Mayabazar (Market of Illusions) is an Indian epic fantasy film directed
by Kadiri Venkata Reddy and produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri
Chakrapani, first released on 27 March 1957. The film was shot in
Telugu and Tamil with the same title, but with a few differences in the
cast. The story is an adaptation of the folk tale Sasirekha Parinayam,
which in turn is based on the epic Mahabharata. It tells the story of
Krishna (N. T. Rama Rao) and Ghatotkacha (S. V. Ranga Rao), who try to
reunite Arjuna's son Abhimanyu with his love, Balarama's daughter
(Savitri). Though Rama Rao was initially reluctant to play the lead
role, his portrayal of Krishna received acclaim and yielded more offers
to reprise the same role in several unrelated films. Most of the musical
score was composed by Ghantasala. Both versions of the film were
critically and commercially successful. The film is considered a
landmark in both Telugu and Tamil cinema, with praise for its cast and
technical accomplishments, despite the limitations of the technology at
the time. A May 2013 CNN-News18 poll listed Mayabazar as the greatest
Indian film of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayabazar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa
Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_massacre>
1884:
Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter
instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., began three days of
rioting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_riots_of_1884>
1958:
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev also took over the role of Premier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev>
1977:
Two Boeing 747 airliners (one pictured) collided on a foggy
runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing
583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster>
2009:
A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people at a mosque in
Jamrud, in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
of Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jamrud_mosque_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
begging the question:
A logical fallacy in which a premise of an argument contains a direct or
indirect assumption that the conclusion is true; offering a circular
argument; circular reasoning.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/begging_the_question>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As long as one does not call his own position into question but
regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a
mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step
forward has not yet been taken … the general form of the total
conception of ideology is being used by the analyst when he has the
courage to subject not just the adversary's point of view but all points
of view, including his own, to the ideological analysis.
--Karl Mannheim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim>