December Discourse: 5

avani008 asked for the Fake Movie Meme, with Aditi Rao Hydari, Aushmann Khurrana, and Supriya Pathak.

Ruhi (Aditi Rao Hydari) got married right out of college, and exchanged her Stephen Greenblatt for good old Sanjeev Kapoor. Her husband swore up and down that he wouldn’t mind her resuming her studies, but it’s always been understood that family (their family which really means his) comes first. He’s never said it, but he’s never had to: Ruhi’s attempts to enroll for a masters degree in the first years of their marriage were always set in second place to every family occasion and emergency. After the birth of her daughter she’d given up on her lingering hopes for further studies and devoted herself to motherhood.

It never struck her as possible that her in-laws might not think like her husband, till an offhand mention of her dashed hopes finds her mother-in-law Jayita (Supriya Pathak) up in arms about her missed opportunities. Ruhi finds herself enrolled in D.U in short order, with Jayita in charge of her daughter, husband, and household. There may or may not have been shouting matches to which she was not privy, but her husband has certainly been going around looking simultaneously cowed and self-righteous.

Possibly this is going to blow up in her face sometime soon, but Ruhi doesn’t have time to think about it. She has the Delhi traffic to deal with twice a day after twelve years at home, classes where most of the other students are a decade or more her junior, her own papers to write and her daughter’s homework to supervise, and Dr. Nitin Gupte (Ayushmann Khurrana), who teaches her Early Modern Lit now and used to steal her Shakespeare notes when they were in college together. He hasn’t forgotten her, and she’s got to get used to being called upon in class; worse, she’s got to tell him they can’t possibly be friends again.

TC Photoset

 While most of my photosets are for the Mahabharata, and those who are interested in that fandom have already seen them on tumblr, I do have a photoset for The Charioteer for which that is unlikely to have been the case. It was made to a prompt by filia_noctis, for my story The Thousandth Man, which was a Yuletide 2014 fic for greerwatson. As with the fic, the photoset depicts 1930s Bombay, and all non-actor photos are as accurate as I could manage. Ralph Lanyon is as usual played by Peter O'Toole, while a young Jeremy Brett has been coopted for Hugh Treviss.


  
  
  



ETA: I see i had mentioned this when it was first posted on tumblr. ah well.