#and telugu

[desicinema]

PRABHAS & PRITHVIRAJ SUKUMARAN in SALAAR: PART 1 - CEASEFIRE (2023)

#filmedit #movieedit #tollywoodedit #filmgifs #dailytvfilmgifs #dailyflicks #cinematv #userfilm #tvandfilm #moviegifs #telugu cinema #tollywood #bollywoodedit #prabhas #prithviraj sukumaran #salaar #* #roedits #twblood #listen im so [redacted] #lets leave it at that #q

[sada-siva-sanyaasi]

varadha: *existing*

deva: i fucked up

varadha:

deva: BUT HOW DARE THEY?! THAT’S WHY I FUCKED UP

varadha:

deva:

varadha:

deva: i’m really sorry.

#desiblr #telugu #tamil #salaar #incorrect salaar #incorrect salaar quotes

[approaching-catharsis]

obsessed with Bheem's switch from 'bhaiya' to 'anna' when he admits his identity to Ram, actually.

(rip to those who watched it in Hindi, idk how many of these nuances carried over in the dubs and subtitles. but! I had the delight of loving how Telugu's dialects are used in RRR, so figured I'd share some of what I noticed!)

[disclaimer: this is just based off my experience/what I've heard from others, not necessarily, y'know, academically studied.]

Bheem in RRR broadly speaks two different kinds of Telugu - one with his fellow Gonds, and one when he's pretending to be Akhtar. You'll also hear a third style of Telugu used by characters like Raju, Raju's folks, pretty much every non-Gond character actually, and the songs, etc.

The choices about which style of Telugu the film uses at different moments is absolutely delicious to dig into.

For one, when Bheem is speaking to other folks of his tribe, the pronunciations and words he uses are very distinct from the 'standardised' style of Telugu that the other characters primarily use.

(I call it standardised only because that's the form of Telugu taught in formal education. It's not just pronunciations and words that differ between different styles, but even the grammar and verb forms change!)

But when Bheem is pretending to be Akhtar, his language changes completely. What Akhtar speaks is closer to standardised Telugu with heavy Hindi/Urdu influences (words like 'bhaiya', meaning brother, are Hindi additions. In other styles of Telugu, you'd say 'anna'). 'Bhaiya' IS something you hear in some Telugu-speaking regions, plus this is Delhi so there's bound to be Hindi influencing the language. It absolutely makes sense for him to speak that way when he's pretending to live there.

So, Delhiite Akhtar calls Raju "bhaiya" and refers to Seeta as "bhabhi" - both of those are Hindi words. Hindi words that are definitely not used in other forms of Telugu.

And that's why the moment he admits his actual identity to Raju is SO satisfying, because he goes:

[in standardised Telugu] No matter how long we spend together, I always long to spend more time with you, bhaiya. But I need to leave. [beat] [in distinctly Gond style] Anna, I've hidden the truth from you.

Even if you can't make out the difference styles in Telugu, you'll notice that Bheem never calls Raju 'bhaiya' after that point. Because that's not the Gond style, and he's dropped the disguise. Raju is anna now, a very Telugu word.

(also while looking up the line I just noticed this: We see Akhtar through a curtain/veil when he's saying he needs to leave. It's when the camera pans past the curtain and the disguise lifts, that we see Bheem speaking as himself. nice.)

just, the way that scene is done, with the curtain and music in the background and the language/code-switching the moment he drops the disguise is SO satisfyingly done.

And the choices in what style of Telugu is used by whom throughout the film is DELIGHT to explore. I absolutely love this lil detail tbh, the attention paid to language in this film. <3

#dialects and style of speaking does a lot of characerisation in many telugu films actually #i have only recently started properly paying attention to this and i'm loving it #also i am so used to calling [the historical figure] Ramaraju/Seetha Ramaraju #that I had to consciously keep correcting myself and calling [the character] just Raju‚ heh #anyway! good stuff #rrr #placeholder tag #never thought telugu films would end up on this blog but here we are #unexpected!

[ilovetkrzuka]

All Female Takarazuka Revue RRRxTakarazuka Bheem Musical & Revue Syndrome Violetopia Poster

2024/01/01 ~ 02/04 @ Takarazuka Grand Theater

2024/2/23 ~ 04/06 @ Tokyo Grand Theater

Starring: Rei Makoto , Maisora Hitomi , Akatsuki Chisei , & featuring Star Troupe members

#takarazuka #takarazuka revue #star troupe #hoshigumi #rei makoto #maisora hitomi #akatsuki chisei #bheem rrr #rrr fandom #rrr #komaram bheem #ss rajamouli #japan #telugu cinema

[welcometotheravenclawcommonroom]

(South) Indian Harry Potter Headcanons:

Harry knew he was Indian (mostly because the Dursley’s used to say racist shit to him) but he didn’t know where in India the potters were from until he went to Hogwarts. He finds out from the Patils, who were close with the potters because desis stick together.

The Patils are from the north and use Hindi to speak to each other. Neither of them knows Telugu/Tamil/Marathi/Malayalam/insert Southern language of choice here (I personally headcanon Telugu because it’s the only Indian language I speak and because there’s a huge diaspora of telugumandi in the west, but feel free to choose whatever you’d like). So Harry has to rediscover his heritage language on his own.

He also studies Sanskrit, and it opens up a HUGE world of spells that they don’t teach at Hogwarts (because of course Indian wizards don’t do spells in Latin). He and the Patils know a bunch of spells that nobody else does.

Harry’s pleat game is ON POINT. It makes sense, since he had to do all the chores at the Dursley’s and that includes perfectly folded and ironed laundry with the edges aligned neatly, or else he would risk being punished. But the result is that if you want your saree drape to pass the inspection of even the most judgemental auntie, you go to Harry to help with your pleats.

Even when they’ve graduated and all have their own homes, it’s a pretty regular sight for the Patil twins to come through Harry’s floo, half dressed, to have Harry pleat their sarees or their lehenga dupatta for them.

Harry LOVES spices. The dursleys only liked bland food, but Harry has always liked flavorful foods, and has no problem with (hot) spicy food either. He uses lots of spices in his own cooking now. His food is very flavorful, but when he’s cooking for himself, it’s too spicy for all his friends (even the Patils). So nobody can eat his leftovers unless he was specifically cooking with other people in mind. Ron learned this the first time he rummaged through Harry’s fridge after a night of drinking. Now Harry labels all his food as to whether or not it’s “Harry spicy”.

James LOVED to buy Lily sarees. He’d order them with custom, wizard-themed designs from weaving villages in south India. The women who made them assumed he was just very imaginative, so he wasn’t violating the statute of secrecy since saree patterns are often vibrant and unique. Harry finds some of them in the old potter manor, and they still smell like the perfumes and scented oils his mother would wear when James took her to the local temple for Hindu holidays.

Indian witches often store extra magic in or enchant pieces of their copious jewelry with spells that can keep them safe if they’re ever in a situation where they don’t have their wands. stuff like, each bangle can function as an emergency portkey that can take you to different safe locations if you say the activation word, or ones that create an instant magical shield when you tap them. Harry finds some of his mothers gajulu, gives them to his female friends.

He ties Rhaki on Ron and Neville, and all the weasley boys. Ron was the first person he ever tied it on, because Ron was the first person who he ever bonded with, and his closest brother.

Harry always cooks idli sambar or dosa for his friends for breakfast the next morning after a night of drinking together, and it’s the perfect hangover food because it definitely brings you back to full alertness/knocks the last bit of post-hangover grogginess right out of your system.

Harry’s parselmouth abilities are valued in his native culture because of the sacredness of snakes in Hinduism, and it comes to be something he’s really proud of (personally I think the ‘parselmouth connected to the horcrux’ thing is dumb, so I’ve always imagined Harry was just naturally a parselmouth).

As the number of Indian immigrants/expats continues to grow after they graduate, Harry helps some of his students (he’s the DADA teacher) start the Hogwarts “South Asian Student Union”.

He always has snacks out for his students when they come to visit his office hours, and they’re all Indian snacks and sweets. His personal favorite is kaju barfi, but he always has a good variety of both sweet and spicy treats, especially for stressed out owl and newts students.

He collaborates with Hermione, who works in the ministry, to make it mandatory for Hogwarts students to a “foreign magical language” course so they can broaden both their minds and their spell repertoires. Padma Patil becomes the “Sanskrit Spells” teacher, and Seamus teaches “Irish Gaelic”. (It took him a little longer to get his course started, since it turns out that at least 40% of Gaelic spells are just increasingly complicated and violent ways to repel the English).

Hermione and Harry also work together to make sure there are employees in the international magical cooperation department who specialize in post-colonial relations, because the magical world also has its issues with that colonialist mindset towards countries that were formerly part of the empire.

Just south Indian Harry embracing his heritage, learning about what was ripped from him, and using it to enact meaningful change in a multicultural magical society.

#mod des #hp #Harry Potter #South Indian Harry Potter #desi harry potter #Tamil Harry Potter #Telugu Harry Potter #Marathi Harry Potter #kannada Harry Potter #diverse magical world #also fuck jkr #Malay Harry potter

[vennilave]

Ammadi

Hi Nanna (2023) dir. Shouryuv

#hi nanna #nani #mrunal thakur #mrunal #tolly #tollywood #gif #gifset #sontha post da #telugu cinema

[secondwheel]

Karthikeya 2 (2023)

#karthikeya 2 #movie #film #telugu #india #asia #ocean #sea #rocks #travel #views #recent #psalmstree

[thozhar]

“What about ordinary and poor Muslims like me? We never had any jagir or any piece of land or even enough bread to survive the day. I know hundreds and thousands of Muslim families living in utter poverty. The ashraf and nawabi families – both from Muslims and Hindus as well – never cared for our daily basic needs of food, water, or housing.”

Jeelani Bano and Dasarathi Rangacharya also brought out the contradictions apparent throughout pre-1948 Hyderabad. Bano’s novel Aiwan-e-Ghazal features a set of Muslim women characters from various strata of Asaf Jahi Hyderabad navigating both the zenana of the patriarchal nobility and the forests that served as the battlefields against the princely state’s rural gentry.

Nizam-ruled Hyderabad was a dominion where the feudal oppression of women and the exploitation of lower castes were woven within its pluralistic fabric.

— Hyderabad 1948: Literature Tells Better Stories Than WhatsApp University

#hyderabad #Afsar Mohammed #hyderabadi literature #1948 police action #hyderabad history #telugu literature #urdu literature

[whimsiquix]

Can’t believe we watched someone say “no one is allowed to touch you” in five different languages and each one was successively more possessive than the last

#when I thought Hindi was bad they showed me Telugu and then they showed me MALAYALM #salaar #varadeva #devaratha raisaar #varadharaja mannar

[aadhiskanmani]

#nani #mrunal thakur #hi nanna #telugu cinema #tollywood #my gif's #so freaking cute #i loved this film

[celestesinsight]

Watching 'Salaar' again. It's amazing how attuned Varadha was to Deva that he didn't have to look back to know Deva had joined him. He felt him near and looked at the shadow to confirm. The entire scene he knew how Deva would react and he just kept looking at the shadow for confirmation. Then when Deva finally snapped, he closed his eyes and just let the inevitable happen. He was the only calm one during the violence and mayhem. Everyone was asking him to stop Deva, citing consequences of the actions. But Varadha was like 'calm down and let Deva do what he does best, wrought havoc.' He looked up only when the old woman tried to touch Deva to see if he was real. His expression was like 'that's my Deva'.

#salaar part 1 ceasefire #salaar #varadeva #varadha rajamannar #varadha #deva #devaratha raisaar #desiblr #desi tumblr #indian movies #telugu movies #indian cinema #telugu cinema

[alezangona]

Every time I scroll through the Salaar tag, I start to wonder if Prashanth, Prabhas, and Prithvi know about the existence of this app.

Like I don’t know if they’ll ever realize the true impact of this little movie they created because we are wildin over here, thoroughly fixated on all these bitches.

#salaar #varadeva #devaradha #devaratha raisaar #varadha rajamannar #khansar #prashanthneel #prithviraj sukumaran #prabhas #telugu film #indian films

[sada-siva-sanyaasi]

deva’s mother: my son is an angel

deva: *kills men*

deva’s mother: he won’t hurt a fly

deva: *kills more men*

varadha: *appears*

deva’s mother: YOU ARE WHY MY SON BECAME A DEVIL—

#desiblr #incorrect salaar #incorrect salaar quotes #salaar #prithviraj sukumaran #prabhas #devaradha #deva #varadha #varadha raja mannar #telugu #tollywood

[desicinema]

Occult is being conducted in the village. If we don't take action now, these deaths will continue until the village is annihilated.

VIRUPAKSHA (2023), dir. Karthik Varma Dandu

#filmedit #movieedit #horroredit #filmgifs #moviegifs #cinematv #dailyflicks #dailytvfilmgifs #tvandfilm #tollywoodedit #tollywood #telugu cinema #horrorgifs #bollywoodedit #virupaksha #* #roedits #twblood #twfire #q

[astraswades]

the discord server gave me these horrid ideas 🥲

#salaar #prabhas #prithviraj sukumaran #telugu cinema #no beta we die like chakram #men! #prabhas is darling and that's a fact we all know #the discord server is my morning newspaper and my nightly dessert #until we meet again #probably not anytime soon (???)

[madhoshiyaan]

NAYANTHARA in Simha (2010) Dir. Boyapati Srinu

#Nayanthara #Simha #tollywood #telugu #south edits #astra #southasiansource #smudgedhenna #femalestunning #fyeahmovies #dailybollywoodqueens #userladies #userreds #asiandramasource #thequeensofbeauty #dailyworldcinema #filmtvcentral #asiancentral #femalegifsource