take a drop at all, like at all, but idk what to do either, i want to cry like hell but my tears dried up cuz of that bitch(my ex), i feel so worthless and helpless, literally i can do anything to just get 7 marks increased but idk what to do. bruh i just checked i wrote a lot, will anyone even read it? :') I'm sorry if u felt i wasted ur time in making u read this shit, but i just had to open up(i still don't feel good). idk what to do y'all. i want to s*icide, but i wont cuz i want to be world's most famous person, and i ain't dying before seeing myself receiving an oscar. but rn idk what to do...

Hello dosto, thoda zyada ho jayega please bare with me. I was watching the college bunk arc sometime ago and towards the end of episode 1855 i felt like throwing up and I’ll tell you WHY. So the arc starts with Tapu sena being sincere about studies and going to college, everybody praises them for being the good principled people. Chalo yaha tak sab normal hi tha. Uske baad Bhide je inhe mall mein ghumte dekh liya and gave a reaction that any parent will. He called everyone in the society compound to tell them about what Tapu sena did. When he called Jetha is where the shit starts. After attending his call, Jetha called Mehta and his legit excuse to take Mehta along with him to the society was that he was STRESSED about what tamasha Bhide’s gonna do!!! Bhai usko chhutti lene bol diya boss se bas isliye?? Isn’t he a grown up man who can deal with his own issues??? Mehta jis hisaab se office se zyada society ke chochlo me rehta hai isko wahi kalesh solve karne ki naukri kar leni chahiye, zyada paise milenge.😑
Character development was the worst portrayed in this arc!! I don’t understand wtf is wrong with Mehta in this arc? Saare bachcho ke parents ko unhe publicly humiliate karne ka idea deke khud ko chad samajh raha tha.😮‍💨 I do not understand as to how it was a society matter? Bhai sab involved the. It was the most impractical shit Mehta has ever came up with. I know it’s just a show but thoda realistic ho sakta tha. That’s what the aim of TMKOC was- to be something audience can relate to. It could’ve involved character development and practicality. No one in the world is ever going to accept such public humiliation. If it had happened with me, I would’ve smacked in the face of the person who came up with this thought. It’s a traumatic experience. When Bhide went on to stage to invite Mehta to speak, Anjali was so proud in that moment. Lady, wtf are you proud of? Your husband leaving his real paying job to solve society ke kalesh and giving competition to Champak in gyan chudai? Aur bhai ye kaisa boss hai jo itne irresponsible employee ko kaam se nahi nikalta?🤧
Nobody even gave a second thought of speaking to their kids in private. I know it doesn’t make sense in TMKOC world but this arc was far beyond stupidity.

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In March, I got a chance to work with filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali right after he made Gangubai Kathiawadi, and Alia Bhatt, playing the titular character in the film, retweeted me.
The headline (in my head) was going to be, ‘The Boy From Kamathipura Goes To Bhansali Mandi.’
Then reality struck in April.
One of my closest friends Sweta called me from the Shivapuri National Park near Kathmandu and put me on speaker. Two other friends Mona and Ayush were listening to the WhatsApp call.
‘How’s it going with Bhansu?’ Sweta asked.
‘We are not working together anymore,’ I said.
‘Whaaaaaaaat?’ the three people shrieked, creating a wavy disturbance in audio frequency.
‘Whyyyyy?’ they cried, collectively anguished.
‘He said he is not feeling the vibes.’
‘What?’
‘Vibes,’ I said aloud, causing a seismic tremor in the audio frequency.
‘What vibes?’ Sweta jibed, ‘Maybe he can’t feel the vibrator.’
Laughter upped the vibes.
First, a little context on how I got that far. Check this, this, this & this.
So my tweets were going viral in February-March.
In the second week of March, a woman DM’d me saying she loves the tweets. I said thank you. She said she works at Bhansali Productions.
Whoopsie Daisy!
I asked if I could be a part of the production. She checked with SLB and team. He said he wants to meet now.
NOW!
How?
I was in Calcutta.
I called an actor friend in Bombay and told him about it.
“They will book your tickets and put you up in 5-star,” he said, “Like Hollywood.”
“This is Bhansaliwood,” I said, “Yahan dhanda hamesha manda hai.”
I flew (on my own expense) and met him.
I was ‘prepared’ by his team for the meeting with His High and Mightiness.
I was told:

Arre, then what do I say?
I sashayed in a brown kurta and white linen trousers. Please see Madhuri Dixit-Nene’s brown ghagra for aesthetic reference I used from my very limited wardrobe of the only kurta I had at the time. By the way, the chorus sings ‘Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje,’ aesthetically referencing you know what, right?
He was lunching with his minions (strictly calling them minions from his pov) when I arrived in his pristine white dining hall in a building called Magnum Opus. Where else should he reside, no? Both his house, and his office (where I was ‘prepared’ earlier) were tastefully done in creamy white.
It was, as I said to my friend later, like walking into a cumulus cloud, or like sitting on his favourite singer Lata Mangeshkar’s lap. Calm, serene and quite surreal. I was inside his snow globe. Violins from a Bach concerto (in my head) were replaced with say Madan Mohan’s doleful rendition of ‘Mai ri main ka se kahoon peedh apne jiya ki.’ (Side effect of writing this on Mother’s Day.)
I look for books when I enter a house for signs of intelligent life. There were lots of lamps and candelabras but where were the stacks of books they were perched on? The aesthetic was high on film set disposable kitsch. I stared into a cumulative void.
The minions were intensely debating Darjeeling momos. What’s that? I spent my childhood there. Never heard of this GI tag!
SLB relished his meal and said, “I want puranpoli today.”
Puranpoli appeared not out of thin air, but a house-help flipping wishes instantly on a griddle on the fifth floor. We were on the first floor. Although the puranpoli is shaped like a flying saucer, it doesn’t fly, perhaps burdened by the weight of excess ghee and crowd-pleasing expectation. It does, however, reach SLB’s plate at the speed of light.
‘Give him some,’ he asked a minion to serve me while I waited on the sofa.
‘I’ve had lunch, thank you,’ I said, trying to behave. The plate arrived. I took a mousy bite to exhibit my failing attempt to transform into a champion minion.
When he came to chat, he noticed the unfinished food and gently reminded me how there were days he went hungry. I should have rolled my eyes for my own lean days.
‘One should not waste food,’ he said.
‘I don’t,’ I said, ‘I was going to parcel it home in a doggy bag.’
Hearing the word doggy, his well-behaved dog came over to inspect me.
He observed me. I petted her perfunctorily. Am a cat person. Stereotypical writer stuff — allergic to undesired petting and attention.
‘So, what have you done?’ he asked, sitting on a sort of empire-style bergere chair. Full marks for faux-ornate.
‘A novel, some writing for a series,’ I said nervously, dismissively.
‘Anything I might have seen?’ he asked.
‘No, not worthwhile.’
‘Are you interested in direction also?’
‘No, am not delusional.’
A moment passed. I might have displayed an errant repartee.
‘I mean, I can only write, or am trying to,’ I said. L’esprit de l’escalier.
He gave me a spiel on writing, how screenplay is an art not many understand, etc, et cetera.
I nodded to make his voice disappear.
‘What are you writing now?’
I showed him the cover of my new book, The Last Courtesan, featuring my mother, on my phone.
‘Oh, this is so fascinating,’ he said.
He spoke rapturously about Calcutta’s great food and colonial architecture when I mentioned growing up in Bowbazar kothas. If you watch any of his interviews now on YouTube you will realise he only speaks in raptures. He’s always explaining things like an impassioned conductor at a dime-store opera. It can exhaust the boorish audience immediately. He spoke about living in the Kamathipura area as a child when I said I had lived there. The mythmaker was interested in exoticising his own legend as an ‘outsider’.
‘But how will you work here if your mother is in Calcutta?’ he said, ‘I am a maa-ka-bhakt.’
Everything is about him or his mother. I have reached that stage too, though only by circumstances unavoidable.
‘Actually it was my mother who asked me to come here. I told her it would only work out if you understand that I will have to vacillate between the two cities initially. Jaise Sanjay ki Leela hai, waise meri Rekha.’
Corny dialogue, but worked. No one calls him by his first name, except perhaps his own mother. He is sir for everyone.
‘If I am speaking to you for so long means I like you,’ he said. ‘Otherwise, I would have asked you to leave long ago.’
Barely five minutes into the conversation, he asked me to return to his office and inform his team that I was going to be a part of his writer’s room.
I went back to his office and read a script. This is the part I cannot mention. His legal team sits in the adjacent room.
I flew to Calcutta and was to return after a week. I had to make arrangements for my mother’s tri-weekly dialysis sessions at a nearby hospital, figure out a tiffin-delivery service for her, find a house help (she sent four nurses scurrying in the past), all of which is a bit of a task in this retrograde city.
Remember the woman who had DM’d me about my tweets? She messaged. She had met SLB after my meeting. He said this about me: ‘What a wonderful find. That boy has so much potential and is talented. Most importantly, he is sensitive.’
I told her I’d get this engraved on my tombstone.
Like how he wants to take Alia Bhatt’s golchakkar in Dholida to his grave.
“It’s a shot that I will take to my grave. If there’s any shot that I want to be played when I breathe my last, it would be Alia doing that shot. It is the best thing I have seen an actor do in a very long, long time.”
I was only emulating the high priest of hyperbole in my tombstone comment. Perhaps I was regressing into a minion.
I had only managed a few tasks for mother when I was back in Bombay. It worried me that the old, frail woman with shaky limbs and slurred speech was trying to be brave to send me to work. I hadn’t worked since the pandemic; she was in and out of hospitals so frequently that I had surrendered the thought of getting another job ever again. Taking care of her was my full-time job.
The first day in his office was to chill in my new, aesthetically pleasing kurta I had shopped for in Gariahat. There was a security camera in every corner that was apparently accessible on his phone. My skin tingled with this information. Chilled. He was at home. Probably watching. That’s a great way to create a myth.
The next day, there were more minions on the lunch table in his first floor apartment. The magically appearing steamy and fragrant sheera was delicious. A minion deemed it the best sheera in the city. I nodded to make that statement evaporate.
A courier boy interrupted for a document signature. SLB flared at a spelling mistake in the document papers.
‘Go wash your face and come back,’ he yelled at the young man.
The minions at the table laughed nervously. I so wished I was wearing a mask to cover my surprise emoji face.
The minions on the table were writers and assistant directors.
‘Dastavez,’ SLB said, ‘would that be correct to use?’
‘Kaaghzaat,’ the minion replied.
‘Kaaghzaat is paper, dastavez is document,’ said the second minion.
‘You always mislead me,’ SLB sternly reprimanded the first minion. ‘Don’t ever do that again.’
Only that minion tried to laugh, offering an apology. He shut the minion down.
My mask, my mask emoji face.
A third minion was sulking in a corner before I arrived for the writing session. This minion had reportedly offered a script suggestion, which he disliked and barked down. I liked this minion the most. Relatable.
A faint noise of a person running or perhaps just a rumbling sound from somewhere outside interrupted the room. He looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘No one lives there. Am certain it is a ghost. I hear running sounds all the time. I have heard sounds of furniture being dragged.’
I wondered if he actually believed in half the things he uttered, or was he just saying it to create enigma about himself. Mythical thoughts certainly kept him preoccupied.
Reality bored him. SLB had nothing good to say about the ‘current plague’ of South Indian films upsetting the Bollywood cartel. He compared them to a circus. He wasn’t kind to the actors he had worked with in his last film. He cracked lame jokes about everyone and everything. The minions laughed and kept him busy. I chuckled a few times to blend in. The mythmaker revelled in his prophesies about the impending doom of charlatans with no aesthetics: just crass, commercial peddlers pimping art. It was all said to amuse and bemuse while he fussed over the yellow shade of fabric from several swatches.
When he left for his music session, the minions bitched him out, and how! All the horror stories I had heard over the years about his moods, behaviour, language and violent temper were true. How else will he create myth about himself as a maestro? The Glomar response. Let the plebs indulge in hearsay. I will neither confirm nor deny. The minions sang effigy songs in happy tunes, if I may stretch this part a bit like his penchant for high camp.
That night, when I went to my actor friend’s house, where I was temporarily staying, I said to him, ‘I don’t think I will last a week there.’
I was rattled by how he spoke to the courier boy and the minions, with no filter. Well, at least it was clear he had no tact, endearing as that might be of a ‘genius’ if one compromises with his erratic behaviour. The CEO of his company does it beautifully and advises to develop a ‘thick hide’ around him. Cows, essentially.
Verve
The words genius, great, master, maverick, were so loosely bandied by his office staff even in his absence that I was tempted to add auteur, if they could spell or pronounce it. They worked in perpetual fear of him turning up at any hour and checking on their tidiness. A minion whined she wasn’t dressed appropriately for his surprise visit. Once, he even cut pay for unscheduled leave, said another minion. A minion narrated a shot he copied from a photographer in Gangubai Kathiawadi. Another minion recounted how he made her cry on shoot by screaming at her for a silly mistake. Minions couldn’t leave the office till his evenings were scheduled. It was a well-paying job so long as they did not have to see ‘chacha’s’ face and only applaud his cinematic sorcery.
His office team would assign me desk-work and warn me not to inform him about it.
‘What am I supposed to say if he asks?’
‘Make up something,’ I was told.
‘Why should I?’
‘You will slowly understand,’ I was told.
His team of assistants would sneak around me. I didn’t know who was reporting what back to him. He would interrogate the management team. They would lash out at me for informing the assistants. The management wanted to control me a certain way because ‘sir’ does not need to know everything. It was quite a guessing game. He had created an ecosystem of complete chaos and loved the hubbub. New people were hired for him to use the ‘new energy’ to rekindle the ‘old energy’ that needed to be reminded it could be snuffed out and replaced. He thrived on confusion because it all boiled down to him to sort out the mess. He was the provider so long as the minions ingratiated and served their grand master.
One time he called me upstairs, what his CEO called the god’s chamber aka the Shahenshah’s durbar: his office on the seventh floor. Walls were lined with giant posters of his films. We minions sat on the fifth floor. I was of course by now a week old in the toady mill. On the seventh floor, production team members, set designer, director assistant, young people sat on the floor, armed with notebooks and laptops, alert and sugar-tongued. He sat on a throne and dictated each one about their duty. A masseur massaged his leg. He asked me what I thought of a script. I said it was lovely. He asked me to elaborate. I said I liked a character’s resolve. He denied it was written. I said that’s my interpretation. A minion promptly backed me.
‘What changes do you suggest?’ he asked.
‘We should sit on it collectively and decide,’ I said.
He mumbled something. My suggestion was dismissed. I was dismissed. I bowed out. A minion whispered to me, ‘We all walk on eggshells around him.’ I had to be a chicken in a coop I suppose.
Another time he dismissed my suggestion for a scene saying, ‘That’s not how art is made.’ I had referenced a scene from Bandit Queen to illustrate my point. Just like his entire oeuvre is homage to a classic. How else does he make his art?
Allow me to illustrate with a frame from his first film Khamoshi: The Musical. The second image is from Pakeezah.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam references Red Beard, Woh 7 Din.
Devdas references Pakeezah more than once.
Black references The Miracle Worker.
Saawariya references Pyaasa, Awaara.
Guzaarish references Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela references Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
Bajirao Mastani references Mughal-E-Azam.
Padmaavat references Mirch Masala.
Gangubai Kathiawadi, let’s give him the benefit of doubt is all his own, original artistry.
The American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch once meta quoted the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard when he said:
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.”
SLB believes he takes art and betters it, removing the grubby coat of slime from the sublime, often not concerned with acknowledging the source. He is a master’s master, elevating it to an otherworldly experience, the creator of a mythoverse.
He asked me to rewrite a scene I didn’t agree with. He banged the script folders on the table like a petulant, little child. I watched his posture change into a frump. Tiger Shroff’s ‘Bacchi ho kya,’ dialogue comes to mind.
‘You are talking like those critics who find fault but don’t know how to write. They should write the film,’ he said.
That argument will never make sense to me but since I write movies now and not just about them, I rewrote the scene in half an hour and showed it to him. He found it rubbish.
I was not called to the writer’s room for a week.
His CEO said I should go to his house; hang around him, like the other assistants whose only purpose in life is to feed his ego. We are slaves to his vision, she said. She thought I was a better writer than the team he had assembled. ‘From whatever I read, only three lines of your work on social media, I could sense it,’ she said.
Either she was encouraging, or bluffing with a perfectly Zen face. From the hundreds of Ganesh idols stacked in her room, it was clear she wasn’t a reader. She was good at reading numbers, data, and stats. She would sense a sign if one of the metal idols sucked milk from a spoon on the day she enquired about box –office figures.
There was more than one right-wing hardliner in his office. Secular staff was invisible. A pretty minion in baby pink t-shirt, whose main grouse was that another minion called him a Barbie doll, said he was happy with the Modi government building roads in his home state Bihar. Another minion countered him by asking: What about the persecution of minorities by the same government? The pretty minion said he didn’t care for that. He was assisting ‘sir’ because he wanted to be an actor. Which lead me to wonder how many Muslim actors has this production worked with? Silly of me to think, right? Given that I myself don’t use my Muslim surname. I’ve now successfully planted a myth in your head. That’s how it works.
In the time that I was in Versova during my brief stint at Bhansali Productions, I met several people with their own SLB horror story. A producer said, ‘He is a difficult man but life changes for good after you work with him. Some people want to go through hell first. Life bann jaati hai.’ I didn’t understand why purgatory was necessary. Another former assistant said, ‘When you work with the worst (SLB) and the best (KJO), you are ready for the rest.’
A young woman gave him a thesis she wrote on his films. He asked her to write a book on her. She said she wanted to assist as a director. She never heard from him. A filmmaker said SLB was too friendly with another assistant, suggesting intimacy. A writer wasn’t given credit in a film.
Another writer was promised his script will be turned into a film but it never took off and now he feels his life has been ruined. A young filmmaker’s debut movie SLB produced was delayed, not promoted, and called ‘kachra’ to his face.
The young man said SLB is sexist, homophobe, classist, fat shamer, emotional abuser, and a body shamer. “He is a joyless pit of darkness where happiness goes to die. And those are the nicest words I can think of to describe him,” he said. Another filmmaker said a choreographer was in a relationship with SLB and wanted to marry him but he wouldn’t even touch her, a hotly discussed conversation amongst his minions.
Everything sounds hokum. A successful man is likely to upset a few. The few will talk. Their words may ring true through a gossamer veil of implausibility. Myths magnifying his persona.
There are too many myths about his personal life, aroused by his silence on the subject but all too obvious in his work. When people want to confirm with me, I am equally appalled at their lack of aesthetics. Like the great reader of curtains, Edgar Allan Poe, you only have to look at SLB’s use of billowy curtains in films to guess.

Above stanza, courtesy Poe, poem: The Raven.
Hope you get the drift, or draft, hawa ka jhonka! By the way, am digressing now, is the weirdly named character Sameer Rosselline in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam the first mainstream Hindi film hero to pass wind? The ruffled curtains are first to be cautioned though.
Unlike most people willing to swallow their pride to work with SLB, few like the eponymous Gangubai character choose izzat. The house-help employed in my actor friend’s house was asked to work as a cook in his house. When she heard the whimsy, dessert-craving demands, she declined the offer. I identify with her no-nonsense style.
In November 2021, a filmmaker read a film script I wrote and said, ‘This is SLB territory. Only he can make it. It is the modern love-story he has been wanting to make for a long time.’
‘Are you sure?’ I asked, somewhat flattered but also bewildered.
‘Yes, we just have to change the setting from Calcutta-Bombay to Calcutta-New York. It is what he has been trying to crack. I’ll get him to read it.’
I never spoke to SLB about my script. I did not want to look like a schemer. I had only got a chance because of my mother’s story. I had come to write courtesan songs. Hindi films are recognised by their songs. His films have show tunes that live on long after the sequins and mirrors reflect a decadent style. He employs the old-fashioned method of making Hindi films, which is to stitch scenes around a song, not the other way round. And when you glean your references from the best of classical melodies, how can you falter?
My own SLB story is that after watching Saawariya in 2007, I wrote a few songs, moved to Bombay, lived in Versova, close to Magnum Opus, and hoped to meet him, but made no effort even though I came in close contact with people who worked directly with him. I never requested for a meeting. Over the years, I too had heard a few horror stories about him. I only believe in what I see. I waited when he would call for me, my work would have to speak for itself.
A day before Good Friday, his CEO sat me down and said it’s not working out.
There’s a mythical story of how Lata Mangeshkar was on her way to record a song for SLB but the heavens poured and she had to turn her car back. A typical SLB frame of hope and hopelessness.
Never work with your idols. You’ll have a better story to imagine and create myths.
I was so relieved to leave. I hadn’t got a moment to read, or write, let alone think since I got here. Why I wanted to work with SLB was to not believe in hearsay. I will either confirm or deny.
‘Great,’ I said, ‘everyone deserves an off on Good Friday.’
The office was unsure about public holidays. SLB’s mood dictated the calendar.
Before returning to Calcutta, I met a friend entrenched in the film business.
When she heard of the fiasco, she said, ‘I’ve heard he is very anal, is he?’
The vibrator jokes never stop.

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