What are some photographs that depict little-known scenes or landscapes?

 In 1857, the Sphinx, whose entire form had been buried, was discovered.

A fascinating image of the Great Sphinx of Egypt before it was fully excavated. This image was taken around 1880.

This image was taken in 1887. Half of it is buried in the sand. Amazing, isn't it?

The photo shows the original entrance to the Great Pyramid.

The Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) (Gustave Eiffel, 1887–1889)

Statue of Liberty (Liberty Island, New York) (Frédéric Bartholdi, 1876–1886)

This torch-holding arm was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and in Madison Square Park in New York from 1876 to 1882.

Tower Bridge in London, England (designed by Sir Horace Jones and George D. Stephenson between 1886 and 1894)

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (1861) (under construction)

Christ the Savior in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (designed by Heitor da Silva Costa, sculpted by Paul Landowski, 1926–1931)

In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed the untouched and magnificent tomb of Tutankhamun.

The Italian Ministry of Culture announced the discovery of a stone urn containing gold coins at the site of the former Teatro Cressoni. The gold coins had not lost their luster.

Han Qiaoni, who hails from Yuxian County in northern Shanxi Province, China, had her feet bound from the age of two.

(Foot binding was a practice of stopping foot growth so that it would not grow larger than 3-4 centimeters. Feet that were 3 centimeters long were called "golden lotuses," and feet that were 4 centimeters long were called "silver lotuses.")

Close-up image of bound feet

A photograph of Princess Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, at the age of 18 in 1944, sitting at a desk and reading a book at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England. (Colorized)

And here she is, a little older and even more beautiful.

Captain Edward John Smith of the Titanic

Nagasaki, as seen from Kawaminami Koyanagi Island, 13 miles away, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing.

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Translator's Postscript

The Japanese embassy to Europe (the second embassy to Europe), which traveled by land due to the construction of the Suez Canal, also apparently visited the Sphinx. April 1864

What are some common illogical scenes that occur in Indian movies?

 I generally expect filmmakers to make mistakes in commercial films where logic is the last thing to consider. But when you are making a historical film you need to be very thoughtful of what you are showing-

Milkha Singh Singing “Nanha Munna Rahi Hun” in late 1950’s when the film Son of India was released in 1962 which has this song. So Milkha Singh went in the future to sing the song. Also Milkha Singh is shown haing an eight pack abs. No video or photo of Milkha Singh will corroborate this. Abs was not the body ideal of the 20th century as it is in 21st century. Also Milkha Singh was never really winning the race in the 1960 Rome Olympics. The whole story of him slowing down due to partition horror was fiction. Milkha Singh himself admitted that it was a tactical error for him to slow down. But he didn't lost by a split second. He lost by a margin of 0.1 second.

Similarly, Gadar shows the young Sakina singing “Key Sera Sera” in 1940’s when the song was composed in that particular version in 1956. Not to mention the mess it made of the original Boota Singh story converting a tragic story into a mass masala action saga.

The worst injustice done to a historical or biopic film is perhaps Marykom which invents fake stories that never happened in real life. Mary Kom never fought in the underground boxing ring to save her cow. In fact her cow and calf was sold to sponsor her sports training. Also she was initially admitted for athletics but the trials were far away and the authorities there asked her if she would like to join boxing as they were starting with boxing training at tha time..she didn't meet her future husband in Manipur but rather in Delhi where he was studying in Delhi University and he helped her get her passport after a third stole her bags on train. Fourthly, she didn't had any child undergoing operation during her World Championship fight. Infact it happened during Asian games but their sponsors gave her the ticket to return back to India soon after her game before the operation started. So all that drama shown in the film never happened . Most importantly, Marykom’s father was the biggest aupprter of her sports and he was the one who got her admitted to sports authority of India for better training. It is an insult to show him like that. It shows how Marykom could allow armtwisting narratives for money which is highly unfortunate.

And then there are blatant PR exercises in the garb of biopic movies which are made with the sole purpose of whitewashing the image of the people involved. And the honourable mention goes to Azhar which invents fake scorecards and game scenarios which never existed to justify Azharuddin in the match fixing scandal and putting blame on other players.

Sanju was another film which Hirani made to whitewash the image of his friend Sanjay Dutt. Imagine glorifying a man who was a d””g addict, womaniser, involved in the possession of illegal arms and yet is celebrated like a hero!! It takes guts to make a movie like this (sarcasm invented)

Even Rustom shamelessly manipulates the story of a naval officer k**ling the love of his wife to an act of patriotism. The original Nanavati case had no such angle and eventually he did get punished for his crime as the court set aside the verdict of the jury which out of emotional appeal of a soldier declared him innocent. Also as far as I know, you are not allowed to wear your uniform while standing in a civil trial. Rustom doesn't takes cinematic liberties, it twists the tale to justify the nationalist image of Akshay Kumar and our heroes can never be wrong.

Our Akshay Kumar similarly made a historical blunder of a film Kesari 2 which is based on a case that never happened. Even while claiming that the film was based on Shanakran Nair’s life the film invents a case and invents new characters. Firstly there was no trail in court for Jallianwala Bagh. Shanakran Nair faced a case by Michael O Dwyer the governer of Punjab during Jallianwala Bagh because Shanakran Nair accused him of gross injustices committed during the mass**re in his book Gandhi and Anarchy. Now this case was fought in 1924 in London. Brigadier General Dyer was not involved in this case at all as shown in the film. Shanakran Nair was 67 years old at that time and he didn't fight the case himself. All the counsels shown in the film are fake. The characters of Madhavan and Ananya Pandey didn't exist in real life. They had the shameless audacity to change the surnames of our revolutionaries like Khudiram Bose to Singh (why?) Shanakran Nair lost the case and had to pay a hefty fine. So the film is a wish fulfilment fiction to provide cinematic justice to one of the greatest tragedies of Indian history.

Similarly, the characters of Airlift were changed to make Akshay Kumar the saviour. In real life multiple men were involved in the rescue mission during the Gulf War but those characters were merged into one Akshay Kumar. The Ministry of External Affairs criticised the film for its misrepresentation of events negating the major role played by the government officials in the airlift process and making it about one person.

Finally the film Maharaj starring Junaid Khan totally misrepresents the Maharaja libel case by inventing fake characters like the lover of Karsandas (that too two heroines). The Maharaja libel case was not about the s**ual practices exercised by the Pushtmarg sect but rather a case filed against the inflammatory articles written by Karsandas against the sector calling it heretical and corrupt. No girl committed su**ide and Karsandas had no such fiance. In fact he was a married man during this time. Also no women have testimony in the court regarding this case because the case was not about their explo**ation. Eventually the case closed with court criticising Karsandas for using a private matter to create sensation but also offered him compensation of 11000. So it was a mixed result not what is shown in the film.

Which are the most clichéd scenes in Indian movies?

 

1. Love at First Sight

2. Hero's grand entry

3. All is well, that ends well

4. Sudden dance in foreign location

5. Bomb Timer Stopping at 00:01

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What are some scenes in Indian movies that show lack of creativity?

 Okay, there are several scenes that come to my mind. Let me pen down a few here.

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Scene One:

Heroine doing charity which makes the hero fall in love with heroine:

If the director is not able to think of a proper reason to make hero and heroine fall in love with each other, then there is one millennia old trick to overcome it.

• Heroine does some charity or social service.
• Hero coincidentally witnesses it, yeah trust me, by pure coincidence hero arrives there and witnesses the social service done by heroine.
• Hero smiles, which shows that he has fallen in love with the heroine.

I can remember several scenes in which the same scene appears.

Ghajini:

Sura:

In this movie, Heroine (Tamanna) witnesses Hero (Vijay na) doing charity and social service.

Just help the kAsHtApAdRa people to fall in love.

Am I still single because I seldom do social service? Or why, no one witnesses me doing charity?

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Scene Two:

Heroine has no role to play in the movie? No problem, just keep a scene where heroine consoles (or motivates) the hero.

Hundred examples can be shown. A few for you.

Anushka motivating Surya in Singham 1

Velaikaran: This scene from velaikaran movie is worse. At least, in Singham, the heroine got a bunch of dialogue to motivate the demotivated hero.

But, in Velaikaran, the hero Sivakarthikeyan na just vents out his grief to the heroine. She simply listens, utters no word and just holds his hands when he completes his sad story.

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Scene 3:

Villain who is super-powerful in the beginning of the movie, but doesn’t even have a shaving razor to defend him in the end.

This is the main concept in a lot of movies. Don’t be surprised if the villain is identified as the most powerful person in the continent, in the start of the movie. At the end, he won’t even have a small shaving razor to defend himself from hero.

Pokkiri:

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Scene 4:

Heroine gets captured by the villain. Hero fights to release her.

The scene can be dated back to Ramayana or Iliad which were written a couple of thousand years ago. But this scene can still be scene in movies.

Even a foetus inside mother's womb knows that the scene would end up with hero saving the heroine. But still, you have to wait until those stunt scenes are over.

Anjaan:

Vivegam:

These were some scenes that I could immediately remember. Almost all of these were from Tamil movies which I mostly see. Yes guys, I'm used to all this crap.

Image sources: YouTube.

I don't own the pictures in the answer. They are owned by the producers of the movies. Not something very proud to own.