వీర బొబ్బిలి | Veera Bobbili

Let's meet at the border after we get drafted.

They always call themselves neutral, but it's not hard to see who they really are.

r/Hyderabad is not liberal at all. In fact, any subreddit which has Telugu people automatically leans right. Closeted bigots as someone called them.

Picked the worst day to check in on Twitter. TL filled with casual calls for genocide on Indian muslims. Expect to see this venom trickle down to your family whatsapp groups soon. The right wing eco system is extremely dangerous.

Didn't like 'Empuraan,' but so glad that a mainstream filmmaker had the guts to take an unequivocal stand against Sangh parivar's communal politics. Prithvi deserves applause just for that. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Three and a half films on Day 3. Magma, The Day of the Jackal (1973), half of Chatthrapathi and Santosh. A good way to end the festival, especially with Santosh. Wish Hyderabad had more film festivals.

The other film is Boris Lojkine's 'Souleymane's Story.' A tight ninety minutes of engaging and empathetic storytelling. Recommended.

I could only squeeze in two films on day 2, but one of them is Michael Mann's 'Heat' on Hyderabad's biggest screen. A good day, indeed.

Day 1 is successfully completed with Missamma, Hysteria, Anora and Se7en. Still can't figure out how Anora won a Palme d'Or and an Oscar. Se7en, though, remains a 7/5 film. Missamma is funny and beautiful. Hysteria is a good watch.

'This is very Haneke-esque,' I thought as I was watching Hysteria, and 5 seconds later a thick book with Haneke's face and name appears as a doorstop. Freaky. Good film. 👍🏽

Funnier than I remembered. Pingali Nagendra Rao's dialogues were the real star of the film.

He's chatting with the anchor on stage while people are getting restless. The show is 25 minutes late. 🙄

Starting #RedLorryFilmFestival with a classic. Mr. Ramesh Prasad recounting tales of his late father Mr. L.V. Prasad. Waiting for the show to start 😬

Meanwhile China enjoying the show:

Who'd have thought that the US and Europe would be on opposite sides in World War 3?

It's baffling to me how Anora won both Palme d'Or and the Oscar. The last film to do that was Parasite.

The Brutalist would have been my choice out of the nominees. But rightfully 'Challengers' should've been nominated and won.

My boy Conan did well. The Academy, unsurprisingly, did not.

In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.

I discovered Gene Hackman pretty late in my life, but what a discovery. Goodbye, Gene, and thanks for the wonderful performances. 💔

(..his wife and dog, too, sadly. RIP)

Has the Conclave oscar campaign gone too far?

There's no 'escaping' in India. Poverty is home; you live and die in it.

Sick of Windows and it's buggy experience. Switching to Ubuntu after almost a decade. Let's see how this goes. 🤞🏽

How did I not realise this was Modi's alt account! Literally has cow in its name. 🙄

శ్రీశ్రీ కవితొకటి ఉంది..

ఆశలకేం అనంతం
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విశాఖపట్నం వూరు
వెర్రాసుపత్రి పేరు 😐

a man in a suit is giving a speech in front of a red curtain while another man looks on . ALT: a man in a suit is giving a speech in front of a red curtain while another man looks on .

Vaddannaa. Nuvvu relax avvu.

a man with a beard is sitting at a table writing with a pen . Alt: a man with a beard is sitting at a table writing with a pen .

🙏🏽

Darsakudivai cinema ni bratikinchannaa.

Just finished reading Peter Biskind's 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.' I know a lot of it is exaggerated, but even the tamer stuff paints an unflattering image of the '70s new age auteurs. My biggest takeaway was that a lot of my favourite directors were just insecure, narcissistic perverts.

If Basil Joseph's in a film, that's a good sign. Ponman is a fun film. Every two months, a Malayalam film comes out to remind us that the standards of Telugu cinema writing are in the gutter.