How sweet is this. 🙏🏼 #loveislove
Repost from @nino_spreads_paint using @RepostRegramApp – That Wedding Though.. Here’s some #umara art! ❤️I wanna see more @lisaraniray & @banij on my screen plz! @4moreshotspls #fourmoreshotsplease #4moreshotsplease #lisaray #banij #indianwedding #illustration #nino_spreads_paint #art #samarakapoor #umang #lgbtq #lovewins
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Repost from @pritishnandycommunications using @RepostRegramApp – Easily the most wanted bartenders in town. @banij @lisaraniray
#fourmoreshotsplease #season2 #nowstreaming on @primevideoin
#bts @sayanigupta @iamkirtikulhari @maanvigagroo @nupurasthana @pritishnandy2018 @rangitapritishnandy @4moreshotspls
It’s the amazing team behind the scenes that constructs the foundation for an actor to do their job. My makeup artist @ShraddhaBachani worked on some key scenes in @4moreshotspls and wanted to give her a shoutout for her craft and some #bts
@4moreshotspls @pritishnandycommunications
Repost from @raabtabyrahul using @RepostRegramApp – 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 ✨
@lisaraniray @raabta_brides
@raabtabyrahul X @4moreshotspls
Styled by
@aasthasharma
@reannmoradian
@ravinachavan
@snehaindulkar
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“The bonti is a kitchen instrument used in Indian households to peel, chop, shred, slice and dice vegetables and fruits, especially in the states of Bengal, Assam, Orissa. A woman at the bonti chattering away in the kitchen happens to be a part of Indian – especially Bengali – iconography.
My mother owns six bontis in different sizes to serve different purposes. But this happens to be the largest and wholly metal. However, its size or constitution is not the reason why it is so special. This bonti belonged to Khoma Devi, my mother’s paternal grandmother who died in 1968. She had handed it over to my mother’s mother, Bani Bhattacharya who in turn handed it over to my mother, Krishna Mukherjee. It’s a Matrilineal heirloom in the family existing through four generations now.
The bonti blade is generally made of iron, and tends to rust if not immediately washed and dried after use. Repeated use blunts the blade, so itinerant experts cycle through and across cities with special gear for sharpening bontis and knives. The main curved blade, used to dice, slice, etc, has a crowned tip called “Kuruni”, used specifically to desiccate coconuts. This blade is also ornamentally shaped into the likeness of a peacock with its beak bowed down.
The bonti was popular when most Bengalis lived in extended, multi-generational families and women had to make large meals every day. Usually the grandmother or widowed aunt was responsible for cutting and arranging the vegetables, while the younger women took on the more harrowing task of cooking over the hot stove. This ritual of cutting vegetables, called “kutno kota” in Bengali, was, and is still in some households, almost as important as the daily rituals carried out for the household gods.”
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This is merely an excerpt from the absolutely fascinating piece written by Kasturi Mukherjee on the Bengali bonti and the ancestral, domestic and symbolic connotations it bears. I urge you all to read the full piece on the Museum website, for it goes deeper still into the linguistic, literary and nostalgic themes of this traditional household item. Head over to @museumofmaterialmemory for more. Via @aanch_m @museumofdesignexcellence
Perhaps what is not obvious to the audience is the endless, often monotonous, mind numbing time actors spend waiting for their shot. It’s a different notion of confinement, but sometimes can feel like you’re under quarantine. I’m quite a bit older than just about anyone on most sets these days- and a loner to boot- so to preserve energy you’ll find me zoned out in a corner of the chaos, metaphorical cap pulled low, trying not to make eye contact until called to give it my all for the camera. I do get overwhelmed around a lot of people so @shraddhabachani snuck this picture of my coping mechanism while filming @4moreshotspls (I’m much better suited to writing temperamentally)
Repost from @4moreshotspls using @RepostRegramApp – snape, is that you?
#FourMoreShotsPlease
What a lovely post. And thanks for reading #ClosetotheBone my travelogue of the soul. Touched.
Repost from @arts_corner_by_v using @RepostRegramApp – @lisaraniray .
I normally don’t write notes under my artworks but this one was very special to make. I want to firstly thank an online friend who suggested I make this fanart. Because it lead me to this amazing show @4moreshotspls where I fell in love with samara ( character) . After binging the series, i really wanted to know more about Lisa Ray, and that’s when I came across her book ( close to the bone). I am not a non fiction reader, but this book is so beautifully (and honestly )written, that the artist in me HAD to make a fanart. I decided to dedicate a 6 fanart post for the entire series , but it was taken down for some reason! But I thought this was a message for me to post this artwork (especially) separately ! Please go and read the memoir ( close to the bone) because if and when you do, you will realise that she is a true queen! .
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@4moreshotspls #bts by the beautiful and talented #MUH #bosslady @shraddhabachani who was responsible for some of Samara’s key looks, including the red carpet reveal.
Thanks darling ❤️ #girlpower
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This image of faith taken in #Kashmir in a time of COVID-19 by @ahmermkhan is haunting. It reminds me of a Tagore song ‘Je Rate Mor Duarguli’ my father has been playing during our confinement here in Singapore. Sharing the English translation below:
The night a cyclone smashed my doors
I did not see you come to my aid
Darkness engulfed the world, all lights snuffed out
For whom did I raise my arms towards the Heavens?
Despairing, without hope in my heart, I settled into the dark corner.
Little did I know that devastation was your victory flag.
At the daybreak I looked out to check – there you were.
Standing alone in the emptiness of my devastated house.
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We know that sometimes salvation wears terrifying clothes. I remind myself of that everyday.
#Tagore
Repost from @selinabhairon using @RepostRegramApp – Lisa Rays book Close to the Bone, only 15 pages in but what a fabulous read so far. Whilst being in lockdown I would highly recommend everyone to purchase this book and read it. @lisaraniray ❤️ 📖 📚 #LisaRaniRay #lisaray #closetothebone #supermodel #actor #cancersurvivor #mother #woman #book #read #womenreading #fabulousbook #warrior #determined #inspirational #aspiretoinspire #womanofsubstance #humbleandreal
Repost from @nupurkanoi using @RepostRegramApp – Shibani Dandekar and Lisa Ray in the spotlight! Slaying it in our Crucero signatures, these two ladies look gorgeous in @amazonprimevidoe’s popular webseries, @fourmoreshotspls
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Thanks to my @Preetasukhtankar for pointing me in the direction of this talented illustrator. I just adore this image so much – with its Bombay drenched nostalgia- I have to have one! This lockdown is giving us an opportunity to savour art and discover new or previously unknown talents.
Repost from @shreshiii using @RepostRegramApp – Intezaar / The Wait | Print available for sale (on request)
I feel like making a post out of every object in this piece, they are all favourites, they all invigorate a deep sense of nostalgia… the hibiscus plant reminds me of the tree in the lawn of my childhood home, the pickle jar reminds me of my grandmother who used to love making red chilly pickles (I can almost taste it), the balcony is inspired from many places I have travelled to with an obvious hint of Bombay. This art is an amalgamation of many things I love and remember and cherish. Many things collected from different places of memory.
Repost from @soleilnathwani using @RepostRegramApp – @jr Finding space in confinement
#Repost @jr
Repost from @chefsangkim using @RepostRegramApp – “Hey, how are you?” “Amazing! And you?” “Same. What’ve you been up to?” “Nothing. You?” “Same.” * * *
Today, the most overused and undervalued word is “essential”. By designating “Essential Goods and Services”, our government is, of course, referring to our most basic needs on Maslow’s Hierarchy: “Physiological” and “Safety”—health, food, shelter, property, employment etc. (Although I would have nominated “haircut” to be slotted somewhere between “Belonging” and “Self-Esteem”.) At the very least, fulfilling these needs will allow people to survive, and this is both important and necessary. Thereafter, the objective is to make people productive members of society again, because productivity is, in the West, the Holy Grail. * * *
We all have different definitions of productivity, both for home and at work. And we use different metrics to determine its relative success or failure. How much we achieved on any given project on any given day, week, month; whether we were falling behind or catching up or getting ahead. * * *
That’s all changed now. At least for me.
During this crisis, my mind keeps circling back to one question demanding an answer, and it is this: “Sang, what is essential?” And not: “Sang, how much have you accomplished?” It’s been about Being over Doing. About Subtraction, not Multiplication.
Back to the 1-2-3s: family, friendship, community, the environment, beauty, kindness. Meditating deeply about what needs to be eliminated so I can access what is truly essential—that is the most productive thing I know I can do today. Perhaps everyday. The rest is either not important or only moderately so and therefore might find its way back to me if it’s not lazy.
I think it was Socrates who said it and it’s worth repeating: “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” He meant that by answering your friends’ “Hey, how are you?” with “Busy. And you?” is our most dangerous form of self-deception.
Takes our eyes off the real prize.
#quarantinelife #covid19 #essentials #subtractionism image: @blcksmth
In the gloaming
A tree held my hand
She said: How strange are your veins
that spend their mission
within your own boughs
She said: Come travel with mine
into the curl of time
you will hear lost spells in deep roots
and understand
the sensitivity mathematics of crown shyness
and the birds will take your fingers for nests
She said: The immortals branching beneath everything.
They are looking for you.
Listen.
The ancestors only ever susurrate
the rarest and purest form of generosity
That passes through skin
That brings you home.
– lisaraniray @protestpoet Singapore River
How beautiful
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#ClosetotheBone @closetothebone.book
Read, read, read, read…and then read some more.
Repost from @aartiashar using @RepostRegramApp – Started reading this beautiful book written by gorgeous and fearless @lisaraniray Ma’am Every chapters has your heart and feelings in it.l really loved your parent love story so beautifully crafted!!! You are so Funny, charming, and gut-wrenchingly honest all at once, Close to the Bone is Lisa Ray’s brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms.
Such an inspiration!!!!Great respect for you from Heart.
Had watch four more shots plz and your character Samara is lovely and fascinating …..fallen in love with you
@bhumi_ashar and @heetapandya You must read this book.
Somethings wrong with me. I can’t stop reading.
One of my favourite artists, #ZarinaHashmi a legend of the art world, has passed on. Her ability to distil emotion into singular images and forms will resonate on and on.
Repost from @rashmivarma using @RepostRegramApp – Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020) ‘Journey’ from ‘Home Is a Foreign Place’ 1999 🙏🏾 #zarinahashmi #rip
Repost from @gayatriganju using @RepostRegramApp – How long till we can meet each other and touch the things we long for?
I made this image on a walk outside Pahalgam, one very misty morning a couple of years ago. As I sat down for a break on the side of the road, this horse came up to me and stood so close. Like he was asking to be stroked. I remember how warm he felt. And how deep his breathing was. The encounter must’ve lasted just a few seconds. Enough for me to take this picture.
This print is available at
https://printsforindia.com
Along with a stunning selection from fellow friends and photographers.
Net proceeds from the print sale will go to the Rahat Covid19 program run by @goonj Dedicated to daily wagers, migrant and most vulnerable communities across India, who are affected by the current lockdown.
Thanks to @verity.fitzgerald and the @printsforindia team for thoughtfully putting this together.
