Bouncing Along 🎈 (Sohaila's Blog)

How does it feel to be someone else? To submerge your identity in another person’s? Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt’s body doubles talk about what it means to be them on and off the camera.   Movies are a form of deceit. What you see on the screen is often concocted to look real. Those big buildings on the screen, could be miniatures, blown up through special effects to look larger than life. Or an actor walking through amazing backdrops, could merely be someone walking across or standing in front of a blue or green screen known as a   chroma, and the backdrop is inserted during editing. In keeping with the deception, that actor performing amazing stunts is usually not the star but his or her body double, but you’re fooled into thinking otherwise. Sometimes the star has clashing dates and the double may be called in to do a scene, with the camera at a safe distance so that the actual identity is not revealed. Occasionally, you do have a close up and still cannot make out the differen

A cruise on the river reveals its beauty and that of  the State that hosts it “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ... And nowhere is this better expressed than in Assam, with the mighty Brahmaputra as chief narrator. Assam has embraced migrants over centuries, who brought different ethnicities, religion and culture to its fertile shores. Cruises are rare in India. That itself is exciting, so I decide to do one right here rather than book myself into an international one.  I choose a medium- sized ship called the M.V. Mahabaahu , operated by Adventure Resorts & Cruises. I select the downstream cruise that would take us from Jorhat to Guwahati on the river, while enjoying all the on-shore excursions offered by them.   Arriving at Jorhat airport, my cousin Pam and I are picked up and taken to Neamati Ghat, where the big boat is berthed. The M.V. Mahabaahuis is  outfitted like a three- storied bo