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In 2013, when I had read about Vishavjit Singh dressing up as a superhero…..I loved it. But I was shocked to see him face so much hate & I raised my voice when people said, “a superhero cannot be with turban & beard.” This was against everything my grandmother... had taught me that SIKHS have always been superheroes. They are the followers of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, the warriors, the protectors and the first ones to feed you when there were wars & earthquakes. I always saw them doing seva and I learnt to cook from the Golden Temple. So, we all came together to work 24/7 to dream & to bring change. Who knows that 96th Academy Awards will witness a Sikh with Turban & Beard to bring the message of inclusion. Representing 26 Million Sikhs around the World for the first time in history. Thank you Guneet Monga #catherinelyn and teams for working soooo hard to dream collectively. ❤️ Ryan Westra American Sikh Filmshow more

Vikas Khanna

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Divya____Shukla____2 years ago

🙏👌👏👏❤️❤️

Divya____Shukla____2 years ago

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Kinjal Patel2 years ago

One more feather in your crown 👑 Keep smiling and shining super chef ❤️❤️ Lots of love and happiness to you 🤗 Aap apna khayal rakhna Vikas 🙏 Rab Rakha ❤️❤️❤️

Bay Area Architect2 years ago

Keep it up Vikas ji. There is a saying in Gita ‘ Do your duty, don’t worry about the fruits’ and there is a quote from W.Buffett “ You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

Chandni Rajani🧚‍♀️✨️2 years ago

God, the universe has big plans for you🧿♾️💖.. just believe it, accept it wholeheartedly with open arms( in Shahrukh Khan Style 🤗😁)

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cbcwatcher

67,614 views • 4 months ago

260621 mingyu officially announces his hiatus in his ment😭 his way of words😭 #민규 #세븐틴 🐶 i was so thankful today, everyone. time really flies, doesn't it? listening to the members talk earlier reminded me of when i was younger. when i was a trainee, debuting was my dream, but when i actually debuted on may 26, 2015, i realized there was such a long way to go, so much to do, and so much growth to do. we have already run hard for 11 years to become the seventeen of today. sometimes i think of it as just having fun with our familiar carats, but if i look at it differently, i find myself reflecting on how and when i became someone who can laugh and enjoy myself with you all in such a huge venue without getting nervous. 🐶 that is why for a while... i guess i have no choice but to talk about this. i didn't want to, and although i will have to take a break from performing with you all on such a big stage for a while, i believe i have successfully wrapped up a chapter of the past 11 years. also, i want to say how incredibly grateful i am to the carats who have loved us all this time, and i am so thankful to the members who have endured so well, and i am also very grateful to the staff around us. i believe that when we gather again in two or three years, it will mark the beginning of the second chapter. so, we should show a more mature side, a slightly different side and... be different from now, right? i hope you will love that side of us as well, and we will continue to grow as seventeen. i am always so grateful, i love you so much, and i will do my best. thank you

260621 mingyu officially announces his hiatus in his ment😭 his way of words😭 #민규 #세븐틴 🐶 i was so thankful today, everyone. time really flies, doesn't it? listening to the members talk earlier reminded me of when i was younger. when i was a trainee, debuting was my dream, but when i actually debuted on may 26, 2015, i realized there was such a long way to go, so much to do, and so much growth to do. we have already run hard for 11 years to become the seventeen of today. sometimes i think of it as just having fun with our familiar carats, but if i look at it differently, i find myself reflecting on how and when i became someone who can laugh and enjoy myself with you all in such a huge venue without getting nervous. 🐶 that is why for a while... i guess i have no choice but to talk about this. i didn't want to, and although i will have to take a break from performing with you all on such a big stage for a while, i believe i have successfully wrapped up a chapter of the past 11 years. also, i want to say how incredibly grateful i am to the carats who have loved us all this time, and i am so thankful to the members who have endured so well, and i am also very grateful to the staff around us. i believe that when we gather again in two or three years, it will mark the beginning of the second chapter. so, we should show a more mature side, a slightly different side and... be different from now, right? i hope you will love that side of us as well, and we will continue to grow as seventeen. i am always so grateful, i love you so much, and i will do my best. thank you

shanie🍥 ggyu

311,422 views • 2 months ago

Playing pro basketball has always been a dream of mine ever since I was a little kid. Being able to travel the world and get paid to play the past 5 years has truly been a remarkable experience. To get the opportunity to live in 7 countries, be immersed in different cultures, meet new people, and play basketball at a high level are memories I will always cherish. Since being back in the States in May, I have had a lot of time to reflect on what the next step is for me and my family. I got my Real Estate License in the summer with the intentions of just doing it in the off seasons, and then get into it full time when I was done playing. But when our daughter Rinnie was born in September, my mindset began to change. Having a family and being a father has always been a dream of mine too. And now that she is here, I look at life a lot differently. It has been amazing to be around family and friends and raise our daughter in our own home right here in our hometown in Illinois. On top of that, I have really been enjoying being a Real Estate Agent and adjusting to the new challenges that come along with it. I still love basketball, but I always knew there would come a time when I’d have to hang it up, and this feels like it for me. Being a father and a husband is the most important thing to me and that will always come first. Knowing that this is the best decision for us really gives me peace in walking away from a game that has been so good to me over my life. Thank you to basketball for giving me the life I had dreamed about since a child. Now, on to the next chapter of my life 👶🏼🏠🌾🇺🇸

Playing pro basketball has always been a dream of mine ever since I was a little kid. Being able to travel the world and get paid to play the past 5 years has truly been a remarkable experience. To get the opportunity to live in 7 countries, be immersed in different cultures, meet new people, and play basketball at a high level are memories I will always cherish. Since being back in the States in May, I have had a lot of time to reflect on what the next step is for me and my family. I got my Real Estate License in the summer with the intentions of just doing it in the off seasons, and then get into it full time when I was done playing. But when our daughter Rinnie was born in September, my mindset began to change. Having a family and being a father has always been a dream of mine too. And now that she is here, I look at life a lot differently. It has been amazing to be around family and friends and raise our daughter in our own home right here in our hometown in Illinois. On top of that, I have really been enjoying being a Real Estate Agent and adjusting to the new challenges that come along with it. I still love basketball, but I always knew there would come a time when I’d have to hang it up, and this feels like it for me. Being a father and a husband is the most important thing to me and that will always come first. Knowing that this is the best decision for us really gives me peace in walking away from a game that has been so good to me over my life. Thank you to basketball for giving me the life I had dreamed about since a child. Now, on to the next chapter of my life 👶🏼🏠🌾🇺🇸

Michael Finke

33,284 views • 1 year ago

Hirokazu Koreeda on how he directs Children: "Interviewer: I think 'Shoplifters' (2018) is very remarkable in showing different sides of a city and like you said, people who are pretty much invisible, but I do want to also commend you on another thing, is you often work with young actors, and they always tend to have a significant role in many of your films. How do you go about finding such dynamic young actors, and why do you often put these young people at the center of each one of your stories? Koreeda: First of all, I would say that I tend to make what I would call family dramas, and of course, you have to have children if you’re creating a family, but that’s how it started, but I found that as I did it, I became really interested. It became very interesting and fun to work with these children, and for example, the two children in this film, neither of them had any acting experience at all before this film. I brought them in, and what I find when you bring these children in, and you work with them is that the adult actors change. They become much more lively and natural in the way that they act, and I guess, at some point, I realized this, and I guess, became really attracted to the idea of having children and the impact that it had. Interviewer: Do you find that there is any struggle in terms of working with young actors, or in this case, young children who have not actually acted before? Koreeda: Just to clarify, I have worked with children in many of my films, and all of them have never had experienced before. I always go out and pick non-acting children to work in my films, so just, I wanted to put that out there. In terms of the struggle, it does take time. You have to give extra time to work with these children. When I choose these children, I have an audition, and I pick out who I want to the audition, and then when we get to set, I never give them the script. No child that I’ve worked with has been given a script beforehand, and when I get to the actual part where they’re going to be acting, I give them the lines myself, and work with them and coach them. What I find is that it’s actually really enjoyable, both for them and for myself that way. I also, because I’ve been doing this now for several years, I tend to have a fairly high success rate in choosing children that are able to work with me in that way. Interviewer: That’s fascinating, and it also shows how you are able to create such authentic performances from these child actors over and over again in so many of your films. I think it’s a unique gift that you have, and it’s something that very few directors, I think, here in the United States do. Koreeda: It’s true, I guess by working with these children, I learned. I discovered that the best way to do it was just to communicate verbally their lines, rather than giving them in a written format, and over time, this really worked, and so I just kept doing it. But, interestingly, I loved the movie 'Kramer vs Kramer' (1979), directed by Robert Benton, and one time I bought the movie with all the extra, the making of and everything, and I went over it, and I found through that, that in fact, the child in that movie was also given his lines every day by the assistant director each morning when they came in to set, so I discovered that it wasn’t just me that was doing this." (Koreeda's interview with Scott Menzel, We Live Entertainment, 2018)

Hirokazu Koreeda on how he directs Children: "Interviewer: I think 'Shoplifters' (2018) is very remarkable in showing different sides of a city and like you said, people who are pretty much invisible, but I do want to also commend you on another thing, is you often work with young actors, and they always tend to have a significant role in many of your films. How do you go about finding such dynamic young actors, and why do you often put these young people at the center of each one of your stories? Koreeda: First of all, I would say that I tend to make what I would call family dramas, and of course, you have to have children if you’re creating a family, but that’s how it started, but I found that as I did it, I became really interested. It became very interesting and fun to work with these children, and for example, the two children in this film, neither of them had any acting experience at all before this film. I brought them in, and what I find when you bring these children in, and you work with them is that the adult actors change. They become much more lively and natural in the way that they act, and I guess, at some point, I realized this, and I guess, became really attracted to the idea of having children and the impact that it had. Interviewer: Do you find that there is any struggle in terms of working with young actors, or in this case, young children who have not actually acted before? Koreeda: Just to clarify, I have worked with children in many of my films, and all of them have never had experienced before. I always go out and pick non-acting children to work in my films, so just, I wanted to put that out there. In terms of the struggle, it does take time. You have to give extra time to work with these children. When I choose these children, I have an audition, and I pick out who I want to the audition, and then when we get to set, I never give them the script. No child that I’ve worked with has been given a script beforehand, and when I get to the actual part where they’re going to be acting, I give them the lines myself, and work with them and coach them. What I find is that it’s actually really enjoyable, both for them and for myself that way. I also, because I’ve been doing this now for several years, I tend to have a fairly high success rate in choosing children that are able to work with me in that way. Interviewer: That’s fascinating, and it also shows how you are able to create such authentic performances from these child actors over and over again in so many of your films. I think it’s a unique gift that you have, and it’s something that very few directors, I think, here in the United States do. Koreeda: It’s true, I guess by working with these children, I learned. I discovered that the best way to do it was just to communicate verbally their lines, rather than giving them in a written format, and over time, this really worked, and so I just kept doing it. But, interestingly, I loved the movie 'Kramer vs Kramer' (1979), directed by Robert Benton, and one time I bought the movie with all the extra, the making of and everything, and I went over it, and I found through that, that in fact, the child in that movie was also given his lines every day by the assistant director each morning when they came in to set, so I discovered that it wasn’t just me that was doing this." (Koreeda's interview with Scott Menzel, We Live Entertainment, 2018)

DepressedBergman

49,522 views • 7 months ago