Girls Burn Brighter || Shobha Rao || 309 pages
Top 3 Genres: Contemporary / Cultural / Feminism
Synopsis: When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she thought she lost for good when her mother died: hope. Poornima's father hires Savitha to work one of their sari looms, and the two girls are quickly drawn to one another. Savitha is even more impoverished than Poornima, but she is full of passion and energy. She shows Poornima how to find beauty in a bolt of indigo cloth, a bowl of yogurt rice and bananas, the warmth of friendship. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to lock down for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend again. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face relentless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.
Publication Date: March 2018. / Average Rating: 3.78. / Number of Ratings: ~22,930.
Rajkummar Rao and Triptii Dimri to wrap Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video with two song shoot: Report
The cast kicked off the last schedule in Rishikesh on January 27, 2024, and will soon wrap up with two songs.
In September 2023, Rajkummar Rao and Triptii Dimri kicked off the shoot for Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video (VVKWWV), helmed by director Raaj Shaandilyaa. The film is a nostalgic voyage to the vibrant 90s. With backing from T-Series, Balaji Telefilms, Wakaoo Films, and Thinkink Picturez, the film promises a nuanced family drama. The makers plan to wrap the film by March 4, 2024. While they are on the last leg of the schedule, the film will be wrapped with two song shoots.
The cast kicked off the last schedule in Rishikesh on January 27, 2024, and will soon wrap up with two songs. A source told Mid-day, “Everything, from the cars to the television sets, has been designed keeping the ’90s in mind. The director has been filming with the entire cast, including Mallika Sherawat, Rajat Kapoor and Vijay Raaz, in a start-to-finish schedule since January-end. He has allotted the next fortnight for the two songs. From Sunday, he will can a situational number that plays out against the backdrop of the mohalla and features the whole cast. The second is a romantic track featuring the lead pair.”
This project brings together Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Shobha Kapoor, Ektaa R Kapoor, Vipul D Shah, Ashwin Varde, Rajesh Bahl, Raaj Shaandilyaa, and Vimal Lahoti. It revolves around a couple whose intimate video goes missing.