Margarita with a Straw is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language drama film
directed by Shonali Bose. It stars Kalki Koechlin (pictured) as an
Indian teenager with cerebral palsy who relocates to America for her
undergraduate education and comes of age following her complex
relationship with a blind girl, played by Sayani Gupta. Revathi, Kuljeet
Singh, and William Moseley play supporting roles. Produced by Bose in
partnership with Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Margarita with a Straw was
co-written by Bose and Nilesh Maniyar. The film deals with the concepts
of sexuality, inclusion, self-love, and self-acceptance. Bose conceived
the idea for the film in January 2011, during a conversation with
Malini Chib—her cousin and a disability rights activist—about the
latter's desire to have a normal sex life. After winning Sundance
Institute's Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award for the draft, she modified
the script to reflect her own perspective, incorporating several
personal experiences into the narrative.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita_with_a_Straw>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Freda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount
Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Du_Faur>
1968:
American singer Elvis Presley's first television special and
first live performance in seven years, Singer Presents ... Elvis, was
broadcast by NBC.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_%281968_TV_program%29>
1976:
Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination
attempt by seven gunmen in Kingston.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley>
1994:
Sony released the PlayStation, the first computer entertainment
platform to ship 100 million units.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_%28console%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
built different:
(originally African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) Able to do
things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/built_different>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
--Lord Jim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim>