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when mohsin naqvi said,

"kabhi ye dua ke wo mera hai faqat mera // kabhi ye darr ke wo mujhse juda to nahin

Sometimes I pray that he is mine, only mine // Ever out of fear that he might separate from me

kabhi ye dua ke usse mil jaaye saare jahan ki khushiyaan // kabhi ye khauf ke wo khush mere bina to nahin

Someday I pray that all the happiness of the world should be found with him // Sometimes this fear that he is happy without me

kabhi ye khwaish ke zamana ho muntazir uska //kabhi ye vehem ke wo kisi se mila to nahin

Someday this desire that the world is waiting for him // Sometimes this illusion that he had met anyone

kabhi ye aarzu ke wo jo maange mil jaaye usse mohsin // kabhi ye waswasa ke usne mere siwa kuch manga to nahin"

Sometimes I wish he get whatever he asked for // Ever wondered whether he asked for anything other than me.

my heart couldn't decide what it wants.

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Little girl stands tall, a beacon of hope for her small village

#cinematography #photography #filmmaking #filmschool #photographysouls #photojournalism #india #traveling #inspiring beauty #school #documentary #documentinglife

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लौटना जैसे बिजली कहीं गिरी 

और शोर कहीं और हुआ 

कहीं दूर से कहीं दूर तक 

कि ज़रूरत नहीं थी ऐसे आने की

लेकिन अचानक मिलना उमड़ पड़ा 

तो रहा नहीं गया

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Jain statues from 800AD

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Can you give sone Desi Dark Academia Movie recommendations?

student of the year by karan johar

The Shakespeare Trilogy (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj): three adaptations of Shakespearean tragedies, comprising maqbool (2003, macbeth set in the mumbai underworld), omkara (2006, othello set in rural uttar pradesh), and haider (2014, hamlet set in insurgency kashmir, my personal fave of the three). excellent casting, trademark bhardwaj gloomy atmospheric aesthetics and osts. also tabu.

Fitoor (2016, dir. Abhishek Kapoor): gorgeous adaptation of dickens' great expectations against the backdrop of pre-insurgency kashmir. follows young, artistically gifted noor who is hired to work in the mansion of infamous reclusive heiress begum hazrat, and ends up infatuated with her lovely, icy daughter firdaus. purely visual delight. everything and everybody in the movie is beautiful. The ost makes me weep.

Kai Po Che (2013, dir. Abhishek Kapoor): chetan bhagat sucks but this movie is wonderful, made me ugly cry. set in early 2000s gujarat, it's a story about three brilliant friends and their joint venture to open a sports academy. a story of strange friendships and the hunger to learn, a story of soaring kites and burning cities and how communal violence can destroy the most precious and fragile relationships.

Aligarh (2011, dir. Hansal Mehta) based on the irl story of a Marathi professor at Aligarh University who was sacked from his position following "immoral conduct". not an easy watch, but it's a good, sincere movie, that doesn't bank on woke propaganda and shows the truth of homophobia and the invasion of privacy in indian society.

Udaan (2010, dir. Vikramaditya Motwane) a young boy nurtures his poetic talent in secrecy from his dumpster of a father. this movie really reminded me of the first half of the kite runner as well as the room on the roof. the mc is proof that you can make a DA lead who is not dumb/an elitist asshat/both.

Raanjhanaa (2013, dir. A. L. Rai): this is a super polarizing movie depending on how you contextualise it. Idk I love it and I'm putting it on this list because Sonam Kapoor's character in this film is pure desi DA vibes and I like that it had JNU and student politics as a major setting. I love abhay deol. ar rahman's ost keeps me from spiralling on bad days.

Jaatishwar (2014, dir. Srijit Mukherji): oh man, this film. basically a gujarati postcolonial scholar takes on a project to impress his bengali gf, and in his journey meets a mysterious man in a Chandannagar library. jumps between two timelines- present day kolkata and 19th century bengal. lots of musing on bengali folk music and culture. can't give out too much but WATCH IT. YOU WILL CRY.

Sonar Kella (1974, dir. Satyajit Ray): desi DA without Ray?! this iconic bengali masterpiece is the first of the Feluda series (the literary character created by Ray himself) and follows the converging paths of a detective and his brother, a thriller writer, a psychiatrist, and a globe trotter when all of them are led by a strange little boy through the fort cities and buried pasts of West Rajasthan. Equal parts funny and thrilling.

36 Chowringhee Lane (1981, dir. Aparna Sen) if you like the stories of Jhumpa lahiri, you'll love this film! It's a bittersweet tale of an Anglo Indian teacher in post independence india and how the tedium of her life is relieved by the sudden appearance of her former student. There's a lot of shakespeare centric academia in this gem of a movie (Sen's debut!).

Baishe Srabon (2011, dir. Srijit Mukherji): a serial killer prowls kolkata, leaving behind each time couplets by famous Bengali authors, and each time the style of death coincides with some phrase in the poems, kinda like And Then There Were None. Twisted and disturbing, put the dark in DA, look up content warning. By same guy who made Jaatishwar! Also that ost goes HARD.

I hope you find something to your liking from here. Also I believe @gaaaandaaaalf made a rec list, you might want to check that out. And btw: taare zameen par IS NOT dark academia.

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मैंने रातें जो काटी थी तनहा अकेले,

उन्ही रातों ने मुझको सुर्ख़-रू कर दिया ।

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Talism-e-yaar ye pehlu nikal leta hai,

Ke patharon se bhi khushboo nikal leta hai

Hai belihazz kuch aisa k aankh lagte hi woh sir ke neeche se baju nikal leta hai..

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रोऊं क्यों मैं आखिर उसके मुझको छोड़ जाने पर, 

एक शेर फिर से कह दूंगा तेरी याद आने पर

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