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ButterflyTalkies presents India's 1st lifestyle & entertainment virtual magazine!Opinion on gossips from Bolly/Hollywood & exclusive feature stories.

05/06/2024

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26/05/2024

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21/05/2024

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Butterflytalkies, a lifestyle magazine was founded in 2014. We started out as a blog on Bollywood and fashion but over the last 10 years, we have matured into experiential blogs on an array of topics that describe us as a wholesome lifestyle and wellness magazine.

Butterflytalkies is a walking-talking magazine by the founder Maya. Headquartered in Mumbai, this blog is present on social media 360 - Facebook, Twitter, Threads, Instagram, WhatsApp and LinkedIn

What ButterflyTalkies offers in the magazine:

Thought leadership

Words of wisdom

ORM

Rants

Funny threads

Global music and music reviews

Movie reviews

Opinions on art, architecture and interior design
Opinion on Love and relationships

Reels and memes

Book reviews

Blog books

Shoet stories and movie adaptations

Story in shorts

CSR on Climate Change and development

Writing tips

Opinion on fashion

Experiential brand promotions

Mental health awareness tips

Tweets on trends

Opinion on social awareness as a lifestyle

As a lifestyle magazine, our mission is to empower our followers into becoming their best versions by experiencing an aspiring leader's attitude and a never say never outlook to life.

Find us on social media and follow us for a enviable lifestyle that's coated with a wise and beautiful view of life that will truly inspire and liberate you.

Best,

Maya

13/05/2024

Public speaking is just one of my talents.

10/05/2024

What can I say? I am at a loss of words to explain my overwhelming emotions just by witnessing this dramatic love story torn apart by world war. It's just that Ralph Fiennes captivates you with his daunting and intense screen presence right from the beginning of the first take.

'The English Patient' directed by Anthony Minghella adapted from the novel of the same name novel by Michael Ondaatje, a Canadian author.

The movie is based on World War II where a rather unconventional love story takes place in Cairo. Almacy ( Ralph Fiennes) and Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas) fall in love among men preparing world maps during the war.

Katherine is married to Geoffrey (Colin Firth who doesn't fail to impress as a scarred lover and her husband). While he is busy jotting world maps, Katherine falls for Almacy but as hate would have it, Geoffrey kills his wife by crashing the plane in the desert.

Katherine is beautiful. Aged so gracefully into the onscreen Anna Vantour in Confessions of a shopaholic.

What wins here is the deeply intelligent makeup that suits the characters caught in war perfectly and precisely. The direction, although the author was involved with the director for the screenplay, I honestly felt they could have explained the war a little more clearly. The direction is fast while filming the war scenes. The costumes and aesthetics of the film want to make you dive deep into the movie more. These elements like the unraveling of the love story in flashbacks by the dying Ralph recuperating in a monestry taken in by a nurse Hanna (Juliette Binoche who won the golden globe for her supporting role in the film).

I was hesitant at first to review this movie at all because Harvey Weinstein is one of the producers of the film and when I read the credits, the unnecessary nudity of Hanna which the screenplay could do without explains it could be Harvey. However, the film overpowers his Arabic influence on the movie as it moves in synchronised events that lead upto the end of the love story.

There are two shots in the movie that you can simply not miss and want to watch this one is when both times, towards the end, when Ralph Fiennes carries Katherine out of the cave in the desert. The way he cries at the loss of his lover is painful and mesmerising. The actor outdoes his performance there. You fall in love with his character at that minute.

Another thing about this movie that will always stay with me is, " There is no lie in war. There is lies in peace." Apart from that, the dialogues could do better than what they are. There is this track 'Szarelem' that when you listen to, it has the power to transport you into a state of static thoughts.

All in all a larger than life Hollywood film acing commercial box office success.

Watch 'The English Patient' on Netflix

09/05/2024

Come get to know me

05/05/2024

Darling, bring a 100 guests over

03/05/2024

After watching 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' I was obviously in love with the charismatic Jeremy Irons so I watched another of his film, 'Reversal of Fortune' also adapted from the novel of the same name and written by the same lawyer that defends him, ( Claus Von Bulow) in the case of state of Rhode Island vs Claus Von Bulow for the unexplained and permanent coma of his wife and socialite Sunny Von Bulow, (Glenn Close).

The movie quite literally explains all the loopholes of the state's case against Claus when he hires defence lawyer and law professor Dershowitz to defend him against the charges. It establishes during the course of the movie that Sunny is a drug addict and could have attempted su***de for children leaving home and Claus having an affair outside their marriage.

You know I related to Sunny in how she reacted to her husband's affair in slow and steady phases that break her self esteem completely. She is rich and has a fortune to her name but she is lonely and unhappy and her husband is just a butler in his role to her eventually. She doesn't want him but can't be without him and that dilemma explains her drug overdoses during the course of the movie.

Such great movies were made before my time as a reviewer, oh how funny I say that because I wasn't even born when the movie released but it's so relatable to today's use and throw dating culture!

You can always watch these classics to find meaning and culture in today's modern literature in these movies. Watch them for its dramatic and outstanding screenplay and dialogues and the sheer aristocracy of the actors of that time that made the screen light up just with their presence in the movies.

Reversal of Fortune is one such movie where you can't miss the grand screenplay that enhances the plot and brings cinema to life with actors like Jeremy Irons. There is something about his voice, so English and so powerful that you want him in every frame of the movie!!

Reversal of Fortune is a typical commercial Hollywood movie of the 90s but the plot of straight focus on an unusual coma of Sunny is turned into an entire movie and the research of the court's allegations against Claus. The preparation of the case is what iu need to watch out for if you're a budding lawyer- One loophole in the charges turns the tables in his favor completely.

The movie has style, substance by the actors, grand screenplay and suspense that leaves the conclusion to your imagination will leave you in awe of this film and make you fall in love with Claus's aristocracy.

A commercial movie made legitimately relatable to today's times and culture is a must watch and it's easily available on YouTube. Watch this one right after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' to fall in love with Jeremy Irons without a doubt that gives you a glimpse of real acting and popcorn entertainment of the 90s. Truly a gem.

03/05/2024

Okay so I don't know much about the directors and producers of this 1981 masterpiece, hell, I don't even know the great Francis- cinematographer of the French Lieutenant's Woman because this one's way before I was born! Not my era as a cinema goer but I caught this adapted movie from the 1969 novel by Harold Pinter on Amazon Prime. Why do all great movies find themselves adapted from novels?

Anyway, so let's begin to review this amazingly picturesque movie set in London, Lyme and England. This movie is about a fallen woman, a Ms. Sarah Woodruff (Meryl Streep) lost herself in Lyme where people think she is crazy. Then comes the charismatic scientist, Charles Smith (Jeremy Irons) who tries not to fall for her the minute he tries he save her at sea. What follows is an intimate affair between the two but Sarah leaves him without a word and Charles spends three years finding her all over London fearing she has become a pr******te.

It's not so easy their love story because Charles is engaged to a rich merchant's daughter before he lays his eyes on the troubled Sarah. Sarah says she is left woebegone by a former French Lieutenant and left in Lyme to pick after him with no place to live.

The movie runs a parallel plot where Anna (Meryl Streep) and Mike again played by Jeremy Irons are two actors shooting the film of the first plot mentioned above. They both fall in love while shooting the movie.

The two are married to separate people but Mike wants the relationship with Anna.

The plot is a dramatic romance movie with parallel plots but as a Gen Z reviewer, I have to say that you must watch this masterpiece for its locations, cinematography and background music.

The insane dialogue delivery and charming screen presence of Jeremy Irons will leave you breathless and asking for more quite literally. Meryl Streep has deep dived into her character just like she can everytime and overtime (remember the terse CEO in Devil Wears Prada?) The actress leaves you speechless with her acting in this character driven role.

The beginning shot where Meryl turns around to see Charles coming to rescue her at the dock and the long shot of the dock until the actor reaches her is pure perfection. We don't use too many long shots these days (used to describe the length and depth of a scene).

Another scene where Sarah describes her affair with the French Lieutenant in the undercliffe to Charles, her expressions are poised and to the point. As they say, the devil is in the details.

You can't miss the Exeter scene where the couple makes love and Sarah says that Charles has given her the strength to live as he returns to Lyme to break his engagement.

From constant smoking to drinks always at hand and the uptight coats only Englishmen look good in to the exact prophecy of the sets used to shoot the scenes are what we call the director's goal is simply outstanding and might have done complete justice to the novel.

I cannot stress enough that you must watch the film and awe in wonder at this straight love story put together delicately by the movie makers with utmost perfection.

If you want to see good performances, great cinematography and feel the movie with the right background score that will capture your undivided attention for two hours straight then this golden globe nominee movie should be on your Amazon Prime watchlist for sure!!

Amazon Prime

02/05/2024

Okay so like I promised, the whole of May is movie reviews with Butterflytalkies and what better movie to inaugurate this movie festival with than dhaasu actor Manoj Bajpayee's 'Silence 2'!

This is an all out masala crime thriller and a perfect way to enjoy your movie snacks on the couch with your partners on a lazy Sunday afternoon in a mood for a typical not too head cracking yet suspenseful in a typical Bollywood setting. Trust me, you'll be so focused on finding the criminal with Manoj Bajpayee and his team that you'll concentrate fully on this compellingly meditative movie.

Apparently there's a human trafficking circle of events in the film that lead to finding the true criminal. The movie begins with a tip to Manoj about a shootout at a night bar in Mumbai where several people are shot dead including the prime witness to the human trafficking King pin.

The special crime unit get to work and here's the treat of the movie- The movie details the crime scenes with the perfection of episodes on CID. Every aspect of the events leading to the trafficking King pin are revealed step by step to you during the two hour focus film .

How the murders of a number of escorts leads to the culmination of finding the criminal will make you meditate and focus fully on the movie along with the SCU of finding relevant proof against the trafficker along with busting a bachelorette in Jaipur.

The best part of the suspense is all the way believing that Arjun Chauhan is the murderer but never once guessing the crime hits an Adam's Family setup! You'll never once guess the true criminal until it's revealed to you.

Of course, the film, like a Bollywood movie has too many aspects to focus on and too many names and one big Jeremy Gomes loop hole that isn't closed even in the end, you can thank the film for making you anticipate the suspense reveal even more!!

It's a movie of a le***an sister losing her fortune to her hated step brother and a human trafficking element that makes you wonder the tackiness of today's Bachelorettes in a developing country to a twisted family tale that makes the special crime unit work on its toes 24/7. So much so that you might think the commissioner is involved too!!!

Watch this mad crime suspense and begin your May movie mania with ButterflyTalkies. ZEE5

01/05/2024

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30/04/2024

Smile for me

29/04/2024

Show up as a leader

29/04/2024

Firstly, I am blessed. And if I give up, bad will win.

22/04/2024

How to talk to anyone

22/04/2024

The cost of liberation is risking living experiences life throws at you in that moment and present time. To learn from those experiences and learning to detach from the emotions you feel when you're going through those emotions of that experience.

When you learn to detach yourself from any emotion- good or bad, you move towards a greater purpose to serve humanity as a leader because you have learned the art of detachment, it helps you observe the experiences as an outsider in the situation that in turn helps you make objective decisions in life.

To be a spiritual leader, the leader must sacrifice his joy as an emotion to turn it into simply pleasant and temporary sensations that past. When you do that, you're preparing for any bad sensation that may arise and you are prepared to handle it in complete balance and same detachment in harmony with the universal equanimity.

When you become a spiritually smart professional, you learn to lead with example.

21/04/2024

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18/04/2024

Confidence in leadership

17/04/2024

Creative strategy toolkit

16/04/2024

The Mean Machine

14/04/2024

Love is everything but control

12/04/2024

Listen to your emotions when they talk to you

06/04/2024

I thought I'd have a quiet Saturday

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