Parinda (Bird) is an Indian crime drama film produced and directed by
Vidhu Vinod Chopra (pictured), and released on 3 November 1989. In the
film, Kishan (Jackie Shroff), who works for the underworld don Anna Seth
(Nana Patekar), faces off against his brother Karan (Anil Kapoor) in
gang warfare after Karan decides to avenge his friend's death. The
script was co-written by Chopra, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam and Imtiyaz
Husain. R. D. Burman composed the music and Khurshid Hallauri wrote the
lyrics. Parinda received critical acclaim when released, and is
considered by several critics and scholars to be the turning point in
the introduction of realism in Hindi cinema. It won two National Film
Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and was India's official selection for
the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, although it was
not nominated. In 2015, Chopra remade Parinda as a Hollywood film titled
Broken Horses starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Anton Yelchin and Chris
Marquette.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinda>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
After several months of military stalemate between French and
British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew,
ending the Fashoda Incident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashoda_Incident>
1935:
Almost 98 percent of reported votes in a Greek referendum
supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_II_of_Greece>
1956:
Suez Crisis: During an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli
soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local
inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis_massacre>
1969:
U.S. president Richard Nixon made a plea for support from the
"silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the
large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
attainable:
Able to be accomplished, achieved, or obtained.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attainable>
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In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part
actively, these masses of people make possible the catastrophes under
which they themselves suffer more than anybody else. To stress this
guilt on the part of masses of people, to hold them solely responsible,
means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses
of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children.
The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom-fighters; the latter
the attitude held by the power-thirsty politicians.
--Wilhelm Reich
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