Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The big guns arrive !


Starting this first week of November big movies are arriving. Frankly in the last decade or so , given that bollywood’s bigger makers and superstars have started believing in screen count more than content and holiday weekends more than the editing table , most of the big movies arrive starting Diwali weekend to new year weekend. This year is no different in that sense.  There is however a very interesting battle unfolding now from the first week of November.


The old warriors are being challenged and very very impressively by the new contenders. Two of this years biggest hits which have rewritten domestic box office numbers neither belong to a Khan or a Karan Johar or a YRF films movie. They belong to names like Ranvir Singh and Ranbir Kapoor . How many of you would have given Ranvir Singh that outside chance five years ago?
There is another interesting scene unfolding. Barring Aamir , the other two Khans are fighting a battle of kingdom going downhill. SRK has had a lean patch after a long time in his career. Salman’s reputation took a severe hit with movies like Jai Ho, Tubelight and Race3. The last one still has jokes popping up on social media. Sure Salman has had equal big hits too like Tiger Zinda Hai but call it unfairness , somehow you are remembered for your last movie and that makes Salman a bit down right now.
Does this mean by January we will have new superstars. We don’t know because the old war horses are coming in full blast and it might so happen that by January Padmaavat and Sanju’s success might look like faded memories.
The first one that hits us is Thugs Of Hindostan and if the information of screen count and numbers of show is correct and the movie does hit the right numbers it is looking at 125 crore plus opening. Yes those are the numbers which are very likely because the audience on the ground is excited about watching Aamir and Amitabh together. Should the movie work then Aamir will go up on the ladder yet again though the six footer never stopping machine will take some credit for that. He has already hogged trailer credit. You could be looking at 2018’s biggest hit in this one.
Then comes 2.0 the coming together of Akshay and Rajnikant. This one could surprise us with the numbers. It will be interesting to note though how much credit Akshay will be able to take from the shadows of Rajinikant. Either ways Akshay will probably extend his purple patch with this one.
The other biggie this year is Zero. SRK’s fans for sure are waiting for this one with some excitement and this could be that movie which will mark the return of the Baadshah,  in some ways this one has the same anticipation that Thugs Of Hindostan has because this is the first coming together of our longest running superstar and a master story teller called Aanand L Rai. This one could rewrite some box office numbers.
Then there is this under rated dark horse called Simmba. Rohit Shetty will direct Ranvir Singh in what seems to be an out and out masala action entertainer. Rohit Shetty is probably the quietest big hits maker and probably this movie has got the least of the limelight from the other three and we know at times the least talked about does the best. Should Simmba work it will be very difficult for anyone to take away the fact that 2018 belonged to Ranvir Singh.
There is a lot riding on these movies more than producers money. Long term star reputations is one for sure. Should any of these movies fail. You will see rankings being adjusted and Bollywood for sure will have a new power hierarchy. You will probably see bitter fan wars too on social media. This winter is one of the most exciting winters in a long time for Bollywood. There is actually a game of thrones unfolding in front of us starting the first week of December.
May the best warriors win. We the audiences for sure are not complaining. Bring it on.







Teaser Kedarnath review


Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Pihu trailer review


Andhadhun,Badhaai ho, Tumbbad and Pihu – the content brilliance of Bollywood keeps growing in 2018




2017 was a bad year for bollywood. That is also an understatement. Big banners had dished out real below average content and the year saw tragedy after tragedy at the box office. 2018 in that sense has been sunshine in a big way. Not that movies have just done well. Some of them have probably been riding a wave when audiences seem to be in a mood  to lap up just whatever comes in the way having said that success is an undeniable fact for all these movies.
That 2018 could turn out to be different is when a movie called Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety broke unprecedented barrier by crossing the 100 crore mark. Then came the surprising success of movie like Baaghi2 and Satyamve Jayate. In any other year probably these movies would have not done so well. However the simple bottomline is audiences showered their love on these movies and they got great profits for the makers.
The real noticeable part of 2018 has been the range of movies that have hit the bulls eye at the box office. Some of them came without much hype. The biggest example was John Abhraham’s Parmanu, a movie that came with almost zero hype because reportedly John had a tiff with the makers.Yet the movie clocked not just revenue but at some centers it ran for 50 days plus.
Around or much before Parmanu there were three movies which indicated 2018 audiences were up for different content and genres as were the makers willing to make up for a bad last year Padman – a movie that focused on proper healthcare and menstrual hygiene for women – Hichki – about a woman fighting her on health issue trying better education for have nots and Raid – a story on what lay in store for tax officers when they locked horns with the powerful.
The real game changer has come in the last two months. Trust Ayushman Khurrana to ride this wave of change this actor has done more different content than some of our other high rated stars could ever imagine.  Riding on his image and good work from last year Ayushman came up with Andhadhun. Written and helmed by the master of suspense stories Sriram Raghavan. This one kept the audiences hooked and a story where Tabbu has played her darkest character till date has been raking in moolah since. Andhadhun celebrates the comic side of darkness and people have loved it.
Just on the back of Andhadhun came Badhaai Ho which has touched a story which so many of Indian households in smaller and even bigger town have seen. So many couple in fact go for one more child in the hope that this might ignite the mundane of their lives. Yet it took so many years for a director to touch the topic. Amit Ravindernath Sharma brough such hilariousness and emotional depth to the story that this one has almost eclipsed everything around it . How many of you even knew the real name of that pleasant face guy was Gajraj Rao who is now an overnight star because of the movie. The success and buzz around Badhaai Ho is so big that I will not be surprised if this one holds its own against Thugs Of Hindostan when it is released.
Tumbbad is another slow and confident example of success, if the claims of this one being made at a shoe string budget of 5 crores are true then this one is a big box office winner too and a movie which worked purely on visuals and moments. There are barely dialogues in the movie.
The last brilliant stuff has come in the trailer of Pihu a two year old girl trapped in a flat with probably just the dead body of her mother will leave you chilled to your last nerve. A content which no director of 90s would touch.
The year has opened us to content and the game is changing. In a time when some of our celebrated stars have delivered duds like Race3 and our celebrated makers ended up murdering classics like Sairaat with its shining lipstick version called Dhadak , true content has ruled the roost. Thank god and the content directors for making the theater a worth visiting place once again.



Thursday, October 18, 2018

मनोरंजन , कुछ सन्देश और हास्य का महान संगम है बधाई हो !

महान फिल्म वो नही होती जिसके बारे में मीडिया प्रशंसा के पुल  बाँध दे , महान फ़िल्म वो होती है जो ऊपर से तो सीधी और सहज दिखे लेकिन बड़े आराम से आपके दिल को छू भी आप को कुछ सीखा भी जाए। बधाई हो इस लिहाज़ से इस साल की बॉलीवुड की सबसे ज़बरदस्त फ़िल्म है। ऐसी फ़िल्म का बॉक्स ऑफिस पर कमाई करना तो तय होता ही है लेकिन सबसे अच्छा यही होता है के ऐसी फ़िल्म का सफल होना लगभग सबको समझ आता है। 



कहानी है जीतेन्द्र (गजराज राव ) और उनकी पत्नी प्रियंवदा ( नीना गुप्ता ) की। रिटायरमेंट के नज़दीक पहुँच रहे शांत स्वभाव के जीतेन्द्र अपनी पत्नी  को प्यार करते हैं और उनका परिवार भी खुश है।  एक माँ ( सुरेखा  सीकरी ) और दो बेटे नकुल (आयुष्मान खुराना ) और गूलर।  एक दिन अचानक सबको पता चलता है के प्रियंवदा गर्भवती है और यहीं से कहानी शुरू होती है। पूरा परिवार तनाव में आता है बिखरता है और फिर धीरे धीरे यूँही वापस जुड़ कर इस घटना की सहजता  को स्वीकार भी करता है और यहीं से निर्देशक ये सन्देश देने में कामयाब होता है के ज़िम्मेदारियाँ अपनी जगह हैं और इंसान की इच्छाएं और उसका अस्तित्व भी उतना ही ज़रूरी है। 


फ़िल्म की सबसे बड़ी खूबी यही है के फ़िल्म की पटकथा इतना सोच कर लिखी गयी है के कब आप हंस पड़ेंगे कब क्या होगा और कब कौन सा पात्र क्या करता है ये आपको बहुत चौंकाता भी है और फ़िल्म से बाँधे  रखता है।  जैसे नकुल को अचानक अपनी प्रेमिका के घर पर उसकी माँ के ताने सुनकर एहसास होता है के वो अपने परिवार से कितना अन्याय कर रहा है। बूढी सास अपनी बहु प्रियंवदा के आत्मसम्मान के लिए अपनी बेटी और उसकी रिश्तेदार पर आक्रामक हो जाती है। सबसे ऊपर है फ़िल्म का हास्य तरह तरह के संवादों और घटनाओं से आप बार बार  हँसते हैं जैसे गजराज राव का जूते पोलिश करते करते अपने बेटे  से नज़रें चुराना। 

फ़िल्म की भावनात्मक गहरायी बहुत खूब है अंत में परिवार के वापस जुड़ते ही जब जीतेन्द्र और प्रियंवदा चुपचाप उन्हें रसोई से देखते हैं तो आपको अपने परिवार के ऐसे पलों का एहसास होता है। फ़िल्म में कई अच्छी साथ चलने वाली घटनाएं भी हैं जैसे बड़े भाई का अपने छोटे भाई के साथ होती मार पीट के लिए स्कूल के बिगड़े लड़के से भिड़ना। या नकुल की अपनी प्रेमिका के साथ बिगड़ती और फिर बनती कहानी।  सान्या मल्होत्रा ने एक बार फिर अच्छा अभिनय किया है। 

फिल्म में सभी ने अच्छा अभिनय किया है लेकिन सबसे आगे का अभिनय रहा दादी के रोल में  सुरेखा सीकरी का , ये बूढा ज्वालामुखी इस फ़िल्म की जान है। गजराज राव का ये अब तक सबसे सुलझा अभिनय है। नीना गुप्ता ,आयुष्मान खुराना और गूलर जैसे सभी अभिनेता अपने काम जुट कर निभा गए हैं। फ़िल्म का संगीत भी उम्दा है  और गाने जंचते  हैं। 

मेरी रेटिंग पूरे पांच स्टार 




ये वो फ़िल्म है जो परिवारों और दोस्तों को साथ बैठ कर देखनी चाहिए। 




Video Review of Badhaai Ho !


Video Review of Rangeela Raja Trailer


Video Review of Namaste England


Sunday, October 14, 2018

इंसान के लालच और उससे जुड़ी लोककथाओं पर आधारित दिलचस्प पेशकश है तुमबाड़ !




कभी कभी बस बिना ज़्यादा शोर किये कुछ निर्देशक हमें ऐसी कहानी दिखा देते हैं के देख कर मज़ा आ जाता है।  निर्देशक जोड़ी रही अनिल बर्वे और आदेश प्रसाद ने एक ऐसी फ़िल्म हमारे सामने रख दी है के आप फ़िल्म देख कर जब बाहर निकलते हैं तो थोड़ा बहुत अपने लालच को नियंत्रण में रखने की सोच लिए निकलते हैं।

सबसे बड़ी बात ये के निर्देशकों ने कहीं भी लालच की कमज़ोरी का कोई उपदेश नही दिया है। सोहम शाह के विनायक में लेकिन थोड़ा बहुत हम सबको अपना चेहरा दिखेगा। 

कहानी विनायक के बचपन से शुरू होती है जब विनायक ,उसका भाई और उसकी माँ तुमबाड़ में छुपे ख़ज़ाने के बारे में जानते हैं लेकिन वहाँ से चले जाने का फैसला करते हैं। विनायक के बचपन में तुमबाड़ की भयानकता होती है लेकिन वो फिर भी छुपे ख़ज़ाने की तलाश में उसी जगह वापस बार बार आता है। इस ख़ज़ाने से उसे एक अच्छा जीवन तो मिलता है लेकिन फिर धीरे धीरे बढ़ता उसका लालच एक दिन उसे ख़ज़ाने के मालिक एक पीड़ित भटकते राक्षस हस्तर के हाथों मरवा देता है। कहानी के अंत में अच्छा ये होता है के विनायक का बेटा उस लालच के रस्ते से हट जाता है।

फ़िल्म की ख़ूबी ये है के कहानी कभी भी अपने बहाव में न धीमी होती है न यहाँ वहाँ भटकती है। पूरी फ़िल्म आपको उसके पात्रों के बढ़ते लालच और फिर उससे होते उनके गलत अंजाम को दिखाती है जैसे विनायक के धोकेबाज व्यापारी मित्र राघव की हस्तर के हाथों होती मृत्यु। 

तुमबाड़ का छायांकन, कहानी की पटकथा  और पार्श्व संगीत उम्दा स्तर का है।  फ़िल्म की कहानी को प्रभावी बनाने में ये तीनों आगे का काम करते हैं। सोहम शाह ने बहुत अच्छा अभिनय किया है और उनके पुत्र का अभिनय करने वाले बाल कलाकार भी अच्छे हैं।

तुमबाड आपको अपने हॉरर से कम डराती है लेकिन अपने अंदर छुपे लालच से ये हमें शायद ज़्यादा अवगत करा देती है। फ़िल्म ज़रूर देखें अगर आपको थोड़ा सोच विचार के बनायीं गयी अच्छी फ़िल्म देखना पसंद है तो।

Video Review of Tumbbad


A message giving story that never bores you !




Tumbbad is not your regular masala movie yet at no point does its different presentation and treatment never makes you bored or the feeling of getting trapped in a intellectual nothing movie.
Tumbbad is brilliant story telling by the director duo of Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi. At no point do they let go of the story which breeds itself more on human greed and less on horror. In fact the horror element in this movie is how we see human beings and three generations getting trapped into a life of darkness.
The story revolves around a treasure hidden in a place called Tumbbad. Vinayak is a by nature greedy man who goes after the treasure and lives high life for sometime because of it. In the process he slowly turns into a man who is not afraid of killing people and exploiting their greed to become more rich. In the end he meets the same end as those who were consumed by their greed . The climax is well thought of and is a bit what we have heard in so many famous folk tales around greed. The way it is executed makes you admire the creativity of the story tellers involved and it does leave a message of positivity with the son finally rejecting the path of greed.
What makes Tumbbad watchable is that its length has been kept short at 104 minutes the movie never really slackens or becomes boring. The cinematography is pure experience and the background score adds to the brooding environment.
Tumbbad is not a regular horror movie , in the sense that its horror scenes are not exactly meant to scare you. It is the story element build around horror that makes you scared. It is also scary in the sense that how a basically greed and ambition driven person will pass the same value system to his child and that is brought out so brilliantly in this movie.
The movie leaves you both scared and awed by a simple story so powerfully told. Tumbbad is a must watch for those who love different cinema which is actually different. This movie might or might not work out at the box office , though I will not be surprised if it does given the way audiences reacted to this one while I was watching it
Sohum shah is obviously the stand out performance but so is the boy who plays his son. A must watch for quality cinema hunters.



Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Are we being too harsh on Thugs Of Hindostan ?



The trailer of Thugs of Hindostan is all set to touch 6 crore plus views.  In just about one week of its release. You can call this phenomenal anticipation of the movie for one simple reason Amitabh and Aamir coming together for the first time in what has been a three decade long wait for audiences.
There is something else too which has happened post the release of Thugs Of Hindostan. The equal amount of ridicule the trailer received from those who expected better.  What better they expected is not yet known but they expected better.
This is the irony of all major entertainment movies. Deep down we love them. We enjoy them but somehow we are made to feel guilty about enjoying them. These are not intelligent films we are told and what exactly is an intelligent film nobody knows. For the time being let us stay focused on the criticism of the movie.
The critics told us this one looks heavily inspired from Pirates of The Caribbean. They probably had a point. Sure the movie looked visually inspired from that movie or was it? The movie tells the story of pirates who ruled the sea against the Britishers. So while we can see inspirations the story is different. The larger question is how much of our cinema is original ? Sholay , Deewar, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge all drew inspirations from yesteryear movies.
There was another bunch which was not very happy about how Aamir came out in the trailer. The complain was he was loud, he was trying heart. That if you ask me is a brilliant stroke by the director. Aamir’s loudness will blend superbly with Amitabh’s cold ruthless Khudabaksh Azaad in the movie. Remember how Veeru’s flamboyancy was such a perfect foil to Jai’s cold thinker in Sholay ? IF the director has written a good screenplay there will be sparks when such contrast characters will clash on screen. You will also have to understand that sometimes it is a loud character which makes a movie work, you might want to think of Kareena Kapoor in Jab We Met to understand my point.
Trust the women’s equality brigade to take potshots at a new big bollywood release and this one was no different. This time the criticism was the women did not speak in the trailer. Sure they did not but at least one had shooting arrows and fighting man to man and did not come across as a decorative material. Amitabh teaching archery to one young girl also was comfortably ignored a man teaching use of a weapon to a girl is liberating enough, no ? More importantly when exactly did the director tell or claim that he is making the next Arth or Mother india ? a masala entertainer it is and there ends the matter.
Then came the never satisfied with the plot brigade. True the trailer did not give much of a glimpse but did it cross us that could exactly be strategy? Give us the grandeur of the movie but do not reveal the plot?. That is a reasonably perfect strategy because when a movie so anticipated as Thugs Of Hindustan is coming up hiding the actual content is the best bet to keep the aura and ensure that the first reactions build on ground spiral of feedback for a film.
Sometimes criticism is executed largely because we the audiences and observers fail to control our expectations. Else look hard what was so great about the teaser of SRK’s Zero but the audiences loved it. For that matter I recall the trailer of Ayaary which promised great things but what a cold bhatoora in the freezer the movie turned out to be. Worse is we did not know what to expect but would want to be politically correct and say oh the trailer was just about ok.
Am for sure counting days to November 8th. I want to see who will win the most anticipated battle of histrionics. Before the bachchas came to the party the big daddy of action was Amitabh. In this trailer he is kicking ass with such flair that you remember the chair kicking Vijay of Zanjeer.
Thugs Of Hindostan is that full of cheese hot burger not meant for those who are scared of living life. Am going to dig in day one. Sword to the critics Azaad !






Saturday, October 6, 2018

ये धुन आपको अपनी गिरफ़्त में जकड़ लेती है

कुछ फिल्में होती हैं जिनकी लम्बाई दो घंटे के आस पास होती है और आप फ़िल्म शुरू होने के दस मिनट बाद  अपनी घड़ी ताकते हैं के यार कब फ़िल्म ख़त्म होगी। अंधाधुन की लम्बाई ढाई घंटे के ऊपर है और जब ये फ़िल्म ख़त्म होती है तब आपको पता चलता है के ढाई घंटे ख़त्म हो गए। बाकी समीक्षा लिखने से पहले ये भी कहना होगा की जिन निर्देशकों को तनाव भरा असलियत जैसा सिनेमा बनाने के शौक है  और जो मीडिया से तो चार या पांच सितारे समीक्षा में  निकाल लेते हैं लेकिन बनाते फ़िल्म ऐसी हैं जिससे दिमाग का लस्सी दही मठ्ठा सब बन जाता है उन्हें श्रीराम राघवन की टीम से पटकथा लिखने की दीक्षा लेनी चाहिए।

फ़िल्म की कहानी एक अंधे संगीत कलाकार आकाश की है जो लोगों को अपने अंधे होने की एक्टिंग कर रहा है उसे ये लगता है अँधा बनने से पियानो बजाने की कला और निखरेगी। उसकी ये सनक उसे  सिमी (तब्बू) और उसके प्रेमी महेंद्र (  मानव विज ) द्वारा की गयी एक हत्या का चश्मदीद बना देते हैं। उसके बाद इस दलदल में आकाश धंसने लगता है और सिमी और सके प्रेमी से हिसाब  की ठान लेता है।  यहाँ से कहानी में इतने ज़बरदस्त घुमाव और झटके आते हैं के आप को मज़ा आता है लेकिन उसके भी ऊपर मज़ा देगी आपको इस फ़िल्म की ज़बरदस्त कॉमेडी जो इस फ़िल्म के दृश्यों कलाकारों के अभिनय और मज़ेदार संवादों  के ज़रिये लगातार ऊपर उठती है।

फ़िल्म में निर्देशक ने घटनाओं और कहानी के तार इस  ढंग से जोड़े हैं के आप की सोच से बेहतर घुमाव और झटके आपको देखने को मिलेंगे।

फ़िल्म में सभी ने अभिनय उम्दा किया है। लेकिन सबसे आगे हैं सिमी के अभिनय में तब्बू उन्होंने इस फ़िल्म में रंग बदलने वाली औरत का अभिनय ऐसा किया है के आप बस यही सोचते हैं के तब्बू परदे पर ज़्यादा क्यों नहीं आतीं हैं। आयुष्मान ने भी अपना अभिनय ज़ोरदार किया है और इस फ़िल्म के छोटे  छोटे पात्र भी रंग जमा देते हैं।

अगर आपको कॉमेडी या थ्रिलर में से कोई एक भी पसंद है तो ये फ़िल्म पैसा वसूल फ़िल्म है , मुझे हैरानी नही होगी अगर ये फ़िल्म बॉक्स ऑफिस पर सौ करोड़ निकाल ले जाए।





Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Anurag Kashyap - Ahead of his times or just an over rated cinema maker?



As the most clichéd saying goes you can like him or hate him but you surely cannot ignore him. Anurag Kashyap has rattled as many as he has impressed. My opinion on him has changed from a fan to a viewer bored of his directionless storytelling at times.

There can be no doubt that after Ram Gopal Verma and much under rated Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap has given some of our best dark cinema. Whether it was the controversial Black Friday or brazen in your face trend setting DevD. Anurag Kashyap’s passion was noticeable in everything that he did.  That his cinema could not drive box office numbers was at least briefly answered with the smashing success of what remains are best gangster movie since Satya – Gangs of Wasseypur.  Anurag Kashyap swam against the tide and came up with a five and a half hour movie. To make it exhibitor friendly he decided to release it in two parts. Thank god for that.

Gangs of Wasseypur is now part of popular culture. Its dialogues and songs have become part of Bollywood history.  Characters like Sardar Khan, Faizal and Mohsina have become bigger than the movie.  Anurag Kashyap was suddenly post this movie Subhash Ghai meets Tarantino.
What made Anurag a great maker for his the then fans like myself was his story telling against the dynamics of box office and what the middle class would want. So his characters would use cuss words like Rajinikant tosses cigarettes and googles. His Devdas would choose to walk away with a Chandramukhi. Surprisingly the middle class loved him most for this depiction.

Then came what I term as his fall. Post Ugly the Anurag Kashyap that we knew as a honest in your face story teller started allowing his own political or ideological biases to mix with his story telling. The media continued to praise him because once a blue eyed boy with the media the status usually does not change.  The audiences however started growing a little bored of extra dosage of darkness with every passing movie and contrary to his earlier efforts like a GOW or a Gulaal. Slowly his movies started having dragging screenplays.

Udta Punjab was the first signal the Anurag is letting his other viewpoints on issues come in the way of what can be honest story telling. Udta Punjab still got in some audiences because of the huge controversy it brought with itself. Pahlaj Nihalani can owe his entire CBFC fiasco on this one movie.  
The real pointer that for all the media adulation Anurag was losing his audience connect came with Mukkabaaz.  This movie was and remains the biggest indicator of how Anurag’s inner confusion or stubbornness to carry political messages was hitting his story telling. Mukkabaaz was actually two stories divided by an interval. The first half was a great love story mixed with a young man’s determination to do well at all odds. Post interval it wanted to be a lot of things.  A message against cast based venom , though it almost ended up being a one caste hater movie itself.  Mukkabaaz also wanted to be lecture on sports infrastructure. The director also wanted to lecture the ruling class on state of things. However well intended everything was the movie fell on its jaw at the box office.
Though he did not direct it but his involvement as a maker was clearly reflected in Bhavesh Joshi Super Hero where the villain looked remarkably similar and repetitive of the villain we saw in Mukkabaaz in fact the most visible weakness of BJSH was in the fact that this movie too was losing its steam post interval. Let us not even discuss Bombay Velvet which came before Udta Punjab.
 
The fact that Anurag was maybe low on confidence or was brazenly trying to do something different is when he went into attempting Manmarziyaan. This was like RGV was directing a movie written by Bansali. Once again the media went bonkers on this one. Like a enthusiastic mother would insist that every visitor listens to her son’s kindergarten poem for months.  Only the audiences did not find Manmarziyaan any better or greater. The box office has spoken.

Anurag might hit back or the Anurag of Wasseypur might never return. Whether you remain his fan or term him over rated remains your call as an audience. For a brief while though there was excitement in the mundane skies of Bollywood.




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