My favourite Manmohan Desai story is when he narrated Amar Akbar Anthony to @SrBachchan, he told the actor, "Lalla, after this picture releases, people won't call you Amitabh. They'll call you Anthony bhai."

And then, this happened... His confidence came from his script, not the actor.

When Salim-Javed first introduced Bachchan to MD, Desai wasn't impressed. Are you serious, he asked the writers.

But halfway through the making of AAA, he promised Bachchan he would never make a film without him. He never did.

A word of thanks to @FHF_Official for the restoration of some of our most loved films and @_PVRCinemas for giving them the big screen they deserve.

While watching Deewaar, I caught many things that I had missed earlier.
(And I've watched Deewaar countless times!)

Thread. Ravi Verma is called by his senior officer to hand over the case on July 18. He shoots a kid, learns a lesson from the kid's father and comes back on 19th to take the case.

He arrests his first big fish (Jaichand) and extracts a confession on Sept 15.

2 months, case closed.

My first 'memory' of Amitabh Bachchan was even before my memory formed.
When I was less than 2 years old, a domestic help used to take me to a cinema hall where Sholay was running (on the pretext of going on an evening walk).

And I made friends with Jai.

1/80 After a few years, when I knew movies were fun, I tagged with my mother and aunts to a show of The Great Gambler.

Midway through the movie, when Amitabh was getting beaten up, I got very scared and conned my mother into taking me home. 🤦🏽‍♂️

2/80

Priceless lessons from 5 of the greatest books I have read... 1. Windmills of the Gods - Sidney Sheldon

First book with "naughty bits" that I read, it taught me how geopolitics worked and how international assassins are hired. It also revealed that there are global syndicates who orchestrate catastrophic world events.

It is generally felt that CoWin is an app only for the elites (which is true) but it is also a poorly designed app.

1. It needs an OTP verification every time you log in. Each session lasts ~10 mins and logs you out while you may be trying to book. 2. It doesn't allow you to save your profile i.e. you have to enter pin code/district every time.

3. Hospitals are arranged neither alphabetically nor location wise.

4. Hospitals are often marked by numbers (e.g. Apollo Hospital 1) from which the location is not clear.

Goodbye, Ashoke Ganguly.

This is not the first time you made a grown man cry. Farewell, Saajan Fernandes.

What a fragrant, delicious, surprising package of talent you were.