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•National Team losing to low-ranked teams we should be comfortably beating.
•Didn’t even qualify back-to-back for the 24 teams' 2027 AFC Asian Cup.
•Winless in the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers group stage, and set to finish bottom of the qualifiers group.
•No clarity on the ISL (1st Tier) and I-League (2nd Tier) also, IL2 and IL3.
•No roadmap or updates on the IWL or future of women's football in India.
•Youth leagues are inconsistent, and with no calendar, clubs are shutting operations.
•Fans are devastated and left completely in the dark with this turmoil.
Is #IndianFootball progressing as per VISION2047?
Or quietly collapsing to a sudden death? 🇮🇳⚽
#ISL #BlueTigers #BackTheBlue #AFC #FIFA #IFTWC #AIFF
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@WorshipDhoni If that happens this won't be the csk which we all grew up watching! We are known for emotional buys man 😭how can this happen
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@E4EQUIP @TanmayyMhatre I guess there are better indian players than him surely
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We want the gameplay back from the first week of the FC 26 release
Reverse every patch. Only fix kickoff and corners
Like to Sign 👍
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Tough loss against @officialvlt, 0-2 😤But hey — we’re still locked in for Playoffs! 🔒
Time to reset, refocus, and come back stronger. The real battle starts now.
#NAOStheTime #VCTAscensionPacific
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@sudhirsrinivasn Progressive movie with Cousin love and marriage angle is diabolical.
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Many thoughts on Dude:
Dude opens at a wedding hall with 'Nooru Varusham' from Panakkaran. It's the song you hear at every Tamil wedding, a song meant to celebrate the beauty of marriage. But here, as a thaali is tugged off a bride’s neck and chaos erupts, the film’s intent is declared instantly. This isn’t a story about preserving the sanctity of marriage, or celebrating the importance of customs. This is about breaking down ritual (when done for its own sake) to uncover something more beautiful: the beauty of self-sacrificing love.
Pradeep Ranganathan often gets compared with an established actor or two, but to me, he’s quite original, a performer who's so childlike in his antics, in his purity of emotion. He claps with his feet, kisses dogs, makes dog-like faces at his mother when begging for her blessing... and yet, at the drop of a hat, he is able to move you. That balance between innocence and intense emotion, between caricature and character, is offers many joys. Credit to director Keerthiswaran too, who's able to make you laugh one moment, tear up the next.
Mamitha brings an easy, unpretentious air to Kural, her playfulness feeling sincere, her character feeling very lived in. What’s quite cool about Dude is how it takes what's usually shown as a familial bond—selfless suffering—and executes it through romantic love. I thought Agan (Pradeep) was almost Christ-like in his endurance of pain. He suffers, bleeds, and yet the film, like Agan himself, maintains a strange tone of happy energy. It’s a serious story disguised as a cheerful entertainer.
There's a twist so unpredictable, so casually done, that it ranks among the year’s best for me. A great twist isn’t merely about surprise; it’s about how inevitable it seems. When it arrives, it must fit perfectly, like a truth that makes total sense. Dude sets it up well too. Even the film's revolutionary, radical premise feels emotional, natural... and very, very palatable.
The film slips profound thoughts into casual moments. It equates friendship and love. It captures the tragedy of mismatched timing in romantic love. There’s a lovely bit when a married woman tells a man they weren’t meant to be... and she means it so genuinely and it never feels wrong for a second. This is Devdas in a way, a Gen-Z Devdas who smiles through heartbreak and who is able to cry on the road one moment, and snap out of it the next, almost embarrassed by his own vulnerability.
Self-sacrifice is deeply moving always, and it's more so when a protagonist does it so casually, as if it were simply the right thing to do and there's nothing more to think about it. The film, at one point, poses that question—maanama, uyiraa?. I loved that Kural chooses uyir as any rational person would and should, while Agan chooses maanam initially, he changes his mind, out of love. Beautiful.
Keerthiswaran’s love for Rajinikanth is all over Dude. You see it in the phone flicks, the finger snaps, the hand gestures. In one moment, I heard Pradeep's laugh and already knew that his next words were going to be, “Good joke” (thanks to watching Sivaji as many times). But more than these homages, the film channels something fundamental from Rajinikanth’s legacy: the portrayal of a pure-hearted man whose innocence causes him much suffering. When such a man suffers, we tear up. I certainly did in Dude.
Sure, there are issues in the resolutions. The ending around Sarathkumar’s character felt hurried (and perhaps even misplaced). The romantic closure for Agan felt forced. Kural, in hindsight, does feel rather self-absorbed and not nearly as generous as Agan. But these are cracks I can overlook... in a film brave enough to propose something radical, and kind enough to mean well.
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