A #Thread on the "Actor" #Rajinikanth. This thread is for people asking has he done any meaningful roles other than action, cannot act in Dramas, or especially to those who think he did not put any hard work in his early years..
This is quite a long thread.... #Thalaivar ⏭️
By this time he has acted in all major regional industries like Kannada, Telugu and Hindi other than Tamil. In 1988 he also acted in a Hollywood movie “Bloodstone” #Thalaivar ⏭️
He worked hard, honed his skills, created a unique identity & has been setting the screens on fire since 1975 #Thalaivar ⏭️
K Balachandar one of the most iconic directors of Tamil cinema, famous for his Avant-Garde & bold themes. His movies mostly featured steadfast strong women in lead roles which the industry has conveniently forgotten how to do #Thalaivar ⏭️
He has done that in the past 45 years of his Film career until Darbar & more to come.
“Ithukku poi alattikalamaa…”
#Thalaivar ⏭️
Another National award winning director Mahendran, whose dream was to take Tamil cinema to an international standard not through gimmicks & grandeur but through powerful storytelling & Pure Cinema #Thalaivar ⏭️
He had to exhibit various emotions torn between an egoistic man & a loving brother. A special mention on his chemistry with Phataphat Jayalakshmi⏭️
This doesn’t come easy “Kettapayan Sir avan” #Thalaivar ⏭️
One of Rajinikanth ‘s finest performances.The movie portrays the life of Santhanam a poor widow’s eldest son who is struggling to make the ends meet. #Rajinikanth ‘s entry is after the first 20 minutes #Thalaivar⏭️
The artist ‘s performance is in the audience responding to the emotions on screen⏭️
Some of the best scenes in the movie are when Santhanam is deceived by his lover Amutha, when his sister embarrasses him for the purchase of cheap gifts for her child ⏭️
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One of the authors of the Policy Exchange report on academic free speech thinks it is "ridiculous" to expect him to accurately portray an incident at Cardiff University in his study, both in the reporting and in a question put to a student sample.
Here is the incident Kaufmann incorporated into his study, as told by a Cardiff professor who was there. As you can see, the incident involved the university intervening to *uphold* free speech principles:
Here is the first mention of the Greer at Cardiff incident in Kaufmann's report. It refers to the "concrete case" of the "no-platforming of Germaine Greer". Any reasonable reader would assume that refers to an incident of no-platforming instead of its opposite.
Here is the next mention of Greer in the report. The text asks whether the University "should have overruled protestors" and "stepped in...and guaranteed Greer the right to speak". Again the strong implication is that this did not happen and Greer was "no platformed".
The authors could easily have added a footnote at this point explaining what actually happened in Cardiff. They did not.
This is ridiculous. Students were asked for their views on this example and several others. The study findings and conclusions were about student responses not the substance of each case. Could\u2019ve used hypotheticals. The responses not the cases were the basis of the conclusions.
— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) February 17, 2021
Here is the incident Kaufmann incorporated into his study, as told by a Cardiff professor who was there. As you can see, the incident involved the university intervening to *uphold* free speech principles:
The UK govt\u2019s paper on free speech in Unis (with implications for Wales) is getting a lot of attention.
— Richard Wyn Jones (@RWynJones) February 16, 2021
Worth noting then that an important part of the evidence-base on which it rests relates to (demonstrably false) claims about my own institution
1/https://t.co/buoGE7ocG7
Here is the first mention of the Greer at Cardiff incident in Kaufmann's report. It refers to the "concrete case" of the "no-platforming of Germaine Greer". Any reasonable reader would assume that refers to an incident of no-platforming instead of its opposite.
Here is the next mention of Greer in the report. The text asks whether the University "should have overruled protestors" and "stepped in...and guaranteed Greer the right to speak". Again the strong implication is that this did not happen and Greer was "no platformed".
The authors could easily have added a footnote at this point explaining what actually happened in Cardiff. They did not.
