Kasturi mishra and abhimanyu

If you Google “Jehanabad jailbreak”, you will find jaw-dropping reports of how, on November 13, 2005, hundreds of Communist Party of India (Maoist) members marched into the town in Bihar, battled the security forces for hours, freed imprisoned comrades and gunned down other incarcerated members of the upper-caste Ranvir Sena militia. This audacious incident is surely filled with enough drama in itself to merit a rigorous examination of the hows and whys. However, the SonyLIV web series on the Jehanabad jailbreak wants to be entertaining in addition to sidestepping any accusation that it is glorifying the Maoists. As a result, it has star-crossed lovers, a revolutionary who emits gangster vibes, a cynical politician, and various characters with forked tongues. To misquote Jean-Luc Godard, the show wants to be a “battleground”, with “love, hate, action, violence, death...in one word: emotion”. If you forget the inspiration behind Jehanabad – Of Love & War, the show is a deep-fried saga of the hard choices necessitated by the intersection of the personal and the political. The 10-episode series has been created and written by Rajeev Barnwal and directed by him and Satyanshu Singh. The creators bring together three plot strands that appear to have been woven from the same yarn that produced the Mani Ratnam film Dil Se. Precocious college student Kasturi (Harshita Gaur) gets infatuated with her clean-cut college professor Abhimanyu (Ritwik Bhowmik). Kasturi is used to getting h...

Cast Ritwik Bhowmik (Abhimanyu Singh) Parambrata Chattopadhyay (Deepak Kumar) Rajat Kapoor (Shivanand Singh) Harshita Gaur (Kasturi Mishra) Amarnath Jha (Constable Chaubey) Shatrughan Kumar (Comrade) Rajesh Jais (Rajendra Mishra) Sonal Jha (Kumud Mishra) Satyadeep Misra (SP Durgesh Pratap Singh) Naushaad Abbas Suneel Sinha (Jagmohan Kumar) Amit Bhardwaj (SP Giridih) Neeraj Sen (Comrade) Rohit Yadav (Comrade) Ankur Thakur (Trilok) Ramakant Dayma (Jailor Shashikant Tripathi) Danish Kalra (Sonu) Priyanka Shekhar (Deepti Saha)

"It was a very long match. It was like three or four hours," Mishra recalled. "The mistake happened in the last two seconds of the game. It was a very tight game… I surprised the opponent." Mishra went on, "In the opening, he spent a lot of time, and as the game kept going on, he kept on having very low time. He cracked in the end and I was able to win." The New Jersey tween earned a score of 7/9 and a 2485 Elo rating and was ranked no. 1 out of 18 players, according to Vezerkepzo GM Mix tournament results. Mishra broke the world record for the youngest grandmaster 4 months and 25 days after his 12th birthday. Previously, the world record belonged to Russian chess player Sergey Karjakin, 31, who became a grandmaster in 2003 when he was 12 years and 7 months. "Before I begin, who I do to focus is I do a short prayer and during the game I do breathing exercises, so that definitely during the game helps keep me very focused," he added. "Chess is all about being focused and whatever work you’ve been doing in the past… Everything [is] on the board, you can’t do more than that."

TCS Work From Office Rule: ‘Productivity is Hampered Because…’ - Say Employees; Two Things Worrying Staff Returning To Office – Know What With an expansive OTT ecosystem inundated with web series every week, once in a blue moon, there comes a show that completely moves you with its fine storytelling, compelling characters, the vividness of churning out titillating scenarios with plentiful amounts of twists and turns, the treatment of risqué topics with sensitivity whilst not attenuating the entertainment factor and utilisation of technical know-hows in lieu with the story. Rajeev Barnwal and Sudhir Mishra’s thriller-drama Jehanabad – Of Love And War most deservingly fits in that category. Just like a two-edged sword, it educates you and hooks you to the rustic world of Jehanabad which is sullied by disparity and yet frothing with love in the most precarious of corners. Ritwik Bhowmik and Harshita Gaur form the soul of the show while Sudhir Mishra through his actors shouldered it forward with responsibility. The story is set in a small town of Bihar, with two separate tracks playing out parallelly unbeknownst to one another. The first being that of Kasturi Mishra (played by Harshita Gaur), a simple but outspoken college-going student who gets smitten by her English Literature Professor Abhimanyu Singh (played by Ritwik Bhowmik) and pursues her love for him regardless of her mother’s objections. On the other hand, Abhimanyu is intelligent, quiet and reserved whose moral comp...

Jehanabad: Of Love And War authentically captures Bihar's political skullduggery and caste violence, observes Deepa Gahlot. The idea of youthful radicalism and armed struggles against an unjust establishment has been with Sudhir Mishra since his first film, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987). He returned to it with his best known film, Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi (2003). Now, he is the show-runner for Jehanabad: Of Love And War, set in the Naxal belt of Bihar. Even from behind bars, Deepak keeps in touch with his group, with the help of prison staff, sympathetic to his cause of fighting for the upliftment of their caste. As violence simmers in the background, chirpy college student Kasturi Mishra (Harshita Gaur), fed on a diet of romantic movies, falls in love with the new English professor, Abhimanyu Singh (Ritwik Bhowmik). She is so persistent in wooing him that he falls in love with her too, and this sets off a chain of unfortunate events. North India, Bihar in particular, is a tinderbox of corrupt, caste-based politics, and in this charged atmosphere, Thakur Shivanand Singh (Rajat Kapoor) is hoping to win back his seat from the sitting lower caste MLA (Nirmal Kant Chaudhary). The ruthless Shivanand Singh, who is pleasant and approachable on the surface, is a close friend of Kasturi's father Rajendra Mishra (Rajesh Jais), who runs the prison canteen. Kasturi's mother Kumud (Sonal Jha) has trouble accepting an inter-caste marriage for her daughter, but once she is persuaded, sh...