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ajaxsingh.bsky.social
Writer/Director from Mumbai. 3 shows (Taj: Divided by Blood, Shaitaan Haveli & I Don’t Watch TV) and 1 book (Too Much Democracy) so far. Tarkovsky, Hawks, Kobayashi, Tarantino. Religion: Japanese Cinema.
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Bob Dylan. Kendrick Lamar.

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The greatest Metal band in history are coming back together for one final show! Gonna be insane.

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Robert Eggers is a modern Horror master. Period. Pun intended 😊

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50 years of one of the most iconic films in Indian Film History. A story of two brothers on opposite sides of law that gave the industry its biggest superstar. Amitabh Bachchan. “Angry Young Man” was THE cultural icon of India in the 70s. If you wanna understand mainstream Indian cinema, start here.

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The legend of David Lynch will grow even bigger with time. A lot of us did not know how much he meant to us until he left us. He is not even in my top 5 fav directors, yet there is something about his spirit, his work that will outrank, outlast anything/anyone. A true original.

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Not David Lynch goddamnit! No, not so soon! The great master.

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I have not seen The Brutalist yet, but the sheer passion of Brady Corbet tells me it will be great. And worthy.

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Shyam Benegal, the pioneer of Indian New Wave of the late 70s- early 80s is no more. What a legendary body of work he had. Gave us some of our finest actors. RIP sir.

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The most out of touch film body in India is the FFI. They have an unparalleled, unenviable record of not selecting films like Lunchbox, RRR and All We Imagine As Light as India’s official entry for Oscar! What they select year after year is mediocrity! They called AWIAL “technically poor”! Idiots!

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GUKESH is the 18th World Chess Champion at the age of 18! Unbelievable, incredible! Bravo! Steinitz Lasker Capablanca Alekhine Euwe Botvinnik Symslov Tal Petrosian Spassky Fischer Karpov Kasparov Kramnik Anand Carlsen Ding Gukesh

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Location scouting in Rajasthan for a horror comedy. Feels great to be back to the genre. If Shaitaan Haveli was set in the 80s, then this one goes even further back. The 70s- a crazy period in India. Had written this pre-pandemic finally found financing thanks to the current horror comedy wave here.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Fav songs on GNX - Man at the Garden, Reincarnated, Hey Now, Squabble up, Luther. #Kendrick

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The Greatest Movie Star of all Time.

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I wish India had a dedicated horror community like the ones that exist in USA. The genre, for long identified with the cheap mom & pop productions of the Ramsay family, is criminally looked down upon. So much that it can be a risky career move to start with it. Things are slowly changing though..

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Around six months back I introduced my teenager nephew to some classic and contemporary science fiction.. from Asimov to Ted Chiang and everyone in between. Now he comes back and tells me he’d want to become an astrophysicist! Power of books, man! Esp at that age!

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Shooting is the hardest phase of filmmaking. Most days you are fighting against time. It’s specially gruelling if you are doing an on location historical drama - with horses and heavy costumes. One doesn’t have the luxury of doing Kubrickian number of takes. Yet some days you can’t help it 😊

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Kdot’s new album is top drawer stuff. Top 3 alongside To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid…

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I think I will use my Bluesky account to give some insights into the filmmaking scene in India. Bollywood is a very interesting place to make a career in films. We don’t really have an almost impenetrable studio system like Hollywood, however we have our own brick wall - the ridiculous star system.

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Andrei Tarkosvsky considered himself a failure after having made “just three pathetic films at 40” !! (Source: His diary) What were the films? Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris 😂 So relax guys, everyone is on their own time with their own definitions of pathetic!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

This was the quote that made me a massive fan of @crobertcargill.bsky.social And I had no idea then who he was… remains the most inspiring account on the internet.. blue bird or blue sky.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: - Online Customer Support for Ticketmaster (they operated secretly from India once!) - Assembly line jobs as student in UK (from bread packing to putting stickers at Nissan motors) - Editor of College Magazine

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite country artist? Patsy Cline. There is nothing that her voice can’t cure.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

submitted 110 days ago • 510 comments

In search of sanity and decency… old school values going extinct…

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