Sunday Exhale: Apple Music; Transgender Model; JK Rowling on Life
Relax this weekend, breathe and enjoy this week’s choicest stories by The Quint on Sunday Exhale.
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Apple Music: Stuff We Love and Stuff We Hate
Wondering if Apple’s much-hyped music streaming service, Apple Music is bang on the money?
While on one hand, the streaming service has reasonably priced plans (Rs 120/month for individuals), and has playlists curated by content partners like Rolling Stone, on the other, it has no web view like Saavn or Rdio. Worse, when veteran Apple users like Jim Dalrymple have issues with the service that they have to take to Apple to resolve, you know there’s a problem.
Video: Vijay Salgaonkar Kaun Hai?
Ajay Devgn plays Vijay Salgaonkar in the movie Drishyam. The big challenge for Ajay’s character in the movie is to prove his innocence. Team Quint steps out of the studio to investigate the matter and to find out if Vijay Salgaonkar is really innocent, and finds that the opinion of most people, and err.. dogs seems divided.
An Open Letter to Kabir Khan
Last week, a video of an argument that director Kabir Khan had with a journalist during a press conference promoting Phantom, went viral.
What triggered the argument was a rather rude question a journalist posed to Kabir, asking him to name terrorists in India, when the director had merely used the word ‘extremists’. The Quint’s Aakash Joshi decided to write an open letter to Khan, and commended him on being balanced, rational and firm.
Will Fashion Weeks Give This Manipuri Transgender Model a Chance?
Two of the biggest fashion shows happening in the country – the Lakme Fashion Week and Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (now Amazon India Fashion Week) – have never had any transgender model walk their ramps till date. Meet Sandra Nandeibam, 17, a transgender model from Manipur who wants to walk the ramp at a prominent fashion show in India. But will she be able to? We’ll have to wait and find out.
8 Things JK Rowling and Harry Potter Taught Us About Life
The favourite companion of millions in their teens, author JK Rowling, through her Harry Potter series, taught us a lot about life – that it takes a great deal more courage to stand up to our friends, than to our enemies; that some battles you’ll have to face alone; that you must treat your ‘inferiors’ as well as you would your equals – these, and more such lessons, here.
Don’t Stop ‘Wineing’: ‘Cause it’s Good For You!
A glass of merlot is equal to one hour of gymming. Studies conducted at the University of Alberta in Canada have found that red wine has a natural compound called resveratrol (also found in nuts) which improves heart, muscle and bone functions in the same way we benefit from a one hour workout at the gym.
Exclusive: Master Painter SH Raza Explains His Timeless ‘Bindu’
He is one of India’s top selling artists – his most expensive work being Saurashtra, which he painted in 1983 and which was auctioned for close to $3.5 million in 2010 at Christie’s. Raza’s style in art is original and instantly recognisable. His ‘bindus’ (dot) are his unique signature style – which are often misunderstood by people as mere geometric patterns!
Raza sahab reveals to The Quint what his bindus are all about.
Why Are Offices as Cold as the Antarctic?
Do you always complain about the freezing air conditioner in your office? Well then you are not the only one. Many of us get our jackets to work even when it’s 32 degrees outside. So much so, that it’s become an easy way to identify a woman’s work desk – as theirs’ is always the chair with a jacket hung on it. Meanwhile, the men are chilling in their cotton shirts, with the sleeves all rolled-up. Why can’t the damn AC be suited to all, Namita Handa Jolly wonders.
Were These 10 Movie Sequels Better Than the Originals?
Do you think Terminator 2, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Toy Story 2, Dhoom 2, and the likes were better than their originals?
There inevitably comes a time – both in Bollywood and in Hollywood – when a movie team, eager to milk the profits of their baby (read: smash hit phillum) and desperate to hear the sweet melodies of cash registers ringing again, turns to making a sequel. More often than not, the sequel flounders, crashes and burns. But sometimes – just sometimes – there will emerge a sequel so good, so laudable, that it completely overtakes its original. Here are ten such second instalments, that did much better than the originals.
World’s Fastest Mehendi Artist Displays Her Skills
Pavan Ahluwalia holds the Guinness World Record for being the fastest mehendi, or henna, artist in the world. She can make more than 500 designs in an hour. She started at the age of 16, and developed her hobby into a well-established profession. Ahluwalia has also done tattoos for celebrities such as Ellie Goulding. Watch her here.
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